drum-skin

When the drum part came, the drumsticks went down through the drum-skin, which turned out to be the surface of a drum full of oatmeal mush.

For todays active man 2010

It was not the usual comforting absence of noise; it was a silence which had swallowed all sound and smothered it, a silence vibrating like a taut drum-skin.

Autumn Thomas Plastino Martin 2010

The drum-skin, the three little bones of the middle ear, and the cochlea of the inner ear are all merely mechanical means of making possible the stimulation of the specialized endings of the auditory nerve by vibrations of air.

The Science of Human Nature A Psychology for Beginners William Henry Pyle

"Up foresail," I shouted, and two minutes after we had sighted that mast we were dead before the wind, our storm foresail taut as a drum-skin, our boat's stem heading full for the broken seas and the lonely stranded vessel in the midst of them.

Heroes of the Goodwin Sands Thomas Stanley Treanor

It was not the usual comforting absence of noise; it was a silence which had swallowed all sound and smothered it, a silence vibrating like a taut drum-skin.

Darkness At Noon Koestler, Arthur, 1905- 1940

Joanna, moaning about "three gold mohurs, sahib - three, where are they?" was up behind Ali Partab, tossed like a pea on a drum-skin by the lunging movements of the wonder of a horse.

Rung Ho Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 1914

He stood literally trembling, as though each one of these common little sobs were a blow falling on the drum-skin of his spirit; and through every fibre he took in the features of the dusty, scent-besprinkled room -- the brown tin trunk, the dismantled bed, the rust-red doors.

Fraternity John Galsworthy 1900

He stood literally trembling, as though each one of these common little sobs were a blow falling on the drum-skin of his spirit; and through every fibre he took in the features of the dusty, scent-besprinkled room -- the brown tin trunk, the dismantled bed, the rust-red doors.

Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works John Galsworthy 1900

This little hollow behind the drum-skin has to be kept full of air in order to let the drum vibrate properly, and this is arranged for by a little tube (the Eustachian tube) which runs down from the bottom of it and opens into the back of the throat just behind the nasal passages, and above the soft palate.

A Handbook of Health Woods Hutchinson 1896

If you should take a hand-mirror -- best a hollow, or concave, one -- and throw a bright ray of light deep into some one's ear, you would be able, after a little trying, to see this drum-skin stretched across the bottom of it and about an inch and a quarter in from the surface of the head.

A Handbook of Health Woods Hutchinson 1896