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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

It is often referred to as a skirl.

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

"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 Johnson, Rossiter

"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 Scott, Walter, Sir

He heard our skirls," Birse said, "but couldna grip the words ony mair than we could hear the earl.

From The Little Minister by Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew)

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 Harland, Henry

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

Across the sands of Egypt the bagpipes of the 51st Highlanders skirled.

From Time Magazine Archive

On the dock, a bagpiper skirled the melancholy tune of The Minstrel Boy.

From Time Magazine Archive

“Last dance!” someone called, and the music skirled up into something stately and slow and final.

From "The Graveyard Book" by Neil Gaiman

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