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1 I can play the lute, and you can beat the drum .
2 I will play the lute, and you shall beat the drum .
3 Now, Roy, you beat the drum , and we will march.
4 Every time they beat the drum , the rope lowers us a little bit more.
5 We beat the drum slowly and played the fife lowly
6 We are about to beat the drum in the market-place, and sing out for echoes.'
7 Among the rest was one wild, ragged-looking man, whose business was to beat the drum .
8 He more than anyone beat the drum for the long-held neoconservative obsession with invading Iraq.
9 I'm disinclined to beat the drum of diet reform.
10 His dance increased; he beat the drum frenziedly.
11 And Servigny began to imitate the trumpet, while the two newcomers made believe to beat the drum .
12 I am not caring much whether I beat the drum , carry the flag, or lead the trick-bear.
13 His scraggy arms, with their tattered clothes, writhed in the air as he beat the drum above him.
14 The bed flew up with him, and the Raja's son beat the drum , and the king heard him.
15 The medicine men sing, beat the drum , rattle the gourd, and use such other instruments as they contrive.
16 Wilder beat the drum and faster.
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