skirl
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Bringing Scotland to the Pacific Northwest for over 75 years through the skirl o’ the Pipes and Drums, the beauty of Highland Dancing, the brawn of Scottish athletics, and the sharing of clan history!
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 26, 2024
Thousands of Scotland fans are in London ahead of their Euro 2020 match with England - but the skirl of the bagpipes has largely been drowned out by a 1970s disco classic.
From BBC ● Jun. 18, 2021
"It had all the strange, wild, emotional force of the skirl of a bagpipe," wrote Herbert Warren Wind.
From Golf Digest ● Apr. 13, 2020
The skirl got to 14-year-old Paul-Luc Parks when he was 7.
From Washington Times ● Jan. 31, 2017
Voices would skirl up in the darkness: one person singing a lullaby, then another person, until everyone was asleep.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
Its unnerving drones and belligerent skirls have been known to stir men's blood, their brains and, according to Shakespeare, their bladders.*
From Time Magazine Archive
"But she threeps to keep on a black fause-face, and skirls if we offer to take it away."
From The Surgeon's Daughter by Sir Walter Scott
“I heard the voice of that lad Andrew Lammie; can the chield be drowning that he skirls sae uncannily?” said the old woman, seating herself on the ground, and looking earnestly at the water.
From Folk-Lore and Legends Scotland by Anonymous
"I heard the voice of that lad Andrew Lammie; can the chield be drowning, that he skirls sae uncannilie?" said the old woman, seating herself on the ground, and looking earnestly at the water.
From Stories of Mystery by Rossiter Johnson
How could I sit still, Gavin, and the town full o' the skirls of women and bairns?
From The Little Minister by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie
Then the bagpipes skirled, and the coffin was loaded into the hearse and borne away for a private burial.
From New York Times ● Nov. 3, 2014
A bagpiper skirled "Amazing Grace," wreaths were laid and a bugler played "Taps."
From Reuters ● Jun. 6, 2014
No bagpipe skirled in all Ireland, said dispatches; Dublin pubs were shuttered.
From Time Magazine Archive
A piper skirled a march for the Highlanders in the British front line.
From Time Magazine Archive
Now the darkness was closing in on his family; now the evil music filled the night, hung over the mangroves, skirled in the wave beat.
From "The Pearl" by John Steinbeck
Two minutes later John McGinn smashed a shot on to the Chelsea bar from 30 yards, the rebound sending the ball skirling up a similar distance into the London sky.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 28, 2020
He turned Ms. Nicks’s “Gold Dust Woman” into a darker incantation before taking a long, skirling, keening solo in his own “I’m So Afraid”; “Tusk” was a cry of despair, not a novelty.
From New York Times ● Oct. 7, 2014
Distinct from the lilting singsong of the South, a Northern Irish accent is my favorite in the U.K.: hard, skirling, and sour, with a compulsively upward, interrogative lift at the end of the sentence.
From Newsweek ● Jul. 11, 2011
But there is still something magnificent – and magnificently out-of-kilter – about this great skirling tide of productivity.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 23, 2010
Jon could hear it skirling against the Wall and over the icy battlements as he went to the common hall for the evening meal.
From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin
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