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Definition of Thrumming
1. thrum [v] - See also: thrum
Lexicographical Neighbors of Thrumming
Literary usage of Thrumming
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Library of Choice Literature and Encyclopædia of Universal Authorship edited by Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon (1893)
"Fur, something duller than at first, Nor wholly comfortable, I >ut (my empty
glass reversed), And thrumming on the table : Half fearful tl,at, ..."
2. The New London Jest Book by William Carew Hazlitt (1871)
"Here," said he, thrumming his harpsichord, " here are my ideas; go and make vords
to them." 402. A SCOTCHMAN and an Irishman were sleep- . ..."
3. The Shawm: Library of Church Music: Embracing about One Thousand Pieces by William Batchelder Bradbury, George Frederick Root, Thomas Hastings, Timothy Battelle Mason (1853)
"bIr seat, And m dance to hear the bee - tie thrumming, thrumming, thrumming,
thrumming, ... thrumming, thrumming, Dance to hear the beetle thrum- ming. ..."
4. The Edinburgh Magazine and Literary Miscellany (1818)
"Go round, my wheel, go round With ceaseless thrumming sound, And spin a thread
as long and fine, ..."
5. The Edinburgh Magazine and Literary Miscellany (1818)
"Go round, my wheel, go round With ceaseless thrumming sound, Go round, my wheel,
go round With ceaseless thrumming sound, And spin a kerchief fine and rare, ..."
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