Drum
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Both words in one sentence
- When The Natives Are Restless, they will start pounding a large drum and dig up their tomahawks.
- A cartoon by Whitney Darrow invoked the communication angle by showing a fellow pounding away on a drum while another drummer tells a white explorer, "Momboango gives the news behind the news."
Source: Jungle Drums -
The single most primal villain ever seen in Literature/Redwall, Gulo the Savage, is a huge cannibalistic wolverine who gets his horde into a frenzy by pounding a stolen drum (it was to be a gift from Salamandastron to Redwall, when Gulo fell on the hares delivering it and ate them).
Source: All Drummers Are Animals
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