trumpet-blast

It is a haunting sound, a cry of the wild, not really a trumpet-blast so much as a high, alto-sax note, somehow plaintive and challenging at the same time.

Phil Caputo: Old Age and Elk Hunting in the Rocky Mountains 2007

Chevy Chase too, of which even your fellow-sinner Sidney cannot deny that every time he hears it even from a blind fiddler it stirs his heart like a trumpet-blast.

Westward Ho! 2007

It may be hard to imagine, but Darwin was not an all-shattering trumpet-blast opening the first round of Ragnarok.

Madigan on Morals 2005

It may be hard to imagine, but Darwin was not an all-shattering trumpet-blast opening the first round of Ragnarok.

Archive 2005-06-01 2005

It rose, if contradicted, into a sort of continuous trumpet-blast which drowned all other lesser voices.

Red Pottage 2004

“I have come, madam ...” he blared out like a trumpet-blast.

The Possessed 2003

A prolonged trumpet-blast followed, and a proclamation, 'Way for the high and mighty, the Lord Edward, Prince of Wales!'

Vietnam: Solutions McCarthy, Mary 1967

Then there was a loud trumpet-blast, and all about them people were shouting.

The Lord of the Rings Tolkien, J. R. R. 1954

Suddenly there was a trumpet-blast, loud as a thunder-clap, followed by bells ringing as rapidly as those of the churches in Malta; as these died away, the hum of human voices and the tread of human feet along the passages followed, and then all was once more hushed in silence.

Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada Henry A. Murray

As the trumpet-blast that cries to them to charge the Volscian home;

The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886 Ontario. Ministry of Education