The skirl of a bagpipe was the only sound as the service began. From Wordnik.com. [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]] Reference
+ The dulcimer, (Daniel 3: 5) a kind of bagpipe with two shrill reeds. From Wordnik.com. [Smith's Bible Dictionary] Reference
"I associate bagpipe playing with death," he said. From Wordnik.com. [A Bagpiper's March To Ground Zero] Reference
Heard ye the bagpipe or saw ye the banners, vol. iv. From Wordnik.com. [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume VI The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century] Reference
“She sounds like a bagpipe,” Bora said off camera. From Wordnik.com. [Stalin's Ghost]
SCHNEIDER: And now we have a bagpipe in the background. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 23, 2007] Reference
To call in all his old neighbours with bagpipe and drum. From Wordnik.com. [English Songs and Ballads] Reference
As though bagpipe played by fairy was forever joining in. From Wordnik.com. [Harper's Young People, January 27, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly] Reference
There will be a solo bagpipe performance of "Amazing Grace.". From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 11, 2004] Reference
CORWIN: We have to -- it's sort of like a bagpipe, you know?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 26, 2005] Reference
The bagpipe is of all instruments the most uncanny and weird. From Wordnik.com. [The Great Round World And What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 24, April 22, 1897 A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls] Reference
Finally a native dance to the accompaniment of the bagpipe was executed. From Wordnik.com. [Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day] Reference
Although still there will be an F-18 flyover, a solo bagpipe of "Amazing Grace.". From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 11, 2004] Reference
(Soundbite of bagpipe music) REEVES: A couple of pipers march ahead of the coffin. From Wordnik.com. [Life, Death Of WWII Spy Transfixes British Public] Reference
LEMON: Bill Schneider, thank you, as usual, even with the airplane and the bagpipe. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 23, 2007] Reference
It has been compared to a bagpipe, which it resembles somewhat, when moderately distended. From Wordnik.com. [A Practical Physiology] Reference
On a sudden there rose away before us towards the mouth of the glen the sound of a bagpipe. From Wordnik.com. [John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn] Reference
In Gothic sculpture and tracery angels are sometimes portrayed practising on the bagpipe. From Wordnik.com. [International Weekly Miscellany of Literature, Art, and Science — Volume 1, No. 4, July 22, 1850] Reference
The biniou, cornemuse, or bagpipe, is the national instrument of western and southern France. From Wordnik.com. [Brittany & Its Byways] Reference
His surviving fellow Marines played a bagpipe over his shallow, hastily dug grave that evening. From Wordnik.com. [The Terror]
"Wad ye send me away without my honest airnins?" he uttered, with a whine like the bleat of a bagpipe. From Wordnik.com. [Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses] Reference
Head and nose and throat filled with animated steel wool that dances around to very fast bagpipe music. From Wordnik.com. [jaxraven Diary Entry] Reference
Associated Press Scottish bagpipe players perfrom on the steps of St. Paul's Cathedral for the service. From Wordnik.com. [A Memorial for Alexander McQueen] Reference
"The bagpipe moves me like a weeping woman, and here, for all that, is the most indifferent of musicians.". From Wordnik.com. [Doom Castle] Reference
He was also the first on the stage to do imitations of the harp, bagpipe, mandolin, banjo, etc., on the piano. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Stage Dancing The Story of a Beautiful and Profitable Profession] Reference
The very first drone of the bagpipe, you kind of thought maybe it was a cow in trouble, just for a split second. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 6, 2003] Reference
The music consists of the biniou or bagpipe, and the flageolet or hautboy, sometimes with the addition of a drum. From Wordnik.com. [Brittany & Its Byways] Reference
Pony is an enthusiastic little fellow, but his lungs are too much for him, they have blown him out like a bagpipe. From Wordnik.com. [Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses] Reference
The performance on one night earlier this summer began with the sudden two-tone blast of a zampogna, an Italian bagpipe. From Wordnik.com. [Puglia's Fiery Pizzica] Reference
A song from Robert Hunter's first album -- notable for being one of the most extensive recordings of his bagpipe playing. From Wordnik.com. [Children's Lament] Reference
And then there's Britain's Oliver Reed, hamming a hissably villainous cattle baron with a burr that could shred a bagpipe. From Wordnik.com. [Sequel: A Sudsy Return To Lonesome Dove] Reference
He said he knew "a drum from a trumpet, and a bagpipe from a guitar, which was about the extent of his knowledge of music.". From Wordnik.com. [The Violin Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators] Reference
A silence fell upon the community, and in upon it broke from the river-side the wail of a bagpipe played by the piper of Argile. From Wordnik.com. [John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn] Reference
A mellowed wail of the bagpipe came from Strone, the last farewell of the departing soldiers; it was but a moment, then was gone. From Wordnik.com. [Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure] Reference
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