timbals
- plural of timbal.
Example Sentences
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Ever since day-break, the drums, fifes, and timbals of the army of Narvaez never ceased their music in honour of Cortes, though none of us had spoken a word to them on the subject.
Before we arrived at our quarters, and while pursued by the enemy, we heard the shrill timbals and mournful sound of the great drum from the summit of the temple of the god of war.
Our ears were soon filled with deplorable shrieks, frightful roarings, and the sound of timbals.
From Shorter Novels, Eighteenth Century The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia; The Castle of Otranto, a Gothic Story; Vathek, an Arabian Tale by Beckford, William
I thus found my solution in the form of an orchestra comprising piano, timbals, bells, and xylophones none of which instruments gives a precise note.
From An Autobiography by Stravinsky, Igor
And Christophe struggled in delirium, babbling strangely, conducting and playing an imaginary orchestra: trombones, horns, cymbals, timbals, bassoons, double-bass,… he scraped, blew, beat the drum, frantically.
From Jean Christophe: in Paris The Market-Place, Antoinette, the House by Cannan, Gilbert
