Small high-pitched flute

Usage examples of fife.

The faithful folk of Fife are marching cannily against his left flank, and mustering from the Glasgow airt against his right are the braw lads of the West, led by those well-disposed noblemen, the Earl of Eglinton, the Earl of Cassilis, and the Earl of Glencairn.

There were ruffled grouse, angrily complaining about things, godwits making profane jokes, sandpipers playing little fifes on the beach, black rails lying in parallel rows on the ground, oven birds doing the morning baking, mourning doves sobbing uncontrollably, goshawks staring with amazement, a crane hauling up loads of stones, and several big old red barn owls filled with hay.

Behind the tennis courts my boys from the rostrum were hopping about with their bass drums and kettledrums, their fifes and trumpets.

On one occasion, it having been supposed by Peter that the Captain had gone to the East Neuk of Fife, weeks elapsed, we remember, ere he was found sitting dead, just as if he had been alive, in his usual attitude in his arm-chair, commanding a view of the precipice of the back court.

He noticed neither the shimmering candles nor the fiddle, fife and drum, nor the orgeat and syllabub.

Reading him somehow suggests hearing a Bach mass rescored for two fifes, a tambourine in B, a wind machine, two tenor harps, a contrabass oboe, two banjos, eight tubas and the usual clergy and strings.

Bar before a soft east wind, to the music of sacbut, fife, and drum, with discharge of all ordnance, great and small, with cheering of young and old from cliff and strand and quay, and with many a tearful prayer and blessing upon that gallant bark, and all brave hearts on board.

Next came the minstrels, playing merrily on tabor, fife, sacbut, rebec, and tambourine.

Why not drums and fifes, or bugles or shofars or what have you, if a noisy greeting is needed?

And then I put a lot of twiddly bits, trills, cadenzas and runs, to imitate the piping of the drum and fife band.

On the morning Washington departed Philadelphia to assume command at Boston, he and others of the Massachusetts delegation had traveled a short way with the general and his entourage, to a rousing accompaniment of fifes and drums, Adams feeling extremely sorry for himself for having to stay behind to tend what had become the unglamorous labors of Congress.

Isabel of Fife, Countess of Buchan, was imprisoned in a cage on the tower at Berwick and a the same fate befell Mary de Bruce at Roxburgh.

He had to believe that the gene banks had merely been a phase in an evolutionary story that stretched back from the present to the magical day when fife had first ventured forth from the littoral zones of the primordial ocean to embrace the land.

Fife commented that galleys on commercial liners gave more quotidian names to the meals they harvested, but Ratline disagreed.

On the morning Washington departed Philadelphia to assume command at Boston, he and others of the Massachusetts delegation had traveled a short way with the general and his entourage, to a rousing accompaniment of fifes and drums, Adams feeling extremely sorry for himself for having to stay behind to tend what had become the unglamorous labors of Congress.