Tis well," he muttered, as a sudden braying of shawms, beating of drums, and skirling of songs rent the still dawn.
As they stood petrified by the audacity, the low grunting recommenced, and then once more something let go, lost control over itself, and went skirling up like a burst bagpipe.
And there would be a fiddler diddling his elbock in the chimney-side; and this thing had nae music but the skirling of the solans.
And there were gentlemen from the Low Country, with their tenants mounted and trumpets to sound, and there was a grand skirling of war-pipes.
But whaur Tam hung there was naething but the craig, and the sea belaw, and the solans skirling and flying.
His left hand had been hurt at the first patriot gun fire, but it still held the silver whistle to his lips, and the shrill skirling of the little pipe was the loyalist rallying signal.
What's that skirling like the curlew one moment, and grunting like a nine farrow pig the other?
The shot brought a policeman lumbering heavily up from the street beyond, and the skirling of relief whistles shrilled on the night.
There was more skirlingof bells, another nerve-trying wait, and at last the clerk of the hotel answered.
And this mad quean, after cracking like a pen-gun, and skirling like a pea-hen for the haill night, behoves just to hae hadden her tongue when her clavers might have dune some gude!
Wheest, ye besom, wi' your deleries; there's trouble enough aboot the night without you skirling like a craking hen.
Through the increasing stillness, from the gilded gallery a Thessalonian reed began skirling like a thrush in the underbrush.
To the weird skirling of the Thessalonian pipe the girl, Nihla, put her feathered steed through its absurd paces, aping the haute-ecole.
It seems ye've been skirling against the father that begot ye, and one of his Maijesty's judges in this land; and that in the public street, and while an order of the Court was being executit.
At last this word was given, and the procession began its march amidst the cheers of the people and a skirling of the pipes.
About half an hour ago they came marching up the main street of Stirling, each man with his sword drawn, and the pipes skirling death and defiance.
Out come his mither like a fury, skirling about her hoose, and her servants, and her weans.
A' this time Mrs. Gourlay was skirling in her pains and praying to God she micht dee.
This afternoon offered exception to the rule only in the additional discomfort of small, sleeting rain and a harsh skirling of wind in the eastward-facing casements.
She disliked the excited faces, and the high voices skirling their battle-cries, and the silly business of committees, and the platform slang.
When it stopped the men shouted; there were voices that barked hoarsely and broke; voices that roared; young voices that screamed, strung up by the skirling of the bagpipes.
An awful silence reigned araund; this was sean brokken by a skirling hullet; sure nivver did hullet, herrensue, or miredrum, mak sic a noise before.
All through the garden, drifts of skirlingleaves Blew up, and settled down, and blew again.
But whaur Tam hung there was naething but the craig, and the sea below, and the solans skirling and flying.
And there were gentlemen from the Low Country, with their tenants mounted and trumpets to sound, and there was a grant skirling of war-pipes.
And then I organized my recruiting band--Hieland laddies, wha went up and doon the land, skirling the pipes and beating the drum.
There's something about the skirling of the pipes that fires a man's blood and sets his feet and his fingers and a' his body to tingling.
And there were pipers with them, too, skirling a tune as I stepped ashore.
We drove on then to a small town where the skirling of pipes heralded our coming.
My band still travelled up and down, the length and width of the United Kingdom, skirling and drumming and drawing men by the score to the recruiting office.
I equipped them, gave them the Highland uniform, and sent them out, to travel over Britain skirling and drumming the wail of war through the length and breadth of the land.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "skirling" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
