O, heard ye yonpibroch sound sad on the gale, Where a band cometh slowly with weeping and wail?
But ne’er in battle throbbed a heart so brave, As that which beats beneath the Scottish plaid; And when the pibroch bids the battle rave, And level for the charge your arms are laid, Where lives the desperate foe that for such onset staid?
The following lines from Pibroch of Donuil Dhu (p.
Compare it in this respect with Pibrochof Donuil Dhu.
But we listened still whilst voluminous waves of melody wandered homeless over German wastes and returned to us, I heard the pibroch sounding, sounding, O'er the wide meadows and lands from afar.
During the fighting on the Somme for the heaps of ruins which had once been a French village, an incident occurred which takes us back to the legend connected with the pibroch "A Cholla, mo run.
The pibroch only will, and is to be considered, as invariably when sounded, for every persons off duty to turn out without a moment's delay.
The Esk was swollen sae red an' sae deep, But shouther to shouther the brave lads keep; Twa thousand swam ower to fell English ground, An' danced themselves dry to the pibroch sound.
The voices closed in earth, in death thepibroch still'd!
Thy death's hour heard no kindred wail, No holy knell thy requiem rung; Thy mourners were the plaided Gael, Thy dirge the clamourous pibroch sung.
The various tribes assembled, each at thepibroch of their native clan, and each headed by their patriarchal ruler.
Evan, a little disconcerted at having missed his mark, when he meant to have displayed peculiar dexterity, covered his confusion by whistling part of a pibroch as he reloaded his piece, and proceeded in silence up the pass.
Sweet sounds the Gaelic pibroch O'er mountain, glen, and glade; But the sweetest of all music The Pipes at Lucknow played!
Cast your plaids, draw your blades, Forward each man set, Pibroch o' Donuil Dhu, Knell for the onset!
That she wept when she heard the "Pibroch o' Donuil Dhu" performed by the band of the Salvation Army has but little to do with it.
And then, then they play the "Pibroch o' Donuil Dhu" once more, and then nothing else.
Just now I had been wondering at that strange performance of the "Pibroch o' Donuil Dhu.
You ask me, ignorant reader, what that "Pibroch o' Donuil Dhu" is.
What, if it is not my own paraphrase on the "Pibroch o' Donuil Dhu"?
Yes, there is a military band somewhere in the rear, and what the horns attack is the theme of "Pibroch o' Donuil Dhu" set as Doblana had told me to do it.
Jon, do you remember when you used to spout "Pibroch of Donald Dhu"?
One of them is the only good song I ever wrote--it is a fine Highland Gathering tune called Pibroch an Donuil Dhu, that is, the Pibroch of Donald the Black.
Cast your plaids, draw your blades, Forward each man set; Pibroch of Donuil Dhu, Knell for the onset!
The wild scream and fitful burst of a highland pibroch is certainly not the most likely thing in nature to allay the irritable and ruffled feelings of an irascible person--unless, perhaps, the hearer eschew breeches.
And I wass saying to him then, 'Donald, do not be a foolish lad; and if the English lady will not want the pibroch you made for her, perhaps at another time she will want it.
But you, Hamish, you will find the quiet grave for me; and Donald will play the pibroch for me that I told him of; and you will say no word to her of all that is over and gone.
I have told Donald whatpibroch he will play; I want to be at peace now.
It was an old custom that each night a pibroch should be played in Castle Dare in remembrance of her five slain sons; and yet on this one night her niece would fain have seen that custom abandoned.
Was there ever a happier wife than the Lady of Armadale, who had been carried screaming downstairs in the night-time, and placed in her lover's boat, with the pipes playing a wild pibroch all the time?
It is no pibroch there will be this night, for Donald is away.
Tis the pibroch o' Glencoe shall wake ye to the woods afire!
The pibroch sounds, the bands advance, The broadswords gleam, the banners dance, 180 Obedient to the Chieftain's glance.
XVII Ever, as on they bore, more loud 355 And louder rung the pibroch proud.
The last, nevertheless, again grasped his instrument, and the pibroch of the clan yet poured its expiring notes over the Clan Chattan, while the dying minstrel had breath to inspire it.
The wild pibroch again sounded the onset; but the two parties approached each other more slowly than at first, as men who knew and respected each other's valour.
How in the noon of night that pibroch thrills, Savage and shrill!
There sat the piper on the swivel, ready to sound a pibroch the moment they should have reached the shelter of the bored craig--his signal being Malcolm's whistle.
I play, and you'll soon be able to play pibroch or coronach with the best piper between Cape Wrath and ta Mull o' Cantyre.
She'll pe singing you ta onset, for ta pibroch is no more.
Mony a pibroch 'll come skirlin' oot o' that chanter yet er' a' be dune.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pibroch" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
