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Items up for big include a private fife lesson with the resident fifer on the premises, table linens, getaways to other historically-minded spots, toy soldiers, golf packages, china, books — well, you get the idea.

From Washington Times ● Feb. 20, 2022

A fife and drum corps perform at King and Market streets before the parade passes through.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 30, 2021

There was a “Spirit of ’76”—three men with fife and drum.

From Slate ● Jun. 20, 2020

Here camp and its covert campaign of subversion feel wonderfully urgent and necessary: the gap-toothed fife player in the march toward “nonbinary.”

From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2019

A boy no bigger than Dusty Miller had put a fife to his lips, was trying to blow it.

From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes

Then the “sounds of Nazi marches with fifes and drums came through the radio.”

From Slate ● Jan. 26, 2025

His supporters, some dressed as American Revolution-era patriots and playing fifes, were thrilled by Ramaswamy’s turn in the spotlight Wednesday night.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2023

Look for fifes and drums, decorated automobiles, tractor-pulled floats, marching dance teams and pageant winners.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 29, 2022

You heard the muffled drums and the fifes that played lowly.

From The New Yorker ● Jun. 6, 2017

A band came by, playing an incoherent song, fifes and bugles.

From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara

Unlike the buccaneers, who had fired high to cripple their enemies above decks, the French fifed low to smash the hull of their assailant.

From Captain Blood by Rafael Sabatini

A drum corps was organized, if that could be said to be organized in which every member drummed or fifed independently of all others.

From The Story of the Raising and Organization of a Regiment of Volunteers in 1862 Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, Commandery of the District of Columbia, War Papers 46 by Ellis Spear

So I was, and I voted for him, drummed for him, fifed and blowed; that was no reason for my thinking him the best man we had for the office.

From The Humors of Falconbridge A Collection of Humorous and Every Day Scenes by Falconbridge

He let himself be drummed and fifed home by the town militia towards evening.

From Flower, Fruit, and Thorn Pieces; or, the Wedded Life, Death, and Marriage of Firmian Stanislaus Siebenkaes, Parish Advocate in the Burgh of Kuhschnappel. by Jean Paul

The city fathers have decked out some of Boston's sons in Revolutionary costumes and sent them roaming through the streets fifing and drumming.

From Time Magazine Archive

No pomp, no fireworks, no cannon-shot, no drumming and fifing, no music, no event that had occurred!

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 21 by Thomas Carlyle

Keeping step to Luther Blanchard’s fifing of the White Cockade, and Francis Barker’s drumming, they marched past the men from Concord and formed on their left.

From Daughters of the Revolution and Their Times 1769 - 1776 A Historical Romance by Charles Carleton Coffin

On the left flank of the little column I kept very easily in touch because of this same silly drumming and fifing.

From The Little Red Foot by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

Really, the fifing and drumming must have effected a profound alteration in your convictions.

From The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce — Volume 2: In the Midst of Life: Tales of Soldiers and Civilians by Ambrose Bierce