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 also got to Lily Cunningham, a pixie of a 13-year-old who stood beside the evening’s emcee, Arthur McAra, clutching her three-quarter-sized bagpipe.
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
“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
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.
From The Lady Paramount by Henry Harland
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
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
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
After he was led to the lockup, a band of bagpipers skirled round the building playing a composition in his honor, The Unjust Incarceration.
From Time Magazine Archive
Bagpipes skirled as Canadian soldiers paraded "somewhere in Belgium" last week.
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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