"Tom-tom" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... few tom-tom players we'd be ready with a fine imitation of an Indian war dance," muttered one of the candidates, gazing about him at his blanketed companions. There was a laugh, of course. These highly nervous youngsters were ready to laugh ...
— Dick Prescott's First Year at West Point • H. Irving Hancock
... with startling distinctness. Several priests, clad in long, yellow robes, were seen actively employed, chanting, praying, and performing inexplicable ceremonies. One had a lot of little pine chips by his side, and was busy in alternately feeding a small fire upon a stone slab and beating a tom-tom. This, as our guide informed us, was to propitiate the god of fire, and to avert all possible catastrophes from that much dreaded source. When we passed out of the grounds, some hours later, this priest was still busy with his chips and the noisy tom-tom, though there was ...
— Due West - or Round the World in Ten Months • Maturin Murray Ballou
... a varied entertainment for his guests. It included a grand feast, with songs and dancing, the latter done to the sounds of the tom-tom ...
— The Giraffe Hunters • Mayne Reid
... population. Vehicles and pedestrians throng the road again this morning, pouring into Amritza as though to attend some great festival. The impression of some festive occasion obtains additional color from parties of musicians who keep up a perpetual tom-tom-ing on their drums as they trudge along; the object of their noisiness is apparently to gratify their own love of the sounding rattle of ...
— Around the World on a Bicycle Volume II. - From Teheran To Yokohama • Thomas Stevens
... tom-tom, and was at that moment sitting on it. 'You will never hear the tom-tom again,' he muttered, but inaudibly of course, for strict silence had been enjoined. To his amazement Hook signed to him to beat the tom-tom; ...
— Peter and Wendy • James Matthew Barrie
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