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Items up for big include a private fife lesson with the resident fifer on the premises, table linens, getaways to other historically-minded spots, toy soldiers, golf packages, china, books — well, you get the idea.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 20, 2022
In the final bars of the “Ode to Joy” the piccolo stood in front of the chorus like a fifer leading his troops into battle.
From New York Times ● Nov. 19, 2012
It was an important battle hymn the fifer played over and over again at San Jacinto.
From Time Magazine Archive
The mayor, two doctors, a shoemaker, a tailor, a chandler, a gunsmith, a drummer, and a fifer were all charged with treason and a host of other offenses.
From "Chains" by Laurie Halse Anderson
But the fifer of Hardt did not return home that night; and as Albert could no longer restrain his desire to prosecute his journey, he saddled his horse at break of day.
From The Banished A Swabian Historical Tale. In Three Volumes. by Hauff, Wilhelm
When he and his men were stationed at Valley Forge in Pennsylvania, a group of drummers and fifers celebrated his birthday with a performance in front of his quarters.
From New York Times ● Feb. 16, 2023
Outside in the parking lot, the overflow of fifers and drummers set up their own jam sessions.
From Time Magazine Archive
Jean Santeuil, written between 1896 and 1900, now appears in English translation for the first time�to the stately booming of literary big shots and the high salutations of Proustian fifers.
From Time Magazine Archive
There were Irish pipers, Revolutionary fifers, drill teams, floats and apparently almost every girl in the U.S. who had learned how to twirl a baton.
From Time Magazine Archive
They were all dancing in time behind their own fifers and drummers.
From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway
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