| 单词 | skirl |
| 例句 | Another cliff-ghast and then a third fell in the stream or on the rocks nearby, stark dead; and then the rest fled, skirling and chittering into the dark toward the north. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “Last dance!” someone called, and the music skirled up into something stately and slow and final. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z Voices would skirl up in the darkness: one person singing a lullaby, then another person, until everyone was asleep. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z 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. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z Jon could hear it skirling against the Wall and over the icy battlements as he went to the common hall for the evening meal. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Even the wind seemed to whistle with derision as it came skirling through the Moon Door. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z She listened to the skirling of the wind and the scuffling sound of leather on stone. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z 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. Christine McVie Rejoins Fleetwood Mac at the Garden 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z Occasionally, when lightly swinging understatement just wouldn't do, such as on Robert Johnson's Love in Vain, the unearthly skirl of a Hammond organ intruded, and Peyroux slowed to a spooked rasp. Madeleine Peyroux ? review 2011-07-11T21:15:01Z A bagpiper skirled "Amazing Grace," wreaths were laid and a bugler played "Taps." D-Day memories still fresh 70 years later for U.S. veterans 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z He arrives back onstage to the skirl of bagpipes, still attempting to fasten his kilt - and he's onto a rousing rendition of The Proclaimers' 500 Miles. Hoff's show is Hoff the wall 2012-08-22T08:29:16Z But there is still something magnificent – and magnificently out-of-kilter – about this great skirling tide of productivity. BBC's big weekend 2010-06-23T12:03:00Z 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. Yes Sir, I Can Boogie: Why disco hit is now Scotland's unofficial anthem 2021-06-18T04:00:00Z "It had all the strange, wild, emotional force of the skirl of a bagpipe," wrote Herbert Warren Wind. Seve's Story - Golf Digest 2020-04-13T04:00:00Z Boats sounded their horns across Bristol harbour, while in Oban the high school pipe band added their skirl to the vote of thanks. Millions of Britons clap for carers on coronavirus frontline 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z Several Celtic bands are scheduled to perform throughout the day but the musical highlight may be the skirling of 23 massed pipe bands for opening ceremonies. Celebrate all things Scottish at Northampton festival 2017-07-15T04:00:00Z It is often referred to as a skirl. He’s there for people who hear the call of the bagpipes 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z In ceremonies scattered across the states of the Old Confederacy, cannons will sound, mournful bagpipes skirl and wreaths made from magnolia leaves placed at monuments and graves. Southern states observe Confederate Memorial Day 2015-04-26T04:00:00Z The pro-police rally ended with a priest leading the crowd in a recitation of “The Lord’s Prayer,” followed by the mournful skirl of a bagpipe. Thousands attend pro-police rally in Cleveland 2014-12-27T05:00:00Z In Alexandria, bagpipes skirled in Old Town as kilted marchers took part in the Scottish Christmas Walk Parade. Gloomy, rainy day halts a tree lighting in Alexandria, but the bagpipers play on Then the bagpipes skirled, and the coffin was loaded into the hearse and borne away for a private burial. Bells Tolling for Miles, Boston Offers a Goodbye to Former Mayor 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z Yet as the skirl of feathers and cries dies down, the proposal is still lying there. Nick Clegg interview: taxing thoughts 2012-08-29T19:57:17Z Greatly to his surprise, I took the chanter and proceeded to give him a lesson, to which he listened most attentively, and then played a skirl, with which he was delighted. The Secrets of a Savoyard 2012-04-08T02:00:19.727Z From dawn to dawn again cannon were booming, drums beating, bagpipes skirling, tambourines clattering, songs and cries resounding through the streets. Spanish Highways and Byways 2012-02-06T03:00:15.617Z There were elf-bulls, routing and skirling up and down there, and they affrighted me. Witch, Warlock, and Magician Historical Sketches of Magic and Witchcraft in England and Scotland 2012-02-06T03:00:14.350Z Just outside the rear door of the jewelry shop, the criminal chief stopped, raised a whistle to his lips, and blew a skirling blast. Hooded Detective, Volume III No. 2, January, 1942 2012-01-04T03:00:28.750Z Boston Post Telephone, telegraph, locomotive, skirl, click, thunder through the pages in a way unprecedented in fiction. The Millionaire Baby 2011-12-21T03:00:32.447Z A skirl of laughter came from the recesses of the remaining shawls. In Mr. Knox's Country 2011-11-21T03:00:16.010Z "Those hideous birds!" panted The Girl, as the skirling, squabbling crew swooped and hovered over the far end of the pile. Maid of the Mist 2011-11-21T03:00:11.937Z Next comes the Highland fling, danced in Highland dress, to the wild “skirl” of the great Highland bagpipe. The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer" Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan 2011-10-11T02:01:13.517Z Now the skirl of bagpipes may not be heard in stadiums at the Rugby World Cup, and the Scots are not happy. Bagpipe ban riles Scotland team at Rugby World Cup 2011-09-22T08:35:08Z Some fell like swords, shearing a raw-edged canal; and others splintered into a shower of blocks, weighing scores of tons apiece, that whirled and skirled among the hummocks. The Second Jungle Book 2011-09-10T02:00:30.870Z She played absent-mindedly, her fingers skipping and skirling on the notes. The Black Opal 2011-07-13T02:00:16.323Z 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. The City: Belfast 2011-07-11T05:00:00Z When we disturbed them, they gave vent to a continuous "skirling" noise, somewhat like the song of cicadas, but less shrill in tone. In the Andamans and Nicobars The Narrative of a Cruise in the Schooner "Terrapin" 2011-06-30T02:00:24.487Z Cannot one hear the skirl of the pipes amid that din of cannon and musketry? The Red Year A Story of the Indian Mutiny 2011-06-22T02:00:20.120Z Then a skirl of laughter, the piercingness of which, near to, could only be guessed at. The Disturbing Charm 2011-06-17T02:00:21.077Z But the skirl o' the pipes got in my heart, It got in my throat and choked me, It got in my feet, and tapped my toes, And my shame-faced Donald poked me. The Cornflower, and Other Poems 2011-04-07T02:00:18.740Z I maun put a stop to that skirling—it’s well eneuch for the night, but the morning is the time for business. Tales from Blackwood Volume 4 2011-03-04T03:00:58.347Z I hear The skirl of a pipe very distant. The Rhesus of Euripedes 2011-02-06T03:01:01.240Z “I shall never forget hearing the skirl of Bill Millin’s pipes,” one of the commandos, Tom Duncan, said years later. Bill Millin, 88, Dies; Piper Played on D-Day Beach 2010-08-19T18:30:00Z A sense of restrained, portable affection will skirl about the banked seating. Barney Ronay on the absence of Murray-mania 2010-06-25T18:01:00Z And I saw, too, the soldiers blithe and brave Their flag to the breeze unfurling, As they marched away on a morning fair To the bagpipes' merry skirling. The Cornflower, and Other Poems 2011-04-07T02:00:18.740Z "Grandfather!" he repeated in a kind of skirl, or scream, as of a bagpipe. Deep Moat Grange “How could I sit still, Gavin, and the town full o’ the skirls of women and bairns? The Little Minister Fin now gave a skirl that startled the giant, as coming from such a youngster as he was represented to be. Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry To the weird skirling of the Thessalonian pipe the girl, Nihla, put her feathered steed through its absurd paces, aping the haute-�cole. The Moonlit Way I believe when the last loud trump shall sound, The old flag again unfurling, My highland lads will come marching home To the bagpipes grandly skirling. The Cornflower, and Other Poems 2011-04-07T02:00:18.740Z He marched up and down the sidewalk, and through the skirl of gulls in a storm, swept a tune that made the meat shake on my bones. A Man in the Open Out of the echoing past, the fanfare of Spanish trumpets is mingled with the skirl of the pipes, and the rapier of Toledo flashes beside the claymore of the Highlanders. The Book of Buried Treasure Being a True History of the Gold, Jewels, and Plate of Pirates, Galleons, etc., which are sought for to this day We would pitch the lie into the teeth of the incredulous idiot, and with a single tap on the sconce send him skirling and skeltering down the staircase. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 383, September 1847 Through the increasing stillness, from the gilded gallery a Thessalonian reed began skirling like a thrush in the underbrush. The Moonlit Way Johnnie sat bolt upright, bolstered with many pillows, to enable him to get a firm grip on the pipes, and he skirled the “Shule Aroon” as he had never skirled before. Leerie One who wore a feathered head-dress had a set of pipes which he set to his lips, and even as the Tecuhltli started to shout a warning, the pipes began to skirl. Red Nails In moments only, there came a heavy pounding, followed by the skirl of atomic drills. Shock Treatment Finn now gave a skirl that frightened the giant, as coming from such a youngster as he was represented to be. The Irish Fairy Book Others, again, are diving in foaming torrents—plashing and skirling—laughing, always laughing—plunging—swimming, half-revealing their pretty forms before sinking again beneath the stream. Los Gringos Or, An Inside View of Mexico and California, with Wanderings in Peru, Chili, and Polynesia She went and took it violently away, and nipped his child in the thigh till it skirled, “and of which nip it never convalesced, but dwamed thereof and died by hir sorcerie.” Witch Stories The hill is now o’er much for you—and the noisy women, and skirling bairns! Christine A Fife Fisher Girl There was just the one skirl from Andrew, to lend it music on its upward way; he had not thought that he came to America to witness a thing like this. Pemrose Lorry, Camp Fire Girl "Do you mean to tell me, you would have murdered your brother for a skirling, screeching bagpipes?" My Brave and Gallant Gentleman A Romance of British Columbia About half an hour ago they came marching up the main street of Stirling, each man with his sword drawn, and the pipes skirling death and defiance. A Prince of Good Fellows Young and old, so runs his tale, Cheered in wonder and in joy, When in market-squares he danced To the bag-pipe's pleasant skirl. Atta Troll She was that frighted she skirled out and well nigh fainted off. Facing Death The Hero of the Vaughan Pit. A Tale of the Coal Mines And now in his skirl there was a wild ring of superstition that turned girlish hearts quite cold. Pemrose Lorry, Camp Fire Girl We cried to him by his name, we skirled in the deid lug of him, we shook him by the shouther. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 11 (of 25) At last this word was given, and the procession began its march amidst the cheers of the people and a skirling of the pipes. A Prince of Good Fellows How the old creature would skirl and cry over her son Derrick!—Derrick! he hated the name. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 91, May, 1865 Now, in spite of the skirling bagpipes, no one turned his head; to the French they had become a part of the landscape. With the French in France and Salonika And Andrew the Scot saw the danger, heard it skirling in his ears, for he had been brought up among mountains. Pemrose Lorry, Camp Fire Girl For wi’ the bang and the skirl the thing had clean disappeared. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 11 (of 25) That sweet Scottish girl Never heard the pipes "skirl?" Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, April 5, 1890 Up-up!' and gave orders for the regale to go round, or for the crews to shift, or for the Highland piper to set the bagpipes skirling. The "Adventurers of England" on Hudson Bay A Chronicle of the Fur Trade in the North (Volume 18 of the Chronicles of Canada) Then, with the order to charge, an exultant British cheer arose, the skirling challenge of the bagpipes and the wild slogan of the Highlanders sounding high over all. Old Quebec The Fortress of New France Boom of cannon, firing of rifles, and skirling of bagpipes welcomed the long cavalcade. Pioneers of the Pacific Coast A Chronicle of Sea Rovers and Fur Hunters And to the skirl of the bagpipes the procession wound away westward bound for the mountains. The Cariboo Trail A Chronicle of the Gold-fields of British Columbia His shout was dim under the hoot and skirl of wind: "If ye like it so well down here, then help us bail!" The Valor of Cappen Varra Thereupon the two feeble old fellows skirled a wicked laugh, and nearly gasped out their slim residue of life in unseemly merriment. Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland The skirl of bagpipes shrilled from without—that exotic, half-barbarous sound now coming intimately into her life. Ghetto Comedies Now he picked up speed, straightened 16 out, shifted the lifting plane, and the machine shot forward, skirled over the water and presently took the air. The Radio Boys with the Revenue Guards From a camp still farther off we hear the skirl of bagpipes. A Padre in France And the memory of the skirling music remained indelible. The Rough Road Flamby ran to the door, threw it open and sprang out into the brilliant moonlight as police whistles began to skirl in the distance. The Orchard of Tears 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. Border Ghost Stories "Demn him!" he skirled, following the solid march of his enemy with fiery eyes. The House with the Green Shutters It was truly a magnificent sight, and the roar of the guns stirred one's blood like some martial skirl from the bagpipes. The Incomparable 29th and the "River Clyde" The skirling of the pipes, the beating of the drums, the sound of the bugle and the tramp of feet continually came from the road that ran along the bank opposite the hospital. In Mesopotamia “Maybe you’ll be giving us your imitation of the skirl of the bagpipes.” The Cryptogram A Story of Northwest Canada "Dancing was engaged in around the bonfire to the skirl of the philabeg." Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, February 4, 1914 A ship put to sea, and Gourlay heard in his ears the skirl of the man who went overboard—struck dead by the icy water on his brow, which smote the brain like a tomahawk. The House with the Green Shutters It was two days later and a cutting east wind skirled about the driveway of the Park, rattling the naked branches of the trees like the fleshless arms of a legion of skeletons. The Fifth Ace I could hear the skirling sword-clashes of the final fight to the death of the two Macks, Duff and Beth. No Great Magic "Ye'll lick where that lay, McKelvie, ye—ye—maker of meats for sailors," and the sweat rolled off his brow, and his voice was a skirl of rage. The McBrides A Romance of Arran Besides, the air is filled with noises, the skirling of tree-crickets, and other sounds of animated nature that disturb the tranquillity of the southern night. The Death Shot A Story Retold Some, it is true, took exception to the loudness of her skirl—the Deacon, for instance, who "gave her a good one" the first time he went in for snuff. The House with the Green Shutters At a signal from Simon, the choir began a skirling and screeching which the disciples warranted to be music—religious music, composed to fit the requirements He had laid down. The Worshippers When Wapoota saw the dark forms of his comrades appear, he filled his chest and opened his mouth, and the awful skirl arose once again, as if to pollute the night-air. The Madman and the Pirate Before the Captain could countermand the order, Benjy had touched the handle and let off a short, sharp skirl. The Giant of the North Pokings Round the Pole Suddenly Mowat drew his bow across all the strings with a skirl that might have shamed the bagpipes, and burst into the Reel o’ Tullochgorum. The Walrus Hunters A Romance of the Realms of Ice As to the porcine yells, the whole of the almost superhuman skirling arose from one little pig, which the ebony cupid before mentioned had lassoed by the hind leg. The Rover of the Andes A Tale of Adventure on South America When Bones was within three feet of him, he gave vent to such a skirl that the burglar’s reason was again upset. Post Haste Some one flung open the window, for the place was close, and immediately the skirl of a bagpiper broke the silence. Better Dead And how proudly we marched up the long hill and past the Brigade Headquarters, our pipers skirling their heartiest and the drummers beating as never before. The Emma Gees Few will forget the brave skirl of the pipes as the Battalion swung home in the morning from Yarnbury Castle, file after file silhouetted against the orange and gold of the rising sun. The Seventeenth Highland Light Infantry (Glasgow Chamber of Commerce Battalion) Record of War Service, 1914-1918 It went on and on and on, never faltering, never pausing, in soft trills and gay roulades, shrill skirls or flute-like warblings, a continuous outpour, for I don't know how many minutes. The Lady Paramount Pipers pipe us away in the morning, and the skirl of the pipes mingles with the crying of gulls and the boom of the sea in a thrilling way. The Heather-Moon He leant from the window and the skirl of a police whistle split the stillness of the night. The Devil Doctor We butted out after him into the gale, Jimmy turning in the doorway to let out a skirling war-whoop—"just to brace up the flat-dwellers," he explained afterwards. Foe-Farrell In the cab, Clay peered through the now almost-blinding blizzard that whirled and skirled thick snow across the thruway. Code Three The black earth flooring at her threshold gritted hatefully under her feet, and the gusts whistling through the many chinks of her rough walls seemed to skirl derisively. Strangers at Lisconnel Suddenly, as we drew near to the crowned church of St. Giles—the old High Kirk—there came to our ears the skirling of pipes. The Heather-Moon Durrance imagined it, too, with the blinds drawn upon a winter's night, and the fire red on the hearth, and the wind skirling about the hills and rapping on the panes. The Four Feathers My son’s a clean white skin: He’s never skirled, as you made me. Krindlesyke Pickering's hyla, his little bagpipe blown almost to bursting as he tries to rally the scattered summer by his tiny, mighty "skirl." The Hills of Hingham Jeering laughter followed her exit on a skirl of sleet-fledged wind. Strangers at Lisconnel There was a layer of blue smoke above their heads that broke into skirls as various individuals left one group to join another. The Fourth R The skirl of the pipes and the sight of the kilts moved the population to great enthusiasm, both vocal and osculatory, and we had a regular triumphal procession. The Fife and Forfar Yeomanry and 14th (F. & F. Yeo.) Battn. R.H. 1914-1919 In Dalgard's head the chant of his friend skirled up in a paean of exultation. Star Born Sic bobbing, and flinging, and whirling, While fiddlers are making their din; And pipers are droning and skirling, As loud as the roar o' the linn. The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century The "skirl" of the nighthawk ceases; but away through the woods, down at the creek, the whippoorwill begins her oft-repeated trinity of notes. Some Summer Days in Iowa Whistles skirled, remotely and intimately, and sometimes one voice, sometimes another, would detach itself from this stormy background with weird effect. The Hand Of Fu-Manchu Being a New Phase in the Activities of Fu-Manchu, the Devil Doctor His left hand had been hurt at the first patriot gun fire, but it still held the silver whistle to his lips, and the shrill skirling of the little pipe was the loyalist rallying signal. The Master of Appleby A Novel Tale Concerning Itself in Part with the Great Struggle in the Two Carolinas; but Chiefly with the Adventures Therein of Two Gentlemen Who Loved One and the Same Lady With a great sense of pity the American watched them pass, while the skirl of the bagpipes lessened in the distance. The Parts Men Play “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. Folk-Lore and Legends Scotland ‘I do not like the pipes myself,’ Logan went on, ‘but when I hear them in a London street my heart does warm to the skirl and the shabby tartans.’ The Disentanglers I had actually reached the French window giving access to the drawing-room, when—the skirl of a police whistle split the stillness … and the sound came from the house which I had just quitted! The Hand Of Fu-Manchu Being a New Phase in the Activities of Fu-Manchu, the Devil Doctor And the shrilling skirl grew louder as if men marched behind bagpipes. Caste A roll of a drum and the skirl of a fife came wafting across the valley on the April breeze. Private Peat The roll of drum, call of trumpet, skirl of pipes, did not lack. Foes 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. The Glugs of Gosh I ran to the spot I heard the skirls comin' from, and there I found Mr. Charles, lyin' as if dead, and Grace Davoren with her hands clasped like a mad woman over him. The Evil Eye; Or, The Black Spector The Works of William Carleton, Volume One He heard the bagpipes of the Highlanders skirling behind as he reached the opening in the forest. French and English A Story of the Struggle in America Oh, he works with a rollicking stave at lip, And loud is the chorus skirled; With the burly note of his rumbling throat He batters it down the world. The Golden Treasury of American Songs and Lyrics The music began to skirl again as he stepped out and closed the door behind him. The Brimming Cup The touch of the push-button was only a touch, and there was no answering skirl of the bell in the adjoining room. The Taming of Red Butte Western The gulls are mad with hunger, and a cloud of them skirl harshly over the taffrail of a stout smack that forges fast through the bleak sea. A Dream of the North Sea Swift I sprang from my hiding-place And held the fairest fast; I held her fast, the sweet, strange thing: Her comrades skirled, but they all took wing, And smote me as they passed. Reviews The skirl of the fife and the tattoo of the drum inspired him with a desire, not to shoulder a gun, but to seize a pencil. Frank Reynolds, R.I. We cried to him by his name, we skirled in the deid lug of him, we shook him by the shou'ther. David Balfour, Second Part Being Memoirs Of His Adventures At Home And Abroad, The Second Part: In Which Are Set Forth His Misfortunes Anent The Appin Murder; His Troubles With Lord Advocate Grant; Captivity On The Bass Rock; Journey Into Holland And France; And Singular Relations With James More Drummond Or Macgregor, A Son Of The Notorious Rob Roy, And His Daughter Catriona Whiz!—a stone of chalk went by them with a skirl, and slapped into the rubble below. At a Winter's Fire Naturally this skirl on the trumpet made Knox odious to Elizabeth, for to impeach her succession might cause a renewal of the wars of the Roses. John Knox and the Reformation Thirty bullets straight where the rest went wide, And thirty lads are lying on the bare hillside; But they passed in the hour of the Gordons' pride, To the skirl of the pipers' playing. Collected Poems 1897 - 1907, by Henry Newbolt When it stopped the men shouted; there were voices that barked hoarsely and broke; voices that roared; young voices that screamed, strung up by the skirling of the bagpipes. The Tree of Heaven For wi' the bang and the skirl the thing had clean disappeared. David Balfour, Second Part Being Memoirs Of His Adventures At Home And Abroad, The Second Part: In Which Are Set Forth His Misfortunes Anent The Appin Murder; His Troubles With Lord Advocate Grant; Captivity On The Bass Rock; Journey Into Holland And France; And Singular Relations With James More Drummond Or Macgregor, A Son Of The Notorious Rob Roy, And His Daughter Catriona In the midst of it all, when the night had come apace, what was this wild skirl outside that made everybody start? Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 33, December, 1873 A swarm of mosquitoes buzzed in the glare thrown by the lamp with a shrill, attenuated sound like the skirl of far-away bagpipes. The Lamp in the Desert The ham was skirling and frizzling in the pan. Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 She disliked the excited faces, and the high voices skirling their battle-cries, and the silly business of committees, and the platform slang. The Tree of Heaven In the hour of my adversity, and in the house of my enemy, to meet in with the blood of an old brother-in-arms--it heartens me, Mr. Balfour, like the skirling of the Highland pipes! David Balfour, Second Part Being Memoirs Of His Adventures At Home And Abroad, The Second Part: In Which Are Set Forth His Misfortunes Anent The Appin Murder; His Troubles With Lord Advocate Grant; Captivity On The Bass Rock; Journey Into Holland And France; And Singular Relations With James More Drummond Or Macgregor, A Son Of The Notorious Rob Roy, And His Daughter Catriona One little event trod on the heels of another, rubble skirling down the mountain-side, growing to an avalanche. The Dark House Finally, from far off, mingling with the skirling pipes of the wind came a different, human sound. The Rim of the Desert I've been warbled, and chorussed, and tootled, and skirled, Yet, for kudos, I might just as well have been dumb. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, April 11, 1891 From the other side of the valley comes another sound, the faint and distant skirl of the pipes, and yonder is the white-haired hunchback, a mere speck in a waste of brown and green morass. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 25, April, 1873 "These are the oscillating grinders," said Mary, raising her voice above the skirling symphony. Mary Minds Her Business Sic bobbing and flinging and whirling, While fiddlers are making their din; And pipers are droning and skirling As loud as the roar o' the lin. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 3 I recollect at Banchory an honest fellow who sang so loud that he annoyed his fellow-worshippers, and the minister even rebuked him for "skirling" so loud. Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character One man was a fairish piper, and sometimes the skirl of some old Hieland melody would sound weird enough, as I made my way to the cabin through a grey mist. Between You and Me That was the wild and ominous air that was skirling up on the hillside; and Mackenzie's face, as he heard it, grew wroth. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 25, April, 1873 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. Madam Crowl's Ghost and the Dead Sexton There was more skirling of bells, another nerve-trying wait, and at last the clerk of the hotel answered. The Grafters We drove on then to a small town where the skirling of pipes heralded our coming. A Minstrel in France And then I heard the skirl o' the pipes, and into the car the pipers who travelled wi' me came marching. Between You and Me There is a wailing through the trees, a wailing of fear, and after it laughter—laughter—laughter, skirling up to the black sky. Men, Women and Ghosts And my lady, too, bringing forward her beetle-browed misses to skirl and play upon the virginals, as if she said, 'Pick and choose.' The Bride of Lammermoor The shot brought a policeman lumbering heavily up from the street beyond, and the skirling of relief whistles shrilled on the night. The Grafters My band still travelled up and down, the length and width of the United Kingdom, skirling and drumming and drawing men by the score to the recruiting office. A Minstrel in France There's something about the skirling of the pipes that fires a man's blood and sets his feet and his fingers and a' his body to tingling. Between You and Me All through the garden, drifts of skirling leaves Blew up, and settled down, and blew again. Men, Women and Ghosts I say, ye auld deevil, skirl—skirl—louder—louder, woman; gar the gentles hear ye in the ha'. The Bride of Lammermoor The "Auld Gean Tree" fell into its dotage and was cut down to the strains of a "lament," with which the wail and skirl of the bagpipes drowned the noise of the woodmen's axes. Camps, Quarters, and Casual Places So I was glad as well as sorry to sail away from New Zealand's friendly shores, to the strains of pipers softly skirling: "Will ye no come back again?" A Minstrel in France There were pipers to play me off—I mind the way they skirled. Between You and Me At the head of the room off the bar a piper was skirling with great energy, while in the centre of the room a strapping young fellow was keeping time to the music. The Hunted Outlaw or, Donald Morrison, the Canadian Rob Roy In the thick of the short, fierce fire-fight the bagpipes began to skirl, the Highlanders dashed down their muskets, drew their claymores, and gave a yell that might have been heard across the river. The Winning of Canada: a Chronicle of Wolf He skirls on the pipes—skirls means screeches. Heart and Science A Story of the Present Time And every time the skirling of the pipes would bring the crowd. A Minstrel in France At our head strode Donald, stout of heart and mighty of hand, with two pipers skirling away at his heels, and the clansmen stepping it out bravely two abreast behind them. The Yeoman Adventurer But what was that roar, at first a sullen boom, gradually deepening into the excited skirling cheers of a vast throng. The Girl Aviators' Sky Cruise The shriek of it was now like the skirling of a thousand bagpipes, again like the wailing of numberless lost souls. Man Size First came the fife and drum, skirling out an Orange tune, at which the little priest winced visibly. The Black Creek Stopping-House Because it was the first, and because of the way the pipers skirled out the old hill melodies and songs of Scotland, enormous crowds followed my band. A Minstrel in France He dragged me to the ground before the tent, while the rest set up a skirling that deafened my wits. Salute to Adventurers Now turn the Psalms of David ower, And lilt wi' holy clangor; Of double verse come gie us four, And skirl up the Bangor. The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Volume 2 Ethel "hated horrors," she said, and cared only for the crown jewels, the faded effigies in the armor gallery, and the queer Highlanders skirling on the bagpipes in the courtyard. A Garland for Girls The Highlanders stalk by to the skirl of bagpipes with their contingent of tall boys, the coming sons of Alma Mater. The Courage of the Commonplace Some pipers had come together, from twa or three regiments, unknown to me, and now, very softly, their pipes began to skirl. A Minstrel in France For myself, I probably stand alone in owning to a sentimental weakness for the night-piercing whistle -- judiciously remote, as some men love the skirl of the pipes. Pagan Papers How could I sit still, Gavin, and the town full o' the skirls of women and bairns? The Little Minister Then the tune changed into the skirling bag-pipe lilt all Highlanders love—and which we who know not the Gaelic profanely call "Weel may the keel row"—and Tonald got down to his finest work. Sowing Seeds in Danny The stage darkened, the violins in the orchestra skirled eerily in chromatic showers of notes, and the hunched figure of Ritmagar approaching menaced the lovers. The Lamp of Fate And there were pipers with them, too, skirling a tune as I stepped ashore. A Minstrel in France We can actually hear the skirl of the bagpipes. Selections from American poetry, with special reference to Poe, Longfellow, Lowell and Whittier The Highlanders who crowded Arras had their pipe-bands there and they played in the Petite Place, and the skirl of the pipes shattered against the gables of old houses. Now It Can Be Told A bird skirled again in his ear, and his fright returned. The Path of the King What! on the painted board that is skirling and groaning at the door? Chronicles of the Canongate The pipers would begin to skirl and the drums to beat in a square, maybe, or near the railway station. A Minstrel in France Their formal presentation having been completed by a last skirl on the bagpipes, the whole party moved in procession to the banqueting-hall. Count Bunker: being a bald yet veracious chronicle containing some further particulars of two gentlemen whose previous careers were touched upon in a tome entitled the Lunatic at Large The skirl of the Scottish bagpipes was heard through all the years of war over the Flemish marshlands, and there were Highlanders and Lowlanders with every dialect over the border. Now It Can Be Told He leaned from the window and the skirl of a police whistle split the stillness of the night. The Return of Dr. Fu-Manchu He gave his dim-seen pipes a skirl And war went down the darkling air; Then came a sudden subtle swirl, And love was there. The Little Book of Modern Verse; a selection from the work of contemporaneous American poets I equipped them, gave them the Highland uniform, and sent them out, to travel over Britain skirling and drumming the wail of war through the length and breadth of the land. A Minstrel in France Shriller than the scream of shells above them was the skirl of pipes, going with them. Now It Can Be Told |
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