| 单词 | tucket |
| 例句 | When the vanguard reached the foot of the hill, a bowshot from where the watchers sat in their little craft, a tucket sounded and the company halted. The Winning of the Golden Spurs 2011-05-17T02:00:18.050Z Again the tuckets sound—again The dauntless heroes give the rein To their revenge. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 368, June 1846 I was but now upon the march.—Selden, sound me the tucket.—Sir, The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 8 (of 25) A tucket of trumpets sounded, silvery and thin through the cold grey air: a page came running with his sallete-helmet. The Fifth Queen And How She Came to Court Holding his thin hand out for silence and better hearing, he muttered: 'Norfolk's tucket! Privy Seal His Last Venture When the head of the column reached the edge of the gloomy forest a tucket sounded and the soldiers came to a halt. The Winning of the Golden Spurs 2011-05-17T02:00:18.050Z Fr. toquer, to tap, beat, cognate with touch, survives in "tuck of drum" and tucket— "Then let the trumpets sound The tucket sonance and the note to mount." The Romance of Words (4th ed.) It is perhaps worth noting, that of the seven tuckets in the stage directions, only one, Goneril's, is supposed to be an English one. Shakespeare and Music With Illustrations from the Music of the 16th and 17th centuries There was a strange air over it all, like the breathless moment in a tourney when the tucket has blown and the knights pause before giving spur. A Williams Anthology A Collection of the Verse and Prose of Williams College, 1798-1910 By this time the tucket was sounding cheerily in the morning, and from all sides Sir Daniel’s men poured into the main street and formed before the inn. The Black Arrow Ah, youth is very sweet, lad, and love—true love is youth's fair paradise and—body o' me, there sound our tuckets! Beltane the Smith Then the Colonel took to annotating his book at the side with such remarks as, "Enter Saloonio," or "A tucket sounds; enter Saloonio, on the arm of the Prince of Morocco." Literary Lapses Then let the trumpets sound The tucket sonance and the note to mount; For our approach shall so much dare the field That England shall crouch down in fear and yield. King Henry V And yonder Cedric—but so could I name them each and every—ha! there sounds the welcome tucket! Beltane the Smith |
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