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Meanings of play the fife in English

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Usage of play the fife in English
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Messrs. Pollock, Kennicott, and, well, Stowbody are drummers; the rest of us sing and play the fife.
Main Street
2
Got an engagement at the theayter, with his father, to play the fife in a military piece.
Bleak House
3
There was a man in the neighborhood who could play the fife; he offered to furnish the music for seventy-five cents.
The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton
4
We beat the drum slowly and played the fife lowly
The prince of frogtown
5
They were playing the fifes and beating the drums.
Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States...
6
And said he played the fife.
Bleak House
7
And Nataline still played the fife.
The Ruling Passion: Tales of Nature and Human Nature
8
And she played the fife.
The Ruling Passion: Tales of Nature and Human Nature
9
And Nataline-well ,thereis no way of describing what Nataline did, except to say that she played the fife.
The Ruling Passion: Tales of Nature and Human Nature
10
The Albino played the fife, the Dwarf the snare drum, the Circassian lady the cymbals, and the Fat Woman the base-drum.
Twenty Years of Hus'ling
11
"Why, Martin Tighe's boy, the next to the oldest, is an excellent hand to play the fife!"
A Country Doctor and Selected Stories and Sketches
12
"Would you believe it, governor," says Mr. Bucket, struck by the coincidence, "that when I was a boy I played the fife myself?
Bleak House
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