| 单词 | tom-tom |
| 例句 | "Yes, primitive; no one has told you, Brother, that at times you have tom-toms beating in your voice?" Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z He liked the grunting that belched deep from Boom Box’s gut like a tom-tom. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z Her talk followed us in the halls and filled our ears like our little brother’s tom-tom, which is to say, unbearable. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z The tragedy of “Clementine” is laid bare with ghostly harmonies, thundering tom-tom drums and craggy guitars. Album review: Neil Young and Crazy Horse, 'Americana' 2012-06-04T02:27:00Z Though Williams snapped into rhythm for Davis, it was one of wide-ranging, impressionistic broadness, with shimmering cymbal-smacks and tom-tom rumble pushing the beat into uncharted territory. The Best Jazz Reissues of 2014 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z But she was decidedly in control; in one song, a jerk of her elbow cued a tom-tom accent, and spreading her fingers brought a cymbal swish. ArtsBeat: Bonnaroo: Wild Girls in Control 2012-06-08T00:45:55Z Conch-shell blasts and wailing sirens summon successive waves of thunderous tom-toms, sizzling cymbals and roaring tam-tams, resounding with a coordinated independence. Music Review: Turning It Outside-In at Armory 2011-02-21T22:53:56Z Completed in 2006, it is dominated by an array of 24 tom-toms, whose interventions steer the work from one tumultuous thicket to the next, as ideas, some very striking, jostle to be heard. Proms 35 & 36: BBC Philharmonic/Storgårds; Glamorous Night – review 2012-08-10T11:11:19Z All eyes were focused on a juggling team that tossed flaming sticks in the air, their acrobatics accompanied by the rhythmic beating of tom-toms played by musicians clad in billowy Ali Baba pants. White Nights of St. Petersburg, Russia 2011-06-03T19:03:09Z Returned to the stage, he batters a tom-tom before walking off with the group, leaving a sustain pedal droning and the crowd gasping for breath. Foals 2010-07-06T21:31:00Z "If I had my way there'd be mistletoes every day," sings Lane as a tom-tom beat echoes behind her and a pedal steel guitar moans. Nikki Lane's 'FaLaLaLaLove Ya' a hot Christmas torch song 2014-12-06T05:00:00Z A creeping wave of bass, cello and tom-tom drifted in from nowhere, only to fade away. Mica Levi and orchestra go truly 'Under the Skin' at the Regent 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z It includes “On Lamp,” an undulating, not-quite-ambient piece that threads a wandering, slow-motion melody through a stereo dialogue of acoustic guitars and subdued tom-tom syncopations, like a glimpse of a distant caravan. A Lost (and Found) John Coltrane Recording, and 9 More New Songs 2023-06-02T04:00:00Z She guided tom-tom drums tracing patterns as men were led to their eventual demise. Mica Levi and orchestra go truly 'Under the Skin' at the Regent 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z The riffs arrived, adamant and incantatory, while subtleties loomed amid the blare, like a particular salvo of tom-toms or shifts in the tone of the guitars. Music Review: Reunited, Loop Performs at Le Poisson Rouge 2014-04-18T21:54:41Z Ginger Baker, who died Sunday at the age of 80, was an architect of rock drumming, spilling across tom-toms with both power and nuance. Ginger Baker’s Essential Songs: Listen to 15 Tracks 2019-10-06T04:00:00Z It’s a tom-tom drum tuned very low and held under a piano, with someone holding the sustain pedal down so that it would ring when something hit it. ‘Ramones’: The Story Behind a Debut Album From Punk Pioneers 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z The players were surely helped along by the mallets Carlstedt played across his tom-toms, but Settles and Mateen communicated supreme control with their widely spaced phrases and relaxed rhythms. Brian Settles gives excellent, thoughtful performance at Bohemian Caverns San Salvador, from the city of Saint-Salvadour in France, brought equal intensity with much starker means: six voices, two tom-toms and a tambourine. At Globalfest, Rowdy Sounds From Around the World 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z In her red dress, with a flower in her blonde hair, Bryan is the softer centre of their marauding riffs and pounding tom-toms, though she is hardly a shrinking violet. The Joy Formidable – review 2013-02-26T18:16:32Z He also said it was necessary for the conductor to tune all the tom-tom drums together with the instruments’ players at least an hour before the performance, and asked if Mr. Rattle had done so. 109 Players. 3 Conductors. It’s Even Harder Than It Sounds. 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z Frills, fringe and fans all waved to the tom-tom beat of music, the wild rhythm only enhanced by monkey figures swinging from earrings. Special Report: Fashion: At Jil Sander, Raf Simons Plays With Modernism 2011-09-25T16:45:15Z Like the team's work as the Neptunes, the track is heavy on tribal tom-tom beats, the kind with a propellent momentum that drives party songs. Essential Tracks: Death Grips, N.E.R.D., Cairo Liberation Front 2015-01-10T05:00:00Z Try to imagine the Beatles' "Come Together" without Ringo's innovative tom-tom roll. Ringo Starr's MasterClass offers a student-focused approach to finding one's own drumming style 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z I get a sneak preview of part of the finale, the most extrovert music in the whole concerto, with Cox on tom-toms and Gunnell on marimba. O Duo: 'It's not just music. It's visual, too' 2010-09-30T22:25:00Z But, so fired up with the tom-tom beat was I that I made it to 4:30. Madeira Draws a Younger, Hipper Set 2010-07-09T16:48:00Z The other, "Hollywood Dreams," rolls along with one of Miguel's typically solid guitar runs and heavy tom-tom rhythms. Arresting beats of James Blake, Steve Gunn, Miguel 2015-01-03T05:00:00Z The harmonic range of the tom-toms was expanded by blowing air into tubes attached to the side of the drums, which stretched the drumheads and thus the variety of pitches. Review: ‘Surface Tension,’ Inspired by the Met’s Percussive Collection 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z “You thought there were things that had disappeared forever/Things from the Middle Ages/Beheadings and hangings and people in cages,” Ms. Anderson intones over Joey Baron’s inexorable tom-tom rolls. Laurie Anderson?s Heart, Politics and Processors 2010-06-25T16:17:00Z Next to me, Adam Sliwinski was tapping out a crisp rhythm on a tom-tom with one hand and on a tambourine and wooden plank with the other. Critic’s Notebook: So Percussion’s ‘Where (we) Live’ Has Echoes of John Cage 2012-12-18T23:05:51Z His bass drums were swampy, his snares and tom-toms twitched and ran forward and backward, his beats stumbled and caught themselves as they were jolted by joy-buzzer zaps and whoopie-cushion interruptions. ArtsBeat: The Range of Electronica, Cathedral to Jubilant 2010-10-23T18:09:00Z Fourth movement: guitars again, greatly more turbulent and dissonant, over steady tom-toms. Music Review: Surprises From Someone Fans Thought They Knew 2010-11-21T23:04:00Z He drew maximum sound from a minimal drum kit, consisting of one snare, a bass drum, two tom-toms, four cymbals and a high hat. Charlie Watts, Rolling Stones drummer and band’s rhythmic mainstay, dies at 80 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z I’ll be saying, “Oh, this one’s got tribal tom-toms,” and everyone else will be saying, “What are you talking about? They all sound exactly the same.” ‘It feels like an extra limb’ – musicians on the bond with their instruments 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z His tom-toms were so precisely tuned that he could play the theme from “Jeopardy!” on them. Neil Peart, dynamic and influential rock drummer for Rush, dies at 67 2020-01-10T05:00:00Z As a drummer, it always bugs me when I see a drum set illustrated in a clumsy fashion: the tom-toms at weird angles, the high-hat cymbals all wrong. Stamp collectors think a USPS poster shows the wrong train - The Washington Post 2019-08-27T04:00:00Z Featuring Jobim adding sparse counter melodies and accents on piano and Gilberto’s longtime drummer Milton Banana tapping out barely audible cymbal and tom-tom patterns, its eight songs defined a universe. Appreciation: Alongside the British Invasion, a quieter one: How João Gilberto transformed global pop music 2019-07-07T04:00:00Z “They were the stars. Let them do what they’re going to do and not clutter up the rhythm. Play it straight ahead and no tricks. No tom-toms. No cymbals. And I guess they liked it.” Elvis Presley's drummer D.J. Fontana set the beat for rock 'n roll's future 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z The percussionists employed novel effects like rubbing stones on ceramic tiles or — perhaps representing the clatter of the world — by battering away on sets of tom-toms and roto-toms. L.A. Phil premiere finds its power in percussion, percussion and more percussion 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z A cinematic pastorale swells around his earnestly nasal voice: a muffled tom-tom beat, a spaghetti-Western guitar line, a gathering horn section, all eventually subsiding back to patient resignation. null 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z We watch as Este sets aside her bass, grabs some drum sticks and walks to some tom-toms, followed soon thereafter by Alana. California Sounds: New music from Haim, Alex Ebert and La Santa Cecilia 2017-05-06T04:00:00Z He moves as if he were drawing energy from the sun, driving his snare, tom-toms, kick drum, cymbals and high-hat with perpetual motion. Percussionist Jaki Liebezeit of Can, whose 'krautrock' rhythms influenced generations of art-rockers and beat producers, has died 2017-01-23T05:00:00Z Hits on the tom-toms accompany most kicks, and when the two fighters get close we get a rumbling drum roll on the snare. Jazz drumming to Super Smash Bros. is better than any commentary 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z Putting his ear to the concrete, he heard poems like “Aesthete in Harlem,” which combined, within a short, intense form, the sound of the laughing and crying tom-tom he described in his 1926 Nation essay: The Elusive Langston Hughes 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z It’s loud and messy and unabashedly psychedelic in ways the Walkmen never were, teeming with Far East flourishes and galloping tom-toms and fogs of reverb. The Solo Efforts of the Walkmen, Once the Finest Rock Band in New York The novel begins when its main character, Michael Hastings, gets a job as an intern in 2002, just as the media tom-toms of battle are rising. Michael Hastings’s ‘Last Magazine’ Shows War as Career Opportunity 2014-06-22T04:00:00Z "Aha!" thought Hook, and he picked up a tom-tom that one of the flying Indians had left behind, and sounded it loudly; "rub-a-dub, rub-a-dub, dub, dub, dub." The Story of Peter Pan Retold from the fairy play by Sir James Barrie 2012-05-22T15:16:50.277Z The bands played different tunes, and the cow-horns and tom-toms played no tune at all. March to Magdala 2012-04-19T02:00:32.620Z From twenty to thirty bearers convey the corpse to its last abode, amid the deafening discord of drums, cymbals, and tom-toms. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z A salvation meeting, with its noise and excitement, has as much effect on public morality as a savage’s tom-tom has upon the heavens. Salvation Syrup; Or, Light On Darkest England 2012-03-14T02:00:28.613Z "I'll blow a hole through that infernal tom-tom if they don't drop it." The White Blackbird 2012-03-10T03:00:15.513Z The beaters, three hundred or four hundred in number, now began their work, shouting, beating drums and tom-toms, blowing bugles, firing blank cartridges, and steadily pressing forward in our direction. Ladies in the Field: Sketches of Sport 2012-03-03T03:00:17.540Z When all was ready, the cortége advanced, horns blowing and tom-toms beating. March to Magdala 2012-04-19T02:00:32.620Z The main showroom of Steve Maxwell Vintage and Custom drums consists of tom-toms, bass drums and snares neatly stacked on top of each other. | Midtown: Boom Times for Maxwell?s Drum Store in Midtown 2012-02-18T05:30:32Z Great is the value of the tom-tom, whether it be of pure native origin or constructed from an old Devos patent paraffin oil tin. West African studies 2012-02-15T03:00:28.537Z Drums, tom-toms, reeds, whistles, and a sort of bagpipe are all in requisition, and songs of love and war are chanted. Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume I (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs 2012-02-12T03:00:15.857Z And he began to keep time to the tom-toms rapidly with the palms of his hands. Strange Stories 2012-01-16T03:00:05.067Z Next follows a man of tall stature, beating violently upon a tom-tom. March to Magdala 2012-04-19T02:00:32.620Z The main showroom is a percussive playground: bass drums, tom-toms and snares neatly stacked four and five high, their shells lustrous shades of mahogany, indigo, copper and champagne sparkle, accented by winking chrome. | Midtown: Boom Times for Maxwell?s Drum Store in Midtown 2012-02-18T05:30:32Z All else the tom-tom can do, and do well. West African studies 2012-02-15T03:00:28.537Z Not many years ago the tom-tom of the Nobel Prize beat before the tent of the modest and inoffensive Hindoo poet, Rabindranath Tagore. The Critical Game 2012-01-05T03:00:38.527Z Then you didn't tear them up, and wear a Fantee dress, and dance with a tom-tom down the street? Strange Stories 2012-01-16T03:00:05.067Z Later in the afternoon another chief came in, preceded by tom-tom and flutes, and accompanied by a considerable body of warriors. March to Magdala 2012-04-19T02:00:32.620Z First, a band of musicians would lead the way, with the peculiar little drum or tom-tom, whining pipes, and blaring clarinets. Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume I (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. 2012-01-02T03:00:25.873Z Like Benedick, I can say, “Give me a horn for my money when all is done,” unless it be a tom-tom. West African studies 2012-02-15T03:00:28.537Z An ocean of human heads filled up the space around the building, from which proceeded the well-known sounds of the reed and the tom-tom. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 15, August, 1851 2011-12-27T03:00:07.217Z They have 826 a passion for dancing weird African dances to the accompaniment of the tom-tom. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 7 "Gyantse" to "Hallel" 2011-12-26T03:00:11.613Z He seizes the stick with which he is wont to beat the tom-tom, and hies him to a corner, and speedily unearths, not one bottle, but two. Kenneth McAlpine A Tale of Mountain, Moorland and Sea 2011-12-05T03:00:48.967Z Singing and music fill the air, and as soon as dusk falls, groups of boys, some carrying small lanterns, others provided with tom-toms or hand-organs, begin the circuit of the streets. Armenian Legends and Festivals 2011-11-26T03:00:13.237Z The women and children look on, give good advice, and shriek when necessary, while the men beat the bush with sticks, beat tom-toms, and halloo with all their might. West African studies 2012-02-15T03:00:28.537Z I am certain that M. Julien's band would scarcely be listened to by the Singalese if there were a few tom-toms within hearing. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 15, August, 1851 2011-12-27T03:00:07.217Z The orchestra consisted of four brass gongs of varying sizes, and a tom-tom. The Inhabitants of the Philippines 2011-11-23T03:00:21.653Z He whacks the tom-tom, and summons two of his wives to squat beside him; not to help him to drink, but to see him drink. Kenneth McAlpine A Tale of Mountain, Moorland and Sea 2011-12-05T03:00:48.967Z The melody of their song was very much in keeping with the music of the tom-tom, but entirely unlike anything I had ever heard, before or since. The Indians' Last Fight Or The Dull Knife Raid 2011-11-06T02:00:13.167Z Hanno does not find down the West Coast another Carthage—he finds bush fires, and hears the tom-tom and the horn and the shouts. West African studies 2012-02-15T03:00:28.537Z Suddenly loud cries, the drumming of tom-toms, and the tapping of sticks against tree-trunks, told me that the drive had begun. Life in an Indian Outpost 2011-10-19T02:00:19.943Z Arab tom-toms would hardly have been heard alongside that range. The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer" Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan 2011-10-11T02:01:13.517Z The only furniture, a tall tom-tom, a mat-covered dais, and a heap of empty stone bottles in a corner. Kenneth McAlpine A Tale of Mountain, Moorland and Sea 2011-12-05T03:00:48.967Z The tom-tom had sounded the call to the test. The Indians' Last Fight Or The Dull Knife Raid 2011-11-06T02:00:13.167Z One of them squatted on the floor and began beating monotonously on a small kind of a drum or tom-tom. The Motor Maids Across the Continent 2011-09-17T02:00:31.140Z Near the king’s tent sat a few musicians, beating low on tom-toms, and singing a dreamy kind of a chant. Harry Milvaine The Wanderings of a Wayward Boy 2011-09-08T02:00:23.340Z Again, anyone drumming on the table with his finger-nails will sometimes bring to my mind the feelings I used to have on hearing the beating of the horrid tom-toms. O'er Many Lands, on Many Seas 2011-09-08T02:00:19.987Z Thus it was that, soon after, the good people of Taal were aroused at sun-up by a ragged burst of musketry, a hullaballoo of yells and beating tom-toms, and the crackling of burning nipa. Caybigan 2011-08-31T02:01:21.780Z The blare of the political megaphones, and the sustained panic of the party tom-toms, have a message for us, we may suppose. The Sea and the Jungle 2011-08-30T02:00:30.350Z A pacemaker adjusts the tom-tom of his heart. The Faded Voice of Sports Calls Past 2011-08-24T01:00:40Z At the very moment the signal of advance was given by Harry, wild shouting arose from the ranks of the enemy, accompanied by the rattle of tom-toms and the blaring of innumerable chanters. Harry Milvaine The Wanderings of a Wayward Boy 2011-09-08T02:00:23.340Z I have been to a circus lately, let us say, and this racket seems to be the tom-tom of a side-show where a thin gentleman swallows snakes. Hints to Pilgrims 2011-08-18T02:00:23.727Z The monkey with the basket of puddings on his head walked and walked till he met a Paraiya2 coming with a tom-tom towards him. Tales of the Sun or Folklore of Southern India 2011-08-09T02:00:29.493Z I can hear their tom-tom things beating furiously, and occasionally they set up a tremendous yell. The Lost Heir 2011-08-07T02:00:09.367Z At sundown Nyoda went around beating on a tin pan covered with a cloth in lieu of a tom-tom, which was always the signal for the tribe to come together. The Camp Fire Girls at Onoway House or, The Magic Garden 2011-07-26T02:00:18.027Z All night, from down in the valley where their huts are, has come the sound of tom-toms beating. The Hearts of Men 2011-07-19T02:00:20.477Z Guns are fired off, tom-toms are beaten, and for at least two days before he arrives there are the greatest rejoicings. McClure's Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 1 2011-07-17T02:00:36.813Z Will you, in return, present me with your tom-tom?” Tales of the Sun or Folklore of Southern India 2011-08-09T02:00:29.493Z Gangs of squaws squatted around, keeping up a wild, nasal, yelling chant, to the monotonous “tom-tom” of drums. Golden Face A Tale of the Wild West 2011-07-05T02:00:27.453Z And dividing these two mighty ranges of victory and defeat, the frenzied waters of Hellsfork dinned a neutral warning, reiterating an idiom that boomed like the omen of a tom-tom. The Red Debt Echoes from Kentucky 2011-05-08T02:00:04.810Z He dances more and more wildly as the tom-toms quicken their beat, his eyes are bloodshot, his hands are clenched, there is foam upon his lips. The Hearts of Men 2011-07-19T02:00:20.477Z Meanwhile the barbaric orchestra bangs ever, making noise enough to raise the dead—tom-tom whack, tom-tom wick, tom-tom whoop—e da capo. Cuba Past and Present 2011-04-16T02:00:18.193Z Reverence is first made to the bullocks of the village, and in the evening they are driven through the gateway past the boddu-rāyi, with tom-toms, flutes, and other kinds of music. Omens and Superstitions of Southern India 2011-03-28T02:00:25.937Z New taxes, high cost of living, denial of justice, increasing danger of war—that is what the Reichstag of 1907, which was ushered in with such high-sounding "national" tom-toms, has brought you. Socialism and Democracy in Europe 2011-03-15T02:00:12.887Z Here the people danced to the national music of the tom-tom and a species of guitar. The World and Its People: Book VII Views in Africa 2011-02-13T03:00:17.920Z And so they pass up the main road near my house with tom-toms beating and flowers about their necks, and the "possessed" priest dancing ever before them. The Hearts of Men 2011-07-19T02:00:20.477Z They shout and leap, and at every open space they dance to the sound of tom-toms and horns, their two chief musical instruments. Cuba Past and Present 2011-04-16T02:00:18.193Z Together with a man ringing a bell, and perhaps one with a tom-tom, with ashes on his face, he assumes the rôle of a beggar. Omens and Superstitions of Southern India 2011-03-28T02:00:25.937Z "We'd be in a hat if we stuck to the tom-tom in that event; that flooey-headed horse would kill us if the tiger didn't." The Three Sapphires 2011-02-07T03:00:24.770Z Finally, shrieking at the worst vision of all, he is driven back to the clearing and to his death, the tom-tom beating ever nearer and faster according as his panic grows. The Negro in Literature and Art in the United States 2011-01-26T03:00:29.717Z From a nautch-house close by came the muffled throbbing of tom-toms—a restless pulse of the night. Caravans By Night A Romance of India 2011-01-03T03:01:02.370Z An outlandish orchestra, consisting of the usual horns and tom-toms, bangs a wild, savage melody, with a kind of irregular rhythm, marking time, but without the faintest vestige of tune. Cuba Past and Present 2011-04-16T02:00:18.193Z The enticing sound of tom-toms and Indian war whoops caused Penny to forget her desire to meet the show’s publicity man. The Wishing Well 2010-12-20T17:12:27.090Z "Going to the tom-tom of the tribe: 'The whole world's against us,'" former Knesset speaker Avrum Burg said of the prime minister's remarks. What Israelis Really Think Should Be Done About Gaza 2010-06-19T05:15:00Z First come the jerky loud tom-toms, then the leaping loud bass, then the choppy and very loud guitar. 2010-02-17T00:54:00Z She knew that she must be the picture of guilt as she stood there, her color coming and going, her heart beating like a silly tom-tom. The Trail of Conflict His grandfather and uncle were distinguished drummers in Indian infantry regiments—in other words, they were masters of the tom-tom. The Curry Cook's Assistant or, Curries, How to Make Them in England in Their Original Style Moreover, one detail he disliked: the ubiquitous earthenware tom-tom that sounded day and night… he heard its sullen beating in his dreams. The Wave An Egyptian Aftermath There was, however, no occasion for this, for early the next morning seven or eight canoes were seen coming round the point with much beating of tom-toms and sounding of conch horns. Maori and Settler A Story of The New Zealand War Mtulu gazed at me narrowly for a moment and then he beat lightly upon a tom-tom at his side. Mr. Munchausen Being a True Account of Some of the Recent Adventures beyond the Styx of the Late Hieronymus Carl Friedrich, Sometime Baron Munchausen of Bodenwerder "I wondered whether the natives were going to forget the old tom-tom." Tahara Among African Tribes They still retain some of their half-pagan rites, such as the use of magical drums and tom-toms for conjuring purposes, and to frighten away or to propitiate supposed devils, malicious diseases, and so on. Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia The old "medicine" chief ceased to bang the tom-tom and the jargon of the squaws was silenced. Chiquita, an American Novel The Romance of a Ute Chief's Daughter The discordant sounds kept approaching—a monotonous kind of chant, mingled with the beating of tom-toms and the clash of cymbals. Round the World in Eighty Days Some came in all state, with umbrellas and tom-toms, and with the accompaniment of rattling bones and war-drums. With Wolseley to Kumasi A Tale of the First Ashanti War His brain was clear now, though his head throbbed like a jungle tom-tom under the beat of a mad witch doctor. The Time Mirror The sound of chanting and the throb of tom-toms came from the village behind without interruption, while in front of them was the forest, silent and black and somber. The Blind Lion of the Congo Mebbe so fingers pale face girl good play 'em tom-tom, make 'em beadwork, wash 'em tin plates. Chiquita, an American Novel The Romance of a Ute Chief's Daughter No small proportion of them were beating tom-toms; others played on the native flutes and fiddles; all shouted. The Woodlands Orchids A tom-tom was beaten, and they simply ran to the stockade and banged the door. With Wolseley to Kumasi A Tale of the First Ashanti War I don't hear any war drums, any tom-toms. Do Unto Others A roll of tom-toms and a loud shout rose from the tribe, which was answered by a shout from the crews. The Blind Lion of the Congo Before me was the olla-podrida of touring fashion and fellaheen squalor; the smell of camels and attar of roses; the polyglot chatter of European pleasure-seekers and the tom-toms of Arab pilgrims. The Portal of Dreams Sometimes the cobras do seem to pay attention to the low, droning notes of the pipe, which is often accompanied by a rude tom-tom. The Pearl of India But can it be that that tom-tom was not from the mine?” With Wolseley to Kumasi A Tale of the First Ashanti War Before he was fully awake, he mistook the bell for a tom-tom; then, more fully aroused, he knew the bell. Psychology A Study Of Mental Life After what seemed an age he heard the sound of chanting mingled with the throb of the tom-toms. The Blind Lion of the Congo At the quarters of the scouts sounded the melancholy beat of a tom-tom. The Plow-Woman Ivory horns, tom-toms, fifes, and the rudest sort of bass drums are the instruments most in use with the Singhalese, a few Chinese stringed contrivances being occasionally added, simply increasing the horror. The Pearl of India Rather to their surprise, immediately after supper the tom-tom sounded its monotonous call, summoning them to the Council Rock. The Campfire Girls on Ellen's Isle The Trail of the Seven Cedars When one who is being awakened by a bell perceives it as a tom-tom, that is an illusion. Psychology A Study Of Mental Life The tom-toms ceased abruptly with one or two scattered notes. The Blind Lion of the Congo The tom-tom was still, and no wail of squaws was borne across the river. The Plow-Woman Only this morning we had to deal rather severely with an undergraduate member of the College—aboriginal, as many of them are—who insisted on playing the tom-tom in prohibited hours. The Casual Ward academic and other oddments Anthony still wiggled and tried to free himself, protesting his innocence. 174Uncle Teddy pounded on the tom-tom. The Campfire Girls on Ellen's Isle The Trail of the Seven Cedars The same comparison may be made between the low, monotonous moaning of the savage and the rapturous music of a Patti, or between the beating of the tom-tom and the lofty strains of a Mozart. History of Human Society No sound had broken in on their labor except a throbbing beat of tom-toms from the village, mingled once more with the shrill, steady chanting of the pigmy warriors. The Blind Lion of the Congo On all sides the sound of the gong and tom-tom were heard. Adventures in the Philippine Islands The general impression was one of barbaric splendour, weird chanting, noisy tom-toms, and hypnotic pulsation. The Preacher of Cedar Mountain A Tale of the Open Country Uncle Teddy was beating the tom-tom and he stood on a large, flat rock close to the edge of the bluff. The Campfire Girls on Ellen's Isle The Trail of the Seven Cedars The owner of the wood, apparently the chief authority of the little settlement, immediately procured a tom-tom, and gave orders for the baile. Carmen Ariza As he listened he could hear the deep throb-throb of the larger drums from the village mingled with the sharper and more staccato notes of the tom-toms. The Blind Lion of the Congo In the silence of the house, the tom-tom and blare of brazen instruments blown at the fair two miles away was audible. Amaryllis at the Fair There was the shrill chant of the "Racing Ponies" with the tom-toms beating, and then Red Cloud's men came trotting in a mass. The Preacher of Cedar Mountain A Tale of the Open Country Uncle Teddy pounded on the tom-tom for silence, boom, boom! The Campfire Girls on Ellen's Isle The Trail of the Seven Cedars From over by the tepees there came the low throbbing of tom-toms to join with the thin, high, dog-like whoop of the Indian greeting. Westward with the Prince of Wales In the center of this semicircle, not far from the thorn wall, the old chief reclined on his throne of rugs, the tom-tom beaters near him. The Blind Lion of the Congo The shadows were black and sharp in the bright moonlight and the tom-toms throbbed in the city below. Jan and Her Job It contains native clubs, tom-toms, skins of fishes, and a valuable book of engravings from Hogarth. Six Letters From the Colonies Suddenly there was a tumultuous rush of every produceable sound; tom-tom, conch-shell, cymbal, flute, stringed instruments and bells burst into chorus together. Lotus Buds When he had finished, the tom-toms were brought into action again, and a high, thin wail went up from the ring of Indians, and they began almost at once to move round in a dance. Westward with the Prince of Wales At a signal from Mbopo the tom-toms began a steady, regular beat and the pigmies broke into a low chant that swelled at intervals until the echoes came back faintly from the forest. The Blind Lion of the Congo Then a sudden burst of tom-toms, and a banging and clanging of all manner of noise-producers, and then a bullock coach drove up, a great gilded thing. Things as They Are Mission Work in Southern India He clutched instinctively at the rifle by his side, and rose to his feet; the noise of the tom-toms seemed close at hand. Soldiers of the Queen A billion eyes focused on Mecca, the mad beating of tom-toms rolled across all Africa, women and children were trampled to death by the crowds that jammed into churches. Raiders of the Universes The first performance by comparison with the second sounded as a tom-tom concert in competition with the celestial choir. Chit-Chat; Nirvana; The Searchlight The pale-faced boy made no move to resist, and next moment the white-hot iron was taken from the fire, and the tom-toms rolled forth their thunder. The Blind Lion of the Congo THE tom-toms thumped straight on all night, and the darkness shuddered round me like a living, feeling thing. Things as They Are Mission Work in Southern India Above, in the pueblo, I heard the sound of tom-toms and wailing squaws. The Faith Healer A Play in Three Acts It engulfed him and entranced him and awoke ancestral tom-toms in his blood. The Prairie Child When we passed out of the grounds, some hours later, this priest was still busy with his chips and the noisy tom-tom, though there was no audience present except our little party. Due West or Round the World in Ten Months By the tents on the hill-side Mr. Pym, the engineer, Meryl, and Diana sat outside in the starlight, rather a silent party, listening to the intermittent sound of tom-toms coming from some kraal near by. The Rhodesian The tom-toms still beat heavily, the darkness still shuddered and shivered about me; I heard the yells of the devil-dancers and the weird wild shriek of the devil-possessed just outside the gate. Things as They Are Mission Work in Southern India It included a grand feast, with songs and dancing, the latter done to the sounds of the tom-tom drum, and one-stringed African fiddle. The Giraffe Hunters The natives try to frighten them by making a deafening din, beating tom-toms and tin cans, but it is doubtful whether the locusts pay any heed to these demonstrations. India and the Indians One had a lot of little pine chips by his side, and was busy in alternately feeding a small fire upon a stone slab and beating a tom-tom. Due West or Round the World in Ten Months Then, the Indian dancers appeared with their rattles, and beating time to the tom-toms with their feet, they gestured wildly with their arms. Domestic Life in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century Close to the cage a small boy was thundering away on a tom-tom, but it did not disturb the parrot. Things as They Are Mission Work in Southern India The fire was blazing upward, and a deafening beating of tom-toms gave sacredness to the obsequies. A Tour of the Missions Observations and Conclusions Her eye searched the room for a weapon, and found an Indian tom-tom club. Brand Blotters When picking up his "tom-tom" the performer also picks up the bees wax, and attaching it to the "tom-tom" the arrangements are complete. Indian Conjuring It was as though his head had become a tom-tom in the hands of fate. The Pagan Madonna They would wring her heart as she heard them in the pauses of the tom-tom. Things as They Are Mission Work in Southern India Silence in the midst of the beating of heathen tom-toms becomes enervating and appalling; it may make a man insane. A Tour of the Missions Observations and Conclusions Several days before the expedition reached the shoals which terminate the navigation of the Pichis, the tom-toms or drums of the Campas were heard night and day beating the assembly of the warriors. Life of Rear Admiral John Randolph Tucker Bringing the "tom-tom" closer to the body makes the duck dive under water. Indian Conjuring The perspiration dropped down their faces, and thus did yelling, dancing, gongs, and tom-toms become more rapid and more violent every minute, till the dancing warriors were ready to drop. Borneo and the Indian Archipelago with drawings of costume and scenery As I did so the beating of the tom-toms broke on my ears with such vehemence that I was well-nigh stunned, and a waving dance of torches and cressets bewildered my eyes. Athelstane Ford We attended the evening worship, which consisted of a torchlight procession of priests, with beating of tom-toms and frenzied dancing of musicians, which would have done credit to the savagery of the Fiji Islands. A Tour of the Missions Observations and Conclusions To his amazement Hook signed to him to beat the tom-tom; and slowly there came to Smee an understanding of the dreadful wickedness of the order. Peter and Wendy The tom-tom burst forth, the chants became louder, the dance swifter. The Sheep Eaters Having expressed our wishes in the affirmative, the music struck up; it consisted of gongs and tom-toms. Borneo and the Indian Archipelago with drawings of costume and scenery The frogs are now in full chorus, the great bulls beating their tom-toms and the small fry filling in the chinks with shriller cries. The Log of the Sun A Chronicle of Nature's Year They were but waiting for the night, which they would spend in wild singing, tom-tom drumming and naked dances. Panther Eye It needs darkness to give the wild part-song its full effect, and to inspire the drummers to produce a voice of awe from the muttering tom-toms. The Huntress The great drum shivers, as it shivered, of old, a tom-tom, across the African desert; the old, primal thrill creeps through my blood—good heavens, is this fear? Margarita's Soul The Romantic Recollections of a Man of Fifty They all rounded the point together, dressed out with flags of all descriptions, beating their gongs and tom-toms, and firing blank cartridges from their "Leilas." Borneo and the Indian Archipelago with drawings of costume and scenery To his ears came the regular booming beat of a deerskin tom-tom, punctuated by an occasional blood-curdling yell. Lady Luck Then came the beating of a tom-tom, so loud that it hurt. The Prairie Mother Here was the eternal, hypnotic tom-tom rhythm of the East, grafted upon supreme Western opera. Edge of the Jungle When night comes the men arrange themselves in two lines, about fifteen feet apart, facing each other, all provided with tom-toms, and musical instruments of all kinds known to the savage. The History of Minnesota and Tales of the Frontier The gong and tom-tom are used by the Dyaks and Malays in war, and for signals at night, and the Dyaks procure them from the Malays. Borneo and the Indian Archipelago with drawings of costume and scenery The medicine-man; it’s quite the same idea, you see; with tom-toms.” A Collection of Stories, Reviews and Essays Then the tom-tom beating started up again, and I opened my eyes to make sure it wasn’t the Grenadiers’ Band going by. The Prairie Mother With flags flying and thousands of natives on the shore yelling and beating tom-toms, we started down the Lualaba. An African Adventure We heard the din of tom-toms beaten within the city, joyous shouts, and loud ear-piercing blasts upon those great horns formed out of elephant tusks. The Great White Queen A Tale of Treasure and Treason Outside on a raised platform was a very large tom-tom or drum, upon which a native played from morning to night, much to our annoyance, as it was so close to us. Borneo and the Indian Archipelago with drawings of costume and scenery She had met the young man with the Albanian costume, and he had talked to her about vorticism and this jolly new Polish composer with his suite for tom-tom and cymbals. The Innocents A Story for Lovers The two crews with their ceaseless tom-tom on the shore of the creek, were upward of half a mile away. Two on the Trail A Story of the Far Northwest They amused him somewhat—the odd tones of the negroes’ voices, the shouts, the laughter, the cries of babies, the barking of curs, the beating of tom-toms. The Three Midshipmen Their arrival had been observed by the natives, who, with tom-toms beating and horns sounding, were drawn up in large numbers on the side of the hill to defend their village. The Three Commanders Add to this the chiming and beating of gongs and tom-toms in every cadence, and from every quarter, and you are somewhat reminded of an Asiatic Bartholomew fair. Borneo and the Indian Archipelago with drawings of costume and scenery As they did this with the regularity of drilled soldiers, and to the pounding of a tom-tom, they evidently were chanting in chorus, although the ear would have failed to distinguish it. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No. 6, December 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Then the plain echoed with the beating of tom-toms and shouts of joy. The Cat and the Mouse A Book of Persian Fairy Tales Was it in the tented field With crash of sword on shield, While backward meaner champions reeled And loud the tom-tom pealed? The Book of Humorous Verse During this time the natives, gaining courage, were coming down the river in vast numbers, beating their tom-toms and shouting and shrieking. The Three Commanders These people, as I fancy you have experienced, like to take their enemies by surprise; and they will not come on in broad daylight with tom-toms and shouts, depend on that. In the Wilds of Africa The tom-toms and wooden drums were beaten at the pleasure of the parties in charge: nothing like time was apparent to any but a Chinese ear. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No. 6, December 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy After a search of some days he discovered a flotilla of nearly forty junks, which bore down on him with tom-toms beating, evidently intending to fight. How Britannia Came to Rule the Waves Updated to 1900 It was exactly like the dull beating of a tom-tom. The Desert Drum 1905 There was no car, no procession, no music: and, when night came, no tom-tom was beaten, no rocket sent up, nor any other sign that it was the day of Runga.’ Old Daniel I waited, therefore, without moving, till the sounds of revelry subsided, the tom-toms were no longer beaten, the trumpets ceased braying, and the cymbals clashing. Old Jack He would fall into philharmonic ecstasies over the discord of a bamboo tom-tom. Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver An inner fortress was, however, discovered, from which the Chinese soldiers which crowded it, opened their fire, beating their tom-toms and gongs, waving banners, and beckoning the English to attack. How Britannia Came to Rule the Waves Updated to 1900 While I asked myself the question the roar of the tom-tom grew gradually less, as if the man beating it were walking rapidly away from us in the direction of Sidi-Massarli. The Desert Drum 1905 As they neared the s.w. point, they were met by six prahus, beating their tom-toms as they advanced, and making every demonstration of fighting. The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy There began, as before, a horrible din of tom-toms and other musical instruments, mixed with the very far from musical voices of the old women who had been tormenting us. Old Jack Half a dozen tom-toms were struck with uncommon rapidity and vigor, while the unctuous women set up a chorus of melody that would not have disgraced a band of “Ethiopian Minstrels.” Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver To entertain me, six copper tom-toms were brought out, and placed in a row on pillows, whilst another large one, for the bass accompaniment, was suspended from a wooden frame. The Philippine Islands One of the chiefs drummed on a small tom-tom. The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette For this ceremony all the boats, guns, tom-toms, flags, and population were put in requisition; and the procession to the ship was a very gorgeous and amusing spectacle. The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy No matter; I possess a set of pipes Made in the land whose emblem is the Thistle; Three Indian tom-toms of peculiar types And a Bolivian whistle. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, March 29, 1916 No sooner were these rites over, than the house was surrounded by a swarm of women from the adjacent villages, whose incessant songs, screams, chatter, and tom-tom beatings, drowned every mortal sound. Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver Whatever may have been done within the non-seceded states, the South deluded herself that it was simply an exposition of the power of the government—a sort of Chinese warfare of gongs and tom-toms. Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death I have not so much as looked at the ants, but still that confounded bell tone rings in my ears with all the insistence of African tom-toms. The Bell Tone On one side the American band gave the first notes of civilized music that the Moros had ever heard; opposite, rows of brass tom-toms responded mournfully. The Adventures of Piang the Moro Jungle Boy A Book for Young and Old At two in the morning when I crept away to my bed, the tom-tom and the piano were both sounding out with almost undiminished vigor. A Daughter of the Middle Border A fire was quickly kindled in the centre of the court; and as its flames lit up the area, a whirling circle of half-stripped girls danced to the monotonous beat of a tom-tom. Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver Once he was sure he heard the beating of a tom-tom. Oh, You Tex! The wild music of the tom-tom, a primitive Arab drum, seemed to us never to cease at Biskra. Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878 Piang flushed with excitement at an unusually loud beating of tom-toms; the chief was coming. The Adventures of Piang the Moro Jungle Boy A Book for Young and Old "Sounds like some tom-tom march you're trying to play," interrupted Meade, and proffered a cigar. Sonnie-Boy's People Several canoes were despatched to the vessel, with flags, tom-toms, and horns, to receive and welcome the ladies. Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver The Indians danced round and round this pole, jumping stiff legged, screeching and gesticulating, while the tom-toms were pounded by the squaws. Old Rail Fence Corners The A. B. C's. of Minnesota History Hence the incessant drumming, as the music of the tom-tom seems to be an indispensable adjunct to Arab enjoyment. Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878 A second beating of tom-toms thundered through the barrio. The Adventures of Piang the Moro Jungle Boy A Book for Young and Old Man once beat a tom-tom, and now he writes operas and oratorios. Morality as a Religion An exposition of some first principles Muffled, dull, pulsating, unceasing, the thrummed tom-tom set all the air in motion. Plotting in Pirate Seas The tom-tom is a dried skin drawn tightly over a hoop and they beat on this with a stick. Old Rail Fence Corners The A. B. C's. of Minnesota History All night the enemy kept on beating tom-toms and occasionally yelling, approaching at times comparatively close to the position. The Dash for Khartoum A Tale of Nile Expedition Soon voices became distinguishable, and he heard tom-toms beating the evening serenade. The Adventures of Piang the Moro Jungle Boy A Book for Young and Old We could hear the shrieks and shouts of laughter and applause, the drumming on tom-toms, and the sound of the horns until a late hour in the night. The Two Supercargoes Adventures in Savage Africa Somehow, the presence of houses and people took away the sinister sound of the tom-tom and made it seem like an ordinary drum. Plotting in Pirate Seas Each Indian keeps up a hideous noise and that with the beating of the tom-tom makes a din hard to describe. Old Rail Fence Corners The A. B. C's. of Minnesota History At the same moment we heard the tom-tom beat to arms, and observed the warriors putting on their wooden and woollen armour, and seeking their spears and sumpitans. Mark Seaworth Amid beating of tom-toms, wails of women, and howls of dogs, the column, single file, dipped into the jungle and was lost to sight. The Adventures of Piang the Moro Jungle Boy A Book for Young and Old On entering the town we saw a number of persons approaching, several playing on tom-toms and various musical instruments, and others shouting and singing. The Two Supercargoes Adventures in Savage Africa The tom-tom throbbed menacingly through the heavy dark of the Haitian night. Plotting in Pirate Seas As they drew nearer the pirates suddenly broke forth into loud cries, sounding their trumpets and beating their gongs and tom-toms, apparently with the intention of frightening us. The Mate of the Lily Notes from Harry Musgrave's Log Book There were musicians ready, who played on the tom-tom, or drum, and the gong, which they beat either slow or fast, according to the measure of the dance. Mark Seaworth Yes, that is the tom-tom of your enemy. The Adventures of Piang the Moro Jungle Boy A Book for Young and Old These were mostly drummers, who beat their huge tom-toms with right good will, making the most fearful and deafening din. The Two Supercargoes Adventures in Savage Africa Deeper down than the disturbed feelings produced by the tom-tom, he sensed a prescience of evil on its way. Plotting in Pirate Seas It is played with the fingers, like the Indian tom-tom. Great African Travellers From Mungo Park to Livingstone and Stanley We soon entered the mouth of a broad river, up which we sailed in martial array—tom-toms beating, pipes sounding, men shouting and brandishing their weapons, and flags waving. Mark Seaworth There was no tom-tom serenade such as usually heralds the coming of night; no fires were lighted; the evening meal was forgotten. The Adventures of Piang the Moro Jungle Boy A Book for Young and Old The musical instruments we heard were tom-toms, Jews’-harps, and frequently fiddles. In the Eastern Seas As they left the hut, it seemed to Stuart that the nerve-racking beating of the tom-tom sounded louder and nearer. Plotting in Pirate Seas Next came a couple more with evidently the kettle-drums, hung from their necks and beaten, like an Indian tom-tom, at both ends. Off to the Wilds Being the Adventures of Two Brothers We passed a village where a number of torches were burning, and people were singing and beating their tom-toms, Kalong asserted, in honour of the captured crocodile. Mark Seaworth Sounds came faintly from the barrio; tom-toms and many drums beat a monotonous serenade. The Adventures of Piang the Moro Jungle Boy A Book for Young and Old What would they say to that for a tom-tom?” Glyn Severn's Schooldays "There was a voodoo dance, and the tom-tom began to beat, and——" This was too much! Plotting in Pirate Seas It seemed to him that the drums were tom-toms, and Baines’s a bazaar. Clayhanger Then we heard tom-toms beating close by, and the clash of brass or some other metal that had a ring like cymbals. Young Tom Bowling The Boys of the British Navy A deep, cruel howl; tom-toms beat a ragged and violent alarm; savage war-cries rent the air, bounding back from one echo to another. The Adventures of Piang the Moro Jungle Boy A Book for Young and Old With banners fluttering, tom-toms clamouring, and shouts of Allah, they began to move towards our square. General Gordon Saint and Soldier Drums and tom-toms made from the hides of animals are also impure. The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India—Volume I (of IV) He had heard all kinds of music, from the Spanish band to the Samoan tom-tom. The Adventures of Uncle Jeremiah and Family at the Great Fair Their Observations and Triumphs Here messengers welcome them forward, women singing, tom-tom beating, urchins stealing fearful glances through the woods. Canada: the Empire of the North Being the Romantic Story of the New Dominion's Growth from Colony to Kingdom Somewhere along the throng a tom-tom began its rapid, monotonous thump, and here, there, and everywhere the rattles played their weird, stirring accompaniment. Under Fire Twenty thousand voices, lifted in all pitches of the human compass, were caught by tom-toms and the impelling cadence of the singing nautch-girls—like drift-wood in a swift current—and driven into rhythmic pulsation. Son of Power "I suppose they'll be keeping up these infernal tom-toms for another week," grumbled the sick man, lying back and half closing his eyes from weariness. Golden Stories A Selection of the Best Fiction by the Foremost Writers Brothers," he said, "we are indeed brothers by the torture, tattoo, tom-tom, and top-feather. Captain Jinks, Hero In vain the medicine man had pounded his tom-tom and shouted at the Indian gods from the top of the wigwams and offered sacrifice of animals to be slain. Canada: the Empire of the North Being the Romantic Story of the New Dominion's Growth from Colony to Kingdom We are still beating our tom-toms like the Chinese, to frighten away the enemy, and our braves still fire off powder at invisible Uhlans. Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris In the distance rose and fell muffled notes of strange passion and fierceness, an Arab tom-tom beating like the heart of the conquered East, away in the old town. The Golden Silence Tossing upon his bed, all through the velvet darkness he was dimly conscious, through his delirious dreams, of tom-toms beaten in the bush. Golden Stories A Selection of the Best Fiction by the Foremost Writers You have bigger feathers and bigger dances and bigger tom-toms. Captain Jinks, Hero As soon as the bullock arrived it was killed amid great rejoicings and plenty of "tom-tom," especially as in the villages a sheep is usually considered sufficient provision. Life in Morocco and Glimpses Beyond We are like a tribe of Africans beating tom-toms and howling in order to avert a threatening storm. Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris The wailing of the raïta mingled with the heavy throbbing of the tom-tom, and filled the girl's heart with a vague foreboding, a yearning for something she had not known, and did not understand. The Golden Silence The noise of the tom-toms was louder than ever, proceeding, apparently, from some point in the bush a little to the left of the king's palace. Golden Stories A Selection of the Best Fiction by the Foremost Writers There was a great to-do about it in the town, and the tom-toms had mysteriously returned from the hillsides. The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Along the street, heralded with tom-toms, came a procession of lurching camels, jogging donkeys, rattling carriages, acrobats leading dog-faced apes and trailing Arabs in fezes—the pomp and pageantry of a pilgrim returning from Mecca. The Lighted Match Here the roar of the bazaar and pulsing of tom-toms were blurred and almost inaudible. The Road to Mandalay A Tale of Burma It was a whirlwind of a dance, and an old wizard with a tom-tom, and a dark giant with metal castanets made music for the dancers, taking eccentric steps themselves as they played. The Golden Silence All the while, musicians were singing and beating the tom-tom, a drum made of buffalo hide stretched on hoops and filled with water. Pathfinders of the West Being the Thrilling Story of the Adventures of the Men Who Discovered the Great Northwest: Radisson, La Vérendrye, Lewis and Clark The padre was sent round to the lodges with a tom-tom to beat every soul to the feast. Heralds of Empire Being the Story of One Ramsay Stanhope, Lieutenant to Pierre Radisson in the Northern Fur Trade But these things were all vague to Benton because it seemed that the pilgrim's tom-toms were beating inside his brain, and beating out of time. The Lighted Match First we improvised an Indian band, using our basins as tom-toms and singing the most weird music. Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons Wesel, Sennelager, Klingelputz, Ruhleben As they marched, fifty voices rose and fell wildly in a stirring chant, exciting and terrible as the beat-beat of a tom-tom, sometimes a shout of barbaric triumph, sometimes a mourning wail. The Golden Silence It was the muffled boom, boom, boom of a tom-tom. The Courage of Marge O'Doone The padre takes a tom-tom and stands at one end of the lodge beating a very knave of a rub-a-dub and shouting at the top of his voice: 'Eat, brothers, eat! Heralds of Empire Being the Story of One Ramsay Stanhope, Lieutenant to Pierre Radisson in the Northern Fur Trade Two hundred men are yelling and cursing, roaring and singing, beating pots and pans, tom-toms and gongs. McClure's Magazine, Vol. 31, No. 1, May 1908 Musicians with reeds and tom-toms paraded the bazaars. The Adventures of Kathlyn As she listened, struck into pulsing silence, she could see the colour of the music; a deep crimson, which flamed into scarlet as the tom-tom beat, or deepened to violent purple, wicked as belladonna flowers. The Golden Silence "Twenty years ago, when I first knew Mukoki, he would chant nothing but Indian legends to the beat of a tom-tom," he explained. The Courage of Marge O'Doone Seated at his drums in the center of the orchestra, he effortlessly mixes snare, tom-tom, bass drum and cymbals in a whirling, benumbing mass of sound. 100 New Yorkers of the 1970s The "tom-tom," or Indian drum, adds to the power of monotonous rhythm and to the spirit of excitement and frenzy. The Romantic Settlement of Lord Selkirk's Colonists The Pioneers of Manitoba A man in a silk hat pushed in three musicians, carrying a tom-tom, a cymbal and a flute. Atlantis You love music and you live in a place where they don't know the difference between Tannhäuser and a tom-tom. Destiny Sounds came to them—the slow, hollow booming of a tom-tom, and voices. The Courage of Marge O'Doone That is the tom-tom in the Himalayas they are listening to. Fashionable Philosophy and Other Sketches There is a type of humanity we all encounter from day to day, at whose funeral I shall carry a banner and beat a tom-tom. A String of Amber Beads There were yells and stamping, the smash of tom-toms, and a scattering salvo of musketry. Montlivet ‘Did you ever hear a tom-tom, sir?’ sternly inquired the Captain, who lost no opportunity of showing off his travels, real or pretended. Charles Dickens and Music Always the drums beating their terrible tom-tom, their primitive, blood-maddening tom-tom.... The Plastic Age And then a quaint, drumming noise like the sound of a distant tom-tom summoned them to tea. The Moon out of Reach So they cut out an original ballet where a savage beat a tom-tom, and they cut and fitted together mercilessly. Musical Memories The Indians sat in open council, and the tom-toms sounded from lodge to lodge. Montlivet She wanted to see the things of which Christopher had told her—to hear the temple bells in the dusk—the beat of the tom-tom on white nights. The Gay Cockade He had been standing gloomily in the doorway watching the bacchanalian scene, listening to the tom-tom of the drums when she came up to him. The Plastic Age From the far distance the muffled beat of the tom-tom sounded. The Palace of Darkened Windows The Brahmins were beating the great tom-tom before Kali's Shrine. Far to Seek A Romance of England and India As she danced there was in her ears the faded echo of wooden tom-toms. The Ragged Edge Here was no silence, but blatant noise—roar and chatter and shriek, the beat of the tom-tom, the thin piping of a flute—the crash of a band. The Gay Cockade The musicians played as if in a frenzy, the drums pound-pounding a terrible tom-tom, the saxophones moaning and wailing, the violins singing sensuously, shrilly as if in pain, an exquisite searing pain. The Plastic Age There were half a dozen musicians, who played upon tom-toms, instruments like a fiddle, and one that was very nearly a hurdy-gurdy, with lutes and flutes. Across India Or, Live Boys in the Far East Before replying Yang Chien went to the camp and ordered soldiers to wave large red flags and a thousand others to beat the tom-toms and drums. Myths and Legends of China In her ears there was a medley of sound: wailing music, rumbling tom-toms and sputtering firecrackers. The Ragged Edge He hoped there would be a tom-tom, and some of the dark people from the Far East. The Gay Cockade The music began, turning a song with comic words into something weirdly sensuous—strange syncopations, uneven, startling drum-beats—a mad tom-tom. The Plastic Age The performers were not willing to forego the rich reward expected; and a compromise was effected by which the tom-tom was to be used, but the howling was to cease. Across India Or, Live Boys in the Far East Two or three very large «tom-toms» are also in the village. A Journal of a Tour in the Congo Free State The Malays have one, too, but it's a rank imitation, tom-toms and all. The Ragged Edge The savage likes the noise of the tom-tom or the clatter of wooden instruments: what a contrast this is to the trained ear of the musician. The Chemistry of Food and Nutrition Again the music, again the tom-tom of the drums. The Plastic Age In front of the elephant marched a band of eighteen or twenty native musicians, playing upon all sorts of Indian instruments, including tom-toms, lutes, like flageolets, cymbals, and horns. Across India Or, Live Boys in the Far East He says he has been sent by a white man to tell us not to sound our tom-toms as it will attract the hostile tribe and they will attack our camp. A Journal of a Tour in the Congo Free State He seized a tray, squatted on the floor, and imitated the tom-tom. The Ragged Edge And from an Indian encampment behind us came a weird incantation and the steady beat of the tom-tom. Tell England A Study in a Generation Among the lower savages music, as we understand it, hardly exists, though they all delight in rude musical sounds, as of drums, tom-toms, or gongs; and they also sing in monotonous chants. Darwinism (1889) He is the only one for this entertainment, and he plays the tom-tom with his fingers. Across India Or, Live Boys in the Far East We told him that we were peaceful travellers, that we should beat our tom-toms as much as we liked and camp where we wished and that if the tribe attacked us we should defend ourselves. A Journal of a Tour in the Congo Free State Small boys went about making night hideous with tom-toms, extemporised out of empty fig-drums, and tooting terribly upon tin trumpets. Ireland Under Coercion (2nd ed.) (1 of 2) (1888) Across the way a phonograph bawled; our stringed orchestra played "The Dollar Princess;" from somewhere over in the dark and mysterious alleyways came the regular beating of a tom-tom. African Camp Fires As their stroke slackened, the man in the bow with the tom-tom beat more savagely upon it, and shouted to them in shrill sharp cries. The Congo and Coasts of Africa You notice the rich standards and the torches, the trumpeters, and the girls playing on tom-toms and cymbals. Across India Or, Live Boys in the Far East Each of the seven canoes carries one or two tom-toms and some have also native bells. A Journal of a Tour in the Congo Free State Forming line they moved through it with shrill yells, the blare of horns, the beating of tom-toms and a spluttering fire of blank cartridges from old muskets. The Jungle Girl Across the hushed waters came to us strange chantings and the beating of a tom-tom, an occasional shrill shout from the unknown jungle. African Camp Fires At the end of the half hour a tempest of noise arose from the village; tom-toms were beaten, conch-shells blown and vigorous cheering was heard. The Elephant God Lights came out in high windows and sounds of bagpipes and beating tom-toms began inside the open doors of a nautch house. The Pointing Man A Burmese Mystery In case of war, the whole country side can be quickly aroused, but the «tom-tom» is also used during peace as a telegraph. A Journal of a Tour in the Congo Free State "Tom-tom; tom-tom; tom-tom"; the hollow thud of a little drum sounded from the market-place. John of the Woods In a moment a tom-tom began to beat from behind, and the people all crowded without the circle. The Great Taboo Volley after volley of shots were fired, conch-shells blown, tom-toms beaten. The Elephant God Somewhere far away a native tom-tom throbbed like the beating of a fevered pulse, quickening spasmodically at intervals and then dying away again into mere monotony. The Lamp in the Desert In this horrible make-up the old Hindoo tom-toms on a small oblong drum, while one of his assistants sings in broken English "Buffalo Gals." Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama "Tom-tom; tom-tom; tom-tom"; the little drum sounded louder and louder as the crowd increased. John of the Woods It was a sound as of numberless drums and tom-toms, all beaten in unison with the mad energy of fear; a hideous sound, suggestive of some hateful heathen devil-worship. The Great Taboo Reverberating instruments were their earliest inventions for musical purposes, and those most frequently alluded to in their chronicles are drums, resembling the tom-toms used in the temples to the present day. Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 At Srinagar, a native fête had been in progress, and the howling of men and din of tom-toms had somewhat marred the harmony of their arrival. The Lamp in the Desert In the morning Yan took down the tom-tom for a little music and found it flat and soft. Two Little Savages Being the adventures of two boys who lived as Indians and what they learned Last night she had fed the camel and caressed it, and she had listened, half awe-struck, to the tom-toms in the distance. Six Women Fire and Water, bowing low, backed down the path, beating tom-toms as they went, and left the savage and the Frenchman alone together. The Great Taboo These parades continued two or three days, always accompanied by the great paper dragons, whether in the daytime or at night, by the noise of deafening tom-toms, and the sickening sight of tortured slave-girls. Heathen Slaves and Christian Rulers He heard the tom-toms and he saw the rhythmic leaping and treading, the posing and gesturing of the braves who danced in the firelight the tribal Buffalo Dance. The Phantom Herd There was a tom-tom to the silence against her beating ear drums. The Vertical City As he walked on, the sound of some tom-toms dulled by distance came to his ears. Six Women Fire and Water," he said in a loud voice, turning round to his two chief satellites, "go far down the path, and beat the tom-toms. The Great Taboo It was far on into the night when a couple of native tom-tom players rescued him. A Master of Fortune Being Further Adventures of Captain Kettle Down in the native quarter a tom-tom throbbed, persistent, exasperating as the voice of conscience. The Way of an Eagle The tom-tom won and I am on my way to be next-door neighbor to Jack. The Lady and Sada San A Sequel to the Lady of the Decoration The tom-toms had ceased: there was quiet, an interval of rest presumably for the dancers. Six Women As the two parties thus stood glaring at one another, across that narrow imaginary wall, another cry went up to heaven at the distant sound of a peculiar tom-tom. The Great Taboo At 8 a chief came off from the village in a large canoe pulled by about a dozen men, with a tom-tom beating in the bow. Discoveries in Australia, Volume 1. With an Account of the Coasts and Rivers Explored and Surveyed During The Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, in the Years 1837-38-39-40-41-42-43. By Command of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. Also a Narrative Of Captain Owen Stanley's Visits to the Islands in the Arafura Sea. And at a point between tom-tom and dog a couple of parrots screeched vociferously. The Way of an Eagle If I went to the theater, church or concert, the call of that germ-ridden spot of the unholy name beat into my brain with the persistency of a tom-tom on a Chinese holiday. The Lady and Sada San A Sequel to the Lady of the Decoration Pasteboard bows and arrows are supplied, and everyone is told to return at the summons of a beaten tom-tom. Entertaining Made Easy The attendants on either side clapped hands in time to the sacred tom-tom. The Great Taboo A couple of men with tom-toms slung round their necks completed the party, which marched in straggling procession out of the village at dawn. A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil He joined the tom-tom beaters and the dancers. The Alaskan A band of singsong girls gently beat their tom-toms, and carolled in soft and soothing strains. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 20, June, 1859 She made a hideous rattle and crash and clatter of sound compared to which an Indian tom-tom would have seemed as dulcet as the strumming of a lute in a lady's boudoir. Cheerful—By Request At its head marched two men—tall, straight, and supple—wearing huge feather masks over their faces, and beating tom-toms, decorated with long strings of shiny cowries. The Great Taboo The yells increase, and the tom-toms, vigorously banged, seem calculated to fuss any self-respecting bear into fits. A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil And tonight he accepted, and took his place between Stampede and Amuk Toolik and the tom-tom beaters almost burst their instruments in their excitement. The Alaskan ‘Did you ever hear a tom-tom, sir?’ sternly inquired the captain, who lost no opportunity of showing off his travels, real or pretended. Sketches by Boz, illustrative of everyday life and every-day people He doubted that it was one of his hut mates returning from the festivities, for he still heard the wild cries of the dancers and the din of the tom-toms in the village street without. Beasts of Tarzan The women came and squatted about the rim of the circle, beating upon tom-toms, clapping their hands in time to the steps of the dancers, and joining in the chant of the warriors. Return of Tarzan For a tom-tom, Parenthesis was beating a bucket with a gourd, and emitting strange cries with each thump. The Round-Up A romance of Arizona novelized from Edmund Day's melodrama Then he saw Alan go into the cabin where Rossland was, and softly his fingers drummed upon the ancient tom-tom which lay at his side. The Alaskan “Helves,” said he, “my boy,”—he always called me, my boy—“Helves,” said he, “do you hear that tom-tom?” Sketches by Boz, illustrative of everyday life and every-day people There was no beating of tom-toms now, nor blare of native horn, for Kaviri was a crafty warrior, and it was in his mind to take no chances, if they could be avoided. Beasts of Tarzan A band was playing noisily, and the unholy sound of tom-toms was not far off. A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains The stirring tom-tom, if not the ragtime which sets the occidental capering to-day, was common to the Chinese three or four hundred years ago. America, through the spectacles of an Oriental diplomat The drumming of the tom-toms ceased, and the beaters leaped to their feet. The Alaskan When we reached War Eagle's lodge we stopped near the door, for the old fellow was singing—singing some old, sad song of younger days and keeping time with his tom-tom. Indian Why Stories Sparks from War Eagle's Lodge-Fire The music was a reminiscence of tom-toms heard at circus fortune-telling tents or at the Minnesota State Fair, but the whole company pounded and puffed and whined in a sing-song, and looked rapturous. Main Street We rested until we heard the tom-tom and the song once more, and then we rushed forth with fresh eagerness to the mimic attack. Indian Boyhood Pleasant sounds soothe the nerves, and, if prolonged long enough in a darkened room will, like the Eastern tom-toms, lull the senses into a mild form of trance. The Ways of Men There were three of these fires now, and the tom-toms were booming their hollow notes over the tundra as Alan quickened his steps. The Alaskan His heart was beating like a tom-tom at a dance. Indian Why Stories Sparks from War Eagle's Lodge-Fire "Where in Heaven's name are we?" hissed Smith in my ear; "that is a tom-tom!" The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu Presently the last tom-tom was heard and the dancers rallied once more. Indian Boyhood To his amazement Hook signed him to beat the tom-tom, and slowly there came to Smee an understanding of the dreadful wickedness of the order. Peter Pan In a moment Sokwenna's head disappeared, and there came the booming of a tom-tom. The Alaskan To the beating of tom-toms, a lone warrior, crouched half doubled, leaped into the firelight in the center of a great circle of other warriors, behind whom stood or squatted the women and the children. Jungle Tales of Tarzan Out from the boats rushed music in clouds like incense; wild, African music of chanting voices, beating tom-toms, or clapping hands that clacked together like castanets. It Happened in Egypt There were in the strange weird strain suggestions of gongs, bagpipes, penny whistles, and the humble tom-tom of Bengal. Camps, Quarters, and Casual Places "Oh, I'm so looking forward to this," said Dorothy, as the beat of the tom-toms and the chant of the Indians' singing reached her ears. Dorothy's Mystical Adventures in Oz "A little later, if you ask me, I may dance with you to the music of the tom-toms." The Alaskan There is a long beating of tom-toms by the press and all other agencies for influencing public opinion. Woman and the New Race Gordon Highlanders swung along in the kilt, more at home in Cairo then in Edinburgh, the droning of their pipes as Oriental as the drone of a r�ita, or the beat of tom-toms. It Happened in Egypt In short, the enjoyment which he finds in the tones of his native tom-tom may be taken as typical of all his pleasures. Behind the Bungalow A loud grunt came from one man—followed by another until the hollow walls gave back like a hundred tom-toms. The Way of an Indian He was beating a tom-tom that gave out the peculiar sound of bells, and to this Amuk Toolik was dancing the Bear Dance, while Keok clapped her hands in exaggerated admiration. The Alaskan So after a little coaching in war-whoops, with a battered tin pan for a tom-tom, three impromptu Indians sped down the beach under the studio windows, pursued by a swift-footed Deerslayer with flying curls. Georgina of the Rainbows With quicker beats the insistent tom-toms throbbed their rhythmic melancholy rune, hollow and dissonant. Darkness and Dawn Numbers of Indians had come in to trade, and the ceaseless "tom-tom" from the wigwam on the opposite bank told how they were gambling away their earnings. A Trip to Manitoba The hollow beat of the tom-toms multiplied against the sides of the canon, together with the wild shrieking and yelling of the rejoicers; but the old Fire Eater had grown weary of dancing scalps. The Way of an Indian Behind the tent in the men's lines a tom-tom was beating, and the irregular rhythm seemed hammering inside her own head. The Sheik He scented excitement of some kind and was so eager to be in the midst of it that the noise of the tom-tom made him wriggle in his chair. Georgina of the Rainbows About nine o'clock, when the sun is now well up, the distant sound of a tom-tom is heard, and the first of the returning fleet of muchwas appears at the mouth of the creek. Concerning Animals and Other Matters The living are hardly better off, depressed as they are by four years of sham patriotism, circus-parades, tom-toms, threats, braggings, hatreds, informers, trials for treason, and summary executions. Clerambault The Story of an Independent Spirit During the War The fire died down, the tom-toms and singing in the adjoining lodges quieted gradually, and the camp slept. The Way of an Indian Waiting, listening, agonising, the tom-tom growing louder and louder—or was it only the throbbing in her own head? The Sheik Above the ground the tom-tom would be sounded, but below ground the tom-tom was buried. My Native Land The United States: its Wonders, its Beauties, and its People; with Descriptive Notes, Character Sketches, Folk Lore, Traditions, Legends and History, for the Amusement of the Old and the Instruction of the Young You hear the sharp report of fireworks, the rattling thunder of the big doobla or drum, and the ear-splitting clatter of innumerable tom-toms. Sport and Work on the Nepaul Frontier Twelve Years Sporting Reminiscences of an Indigo Planter A brief silence followed upon his words, and during that silence certain sounds became audible—the beating of tom-toms and the cries of men. The Broken Road To his ears came the far-away beat of a tom-tom, growing nearer and nearer until it mixed with the sound of bells and the hail-like rattle of gourds. The Way of an Indian It was to cover up their own crimes that the heartless beasts of Big Business beat the tom-toms of the press in order to lash the "patriotism" of their dupes and hirelings into hysteria. The Centralia Conspiracy The tom-tom notifies all that the bouts with fortune are about to begin. My Native Land The United States: its Wonders, its Beauties, and its People; with Descriptive Notes, Character Sketches, Folk Lore, Traditions, Legends and History, for the Amusement of the Old and the Instruction of the Young A line of beaters, with tom-toms, drums, fireworks, and other means for creating a din, are then sent into the jungle, to beat the tigers up to the platform on which you sit and wait. Sport and Work on the Nepaul Frontier Twelve Years Sporting Reminiscences of an Indigo Planter All at once the silence of the night was torn by the rattle of musketry, and afar off the tom-toms beat yet more loudly. The Broken Road Well: but is the nightly tom-tom dance so much more absurd than the nightly ball, which is now considered an integral element of white civilisation? At Last For Appleboy, in spite of his apparent calm, was a very much frightened man, and under the creases of his floppy waistcoat his heart was beating like a tom-tom. Tutt and Mr. Tutt It usually consists of one or two ear-splitting flageolets and a system of gongs and tom-toms, which keep up an infernal din during the entire performance. My Native Land The United States: its Wonders, its Beauties, and its People; with Descriptive Notes, Character Sketches, Folk Lore, Traditions, Legends and History, for the Amusement of the Old and the Instruction of the Young Whether commerce is effectually helped by the street-fair, or a town assisted to get on a firm financial basis through the ministry of the tom-tom, is a problem. Love, Life & Work Being a Book of Opinions Reasonably Good-Natured Concerning How to Attain the Highest Happiness for One's Self with the Least Possible Harm to Others The mourner's chant sounds above the bourdon of the tom-tom, the wail of the saringis. By-Ways of Bombay Martin took his seat astride of an African tom-tom or drum; and I noticed at the time that Jean Marie’s naked foot hung down from the cross-beam almost directly over Martin’s head. At Last The tom-toms calling through the jungle told the different tribes where Mary was. White Queen of the Cannibals: the Story of Mary Slessor As the tom-tom beating increased in loudness as the village drew near, the boys' hearts began to beat a little faster. The Boy Aviators in Africa So the French public saw in Mark Twain a gross jester, incessantly beating upon a tom-tom to attract the attention of the crowd. Mark Twain Far down the valley is a large Indian village, and we can distinctly see the tepees, and often hear the "tom-toms" when the Indians dance. Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888 Martin now began to chant a monotonous African song, accompanying with the tom-tom. At Last Its hard, black seeds put into a bladder furnish the chic-chac, which in many places is used as an accompaniment to the utterly abominable and heathenish tom-tom. The Hawaiian Archipelago The drums and the tom-toms rolled once more; and half-deaf we started for home.—— From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan They danced all that night and the squaws had each a small whistle made of bone which they blow all the time in addition to the musical "tom-toms." Two Months in the Camp of Big Bear They were riding single file, of course, and were chanting and beating "tom-toms" in a way to make one's blood feel frozen. Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888 The oratorial tom-toms in Congress resounded vociferously for the gulling of home constituencies, and of palaver and denunciations there was a plenitude. Great Fortunes from Railroads Other red men were dancing around the fire, keeping time to the tom-toms and chanting in a low, monotonous tone. On the Trail of Pontiac "If we had a few tom-tom players we'd be ready with a fine imitation of an Indian war dance," muttered one of the candidates, gazing about him at his blanketed companions. Dick Prescott's First Year at West Point It was quite an agreeable change from the "tom-tom" of the Indians. Two Months in the Camp of Big Bear As it was sunset the wild yet mournful sound of tom-tom and kettle and cymbal and reed suddenly struck up. The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton Volume II From the tom-tom to the tune, from the tune to the symphony. Without Prejudice When they came close to the village, they heard a strange beating of Indian tom-toms and a loud shouting and clapping of hands. On the Trail of Pontiac The dance, beginning slowly, waxed wilder; the tom-toms beat more vibrantly, until the whole village was encircled by the painted and bonneted tribesmen. The Perils of Pauline Much pombè was drunk; many palavers took place; a constant drumming of gongs and tom-toms disturbed their ears by day and by night. What's Bred in the Bone The relations of each wife go to her house with musical instruments - I mean tom-toms and that sort of thing - and they take a quantity of mint, which grows wild in this country, with them. Travels in West Africa It was the tom-tom by beating which he hoped to drown all those reports and inklings of ministerial changes which always sprout at such moments in the parliamentary soil. Memoirs (Vieux Souvenirs) of the Prince de Joinville The fact is, I suppose, that a mere monotonous sound may take the place of the tom-tom of savage warfare, and hypnotize the soldier into valour. Through the Magic Door But from the town behind came terrifying yells, the rattle of tom-toms and occasionally a rifle shot as the braves prepared their spirits for the test of battle. The Perils of Pauline How long, think you, will they be content with the dance and the chanting, the tom-toms and the empty fire? The Maid of the Whispering Hills Once again, this time to the weird music of tom-toms and the beating of drums, a boat was lowered from the ship while on the shore the Indians watched. Their Mariposa Legend; a romance of Santa Catalina But there was no answer, save the tom-toms' thunder, swelling now into a devil's chorus-coming nearer. Rung Ho! The Tom-toms Dost thou hear the tom-toms throbbing, Like a lonely lover sobbing For the beauty that is robbing him of all his life's delight? Last Poems The ground was trembling with their hoof-beats, and the rattle of the horns, as they clashed together, was like the murmur of cannibal tom-toms. The Motor Boys on the Pacific Or, the Young Derelict Hunters At that moment there came, borne on a waking breeze of the night, the sound of the tom-toms, the yapping of many throats. The Maid of the Whispering Hills It was followed by the weird sound of tom-toms and the gourd and skin drums of the natives. Tom Swift in Captivity, or a Daring Escape By Airship Earth was panting-in time, it seemed, to the hellish thunder of the tom-toms. Rung Ho! From under his blanket-coat the chief brought forth the thing that had bulged there, a tom-tom. God's Country—And the Woman They liked beating the tom-tom, but they always wanted to sit round in a ring and listen to it, which Sonny Sahib thought very poor kind of fun indeed. The Story of Sonny Sahib Along toward dawn, presaged by the westward wheeling of the big stars, tom-toms began to beat throughout the maze of lodges. The Maid of the Whispering Hills From the rear came wild yells and the beating of drums and tom-toms. Tom Swift in Captivity, or a Daring Escape By Airship And then the thunder of the tom-toms ceased. Rung Ho! All she dreaded was that the big horns and the tom-toms would get away from her leadership and the hoped-for, correctly played symphony end in an uproar. Tides of Barnegat The other boys didn't care about making believe soldiers, and running and hiding and shouting and beating Sonny Sahib's tom-tom, which made a splendid drum. The Story of Sonny Sahib A huge fire was built in the centre of the camp, tom-toms placed beside it in the hands of old men, and, forming in a giant circle, the braves began a dance. The Maid of the Whispering Hills Twice they heard distant sounds of native battles and the weird noise of the wooden drums and the tom-toms. Tom Swift in Captivity, or a Daring Escape By Airship Ululating through the din of tom-toms he could catch the wails of women. Rung Ho! Shortly I saw scores of lights twinkling through the bushes: every man in camp turned out, and with tom-toms beating and horns blowing came running to the scene. The Man-Eaters of Tsavo and Other East African Adventures War drums were beaten, tom-toms clashed and the natives howled. Tom Swift and His Electric Rifle; or, Daring Adventures in Elephant Land The sudden striking up of the tom-toms answered him. The Maid of the Whispering Hills They advanced with wild yells, brandishing their clubs and other weapons, while the weird sound of the tom-toms and natives drums added to the din. Tom Swift in Captivity, or a Daring Escape By Airship Mahommed Gunga bowed, and growled an order; another man passed the order on, and the tom-tom thundering began again as a dozen villagers pattered in to take away the tiger. Rung Ho! Jeremy's minor chords soothed her like the music of a tom-tom. The Trimmed Lamp, and other Stories of the Four Million Several times the barbaric noise of the tom-toms and war drums, with which the shouts of the natives mingled, broke out deafeningly. Tom Swift and His Electric Rifle; or, Daring Adventures in Elephant Land McElroy saw that around the central lodge before the gate there was a solid pack of prostrate Indians covering the ground like a cloth, and from this centre came the tom-toms and the wailing. The Maid of the Whispering Hills Then, above the shouting and yelling of the giants, whose deep, bass voices had a terrorizing effect, there came the din of the tom-toms, making a weird combination of sound. Tom Swift in Captivity, or a Daring Escape By Airship So he packs the tom-tom down to Franklin's office. Wolfville Days The shouts of the beaters were now heard distinctly, and the loud tom-tom sounded cheerfully as the line approached. Wild Beasts and Their Ways, Reminiscences of Europe, Asia, Africa and America — Volume 1 They could hear the natives beating on their big hollow tree drums, and on tom-toms, while the witch-doctors and medicine men were chanting weird songs to drive the elephants away. Tom Swift and His Electric Rifle; or, Daring Adventures in Elephant Land She wanted the roar of the tom-toms, the dash of the cymbals, the rattle of the negroes' castanets, the fluttering, painted figures of the dancers. The Garden of Allah The din of the tom-toms was well-nigh deafening. Tom Swift in Captivity, or a Daring Escape By Airship Finally the scapegoat, hotly pursued by men and women beating gongs and tom-toms, is driven with great haste out of the town or village. The Golden Bough At length, amidst the cooing of countless doves, I detected the distant thud, thud of a tom-tom, and then the confused sound of many excited voices. Wild Beasts and Their Ways, Reminiscences of Europe, Asia, Africa and America — Volume 1 He usually handles a short stick; and, when drummer and piper are absent, he carries a tiny tom-tom shaped like an hour- glass, upon which he taps the periods. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 10 The bustle and noise of this quarter are considerable, and the vociferation mingles with the ringing of bells and the rapid beating of drums and tom-toms—an intensely heathenish sound. The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither At the s�k-el-Abeed it was the hour of the outcry, announced by a blast of trumpets and the thudding of tom-toms. The Sea-Hawk Outside their tent the night was hideous with discordant noises, yells, whoops, cries, mingled with the beating of tom-toms. The Patrol of the Sun Dance Trail In an instant the shouts arose, and three or four tom-toms added to the din. Wild Beasts and Their Ways, Reminiscences of Europe, Asia, Africa and America — Volume 1 And so without fear of detection they loped briskly along till they began to hear rising above the throb of the tom-tom the weird chant of the Indian sun-dancers. Corporal Cameron of the North West Mounted Police; a tale of the Macleod trail The monotonous beat of that melody you heard is supposed to represent the beating of the tom-toms of the Indians during their mescal rites. The Silent Bullet Then a tom-tom began to beat its nervous pulse-stirring throb, the strident notes of a reed-pipe joined in and the dancer, raised on her toes on the dais, began to sway languorously to and fro. Okewood of the Secret Service We spent the night in his splendid yurta and on the following morning visited the shrines where they were conducting very solemn services with the music of gongs, tom-toms and whistling. Beasts, Men and Gods The impression produced on the spectators by the laconic harangue of the stranger was like that of a tom-tom in the midst of tender music. The Chouans |
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