In the armories, at the big parade The highland regiment was giving, A half-dozen pipers piping away-- Ah!
No sooner had he said the word, than the tables were all whipped away,--the pipers began to tune their chaunters.
The pipers themselves were mercifully hidden from us on that first occasion, and it was well, for we could never have borne another feather's weight of ecstasy.
I was mounted and off and away from the first moment I gazed upon its embattled towers, heard the pipers in the distance, and saw the Black Watch swinging up the green steps where the huge fortress 'holds its state.
The two parties then united and returned in procession to the front of Balmoral Castle, where all were grouped round a large bonfire, which blazed and crackled merrily, the Queen's pipers playing the while.
At funeral processions pipers and other musicians attended, and women sang the funeral song or the praises of the deceased to the sound of the flute.
Pipers were playing on the bagpipes, salutes were fired, the soldiers and the crowd of country folk cheered over and over again.
There stood the castle guests, and there were all the tenants, the women in their Sunday clothes, the men in kilts, and the pipers playing their best and loudest, while the children tossed flowers into the carriages and shouted their welcome.
The pipers were present, of course, and the best clothes of the Queen's pipers were well worth seeing.
The pipers played, and all the people on the estate lighted their torches and marched up to the top of the hill for a dance.
She poured oil upon it in token of plenty, and wine in token of gladness; the pipers played; the workmen had a feast and a dance; and the new house was begun.
The dancing floor was out of doors, and all around it stood Highlanders in their gay plaids, holding blazing torches, while seven pipersprovided the music.
Meanwhile the pipers played, after which the women danced, and, when they retired, the harpers were introduced.
Doth any saint, though ever so holy, consider himself under such notions of grace, when he comes to be justified?
Mr. Crozier also refers to a stone, five feet high, which stood within a hundred yards of the Castallack Round, and from which the Pipers at Boleit could be seen.
He generally summoned the musicians, cymbal players and pipers before him.
The pipers gave him a morning greeting lasting about five or six minutes, after which he resumed his place in the wedding procession.
At eleven in the morning the Highlanders moved forward, the pipers playing brave music, and they recked not that the English had the chosen ground; theirs was not even a forlorn hope.
There are pipers who march majestically up and down, swinging their sporrans, swaying their kilts; one is almost afraid to give a penny.
Here, indeed, were men apt for war and the battle, six abreast and a hundred files deep, with a dozen pipers piping their mightiest, and a great standard flinging to the breeze its proud Tandem triumphans.
The men were lined up on the rough moorland track, Donald at their head, and the two pipers filling their bags and fingering their chanters behind him.
Of a certainty," retorted the Colonel, "Margaret and one of your pipers would be enough if we only had the townspeople to consider.
I could hear nothing but the soft sough of the breeze as it swept o'er the rank grass of the moorlands, but they, Maclachlan as madly as any of them, yelled their slogan, and the pipers filled their bags and blew fit to burst.
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.
They were hurling away, and the pipersplaying music, until Paddy O'Kelly saw the host of Munster getting the strong hand, and he began helping the fairy host of Connacht.
They all went out, and little Donal and twelve pipersmore before them, playing melodious music.
Once a year the City King makes a royal procession through the streets with his soldiers and servants and keepers and pipers and retainers, bewigged and bepowdered and bestockinged pretty much as they used to be in the days before the flood.
At the Greek festivals also the pipers had a place in the procession of musicians.
Our angel pipers are blowing lustily with puffing cheeks-- "Such sweet Soft notes as yet musician's cunning Never gave the enraptured air.
Later on, when some of the camps had dealt with the music question, a band or a couple of pipers would go some distance along the road to meet the coming men and to play them into camp.
Other camps, which could not manage bands, discovered Scottish pipersand set them playing on ceremonial occasions.
It was no less than that the twa pipers should be ordered to play 'The Bonny House o' Airlie.
Her little leddyship was all hinging in gold and jewels, the which winna be her ain till the morn; and she leans ower to the earl and whispers to him to get the pipers to play 'The Bonny House.
However, the Ogilvys lauched at his caution; and he was so infatuated wi' her little leddyship that he gae in, and he cried out to the pipers to strike up 'The Bonny House.
Part of these mobiles lay over Sabkhet, where it was possible to keep step and the pipers attached to each company could amaze the desert rats with alien music.
In the evening impromptu concerts were held, at one of which, on the fo'c'sle decks the pipers played "The 5th H.
Pipers played the reels, an orchestra of eight from the Divisional band, with Pte.
For Conor, the king, is melody pipers and blowers of horns, more melodious to me, renowned, enchanting the voice given out by the sons of Usnach.
Though melodious to you each month (are the) pipers and horn-blowers, it is my open statement to you to-day I have heard melody sweeter far than these.
The best pipers and harpers of the great city were summoned to delight with their music.
Itinerant pipers have existed in Italy from earliest times; they still survive, albeit in alien lands and with less tuneful instruments.
The cooks cook for their places, the pipers pipe .
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pipers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
