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She is well-pleased with the sound of rattles and of timbrels, with the voice of flutes and the outcry of wolves and bright-eyed lions, with echoing hills and wooded coombes.

They heard, too, the pleasant mingled notes of a variety of instruments, flutes, drums, psalteries, pipes, tabors, and timbrels, and as they drew near they perceived that the trees of a leafy arcade that had been constructed at the entrance of the town were filled with lights unaffected by the wind, for the breeze at the time was so gentle that it had not power to stir the leaves on the trees.

First MOLOCH, horrid King besmear'd with blood Of human sacrifice, and parents tears, Though for the noyse of Drums and Timbrels loud Their childrens cries unheard, that past through fire To his grim Idol.

Snagsby sounds no timbrel in anybody's ears, but holds her purpose quietly, and keeps her counsel.

In the ballet, Niyazi used the rhythms and intonations of Indian folk music and timbrels that resemble the sound of Indian musical instruments in orchestration.

'The dancers repeated this aloud three times, and then danced with their timbrels in their hands until they were exhausted.

I xxxv With merriment, and song, and timbrels clear, A troop of dames from myrtle bowers advance; The little warriors doff the targe and spear, And loud enlivening strains provoke the dance.

Or as John Keats put it: 'What pipes and timbrels? What wild ecstasy?' It's Prometheus Unbound, if a title from Shelley may be borrowed for the great occasion." (28)

The world of mortals and "gods," of "pipes and timbrels," of colorful animal sacrifice (ll.

Woe to us, because we have sinned." Also because of sin "the mirth of timbrels has ceased: the noise of them that rejoice is ended; the melody of the harp is silent" (Is 24:8).

stridulating timbrels of the Cicada And the chirping of the crickets