"Skirl" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the Lancashire Fusiliers and the Royal Dublin Fusiliers, and after them battalions from all parts of the British Isles.... It was wonderfully thrilling to go from one bridge to the other, from skirl of pipes to the triumphant swing of 'John Peel,' and then to the 'Maple ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 156, Jan. 1, 1919 • Various
... wenches skirl'd, "He's no' be here! His eldritch look gars us swarf wi' fear; An' the feint a ane will the house come near, If ...
— Spare Hours • John Brown
... to Andrew's side, but Andrew had risen at once to the occasion. "I'm no a woman to skirl or swoon," he said, almost petulantly, "and it's right and fit the lad should gie his mither the ...
— Scottish sketches • Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr |
