单词 | rataplan |
例句 | “Christ, look at this mud,” said Francis as we bounced through yet another pothole, brown spray striking the window with a thick rataplan. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z I had a moment of triumph also when we sang the Rataplan, rataplan. Memoirs of an American Prima Donna 2011-11-17T03:00:32.600Z Let Honor beat the rataplan and Duty quick obey— Make “yea” an instant Tagerman, and “no” at once a Ney! Southern War Songs Camp-Fire, Patriotic and Sentimental 2011-09-27T02:00:19.517Z Drums were bought by subscription, and in the armoury down under the School tattoo and rataplan voiced the martial spirit of St. James'. Sinister Street, vol. 1 In a few moments he heard the dancing rataplan of the hoofs of an eager, nervous horse, a curse from Larry, the hoof-beats clamored past, steadied to a drumming roar, and died in the distance. The Land of Strong Men The wild chorus of a soldier-song, with its rataplan accompaniment of knuckles on the table, echoed through the square, and smote upon my ear with anything but a congenial sense of pleasure. Maurice Tiernay Soldier of Fortune It was the rataplan beating before a troop of wrestlers and jugglers who were traversing the Marche and Reggio Emilia. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 26, July 1880. Eleven bullet-heads, as like as peas, Between the flapping of their foolish ears, Who marched, they knew not whence, nor why, nor whither, But gayly marched and rolled their rataplan! L'Aiglon "Yes," said Bones hoarsely, and his heart beat a wild rataplan. Bones in London The first furious stampede had settled into a rapid trot, to a sound like the sound of a hundred muffled drums beating a rataplan. The Pools of Silence He kept his eyes riveted on me as he spoke, and then seizing two pieces of stick from the firewood, he beat on the table the rataplan of the French drum. Maurice Tiernay Soldier of Fortune Most of the time it was far away, and it only made two daily promenades past the hotel, but whenever I listened for it I could hear it, beating the same unweary rataplan. Schwartz: A History From "Schwartz" by David Christie Murray A little drummer boy was marching at the head of a procession, gaily rolling his rataplan. The Eternal City So they tilted straight at the shop-door without hesitation, and beating a wild rataplan of blows on the wooden shutters, demanded an entry in a roar of voices. Indiscreet Letters From Peking Being the Notes of an Eye-Witness, Which Set Forth in Some Detail, from Day to Day, the Real Story of the Siege and Sack of a Distressed Capital in 1900—The Year of Great Tribulation Associated words: rataplan, tantivy. gallstone, n. bilestone, biliary calculus. galoot, n. Putnam's Word Book The lone horseman reined back, wheeled, cast another vain glance toward Anna, and with an alarming rataplan of slipping and recovering hoofs sped down the column. Kincaid's Battery The child-actress was the prop of her mother and the donkey; her talent also kept the youth, who began to agitate the nerves of Beynac with his diabolical rataplan hours before each performance. Two Summers in Guyenne With flame on lance and habergeon They passed, and to the rataplan Of drums gave salutation— "Virtue is that becrowns a Man!" The Vigil of Venus and Other Poems by "Q" In the Moorish host resounded of the drums the rataplan. The Lay of the Cid A cool breeze went; the hoofs of the horses beat a rataplan on the hard surface; the great road, broad enough to make three of, was alive with smart gigs and trotters. Australia Felix "Get up!" cried the Seraph with a deafening rataplan, and a final dash of his colossal stature into the chamber. Under Two Flags At that moment a little drummer appeared by the flagstaff, and beat a lively rataplan. The Red Acorn Yes, sir; at that instant there was such a rataplan of musketry that one might have imagined the infernal regions had opened. Twenty Years After She was in her most revolutionary and reckless mood, drumming the rataplan with her spurred heels, and sitting smoking on the corner of old Miou-Matou's mattress. Under Two Flags Then she laughed, and drummed the rataplan again with her brass heel. Under Two Flags |
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