It has some gorgeous music in it -- the scene outside of the monastery walls is amazing -- but I thought I'd been sent to hell when that scene outside the fair with the trumpet and side-drum dragged on and on and on and..... ❋ Jessica (2006)
The fourth form had got up a jazz band, which sounded simply marvellous, though Mam'zelle said that she could easily do without the side-drum, which could be heard rat-a-tat-tatting from a music room at all kinds of odd hours. ❋ Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 (1967)
A rataplan on a side-drum feebly played in the street outside! ❋ George Herbert Fosdike Nichols (N/A)
The side-drummer, who played the side-drum, bass drum, cymbals, Chinese block, motor-horn, triangle, and clappers was a boy who had lost both eyes. ❋ James H. Rawlinson (N/A)
An abrupt silence prepares for a fierce thunderous clamor from the tympani and the great drum (beaten with the sticks of the side-drum). ❋ Rupert Hughes (1914)
The drummer drew a long applausive rattle from his side-drum; the trombone player sawing the air with his instrument, as with a fret-saw, evoked noises not to be described. ❋ Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (1903)
Around the side-drum, beneath its cracked brown varnish, I could hardly trace a royal coat-of-arms, and a legend running -- _Per Mare per Terram_ -- the motto of the ❋ Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (1903)
I seated myself, silently wondering what might be the use of the side-drum in the corner. ❋ Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (1903)
Come in -- you will find pen, ink, and paper on the side-drum in the corner. ❋ Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (1903)
"France" -- "France" -- the very "r" in that glorious word kept beating in my ears with the roll of a side-drum. ❋ Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (1903)
The tabor leads one on to the Tabourine, which was the full-sized military drum, corresponding to the modern side-drum. ❋ Unknown (1900)
If she winked at me, I should not jump into the air, as if shot in the spine, with my blood tingling to my extremities; my heart would not beat like a side-drum; my blushes would not come perspiring through my whiskers. ❋ George Robert Aberigh-Mackay (1864)
It's a tender piece during which a rustle of side-drum mimics the sound of a steamer's engine, while the clarinet quotes ❋ Unknown (2010)
Sure enough, on the far side of Dean Point, they found the sloop's mainmast washing about with half a dozen men lashed to it -- men in red jackets -- every mother's son drowned and staring; and a little farther on, just under the Dean, three or four bodies cast up on the shore, one of them a small drummer-boy, side-drum and all; and, near by, part of a ship's gig, with 'H.M.S. _Primrose_' cut on the stern-board. ❋ Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (1903)
(Op. 55) and the symphony (Op. 36) are full of novel and dazzling effects -- for example, the scherzo of the symphony played mainly by the strings pizzicato, and the scherzo of the suite, with the short, sharp notes of the brass and the rattle of the side-drum; the melodies also are new, and in their way beautiful; in form both symphony and suite are nearly as clear as anything Tschaikowsky wrote: in fact, each work is a masterwork. ❋ John F. Runciman (1891)
