drumfire
Example Sentences
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The cheers which now began, round after round, were like drumfire or thunder, rolling round the turrets of Carlisle.
From Literature
Williams, for her part, has been more or less unrivalled since the late summer of 2008, when she defeated her sister Venus in a riveting, drumfire quarter-final match at the U.S.
From The New Yorker
The overture, "Assault and Battery", establishes a theme: Chadwick's drumfire, a cannonade that propels and impels the music throughout.
From The Guardian
With thunderous drumfire from its exhausts, the cutter jerked forward so rapidly that it almost threw them from their feet again.
From Project Gutenberg
The latter, after receiving reenforcements and assisted by an artillery drumfire, made a powerful counterattack, but did not succeed in driving the Russians back.
From Project Gutenberg
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