bellowers

Both Lucia's suspicious lover and her brutally demanding brother were sung by crude Italian bellowers with a tendency to run offkey, which ruins important ensembles in which they are involved.

How SFO Closed Its Season 2008

“Dickens called them ‘brazen performers on brazen instruments, beaters of drums, grinders of organs, bangers of banjos, clashers of cymbals, worriers of fiddles, and bellowers of ballads’.”

Sounds of Victorian London 2007

“Dickens called them ‘brazen performers on brazen instruments, beaters of drums, grinders of organs, bangers of banjos, clashers of cymbals, worriers of fiddles, and bellowers of ballads’.”

Archive 2007-09-01 2007

After the bellowers, screamers, and grunters, the silence that surrounded the artifact was eerie.

The Brothers' War Grubb, Jeff 1998

After the bellowers, screamers, and grunters, the silence that surrounded the artifact was eerie.

The Brothers' War Grubb, Jeff 1998

We shall have a government in power, a government whose power will not be dependent on the faddists and the self-seekers -- the ignorant, the blatant bellowers of pitiful platitudes, the platform loafers who call themselves labor-leaders, but whom the real laborers repudiate.

Phyllis of Philistia Frank Frankfort Moore 1893

At last 'le combat finit faute de combattants,' for John Russell and his colleagues first, and subsequently Peel and his followers, severally made their exits something like rival potentates and their trains in a tragedy, and when the bellowers found nobody left to bellow to, they too were obliged to move off.

The Greville Memoirs (Second Part) A Journal of the Reign of Queen Victoria from 1837 to 1852 (Volume 1 of 3) Charles Greville 1829

After I had concluded my address, which was delivered amidst continued contention and uproar, a great majority wishing to hear me, and occasionally the bellowers attempted to listen, and for a moment ceased their senseless clamour: having heard one sentence, they appeared very anxious to hear what was to follow; but the agent of old Sir John Cox Hippisley, James

Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. — Volume 2 Henry Hunt 1804

I know it is complained, that the difficulty of driving foreign beggars out of the city is charged upon the _bellowers_ (as they are called) who find their accounts best in suffering those vagrants to follow their trade through every part of the town.

The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. - Volume 07 Historical and Political Tracts-Irish Jonathan Swift 1706

But if Ragged Soul was a great album, A Little Sex and Death is a very good one, and Pat Todd, always one of rock's great bellowers, never sounds less than thoroughly committed throughout.

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