dub-dub

Updated: May 18, 2025

The voice of an officer was heard half a dozen times; the rattle of pike-butts, the clash of steel. The melancholy bray of the horn-blower ran up a minor scale and down again; the dub-dub of a drum rang out, and was thrown back in throbs by the encircling walls.

Robert Hugh Benson - Come Rack! Come Rope!