What is "drummers"

Usage examples of "drummers".

The drummers appeared first from the trees, a dozen of them, drums lifting as they stepped to their own beat, mallets whirling.

Her drummers and trumpeters waited near the gates, ready to fall in when she left.

Roars and cheers from the crowds lining the town streets greeted the procession, all but drowning the thunder of the drummers and the blare of the trumpeters.

While the drummers beat their tambours and capered, a pig-faced Trolloc with tusks fought a man in a crown.

I tangled with the young drummers and trumpet-players at the foot of the reviewing stand.

To the left and right of me and above me stood the younger drummers of the Young Folk and the older drummers of the Hitler Youth, squinting, as I knew, beneath the blinding sunlight.

When they took away his toy merchant and ransacked the shop, he suspected that hard times were in the offing for gnomelike drummers like himself.

Like the other Tuigan, the thirty drummers were mounted, but they had stopped twenty-five yards from the battle line.

The drummers beat the skins of their instruments with heavy batons in a crazed, irregular rhythm.

Unlike the other horsewarriors, the drummers wore heavy armor similar to the suit Pe had abandoned.

The closest drummers slid from their saddles, sprouting three or four shafts each.

Farther away, beyond the range at which the arrows could penetrate armor, the drummers found themselves struggling with wounded horses.

As Batu had expected, the archers did not reach the surviving drummers all at once.

The nearest drummers fell first, leaving the barbarians even more confused.

The archers continued forward, pausing to fire at drummers whenever they had a shot.