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Meanings of kettledrum in English
Usage of kettledrum in English
1
The whole capsule vibrated with it like a pea in a kettledrum.
2
The priest beat upon a kettledrum, and the echoes rolled through the temple.
3
I will play the lute, and you shall beat the kettledrum.
4
I can play the lute, and you can play the kettledrum.
5
At half-past eleven a kettledrum sounds a summons to the Jami or Cathedral.
6
Her walking dress was manifestly a dress inappropriate to a kettledrum.
7
That kettledrum at the lodge is one of the brightest spots in my memory.
8
So a kettledrum became the most fashionable of entertainments.
9
But his voice was as deep as a kettledrum and it vibrated in my bones.
10
He made a flailing backwards fall into a kettledrum.
11
You never do buy your round.' He threw a kettledrum stick, narrowly missing Lol's head.
12
A deep boom from a large kettledrum sounded.
13
The redcoats discharge their muskets with deep hissing booms, like handfuls of sand hurled against a kettledrum.
14
When the smoke cleared, there was nothing left but a burning chariot wheel and a half-melted kettledrum.
15
A kettledrum of a thump told him that life still breathed within the yards of white smock.
16
Kumran hearing of this was very angry, for the beating of a kettledrum is a sign of Empire.
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Kettledrum through the time