Trumpets blared and drums rattled and thundered all along the line-of the advancing Wolves.

A large brass section blared from somewhere behind the doors, and drums rattled and pounded with the rough, genuine sound of actual skins.

He turned toward Sandy and Picard, relaxing as if those drums weren't rattling in the closing distance.

Immediately the flutes thrilled and the drums rattled, and the sitting room was filled with the opening march, when Boofuls was strutting like a drum major in front of a regiment of two hundred black minstrels, as they paraded along the levee.

As the light failed the drums rattled, and we stopped and I watched the other three put up the tent, making certain to show me how the pieces fit together.

Some of the ropes were becoming loose, the drums rattling and banging against one another.

The drums still rattled and it was, perhaps, their sound that made one of the shutters open on the upper floor.

The drums rolled and rattled.

A hundred brazen-throated trumpets shiver the air, and drums rattle like thunder.

Thirteen times did the distant cannon bellow their salute, announcing Clinton's advance, our camp swarmed like an excited hive, mounted officers galloping, foot officers running, troops tumbling out as the drums rattled the "general" in every regimental bivouac.