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How to use skirling in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word skirling? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
No more tally-ho across the shires then, no more hunting horns skirling across the frosty banks of willows in the winter morning.
Wind instruments are pushed into their highest registers, while skirling, abrasive strings bulk out the textures.
Off I set with kilt swirling, pipes skirling and feather bonnet flowing in what little wind there was.
Call the number featured and a CD-rom will wing its way to you, no doubt with bagpipes skirling and free shortbread accompanying said disk.
Ponting seems to suggest that he is a lone piper skirling on a distant hill.
It has nothing to do with misty glens, fiery alcoholic drinks, or skirling pipe music.
It's certainly true that the siren song skirling out from all that heather and tartan has proven irresistible to punter and celebrity alike.
They displayed a different virtuosity following the skirling entrance of director Ron C. Wallace playing the bagpipes.
I drove home that day with sentences skirling in my head — sentences that I recognized as Frank Bascombe sentences.
But Mr Griggs is not particularly keen on stressing the usual touristy themes of skirling bagpipes and ruined castles.
The British lines moved out at 1:00 PM with drums beating, bagpipes skirling and regimental banners snapping in the brisk March wind.
Then the skirling drum music of the nitramlig horde had floated over the horizon, and the men of Earth had cringed.
On 12 July 1916, in the Protestant regions of the north of Ireland, there were no customary Orangeman's Day parades with loud beating of the drums, lines of marching men and the skirling of flutes and bagpipes.
He did not imagine he would hear these skirling pipers again.
When the skirling of the pipes cleft the air his cold eyes softened.
Examples from Classical Literature
Out come his mither like a fury, skirling about her hoose, and her servants, and her weans.
At last this word was given, and the procession began its march amidst the cheers of the people and a skirling of the pipes.
He had not been many months engaged in his laborious work when he was solicited to remove to the parish of skirling, near Biggar.
I could hear the skirling sword-clashes of the final fight to the death of the two Macks, Duff and Beth.
Yet this was to be seen yesterday afternoon when the pipes were skirling their martial strains, to the delight of all and sundry.
She played absent-mindedly, her fingers skipping and skirling on the notes.
Police whistles were skirling around the house of Huang Chow.
Finley parading up and down on a stage, naked, smeared with chocolate, skirling about the evils of patriarchy, America, etc.
Famously, Bill marched back and forward on Sword beach, pipes skirling as the invading forces fought to secure the beach-head.
Very faint, from far in the distance, there is heard a skirling sound.
He was given a cup of wine and stood watching as the groaning and skirling gave way to a stately pavane.
Harem Scarem had the stage first, for a set of traditional Celtic music that took in the songs of Robert Burns skirling jigs and reels and the band's own material.
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