drum-drum

Updated: May 3, 2025

While she worked her ears listened for the alarm, but, until she had finished and was ascending with the light to her mother's room she heard nothing. Then a distant cry, a faint challenge, the drum-drum of running feet, a second cry and silence. It might be his death-cry she had heard; and she stood with a white face, shivering, waiting, bearing the woman's burden of suspense.

Stanley John Weyman - The Long Night

Then began the tree-frogs quack-quack, drum-drum, hoo- hoo; these, accompanied by a melancholy night-jar, kept up their monotonous cries until very late. My men encountered on the banks of the stream a Jaguar and a black Tiger, and were very much afraid of falling in with the Pararauates, so that I could not, after their return on the fourth day, induce them to undertake another journey.

Henry Walter Bates - The Naturalist on the River Amazons