If a battle trumpet could live, it would sound like that.

Two armsmen, one bearing a battle trumpet, joined the three, then rode toward the silent walls of Suhl.

For an instant his voice rang with the authority of a battle trumpet, summoning Quintus to the head of the column.

I hear the clash of steel, the thunder of hooves and the strident call of the battle trumpet!

If so, she had not been awakened by the song for the sun, but by the sonorous voice of the battle trumpet summoning men to slaughter.

And I awoke because I had been summoned as if someone had clearly called my name, or a battle trumpet had blown nearby.

Standards and hollowed out bull horns (a primitive battle trumpet) were often carried into battle to rally men into combat.

"It is an extraordinary pre-Christian battle trumpet," Ms. Miller said, "the sound emerging 10 feet above the ground from a bronze bell in the shape of a boar's head."

"As painful as it will surely be for a warrior of MacMillan's caliber to turn a deaf ear to the sound of the battle trumpet," SCAP wrote, "I'm sure that, once the situation is explained to him, he will discharge his training or administrative duties with the same dedication he has so often demonstrated under fire."