Word: strump
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...voices proclaims David King of Israel. David's humility has gone flying away with the pebble that burrowed in Goliath's brain; he swaggers and struts before the Lord; calamities confront his house. The music, from a gloating minor, rises steadily with blood-burning cymbals and a strump of drums; David dances, David prances, licks his red-hot lips and glances at Bathsheba. Absalom revolts, is killed. David rides in triumph through Jerusalem to Honegger's march for wind instruments...
...feet together on the dais, made his prettiest bow to an audience that was probably the largest of his expansive career-an audience that bulged over acres of ground and crowded into the aisle down which, as Sir Henry bowed, a platoon of Welsh bagpipers marched with a strump of drums and a squealing strathspey. Behind Sir Henry's head the Union Jack and the Stars and Stripes beamed at each other. He lifted his baton...
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