At a distance he heard the hall of the Chief still resounding with the clang of bagpipes and the high applause of his guests.
Some, who had already begun to retire, were seen winding up the hills, or descending the passes which led to the scene of action, the sound of their bagpipes dying upon the ear.
Somewhere in the back part of the house the bagpipes were soughing a dismal kind of dirge.
The bagpipes in a London street is a thing for ribald laughter, but the bagpipes in a Highland glen is a thing to stir the blood, and make the mind thrill to memories of Old, unhappy, far off things.
The Scotchman with hisbagpipes illustrates the “Anticipations of Scotland,” a piece dedicated to Sir Walter Scott.
How delightful that unexpected introduction of the bagpipes and the tender flute at the end of the Adagio, and the 3-8 time coolly stepping in!
The bagpipes were not heard playing, "The Campbells are Coming," at the relief of Lucknow.
I had been dreaming of the strange horseman, who had turned out to be the awful being concerning whom Nannie had enlightened me as going about at night to buy little children from their nurses, and make bagpipes of their skins.
Let us next turn to McDonald's Martial Music of Scotland, and we read: "The bagpipesare sacred to Scotland and speak a language which Scotchmen only know, and inspire feelings which Scotchmen only feel.
Who ever heard of a Highland regiment going into action without their bagpipes and pipers, unless the latter were all "kilt"?
There were lately, by the way, some writers who denied that the Seventy-Eighth had their bagpipes and pipers with them at Lucknow.
Need it be told to how many fields of danger and victory the warlike strains of the bagpipes have led?
So much in proof of the fact that the Seventy-Eighth Highlanders had their bagpipes with them, and played them too, at the first relief of Lucknow.
And then an old fellow starts blowing into his bagpipes and all the gougers shuffling their feet to the tune the old cow died of.
The unhappy Lady Lovat's resistance and prayers were heard in the very court-yard below, although the sound of bagpipes were intended to drown her screams.
The rents had just been collected, when the sound of the bagpipes announced to Killearn the approach of his enemy.
Flags and streamers were floating, tumblers were tumbling on the green, bagpipes were playing, and lads and lasses were dancing to the music.
The wait and the preparations had to Robert all the aspects of a duel, and the incessant shrill screaming of the Scotch bagpipes put a fever in his blood, setting all the little pulses in his head and body to beating.
There was a shifting in the British army also, as it perfected its alignment, and the bagpipes of the Scotchmen were already screaming defiance, but his eyes were mainly for the French before him.
Ever after he maintained that the call of the bagpipes was the most martial music in the world.
The bagpipes came directly opposite; the black horse reared viciously; for the moment it seemed that Jocelyn would either be thrown or that the affrighted animal would fall over on her, when a man sprang forward and a hand reached up.
The black horse, trembling, soon stood still; the bagpipes passed on, and Steele looked up at the girl.
Marmaduke suggested the bagpipes as an addition to the programme.
I would gladly become a piper,' says I, 'but what am I to do without the bagpipes and the tunes to play?
How did you come to play the bagpipes so suddenly, or where did you get this splendid pair of bagpipes?
Ramilies has no ear for music, and one blow of my bagpipes drives her.
The bagpipes recall stirring memories of these men, which inspire the clansmen to prove worthy of their ancestors.
Only the sound of the bagpipes is described, though it may suggest a picture of the Highland regiments.
When the shepherd arrived, he put the hounds and bagpipes under the stump and the falcon upon it, then tucked up his hose and sleeves waded into the lake and shouted: "Dragon, dragon!
On the approach of evening, he washed and got himself up nicely, placed the falcon on his arm, the hounds behind him, and the bagpipes under his arm, then drove the sheep and went into the town playing on the bagpipes.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bagpipes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
