skirl
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Belief swirled like the skirl of the bagpipes.
From BBC ● Nov. 8, 2025
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
"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
Two Glover men began a spinning skirl on bladder and woodharp.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
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
There was a layer of blue smoke above their heads that broke into skirls as various individuals left one group to join another.
From The Fourth R by George Oliver Smith
And the whispering grass on the gay green hills And every cricket that skirls and shrills, And every moonbeam, gleaming white, All know the Glugs quite well by sight.
From The Glugs of Gosh by C. J. (Clarence James) Dennis
He heard our skirls," Birse said, "but couldna grip the words ony mair than we could hear the earl.
From The Little Minister by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie
"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
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
As the rhythmic hum of generators signaled the first current, bagpipes skirled.
From Time Magazine Archive
No bagpipe skirled in all Ireland, said dispatches; Dublin pubs were shuttered.
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
Even the wind seemed to whistle with derision as it came skirling through the Moon Door.
From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin
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