tintamarre

Example Sentences

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"Saint Michael! tintamarre terrible!" they said, crossing themselves.

From Days of the Discoverers by Choate, Florence

Dr. Hopkins used to say, when the noisy tintamarre began, "My hearers, have a little patience, and I will soon close."

From Sabbath in Puritan New England by Earle, Alice Morse

This did not disturb me; I slept soundly till, about eight o'clock, a tintamarre of trumpets, kettle-drums, &c. almost directly under my window, roused me from my peaceful slumber.

From Paris as It Was and as It Is by Blagdon, Francis W.

But these! what could one make of such a tintamarre?

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXII by Wilson, John Mackay

Since that period, however, one hears a little more of the tintamarre of the comptoir.

From A Residence in France With an Excursion Up the Rhine, and a Second Visit to Switzerland by Cooper, James Fenimore