Meanings of martial strain in English

The highest powers of the lute are evoked in rapid succession closing with a martial strain:

A note of their stirring national anthem, with its warlike words and martial strain, and the soldier-andwarrior-instinctarises:-

Singing a martial strain, they jumped into the darkness of the Carpathian night, landing near the city of Lvov.

The army wheeled into position; music burst forth in a martial strain, and then a great cloud of dust arose.

Nevertheless, the martial strains caused both boys to hurry through their breakfast.

The inspiring force of his martial strains renewed the courage of way-worn heroes.

For ages warriors have been led to battle to the sounds of martial strains.

The salute was reiterated from the shore, and above the martial strains of the band rose the deafening hurrahs.

The soul-stirring, madly exciting, and martial strains of the Racoczys-oneof the Revolutionary airs-has just died upon the ear.

Now we have martial strains almost every hour, and are reminded only of the various duties of our every-day life.

The martial strains, the bold challenges, the shouts of triumph, which we heard so often in the composer's polonaises, are silenced.

Then, one by one, the companies were formed and marched out beneath fluttering pennon and waving banner to the martial strains of bugle and trumpet.

[Trumpets sound with a spirited tone, and while the scene is changing pass into a wild martial strain.