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President Biden and South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol celebrated their “ironclad alliance” Wednesday amid fife and drums on the White House lawn ahead of high-level meetings and a state dinner.

From Washington Times ● Apr. 26, 2023

There was a “Spirit of ’76”—three men with fife and drum.

From Slate ● Jun. 20, 2020

Here camp and its covert campaign of subversion feel wonderfully urgent and necessary: the gap-toothed fife player in the march toward “nonbinary.”

From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2019

Giroud, by the way, has his head taped like he had to put down his fife and drum to come on.

From New York Times ● Jun. 16, 2018

Then he entered in haste, and made a bed of furs that he took out of an old chest, and built up a fife, and cleaned Therem’s wounds and bound them.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin

Then the “sounds of Nazi marches with fifes and drums came through the radio.”

From Slate ● Jan. 26, 2025

His supporters, some dressed as American Revolution-era patriots and playing fifes, were thrilled by Ramaswamy’s turn in the spotlight Wednesday night.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2023

Look for fifes and drums, decorated automobiles, tractor-pulled floats, marching dance teams and pageant winners.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 29, 2022

You heard the muffled drums and the fifes that played lowly.

From The New Yorker ● Jun. 6, 2017

The sounds of beating drums and whistling fifes, and the cries of “Huzzah! Huzzah!” blew toward me over the rooftops.

From "Chains" by Laurie Halse Anderson

Unlike the buccaneers, who had fired high to cripple their enemies above decks, the French fifed low to smash the hull of their assailant.

From Captain Blood by Rafael Sabatini

A drum corps was organized, if that could be said to be organized in which every member drummed or fifed independently of all others.

From The Story of the Raising and Organization of a Regiment of Volunteers in 1862 Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, Commandery of the District of Columbia, War Papers 46 by Ellis Spear

So I was, and I voted for him, drummed for him, fifed and blowed; that was no reason for my thinking him the best man we had for the office.

From The Humors of Falconbridge A Collection of Humorous and Every Day Scenes by Falconbridge

He let himself be drummed and fifed home by the town militia towards evening.

From Flower, Fruit, and Thorn Pieces; or, the Wedded Life, Death, and Marriage of Firmian Stanislaus Siebenkaes, Parish Advocate in the Burgh of Kuhschnappel. by Jean Paul

The city fathers have decked out some of Boston's sons in Revolutionary costumes and sent them roaming through the streets fifing and drumming.

From Time Magazine Archive

The night is rendered hideous, and sleep well-nigh impossible, by the drumming, fifing, and shouting of the revellers, kept up till break of day.

From Life and Work in Benares and Kumaon, 1839-1877 by James Kennedy

In these drumming and fifing times the babies suck in quarrel with their mother's milk.

From Horse-Shoe Robinson A Tale of the Tory Ascendency by John Pendleton Kennedy

Up from the East river come the 130 sounds of orderly drummers drumming, of regimental fifers fifing.

From The Only Woman in the Town And Other Tales of the American Revolution by Sarah J. Prichard

Really, the fifing and drumming must have effected a profound alteration in your convictions.

From The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce — Volume 2: In the Midst of Life: Tales of Soldiers and Civilians by Ambrose Bierce