Down by the river a native instrument Thrummed monotonously, like the whirring of a giant mosquito in the darkness.
"The Lamp in the Desert"
Ethel M. Dell
Other books would get themselves borrowed and never come back, other books would get themselves Thrummed and thumbed, the backs torn off, and the leaves torn out, but this one little book with its black, modest cover was always the same.
"First Fam'lies of the Sierras"
Joaquin Miller
Just a sweet old melody heard a thousand times, Thrummed by every piano, but now coming with such perfection of tone and such a quality of exquisiteness that I felt a thousand times more uplifted than when I had stood before Gordon's wonderful portrait of her.
"A Top-Floor Idyl"
George van Schaick