It was his baton, to direct the pipes which began to skirl. From Wordnik.com. [Hokas Pokas]
There's something about the skirl of a hundred pipers at sunset. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2005-01-01] Reference
A thunder that pummelled the ears and almost drowned out the skirl of the pipers. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Fortress]
Then the pipes began to skirl, and my throat at once was tight with unshed tears. From Wordnik.com. [A Breath of Snow and Ashes]
I'll dig out my bagpipes yes, I really have a set and play a skirl or two for you. From Wordnik.com. [The Standard Has Been Raised] Reference
Then Struan nodded to the piper, and the skirl of the clan Struan filled the beach. From Wordnik.com. [Tai-Pan]
While the skirl of bagpipes stirs my soul, the ingredients of haggis turn my stomach. From Wordnik.com. [oy] Reference
He summoned up his Flute of Air and played a few experimental notes, then a stronger skirl. From Wordnik.com. [Music To My Sorrow]
Silence fell, except for the wind whose rising skirl began to pierce the heavily insulated walls. From Wordnik.com. [A Circus of Hells]
The skirl of “whee-eech” came more and more frequently as the dancers twirled faster and faster. From Wordnik.com. [A Small Death in the Great Glen] Reference
Few will forget the brave skirl of the pipes as the Battalion swung home in the morning from Yarnbury. From Wordnik.com. [The Seventeenth Highland Light Infantry (Glasgow Chamber of Commerce Battalion) Record of War Service, 1914-1918] Reference
There was suddenly near us, startling us, another skirl of notes on a flute, the common double flute. From Wordnik.com. [Magicians of Gor]
The high skirl of the lone bagpiper didn't start until the former president passed over the church's threshold. From Wordnik.com. [Step on a Crack]
Perhaps they cried or sang, into the wind skirl and wave rush; but Laure couldn't hear it in this enclosed place. From Wordnik.com. [Explorations]
In the midst of it all, when the night had come apace, what was this wild skirl outside that made everybody start?. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 33, December, 1873] Reference
When the skirl of the bagpipes started up, for a moment I again caught a heady gust of cologne and rain and grass. From Wordnik.com. [The Quickie]
The thump of drums, the skirl of horns, and the wail of pipes came from the south, from the banks of the Cumbersome. From Wordnik.com. [Advance and Retreat]
She then went on to list everything they loved about it, from the skirl of the bagpipes to the windswept west coast. From Wordnik.com. [Mortal Causes]
Down below the balcony, in the rose garden, Symeon™s pet hippo-griff made a sound that was half-whinny, half-skirl. From Wordnik.com. [Chosen Of The Gods]
It was truly a magnificent sight, and the roar of the guns stirred one's blood like some martial skirl from the bagpipes. From Wordnik.com. [The Incomparable 29th and the "River Clyde"] Reference
Across the mists on the far shore stands a lone piper, and the skirl of his mournful dirge floats across the still water. From Wordnik.com. [Broken Music, A Memoir]
After lunch Dad would gather everybody on the foredeck and we'd skirl a couple of tunes and Dad would give a little pitch. From Wordnik.com. [A Beastly Pursuit, in Rhyme] Reference
The sound of angles is produced by high winds blowing across the open ends of pipes causing a wailing, moaning skirl of sound. From Wordnik.com. [And the Angles Sing] Reference
After a minuet had been paced to the gentle music of the lute and clavichord, a schottische succeeded to the martial skirl of the pipes. From Wordnik.com. [Border Ghost Stories] Reference
And my lady, too, bringing forward her beetle-browed misses to skirl and play upon the virginals, as if she said, ‘Pick and choose.’. From Wordnik.com. [The Bride of Lammermoor] Reference
From a camp still farther off we hear the skirl of bagpipes. From Wordnik.com. [A Padre in France] Reference
Montrose's highlanders charged to the skirl of their bagpipes. From Wordnik.com. [A Padre in France] Reference
And with its horrid skirl loud shrilled the barbarous bag-pipe. From Wordnik.com. [The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus] Reference
"Maybe you'll be giving us your imitation of the skirl of the bagpipes.". From Wordnik.com. [The Cryptogram A Story of Northwest Canada] Reference
"Dancing was engaged in around the bonfire to the skirl of the philabeg.". From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, February 4, 1914] Reference
"The skreigh of a Tammie Norie," answered Ochiltree -- "I ken the skirl weel.". From Wordnik.com. [The Antiquary — Complete] Reference
Come here -- or stay where ye are, and skirl as loud as ye can; it's a 'ye're gude for. From Wordnik.com. [The Bride of Lammermoor] Reference
The skirl of pipes came to us, and a moment later the quick, firm tread of men marching. From Wordnik.com. [A Padre in France] Reference
"I shall never forget hearing the skirl of Bill Millin's pipes," one of the commandos, Tom. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
Her voice went with the skirl of an east wind through the rat-riddled mansion of the Hallidays. From Wordnik.com. [The House with the Green Shutters] Reference
A 'at aince they see a lassie no' unlike ither lassies, away goes their learning, and they skirl out, 'You dawtie!'. From Wordnik.com. [The Little Minister] Reference
As the skirl of the pipes echoed around the streets, crowds gathered at the nearby Menin Gate to hear the Last Post being played. From Wordnik.com. [euronews] Reference
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