How To Use Trumpets In A Sentence
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The trumpets blared as the procession got under way.
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It's strumpets like you who are setting back the women's rights movement.
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The reeds and trumpets sounded a little muddy and unfocused on the opener, Bake.
Times, Sunday Times
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The scoring is for a simple classical orchestra, strings, double woodwind, four horns and two trumpets.
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The darling yellow trumpets are thrusting up in fir and birch woods across Scotland for our delight.
Times, Sunday Times
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The royal visitor was saluted by a fanfare of trumpets.
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With 320 students in snappy blue and white uniforms playing shiny trumpets, trombones and tubas as they march in briskly changing formations, the band's numbers are full of razzmatazz.
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the brilliant sound of the trumpets
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Here begins the manzanita, adjusting its tortuous stiff stems to the sharp waste of boulders, its pale olive leaves twisting edgewise to the sleek, ruddy, chestnut stems; begins also the meadowsweet, burnished laurel, and the million unregarded trumpets of the coral - red pentstemon.
The Land of Little Rain
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We need a big powerful sound from the trumpets in the final passage.
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Again royalty gathered in grandeur, with trumpets blaring, to witness the baptism of Henry's daughter, Elizabeth.
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On this recording, there are nine violins, three violas, three cellos, a double bass, one flute, three oboes, one bassoon, three trumpets, a set of timpani, and a harpsichord.
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In the third movement, Haitink's lucid communication of the music's textural contrasts made it a joy to listen to, and the violins’ cheeky acciaccaturas tinkled wholeheartedly from their instruments; the finale was brisk, with almost maniacal handfuls of semiquavers, and the trumpets were on top form.
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The Government trumpets that it has just been voted the world's best healthcare system.
The Sun
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The trumpets blew
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She is fire in his blood, and a thunder of trumpets; her voice is beyond all music in his ears; and she can shake his soul that else stands steadfast in the draughty presence of the Titans of the Light and of the Dark.
Chapter 21
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And they came to Jerusalem with psalteries and harps and trumpets unto the house of the LORD.
Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences
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Larger bands have trumpets and strings as well as extensive percussion sections in which maracas, guiros, and bongos are primary instruments.
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The brass section of an orchestra typically consists of trumpets, horns, trombones, and tubas.
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The ensemble sound was bright, with the trumpets and woodwind producing particularly expressive sounds.
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As he stepped upon the bridge the trumpets sounded, and over the aplustre rose the vexillum purpureum, or pennant of a commander of a fleet.
Ben-Hur, a tale of the Christ
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Tapestries hung from the trumpets of the state trumpeters.
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Armed with trumpets and congas, they keep things up-tempo, but this is an exception to the rule, and melancholy prevails.
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In warm climates, Carolina jessamine is valued for early spring color - its brassy gold trumpets appear anywhere from February to April.
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John between the preceding vision and the following one, implying, on the one hand, the solemn introduction to the eternal sabbatism which is to follow the seventh seal; and, on the other, the silence which continued during the incense-accompanied prayers which usher in the first of the seven trumpets (Re 8: 3-5).
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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Sure enough, early the next summer, the spiraea's fluffy white flowers bloomed in concert with the daylily's clear yellow trumpets.
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Sound Trumpets within, and then all crye vive le Roy two or three times.
Fans jumped up and the Finn jumped too
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The music is is characteristically punctuated with sounds of cymbals, drums and long trumpets.
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The yellow flower spikes of a dwarf mullein or verbascum and the delicate white and pink trumpets of a creeping convolvulus defied my attempts at precise identification but were delightful nevertheless.
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One evening under the shadow of the Red Fort I see a passing wedding procession: the groom rides a caparisoned white horse and is followed by a band in uniform with wailing trumpets and banging drums.
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Apart from patriotic music, all bands played both English and Indian music with two circular bass, two euphoniums, eight trumpets, two bass drums, four kettle drums and a cymbal.
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How about because (a tantara of trumpets, please) we're a swell place to be.
Chron.com Chronicle
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It's a vote for a smoother, wittier, more stylish world than the one we've landed up with: the chink of glass against glass, the sharp flare of trumpets, the devastating couplet and the clutch of hand on hip.
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They hope to take partygoers into the night with a medley of violins, violas, cellos and trumpets.
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More Scottish rammies next month, dinnae miss it ya radge trumpets.
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On the bitterly cold morning of Sunday 13 November 1715 the two armies were woken respectively by bagpipes and trumpets.
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Christa was able to stretch our donated money to the limit and so we were able to purchase 11 new instruments including three trumpets, a pocket trumpet, a tuba, alto and baritone horn, a trombone, euphonium, a snare and a base drum.
Ye Band Dideth Expand « Peace Corps South Africa
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So, sound the trumpets, unleash the curs, and announce that we've got the hydra headed beast cornered in hills!
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Cornets replaced trumpets, and soft instruments, including the organ, were played in the intervals.
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In the afternoon the quintet, which is made up of two trumpets, horn, trombone and tuba, gave a concert in Marden House.
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hot trumpets and torrid rhythms
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That translates as saying that PMQs is not meant to be the bunfight – "scrutiny by screech" – it has been for a generation – "the noise of which makes the vuvuzela trumpets of the South African World Cup appear but distant whispers by comparison," says Bercow.
How the Twitter police are keeping Westminster sober
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As the trumpets were blowing the queen approached.
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The voice of the trumpets was not musical but annunciatory.
A Canticle for Leibowitz
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When springtime comes, it doesn't come with banners and with the rolling of drums and the sounding of trumpets.
Christianity Today
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Soft-toned trumpets and horns enter, menacing minor-key interchanges leading to high flute and muted trombones at the close.
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If you want something a little different, try Digitalis Parviflora with its rust coloured flowers on upright stems, or Digitalis Ferringinea with its small trumpets of coppery-yellow flower.
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Flutes, saxophones, clarinets, trumpets and bassoons share the spotlight and take frequent solos that, like the vocals, often ramble aimlessly.
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Trumpets are found in bogs and in wet pine barrens.
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She's among the most sought-after strumpets on the scene, a brash and blowsy blonde babe whose sassy strip-club allure promises to be on the scene for some time to come.
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It's always performed by big bands, with trumpets, trombones and saxophones, sometimes with flutes, and always with Cuban percussion - the congas, bongos and timbales.
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The brass section of an orchestra typically consists of trumpets, horns, trombones, and tubas.
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muted trumpets
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Instrumentally, it's audacious, with trumpets, bouzoukis, violins and music-boxes weaving unpredictable paths through the guitars and drum programmes.
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For there is a truly primitive and savage power in the imagination that could heap such piles of music, revel in the shattering fury of trumpets, upbuild choragic pyramids.
Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers
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It would be merely a flourish of trumpets to say that I was his descendant, and nobody would know that, either, if my name chanced to be Boggs.
The Potiphar Papers
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Barbarian line of battle, twenty trumpets from her poop and foreship asking, “Dare you meet me?”
A Victor of Salamis
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On this recording, there are nine violins, three violas, three cellos, a double bass, one flute, three oboes, one bassoon, three trumpets, a set of timpani, and a harpsichord.
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Of less stature were the tinsmiths, who made lanterns, bugles, trumpets, military ornaments, and funils widely used during carnival.
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Bronze rapiers and gold torcs survive from c. 1000 BC, while from c. 700 BC there are trumpets and cauldrons in bronze, as well as many types of gold ornament.
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Hence trumpets crooked in all keys are to be found in scores of the classical period.
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Trumpets and whistles competed with the sound of African drums as the noisy march made its way through the city centre.
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Hybrids include ‘Tete-a-Tete’ up to 20 cm high with long lasting deep yellow flowers, ‘Jack Snipe’ and ‘February Silver’ both with white petals and yellow trumpets and ‘Beryl’ with primrose petals and orange trumpet.
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In no time at all, as we descended into damper riverside places, there were daffodils trumpets nearly fully formed and fit for a photo.
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The orchestration is again brilliant, with particularly effective use of trumpets, pizzicato, string moto perpetuo, harp, and glockenspiel.
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For trumpets/terne to chaunge mine Oaten reeds ...
The Faerie Queene — Volume 01
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Sure enough, early the next summer, the spiraea's fluffy white flowers bloomed in concert with the daylily's clear yellow trumpets.
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Follow Piffaro on an enchanting journey into the musical world of shawms, sackbuts, slide trumpets, dulcians, racketts, krummhorns, recorders, bagpipes, lutes, guitars, and all manner of percussion.
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Fifteenth and sixteenth verses gives them a fifty day's Sabbath; twenty-fourth verse says: "Speak unto the children of Israel, saying in the seventh month in the first day of the month, shall ye have a _Sabbath_, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, an holy convocation.
The Seventh Day Sabbath, a Perpetual Sign, from the Beginning to the Entering into the Gates of the Holy City, According to the Commandment
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battered trumpets and raddled radios
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Disney World's Animal Kingdom team has sorted elephant calls into trumpets, snorts, croaks, revs, chuffs, noisy rumbles, loud rumbles, and rumbles.
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Elsewhere there are military drums, trumpets and punk guitar riffs.
Times, Sunday Times
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The pupa of the gnat [10] also has 'respiratory trumpets' serving the same purpose, but these are a pair of processes on the prothorax, so that the pupa, which is fairly active, hangs from the surface-film with its abdomen pointing downwards through the water.
The Life-Story of Insects
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The royal couple arrived to a fanfare of trumpets.
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Soft-toned trumpets and horns enter, menacing minor-key interchanges leading to high flute and muted trombones at the close.
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I heard John Harbison, who in addition to his composing, is president of the Aaron Copland Fund for Music, tell this story: the Fund got a call from the Bush inaugural committee, who wanted to do an arrangement of "Fanfare for the Common Man" for heraldic trumpets (you know, the kind you always see in movies about the Roman Empire — hmmm).
Synchronicity
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Such was Whittier on one side, a militant poet of reform, sending forth verses that had the brattle of trumpets and the waving of banners in them:
Outlines of English and American Literature : an Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived
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His historical theatre must first of all create an epic dimension, using every resource, not only drums, trumpets, banners, heraldry, and high-sounding words, but the imagination of the audience.
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Eventually the band bounded onstage - horns blaring, double bass pounding and trumpets proclaiming that yes indeed, the mighty Skatalites had arrived.
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The English effort is less ambitious and has been made without any flourish of trumpets, but it is none the less real and admirable.
Times, Sunday Times
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The royal visitor was saluted by a fanfare of trumpets.
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The works required four trumpets, three trombones, one tuba, and several percussion instruments including bells & whistles!
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I often give a dollar to a busker on the platform, whether it's the mad jazzman at Columbus Circle blowing two trumpets or the Carroll Street xylophonist whose strange compositions bring tears to my eyes.
Busking in the Underground
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Elsewhere, dune sounds have been likened to drums, foghorns and trumpets, among other things.
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The Basque Gabriel's Message (again in an arrangement by Harvey) is properly festive with flourishes in the trumpets to accompany the Annunciation.
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Salsa without drums and horns, tejano without accordion and guitars, mariachi without trumpets would become something else.
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Another blare of trumpets signaled that the limousine carrying Brezhnev had entered the Southwest Gate.
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Tantara, tantara the trumpets sound, which makes our hearts with joy abound.
A History of Elizabethan Literature
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The English effort is less ambitious and has been made without any flourish of trumpets, but it is none the less real and admirable.
Times, Sunday Times
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The sweet sound of the trumpets sounded and I was declared winner of the bout.
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Late though it was, a dim light from the great East window fell in broad slabs of purple and green shadow across the grey; everything was indistinct; only the white marble of the Reredos was like a figured sheet hanging from wall to wall, and the gilded trumpets of the angels on the choir-screen stood out dimly like spider pattern.
The Cathedral
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Based on a circular pattern of groaning trumpets and feminine fluting of electronics, the piece bristles into dense, frictional clouds that eventually rain down light dustings of tinkling piano.
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A fanfare of trumpets heralded the arrival of the King.
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Here were the tropical plumage of the palm, the dark green masses of the live-oak, the glistening verdure of wild orange-groves; and from out the shadowy thickets hung the wreaths of the jessamine and the scarlet trumpets of the bignonia.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 70, August, 1863
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While sitting beneath those fragrant pink trumpets, Morris can gaze across the porch at this stunning 'Bonita Shea' begonia.
Cat’s Eye View « Sugar Creek Gardens’ Blog
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But it is Wales's floodlit Test in Paris a little later which brings down the curtain on 2011's Six Nations Championship, and let's hope the last trumpets will be nice and resounding: it's been a bitty tournament so far.
Dragon dreams of Barry John, Gareth Edwards and springtime in Paris | Frank Keating
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But it still gives us a visceral thrill, like the trumpets and timpani in a symphony by Beethoven, because it reminds us of some of the greatest chapters of our species, when humanism was regnant.
Designs for NYC's Park51 Islamic center show a literally enlightened building
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They frequently sprawl over the ground in large patches, and look like a massed orchestra of tiny trumpets.
Times, Sunday Times
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firsts" is to be asked to begin a speech to the sound of trumpets and end it in under two minutes.
Arno Penzias - Banquet Speech
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The following day she was proclaimed by heralds with flourishes of trumpets at various places in London, to the stony disapproval of the citizens.
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His multitracked trumpets mimic the weary blare of the foghorns, often taking their pitches as the root notes for fantastic chords.
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At the head of it rode Fanfaronade himself upon a white horse, which pranced and caracoled to the sound of the trumpets.
The Red Fairy Book
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A fanfare of trumpets announced the arrival of the king and everyone stood.
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A fanfare of trumpets will sound for the Queen.
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When the trumpets entered, their ascending phrase was ritardando to a degree, allowing a gradual and more dramatic crescendo too.
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But hardly had we sat down ere we heard the tom-toming of the kettledrum and tantara of trumpets and clash of cymbals, and the rattling of war men's lances, and the clamors of assailants and the clanking of bits and the neighing of steeds, while the world was canopied with dense dust and sand clouds raised by the horses 'hoofs.
Tehran Winter
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The pitch-perfect trumpets punch out the jumped-up tune, the saxophones gliding smoothly beneath them.
LOVE YOU MADLY
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Milne also increased the understanding of wind and sound, in the course of refining the huge binaural listening trumpets which detected aircraft at night.
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You knows as how the witches in Wales fly upon broom-sticks: but here was flying without any broom-stick, or thing in the varsal world, and firing of pistols in the air, and blowing of trumpets, and swinging, and rolling of wheel-barrows upon a wire
The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
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The victors pursued the fleeing enemy, killing and capturing as many as they could, until trumpets sounded the retreat.
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Japanese music without the shamisen would be like a brass band without trumpets.
Times, Sunday Times
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Take two trumpets, a French horn, a trombone and a tuba and you have a lot of brass!
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Stacked with pop aplenty, this album is fun and flighty, filled with accordions, trumpets, guitar, a sitar (sitars are cool!) and even a few MTV Unplugged performances.
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A factory farm stood silent and abandoned, hedges of elders dripped berries and were decorated with white trumpets of bindweed.
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Shortly after ten o'clock the sound of trumpets could be heard outside the house.
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Since every new screening test, drug, procedure or technique trumpets its global cost-savings, why is the cost of medical care once again spiraling out of control as managed care wanes?
Archive 2005-12-01
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Flutes, saxophones, clarinets, trumpets and bassoons share the spotlight and take frequent solos that, like the vocals, often ramble aimlessly.
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The following day she was proclaimed by heralds with flourishes of trumpets at various places in London, to the stony disapproval of the citizens.
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There was a strange swelling beneath her ribs; through her mind a swirl of sounds she had never heard and sights she had not seen: the rumbling hoofbeats of cavalry and the booming of big guns. the terrifying roars of Sphigx's lions, the silver voices of trumpets, and the sharp crotaline clatter of a buzz gun.
Calde of the Long Sun
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The furniture had been replaced with guitars, bells, trumpets and tambourines.
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From the 17th century drums and trumpets sounded tattoo, originally an instruction to turn off the taps of beer or wine-barrels, to call men back to quarters at the end of the day.
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Two antiphonal trumpets join the soloist to represent the Trinity.
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She opened his charred shirt to see that he had trumpets, a Fire Captain's insignia, on the lapel of his white uniform shirt.
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Revellers began arriving hours before the games with drums, conch horns and trumpets in hand to make this the best party in town.
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Fog signals have included cannons, whistles, sirens, reed trumpets, bells, diaphones, and diaphragm horns.
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The concerto for 2 trumpets and timpani impresses me the most of the works on the program.
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It is a deep irony that the more an organisation trumpets its transparency and fairness, the more those expressing doubts about its real practices are hounded out.
Times, Sunday Times
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muted trumpets
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We use triggers, calls from the drums or the trumpets, like with mariachis.
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The works required four trumpets, three trombones, one tuba, and several percussion instruments including bells & whistles!
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Behind the tumblers march musicians, playing early trumpets and horns.
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Let the lyres of joy be heard across the land, let nymphs cavort on the greensward of happiness, let angels parp their trumpets of glee, let… etc etc etc.
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We need a big powerful sound from the trumpets in the final passage.
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The scoring is for a simple classical orchestra, strings, double woodwind, four horns and two trumpets.
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Lines are passed from the flutes, to the low brass, to the tubas and bass clarinets, and finally to the horns and second trumpets.
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Lewis Glyn Cothi, a poet, who lived more than three hundred years ago, uses the word carn in the sense of arrant or exceedingly bad, for in his abusive ode to the town of Chester, he says that the women of London itself were never more carn strumpets than those of Chester, by which he means that there were never more arrant harlots in the world than those of the cheese capital.
Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery
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It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets. Voltaire
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The last bar of the orchestral ritornel must be played a good deal ritardando, so as to make the tempo of this postlude even more majestic where the trumpets enter, by which means also the violins will be enabled to bring out the lively staccato figures strongly and clearly.
Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt
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he entered to a flourish of trumpets
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Somebody brushes sand off his drum, as trumpets ooze.
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Thus equipped, she was crowned, with all the trumpets sounding; and, though our account does not mention it, no doubt all the peers and peeresses put on their coronets at that moment.
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Otherwise, had I gone abroad in the robes of the Tatrix, we would have been encumbered by guards and crowds; we would have had to travel in a palanquin; we would have been forced to tolerate the annunciatory drums and trumpets, and put up with all the noisy, ostentatious, dreary panoply of office.
Kajira Of Gor
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The walls and the moats, the gates and the sentinels, the long High Street with the great government buildings, and the constant rattle of drums and blare of trumpets; they made my little heart beat quicker beneath my sagathy stuff jacket.
Micah Clarke His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734
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She meant something more to him than any of the strumpets he'd dallied with before.
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This explains the litany of septuncial lettertrumpets honorific, highpitched, erudite, neoclassical, which he so loved as patricianly to manuscribe after his name.
Finnegans Wake
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For as the first four seals are distinguished from the three last by the appearance of four horsemen towards the four winds of heaven; so the wars of the first four trumpets are distinguished from those of the three last, by representing these by _four winds_, and the others by _three great woes_.
Observations upon the Prophecies of Daniel, and the Apocalypse of St. John
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This combination of instruments was still in vogue in the time of Haydn and Mozart, and was used in most of their works for the Church except that they sometimes added two flutes, two clarinets (woodwind instrument of ancient origin, so called on account of the resemblance of its tones to the high tones of the clarino, or trumpet), and two trumpets.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
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The finale burns down the barn with sennets and tuckets from the trumpets, echoed rhythmically by the timpani.
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Lilies and the flower-de-luce sprang up in the place of reeds; smilax and poison-oak gave way to the purple-plumed iron-weed and pink spiderwort; the bindweeds ran everywhere blooming as they ran, and on one of the dead cypresses a giant creeper hung its green burden of foliage and lifted its scarlet trumpets.
Southern Prose and Poetry for Schools
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You'll be dropped into the midst of a boozed-up street party with trumpets and congas.
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The band has 16 members - one vocalist and 15 who play instruments including trumpets, guitars, saxophones, trombones, drums and an organ.
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It's always performed by big bands, with trumpets, trombones and saxophones, sometimes with flutes, and always with Cuban percussion - the congas, bongos and timbales.
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When choosing red we are not choosing to be strumpets, harlots, hookers, liars, and witches, but rather to wear their totemic color, the shade of Mars as well as that of heartbreak, to see how we look.
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The corps currently has 40 members, aged from seven to 20, who play instruments including trumpets, cornets and flutes.
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With 320 students in snappy blue and white uniforms playing shiny trumpets, trombones and tubas as they march in briskly changing formations, the band's numbers are full of razzmatazz.
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But, in general, the wail of jazz trumpets and the melancholy echoes of domestic chaos remind you that Elysian Fields resounds with desperation.
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On the other hand, Young doesn't use trumpets and flugelhorns, as Hayden occasionally does, though he does make sure you can hear his words.
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Musicians sat in the corner: a jar-drum, a tambourine, trumpets, and a fipple flute.
Travel Tales in the Promised Land (Palestine)
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At its strangest – when weird images of molecules were flying over giant ear trumpets, and you felt a weird empathy with Virus – "my sweet adversary" – the show felt like a crystallisation of the bizarre natural world we all inhabit.
Bjork – review
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Two blocks up Fifth Avenue, at the terrace of Rockefeller Centre, two women and a man in Salvation Army uniforms played hymns on three trumpets in close harmony (a change from yesterday, when that stand bad been occupied only by an Army officer with a baritone saxhorn which he could barely play), but they didn't matter - the men weren't working Rockefeller Centre any more, having already done for that area.
Anywhen
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The posh lump in the top stream all had proper classical music instruments like clarinets and trumpets.
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All at once, Wormhole Square resounded with a fanfare of trumpets as heralds announced the arrival of a notable procession.
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Especially telling were the colorful blends in "Soubrette Song," with brightly resonant trumpets.
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He heard the sound of Istarian trumpets, the sig-naled retreat.
The Dark Queen
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The seventh seal triggers seven trumpets, which introduce various additional heavenly and earthly cataclysms.
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They frequently sprawl over the ground in large patches, and look like a massed orchestra of tiny trumpets.
Times, Sunday Times
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They frequently sprawl over the ground in large patches, and look like a massed orchestra of tiny trumpets.
Times, Sunday Times
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-- The name jubilee is derived from the Hebrew jobel, the joyful shout or clangor of trumpets, by which the year of jubilee was announced.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
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(small flute), one clarino (trumpet) and three trombe sordine (muted trumpets).
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
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The scientific establishment can resist a new idea with such complacent zeal that even Joshua with his trumpets would have no effect.
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Its flowers are like narrow golden trumpets, and its lobed leaves are bright green.
Times, Sunday Times
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The festive mood is set by the fanfare of trumpets and bells in the arrangement by London's Roger Harvey.
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On this recording, there are nine violins, three violas, three cellos, a double bass, one flute, three oboes, one bassoon, three trumpets, a set of timpani, and a harpsichord.
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As though in answer, and from an entirely different direction, there was a fanfarade of trumpets, menacing, warlike.
Dwellers in the Mirage
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Backed by live trumpets, guitars, and bongos, Kadiri's debut album is an impressive new force in roots hip-hop.
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On the wall hawkfish, angelfish, trumpets, groupers and a school of adult midnight snappers approach divers with curiosity.
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Bach wrote for trumpets up to the twentieth harmonic -- but for this the trumpet had to be divided into a principal, which ended at the tenth harmonic -- and the clarino in two divisions, the first of which went from the eighth harmonic up to as high as the player could reach, and the second clarino, from the sixth to the twelfth.
Scientific American Supplement No. 819, September 12, 1891
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In the old days, they arrived in jeweled carriages to the sound of trumpets.
We Have a Pope!
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At his disposal were 100 musicians, mostly drawn from the Seattle Symphony, including the usual strings but also four harps, an equal number of trumpets and trombones, six tubas and eight French horns.
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The county council trumpets that it wants to encourage cycling.
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_ IV, ii, 35, where the Constable of France orders the trumpets to 'sound the tucket-sonance, and the note to mount,' which fits in with Markham's definition, for the passage appears to recognise the tucket as in some sort a _preparatory_ signal.
Shakespeare and Music With Illustrations from the Music of the 16th and 17th centuries
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The finale is for full orchestra with unison horns and trumpets rousingly playing Purcell's theme at the end.
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Other timbres no longer carry their original significance: cornets for dignitaries not high enough in rank to merit trumpets, hautboys for banquets, consorts of flutes or recorders for rituals of death and transfiguration.
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The president of the bullfight signals for the first bull to be released whereupon the fanfare of trumpets from the brass band also ends the paso doble (popular two beat dance music).
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Fifteenth and sixteenth verses give them a fifty day's Sabbath; twenty-fourth verse says: "Speak unto the children of Israel, saying in the seventh month in the first day of the month, shall ye have a _Sabbath_, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, an holy convocation.
The Seventh Day Sabbath, a Perpetual Sign 1847 edition
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The orchestra required is a large one, including such unusual instruments as six buccine [ancient Roman trumpets], five flugelhorns, two tavoletta, sirens and a klaxon.
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We need a big powerful sound from the trumpets in the final passage.
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Till he the bottom of the brimmer saw. and comes off clearly, sound trumpets, fife and drums, the spectators will applaud him, the [1429] bishop himself (if he belie them not) with his chaplain will stand by and do as much,
Anatomy of Melancholy
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I have now finished the first complete draft of my novella (cue angelic trumpets, hallelujahs etc).
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Toy musical instruments, including French horns, trumpets, violins, pianofortes, flutes, and drums, numbered 17,622; small horses, horsemen, and soldiers, from drummers to lancers, over 3,000.
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Everywhere I went, there were daffodils - a million yellow trumpets saluting the arrival of the brand new season, smiling up at the clear blue sky and the bright cool sunshine above them.
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Such music is varied, but the instruments commonly used include trumpets, flutes, long brass horns, percussion frame drums, cymbals, and kettle drums.
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The brass section of an orchestra typically consists of trumpets, horns, trombones, and tubas.
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The yellow trumpets should be grown in a bright place, with direct sunlight.
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The trumpets sideswiped the trombones, which were hauling a bass-clef harmony out of the eight measure break.
Chameleon
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She is matched in her determination by most of the other tourists, who scuttle about like termites, obstructing the monks as they circle the arena in their ritual costumes, to the sound of conch trumpets and drums.
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To convince the enemy of their menacing strength, the townspeople were ordered to bang drums, blow trumpets and jostle the sightless envoy.
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The feast of Trumpets was a holy Sabbath on the first day of the seventh month of Tishri (October).
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They hope to take partygoers into the night with a medley of violins, violas, cellos and trumpets.
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The trumpets sounded a few crisp notes and the disembodied voice announced ‘Leo, his majesty's son.’