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Trumpet

noun

A brass musical instrument with a brilliant tone; has a narrow tube and a flared bell and is played by means of valves. Synonyms: cornet, horn, trump.

verb

(past & past part. trumpeted; pres. part. trumpeting)

Proclaim on, or as if on, a trumpet.

Play or blow on the trumpet.

Utter in trumpet-like sounds.

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"Trumpet" Quotes from Famous Books

... of dark places, as they are ever sure to come when the war-trumpet sounds. All seems peace, but suddenly, at the wild call, the latent barbarian in human nature springs up and is ready; and the cruder the arms, the fiercer ...

— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker

... untried. And yet think how your constitution guards the citizen's life! If a man is accused on a capital charge and does not immediately obey the summons, it is ordained that a trumpeter come at dawn before his door and summon him by sound of trumpet; until this is done, no vote may be pronounced against him. So carefully and watchfully did our ancestors regulate the course of justice." [592] A cry for vengeance is here merged in a great constitutional principle; ...

— A History of Rome, Vol 1 - During the late Republic and early Principate • A H.J. Greenidge

... last loud trumpet sound, And bid the dead arise! Awake, ye nations under ground! Ye saints, ...

— The Pearl of Orr's Island - A Story of the Coast of Maine • Harriet Beecher Stowe

... the utmost fear and astonishment, and ran to hide myself in the corn, whence I saw him at the top of the stile looking back into the next field on the right hand, and heard him call in a voice many degrees louder than a speaking-trumpet: but the noise was so high in the air, that at first I certainly thought it was thunder. Whereupon seven monsters, like himself, came towards him with reaping-hooks in their hands, each hook about the largeness of six scythes. These people were not so well clad as the first, whose servants or labourers ...

— Gulliver's Travels - into several remote nations of the world • Jonathan Swift

... of a youth who accompanied his father to the wars. This boy looked forward with delight to going as a soldier to a foreign land, and his heart beat high when the trumpet sounded to summon the troops to embark. Joyfully he quitted Bombay, crossed the Indian Ocean, and landed near the mouth of the Indus. When the army began its march towards Affghanistan, he rode on a ...

— Far Off • Favell Lee Mortimer

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