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Usage examples of trumpets.

Another double blare of trumpets, and in from either side, each attended by six maidens, swept the two Queens of Zu-Vendis, everybody in the hall rising to greet them as they came.

And here I may explain that every day, when the sunlight falls upon the central altar, and the trumpets sound, a burnt sacrifice is offered to the Sun, consisting generally of the carcase of a sheep or ox, or sometimes of fruit or corn.

While the trumpets sounded to arms, the undaunted courage of the Goths was confirmed by the mutual obligation of a solemn oath.

Bells clanged and ox-horn trumpets hooted, but Carson Barracks was a city of women and old men and servants now.

A brief snarl of trumpets, and the men drew the rifles out of the scabbards to rest the butts on their thighs.

They marched to battle with the full assurance, that the same God, who had formerly opened a passage to the Israelites through the waters of Jordan, and had thrown down the walls of Jericho at the sound of the trumpets of Joshua, would display his visible majesty and power in the victory of Constantine.

As soon as they possessed a more equal field, Julian, who, with his light infantry, had led the attack, ^69 darted through the ranks a skilful and experienced eye: his bravest soldiers, according to the precepts of Homer, ^70 were distributed in the front and rear: and all the trumpets of the Imperial army sounded to battle.

And all the while the colours were displayed, the trumpets sounded, and continual shoutings were among the soldiers.

The trumpets were unheard at this distance, but the way the swords flashed free in unison and the men swept forward was unmistakable.

Scarcely had we done so when there came a blare of trumpets from some passage to the right, and a similar blare from the left.

Once more the unseen trumpets blared out, and then the Court seated itself, and Queen Sorais motioned to us to do likewise.

Then suddenly Nyleptha made a sign, the trumpets blew again, and everybody rose to leave the hall save ourselves and the guards, whom she motioned to stay.

Then when still quite small, he goes, holding fast to the pendent end of his mother's 'kaf' (toga), up to the temple of the Sun of the nearest city, and there, when at midday the bright beams strike down upon the golden central altar and beat back the fire that burns thereon, he hears the white-robed priests raise their solemn chant of praise and sees the people fall down to adore, and then, amidst the blowing of the golden trumpets, watched the sacrifice thrown into the fiery furnace beneath the altar.

Within were a circle of white-robed gold-cinctured priests holding long golden trumpets in their hands, and immediately in front of us was our friend Agon, the High Priest, with his curious cap upon his head.

Slowly it opened, and as the great petals fell wide and revealed the golden altar on which the fire ever burns, the priests blew a blast upon the trumpets, and from all the people there rose a shout of praise that beat against the domed roof and came echoing down the marble walls.