beat drums

They danced and beat drums while looking up at the sky.

The dancers began moving in time to the beating drums.

People beat drums and sang as others danced in the streets.

The students had fires, wore masks, and beat drums until early in the morning.

The same trick as painting your body, or beating drums for the advance.

The carts were wheeled around the city as members of the mob beat drums.

This time both of them landed clear blows that sounded like beaten drums.

Then she thought she heard more than just the chanting and the beating drums.

Later, dancers bounded while beating drums attached to their left hips.

Many protesters marched to beating drums, and chanted, "No blood for oil!"

They're marching round the island beating drums and calling for volunteers."

We will also beat drums to guide you."

Before the gate soldiers were marching, blowing trumpets and beating drums.

Their traditional occupation was beating drums at Muslim shrines.

Dean beat drums on the dashboard till a great sag developed in it; I did too.

In some cases, villagers beating drums were organised to drive the animals into the killing zone.

In the center were a number of old men and women who sang special songs and beat drums for the horsemen.

Some are beating drums in the woods.

On 18 May a procession of 1000 to 1500 persons marched in defiance, beating drums and carrying flags.

Monks offer prayers in Japanese, to the sound of beating drums, in the early morning hours and at dusk.

The track is built around an introductory guitar sound, followed by a soaring chorus, and heavy beating drums.

Their cannon began to fire a covering barrage and the massed soldiers started forward to the sound of beating drums.

She too had poetry at her command, knew words that sang and were spells and beat drums.

The applicants arrived beating drums, carrying paint buckets and toting videos.

The most frequent theme of the afternoon was war - a state repeatedly advertised by the use of beating drums.