fife's

The fife's shrill tones, the clarion's silvery sound:

Poems of Paul Hamilton Hayne, 1882

'But the fife's a pretty instrument,' he suggested, and with a candour that seduced the unwary lady to think dubiously whether she quite liked the fife.

Celt and Saxon — Volume 2 George Meredith 1868

'But the fife's a pretty instrument,' he suggested, and with a candour that seduced the unwary lady to think dubiously whether she quite liked the fife.

Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

'But the fife's a pretty instrument,' he suggested, and with a candour that seduced the unwary lady to think dubiously whether she quite liked the fife.

Celt and Saxon — Complete George Meredith 1868

The fife's shrill laughter mocked the sounding strings

Bohemians of the Latin Quarter Henry Murger 1841

For plenty of folks across the region, the holiday season doesn't truly begin until they've stood in the light of a blazing cresset and heard rumbling drums and the fife's sweet-but-piercing song.

The Shad Plank 2009

The marching of troops, a circumstance which I always hurried out to gaze on with sensations rising almost to transport; the fife's shrill and piercing notes, stirring into reckless activity emotions of which I had scarcely known myself capable; the drum rattling into madness every impetuous feeling that thrilled along the nerves or swelled in the heart; the plumes and epaulettes of the officers; the measured and stately march; the burnished arms, the extensive columns presenting the movement of a vast and powerful body pervaded by one animating spirit - all made impressions upon me at the time which in some of their characters may be considered as peculiar to the years in which they were produced, and which therefore could never have been attained, but at the period when they were actually acquired in the experience.

Documenting the American South: The Southern Experience in 19-th Century America 1860

Thank God! May I never see a gun or a sword, or hear a drum or a fife's scream on this earth again! "

The Leopard's Spots [selections] 1902