When we are in health, all sounds fife and drum for us; we hear the notes of music in the air, or catch its echoes dying away when... we awake in the dawn.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It has been an unchallengeable American doctrine that cranberry sauce, a pink goo with overtones of sugared tomatoes, is a delecta...ble necessity of the Thanksgiving board and that turkey is uneatable without it.... There are some things in every country that you must be born to endure; and another hundred years of general satisfaction with Americans and America could not reconcile this expatriate to cranberry sauce, peanut butter, and drum majorettes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Farewell the neighing steed and the shrill trump, The spirit-stirring drum, th' ear-piercing fife,... The royal banner and all quality, Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
'Oh beat the drum slowly and play the fife lowly, Play the Dead March as you carry me along;... Take me to the green valley, there lay the sod o'er me, For I'm a young cowboy and I know I've done wrong.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I don't know how long it has been since my ear has been free from the roll of a drum. It is the music I sleep by, and I love it....... I shall remain here while anyone remains, and do whatever comes to my hand. I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We call ourselves a free nation, and yet we let ourselves be told what cabs we can and can't take by a man at a hotel door, simply... because he has a drum major's uniform on.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If all would lead their lives in love like me, Then bloody swords and armor should not be;... No drum nor trumpet peaceful sleeps should move, Unless alarm came from the camp of love.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He thought he saw an Elephant, That practiced on a fife:... He looked again, and found it was A letter from his wife. "At length I realize," he said, "The bitterness of Life!"LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There was somewhat military in his nature, not to be subdued, always manly and able, but rarely tender, as if he did not feel hims...elf except in opposition. He wanted a fallacy to expose, a blunder to pillory, I may say required a little sense of victory, a roll of the drum, to call his powers into full exercise.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Some for the Glories of This World; and some Sigh for the Prophet's Paradise to come;... Ah, take the Cash, and let the Credit go, Nor heed the rumble of a distant Drum!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »