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A roll of a drum and the skirl of a fife came wafting across the valley on the April breeze.
His shout was dim under the hoot and skirl of wind: "If ye like it so well down here, then help us bail!"
The skirl of bagpipes shrilled from without—that exotic, half-barbarous sound now coming intimately into her life.
A swarm of mosquitoes buzzed in the glare thrown by the lamp with a shrill, attenuated sound like the skirl of far-away bagpipes.
And he himsel' looked round on me, like the devil he is; and, wi' a skirl o' a laugh, he strikes the lantern out o' my hand.
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On this page you'll find 17 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to skirl, such as: blare, hiss, blast, fife, flute, and pipe.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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