trumpet-note

Dan Beard, president, was also toast-master; and as he presented Mark Twain there was a trumpet-note, and a lovely girl, costumed as Joan of Arc, entered and, approaching him, presented him with a laurel wreath.

Mark Twain: A Biography 2003

Misenus the Aeolid, excelled of none other in stirring men with brazen breath and kindling battle with his trumpet-note.

The Aeneid of Virgil 70 BC-19 BC Virgil

Then, when the clear trumpet-note rang, all in a moment leap forward from their line; the shouts of the sailors strike up to heaven, and the channels are swept into foam by the arms as they swing backward.

The Aeneid of Virgil 70 BC-19 BC Virgil

Then, hurrying to the voice of the terrible trumpet-note, on all sides the wild rustics snatch their arms and stream in: therewithal the men of Troy pour out from their camp's open gates to succour Ascanius.

The Aeneid of Virgil 70 BC-19 BC Virgil

This was not shouted, but was sent out in a steady trumpet-note that swelled fuller and fuller, like the voice of a great speaker in haranguing a clamorous audience, rising steadily, as if measured just to dominate clamour, and no more.

Despair's Last Journey David Christie Murray

Then he tossed his head proudly, and blared a great trumpet-note of defiance.

Heart of the Blue Ridge Waldron Baily

But the terrible trumpet-note afar rang on the shrill brass; a shout follows, and is echoed from the sky.

The Aeneid of Virgil 70 BC-19 BC Virgil

Three great herons, fishing in a shallow, rose slowly into the air and flew across the water, breaking the silence with their hoarse trumpet-note.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 79, May, 1864 Various

” His volubility, his rapidity, his impudence and gayety, his ringing, penetrating voice and the shrill trumpet-note of his laughter, make him the ideal of the classic serving-man of the classic young lover—half rascal and half good fellow.

The Théâtre Francais 1914

And his imagination plays harmonies on the sense of taste, like combinations of music, from the flute-like sweetness of anisette, the trumpet-note of kirsch, the eager yet velvety sharpness of curaçao, the clarionet.

Figures of Several Centuries Arthur Symons 1905