drummings

Hunnicott heard his opponent's argument mechanically, having his ear attuned for whistle signals and wheel drummings.

Within a few days the Mompesson family at Tedworth began to be annoyed at night by strange noises or drummings on the roofs.

They split and coalesced into other creatures, and to the drummings of spheric harmonies resolved themselves scaly and monstrous.

The audience accompanied with tappings and drummings, swaying in the melody like corn in the wind.

The drummings and fifings were to have more serious results than the disturbing of good citizens' slumbers.