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In the background, the cavalry division was lined up in columns; behind that was its artillery, in the same order of formation. At a given signal, the troops advanced five hundred metres, and, as soon as they halted, drums, clarinets and trumpets beat and sounded from all parts of the field, saluting the arrival of the military governor of Paris.
Then the Moor's heart beat high with joy; to smiles were changed his sighs, In silent ecstasy he gazed into the lady's eyes. He rode to meet his waiting fleet, for favoring was the wind, But while his body went on board, he left his heart behind! Blow, trumpets; clarions, sound your strain! Strike, kettle-drum, the alarum in refrain.
"How canst thou say that!" answered Don Quixote; "dost thou not hear the neighing of the steeds, the braying of the trumpets, the roll of the drums?" "I hear nothing but a great bleating of ewes and sheep," said Sancho; which was true, for by this time the two flocks had come close.
The Neapolitan people were stupefied in astonishment, and the grief of Joan and her friends was changed to indignation. Just as the clock of San Giovanni struck twelve, the gate of the magnificent palace of the Durazzo flung open its folding doors, and there came forth to the sound of trumpets a double file of cavaliers on richly caparisoned horses, with the duke's arms on their shields.
And suddenly the fisherman saw his old woman in the gold and silver dress of a Tzaritza come stalking out on the balcony with her generals and boyars to hold a review of her troops. And the drums beat and the trumpets sounded, and the soldiers cried "Hurrah!" And the poor old fisherman found a dark corner in one of the barns, and lay down in the straw.
Of ancient Hofburg's walls, A luxuriant Spring shall break. "Drums and trumpets echo loudly, Wave the crimson banners proudly. From balcony the King looked on; In the play of spears, Fell all the cavaliers, Before the monarch's stalwart son. "To the barrier of the fight, Rode at last a sable Knight. 'Sir Knight! your name and scutcheon, say! 'Should I speak it here,
"Good luck, brother," said Godwin, as he passed him. "Would that I rode this course instead of you." "Your turn may come, brother," answered the grim Wulf, as he set his lance in rest. Now from some neighbouring tower pealed out the first long blast of trumpets, and dead silence fell on all the multitude. Grooms came forward to look to girth and bridle and stirrup strap, but Wulf waved them back.
It was as if she had been going in a circle from right to left, and, after a blare of drums and trumpets and a stirring "About face!" she had found herself going in the same circle from left to right. It all came to the same thing, and that was nothing.
It is the drums and trumpets. Only, should you turn aside into one of those little bays on Waterloo Bridge to think the matter over, it will probably seem to you all a muddle all a mystery. They cross the Bridge incessantly. Sometimes in the midst of carts and omnibuses a lorry will appear with great forest trees chained to it.
On the seventeenth day at sun-rise, when the Indians had paid their adorations to the sun with hideous cries, and a prodigious noise of drums, horns, and trumpets, they ceased the pursuit of the Spaniards and retired, having continued the chase about four hundred leagues.
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