Africans' Shango religion beat drums to help them tolerate the inhumanity of slavery.

At sunrise they hoisted the English colors and beat drums.

Men hunted game, women laughed for joy; they beat drums, they danced, they sang.

They would have beat drums and danced for her.

Around the quadriga ran men who shook thyrses ornamented with ribbons; others beat drums; others scattered flowers.

She too had poetry at her command, knew words that sang and were spells and beat drums.

More priests held smoking incense burners, tinkled bells, beat drums, or scattered rose petals upon the ground.

Then they beat drums and danced.

Rex Tilousi, a former tribal chairman, sang songs in the Havasupai language as others beat drums and danced.

They ran errands for warriors and the largest were allowed to beat drums as they formed for battle.

Protesters chanted slogans against the ruling party as the Putin loyalists beat drums and chanted "Putin, Russia".

He's like one of those men who beat drums outside tents in a fair...

It stood in a shed, and the Balonda pray and beat drums before it all night in cases of sickness.

And nearer, in an igloo where the men beat drums and danced, she heard the voice of Maisanguaq laughing evilly.

Young artists beat drums and played bagpipes and flutes as the Dalai Lama arrived at his temple to meet his followers.

Several sit and beat drums or play on slender wood flutes, and the dancers add their own rhythm with their bodies.