1
The possibility of being drumhead court-martialled and shot might not be remote.
2
So they contended, and both were brought before the drumhead Court Martial.
3
The blood, drying in places, drew the skin as tight as a drumhead.
4
The skin on their bellies was as tight as a drumhead.
5
Fo bleating lamb was sacrificed to furnish parchment for its drumhead.
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'Now, Hollenstein, old man, jump into your drumming skin!'
2
Soon the square was filled with noisy stumbling figures, tipping their jugs and bottles to their lips, tap dancing on the drum skins.
3
"I hope you noticed," he said, "that before I undid it, my bed was made as tight as a drum skin."