Any type of drum or membranophone used for martial music, including military communications, as well as drill, honors music and military ceremonies.
1 He beat his war drum and called all the folk to arms.
2 The movement set his skull to pounding like some monstrous war drum .
3 Soon afterwards, the sound of the great war drum reverberated through the city.
4 She heard wild yells and the roll of the war drum .
5 Then the great war drum , or tombe, boomed out the knell of death.
6 Like using snare drum sounds to capture the war drum .
7 The war drum could be heard beating in the town, but no opposition was offered.
8 My heart is a war drum , pounding too loudly.
9 Now, when her chain clanked, it seemed to her the war drum had been sounded.
10 Lightning split the sky; thunder shook the earth like the beat of a great war drum .
11 A hot throbbing set up deep in her centre like the relentless beat of a war drum .
12 My little prince, my little war drum .
13 The war drum was answered by the howls of coyotes on the opposite side of the Mouse river.
14 Full of his victory, Manabozho returned home, beating his war drum furiously and shouting aloud his song of triumph.
16 The elephants were stamping all together now, and it sounded like a war drum beaten at the mouth of a cave.
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