During the Drills, which lasted quite long, they had become attached in a certain degree to this young commander, and at the same time, as the nearest to his august person, they regarded themselves as something better than the others.
"In Desert and Wilderness"
Henryk Sienkiewicz
The dull thud of axes fell from a gully that rent the mountain-side, and now and then a mass of shattered rock came crashing down, while the sharp clinking of the Drills broke intermittently through the hoarse roar of the fall.
"The Greater Power"
Harold Bindloss W. Herbert Dunton
The dark boughs wailed above him, tossing athwart his path a haze of sliding snow, but he caught a faint and reassuring clink of Drills, and straightened himself as he clambered down between the trees.
"The Greater Power"
Harold Bindloss W. Herbert Dunton