Presently there was a distant
blare of military music; it came nearer, still nearer, and soon a noble cavalcade wound into view, glorious with plumed helmets and flashing mail and flaunting banners and rich doublets and horse-cloths and gilded spear- heads; and through the muck and swine, and naked brats, and joyous dogs, and shabby huts, it took its gallant way, and in its wake we followed.
We reached the palace without anyone having noticed our absence, when, shortly after, a clashing of drums, and cymbals, and the
blare of trumpets burst upon our astonished ears.
The handles of the litter were supported by four men, who were from time to time relieved by fresh relays, -- even as the bearers of Mother Cybele used to take turn and turn about at Rome in the ancient days, when she was brought from Etruria to the Eternal City, amid the
blare of trumpets and the worship of a whole nation.
There was a
blare of heated rage mingled with a certain expression of intentness on all faces.
They described the seething throng that filled the various fairs of Paris, the sea of faces, half seen in the glare of acetylene, half hidden in the darkness, and the
blare of trumpets, the hooting of whistles, the hum of voices.
There was no beating of tom-toms now, nor
blare of native horn, for Kaviri was a crafty warrior, and it was in his mind to take no chances, if they could be avoided.
And thus, with
blare of paper trumpet, was he received by New York.
The broken sounds floated down through an open window and out across the murmur of voices and the loud
blare of the horns of the band.
From the city about us we could hear the din of great commotion, and quite close the sounds of battle--the crack of thousands of rifles, the yells of the soldiers, the hoarse commands of officers, and the
blare of bugles.
As they passed over the drawbridge, Alleyne marked the gleam of arms in the embrasures to right and left, and they had scarce set foot upon the causeway ere a hoarse
blare burst from a bugle, and, with screech of hinge and clank of chain, the ponderous bridge swung up into the air, drawn by unseen hands.
Abraham and 'Liza-Lu sobbed, Hope and Modest discharged their griefs in loud
blares which echoed from the walls; and when Prince was tumbled in they gathered round the grave.