It was addressed to himself; and for a few moments his heart beat quicker, with sharp, clean Percussions, as if it were trying to imitate the sounds made by the two clerks as they plied their stampers on the blocks.
"The Devil's Garden"
W. B. Maxwell
As the cushioned train flashes into the depot and stops, wedding bells peal, and the gong of many banquets sounds, and white arms are flung about necks, reckless of mistake, and innumerable Percussions of affection echo through the depot, so crisp and loud that they wake the conductor, who thought that the boisterous smack was on his own cheek, but finds that he is nothing but a bachelor railroad man, with a lantern, at midnight getting out into a snow bank.
"Around The Tea-Table"
T. De Witt Talmage
All sounds imply time; because they are the transient effects of certain Percussions which temporarily agitate the air, an element that tends to silence.
"The Grammar of English Grammars"
Goold Brown