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 »
The Washington press corps thinks that Julie Nixon Eisenhower is the only member of the Nixon Administration who has any credibili...ty--and, as one journalist put it, this is not to say that anyone believes what she is saying but simply that people believe she believes what she is saying ... it is almost as if she is the only woman in America over the age of twenty who still thinks her father is exactly what she thought he was when she was six.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »