"Skirl" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... walnut-tree come into one's mind, and before one's eyes and ears are motor ambulances and stretchers and dressings, and the everlasting noise of marching feet, clattering hoofs, lorries, and guns, and sometimes the skirl of the pipes. One day there was a real band, and every one glowed and thrilled with the sound ...
— Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front, 1914-1915 • Anonymous
... standin' stanes and the heroes' graves. 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 ...
— The McBrides - A Romance of Arran • John Sillars
... his dim-seen pipes a skirl And war went down the darkling air; Then came a sudden subtle ...
— From The Lips of the Sea • Clinton Scollard
... it do ye, my bonny man. I trow ye dinna get sic a skirl-in-the-pan as that at Niel Blane's. His wife was a canny body, and could dress things very weel for ane in her line o' business, but no like a gentleman's housekeeper, to be sure. But I doubt the daughter's a silly thing—an unco cockernony ...
— Old Mortality, Complete, Illustrated • Sir Walter Scott
... if reflecting—not satisfied, probably, that he had hit upon the true solution—when suddenly his eye brightened, his lips curled, and fixing a look upon the angry Frenchman, he said—"Maybe ye are right enow—ye heard them ower muckle in Waterloo to like the skirl o' them ever since;" with which satisfactory explanation, made in no spirit of bitterness or raillery, but in the simple belief that he had at last hit the mark of the viscomte's antipathy, the old man gathered up ...
— The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer, Complete • Charles James Lever (1806-1872) |
