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flourish of trumpet
noun as in flying colors
Weak matches
Example Sentences
The summons was preceded and followed by flourish of trumpet, and was read with every formality by the city marshal himself.
The soldiers depart with flourish of trumpet and beat of drum.
But a new discharge of cannon, a new flourish of trumpet and cymbal, as the Emperor reached the gates of the cathedral, and appeared before the assembled and shouting thousands without, urged on the procession.
He stood, apparently lost in thought, and listening to the distant sound of music on the waters—the roll of the kettle-drum and the flourish of trumpet, as the Queen and her party returned towards St. James's.
The Esmeralda bore the White Sisters over Hongkong way within a week; and they left without flourish of trumpet, with hardly the flutter of a handkerchief; for, since the battle 309 of the 5th of February, neither had been seen upon the Luneta.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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