fifing
- present participle of fife.
Example Sentences
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The city fathers have decked out some of Boston's sons in Revolutionary costumes and sent them roaming through the streets fifing and drumming.
From Time Magazine Archive
Farms were rather scattered in that neighborhood, but occasionally they passed country homes, when all the folks would rush forth to learn what the drumming and fifing meant.
From The Rover Boys in Camp or, The Rivals of Pine Island by Stratemeyer, Edward
No pomp, no fireworks, no cannon-shot, no drumming and fifing, no music, no event that had occurred!
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 21 by Carlyle, Thomas
The night is rendered hideous, and sleep well-nigh impossible, by the drumming, fifing, and shouting of the revellers, kept up till break of day.
From Life and Work in Benares and Kumaon, 1839-1877 by Kennedy, James
In these drumming and fifing times the babies suck in quarrel with their mother's milk.
From Horse-Shoe Robinson A Tale of the Tory Ascendency by Kennedy, John Pendleton
