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“Death to My Hometown” carried a faint whiff of Revolutionary War cosplay as several E Streeters temporarily became a miniature fife and drum corps.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 2024

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

A fife and drum corps marched in 18th-century finery.

From New York Times ● Jan. 20, 2021

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

From Slate ● Jun. 20, 2020

Their fife was not questionable; it was dictated.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

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

A band came by, playing an incoherent song, fifes and bugles.

From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara

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

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

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

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

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

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

However, he soon sank back on his throne again, and after a little more drumming and fifing, everything reverted to its state of wooden repose.

From The Serapion Brethren, Vol. I. by Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann

Keeping step to Luther Blanchard’s fifing of the White Cockade, and Francis Barker’s drumming, they marched past the men from Concord and formed on their left.

From Daughters of the Revolution and Their Times 1769 - 1776 A Historical Romance by Charles Carleton Coffin

Now they had prepared a little fleet to pass over to the Fourth of July celebration, which some queer drumming and fifing, from the opposite bank, had announced to be "on hand."

From Summer on the Lakes, in 1843 by Margaret Fuller