She Anra's bothy sneck may tirl An' loup like ony filly; Love stirs her as the pipers' skirl Some kiltit Hielan' billie.
And now in his skirl there was a wild ring of superstition that turned girlish hearts quite cold.
There was just the one skirlfrom Andrew, to lend it music on its upward way; he had not thought that he came to America to witness a thing like this.
I do not like the pipes myself,' Logan went on, 'but when I hear them in a London street my heart does warm to the skirl and the shabby tartans.
He makes 'em skirl like a good one," cried Will from the box, eager to air the accomplishments of his race.
Steve vanished, and, sooner than the boys imagined Dandy could get himself up, the skirl of the bag-pipe was heard in the hall, and the bonny piper came to lead Clan Campbell to the revel.
The skirl of the Scottish bagpipes was heard through all the years of war over the Flemish marshlands, and there were Highlanders and Lowlanders with every dialect over the border.
Shriller than the scream of shells above them was the skirl of pipes, going with them.
The Highlanders who crowded Arras had their pipe-bands there and they played in the Petite Place, and the skirl of the pipes shattered against the gables of old houses.
There cam' a bang and then ae waefu' skirl frae the Bass.
I hear you skirl and laugh," he says, "but the Lord has a deid shot prepared for you, and at that surprising judgment ye shall skirl but the ae time!
For wi' the bang and the skirl the thing had clean disappeared.
O' double verse come gie us four, An' skirl up the Bangor.
That wasna the skirl o' a ghost, but a hail frae a sonsy lass--but what gars her risk her bonny legs in yon daft-like wie beats me.
They knew or guessed what she wanted and the tune they were playing swung abruptly into "The Gathering," and the battalion tramped past the woman to the vengeful skirl of " .
The Division, being entirely composed of Scots, hailed with delight the skirl of the pipes, which had been heard but too seldom since the Division landed.
Before every big battle the skirl of the pipes went with the traffic of war and guns surging forward to the fighting-lines.
From somewhere down the line high over the roar of the battle there rose a wailing skirl of the pipes.
There cam a bang and then ae waefu' skirl frae the Bass.
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There was an answering skirl of the bell, and then a voice said: "Hello!
The touch of the push-button was only a touch, and there was no answering skirl of the bell in the adjoining room.
They shriek back the news of the exodus to their friends, and a hundred pens skirl responsive.
Weel, Angus had got no farther in the tune than the first skirl when Lauchlan louped at him, and ripped up the startled crittur's pipes wi' his dirk.
I thocht I heard the minister's death-cry, and may I be struck if I dinna believe now that it was a skirl o' my ain.
Montrose's highlanders charged to the skirlof their bagpipes.
From a camp still farther off we hear the skirl of bagpipes.
The skirl of pipes came to us, and a moment later the quick, firm tread of men marching.
Now turn the Psalms of David ower, And lilt wi' holy clangor; Of double verse come gie us four, And skirl up the Bangor.
The skreigh of a Tammie Norie," answered Ochiltree--"I ken the skirl weel.
Jeering laughter followed her exit on a skirl of sleet-fledged wind.
The black earth flooring at her threshold gritted hatefully under her feet, and the gusts whistling through the many chinks of her rough walls seemed toskirl derisively.
I was; but it was to blaw folk to their warm dinner, or at the warst to a decent kirkyard, and no to skirl them awa' to a bluidy braeside, where there was deil a bedral but the hooded craw.
