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Drumbeat

noun

The sound made by beating a drum. Synonyms: rataplan, rub-a-dub.

(military) the beating of a drum as a signal for lowering the flag at sundown.

A vehement and vociferous advocacy of a cause.

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"Drumbeat" Quotes from Famous Books

... stream through the little valley where their barn was. They crouched in a quarry by the roadside, a straggling, half-naked group, and watched the flashes in the sky northward, where artillery along the lines kept up a continuous hammering drumbeat. Over their heads shells shrieked at two-minute intervals, to explode with a rattling ripping sound in the village on the other side ...

— One Man's Initiation--1917 • John Dos Passos

... little prayer meeting in some country church; sometimes by sick beds when the end of days is drawing near; sometimes in hours of shipwreck, above the roar of billows on wide, stormy seas; and sometimes on battlefields when mangled forms lie waiting the burial trench and the mournful drumbeat of the last Dead March—the same song rose now on the lonely prairie winds sweeping out across the hidden trails ...

— Winning the Wilderness • Margaret Hill McCarter

... unanimous vote, elected President of the republic of New America, and King Richard became his Secretary of State, an office, he declared, of which he was prouder than he had been of his kingship, when the sound of the British drumbeat accompanied ...

— The Second Deluge • Garrett P. Serviss

... of the drumbeat, the people knew what it meant. Everybody felt a gleam of hope. The young men passed the signal along and fresh courage came to the hearts of the ...

— The Later Cave-Men • Katharine Elizabeth Dopp