And now once more they gave us Eastern music, awful stuff, pulsating with a distant drumbeat like the tramp of an army of devils.
Captain Daniels marched to the dining-room door, his gold-headed cane marking time like a drumbeat.
From that day the flag flew regularly over the rocky shelf, and, in time, bugles and morning drumbeats were wafted from it to the decks of passing ships.
Slower still they went, while the drumbeats became louder, until they seemed to fall upon their own ear-drums.
Through the roaring in his ears he thought he heard drumbeats, and the fanfare of a trumpet, and voices.
Like a steady drumbeat, the answer in every chapter is the impending workforce shortage.
Often, the rhetoric of security and the drumbeat of panic and emergency will win the day.
Now, the drumbeats of war can be heard.