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...rmed the castle court, shrilly de- manding food, some in kilts with silent bagpipes. Ellen and I visited the ruins of a sprawling Cistercian abbey on... ...peasant enters and Hugh beats the man who is asking for alms: skirl of bagpipes. 393 n the Scottish coast the sunset prowled the l...

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...him tight. Tortured, unaided, and alone, Thunders were silence to his groan, Bagpipes sweet music to its tone: “What? Ever thus, in dismal round, Sha...

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...ttle Highlander in his tartans stood on a barrel in the middle, making his bagpipes squeal away; a Chinese with a bald head and long pigtail beat a go...

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...etter guide. 40 And then the bagpipes he could blow; And thus from house to house would go, And all ...

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...s. I have heard people passing by night in sleeping cities; some of them sang; one, I remember, played loudly on the bagpipes. I have heard the rattle...

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...distance he heard the hall of the chief still resounding with the clang of bagpipes and the high applause of his guests. Having gained the open air by... ...scending the passes which led to the scene of ac- tion, the sound of their bagpipes dying upon the ear. Others 156 Waverley made still a moving pictu... ...g battalions rent the air, and was then lost in the shrill clangour of the bagpipes, as the sound of these, in their turn, was partially drowned by th... ...hey halted, formed, and re- ceived him with a triumphant flourish upon the bagpipes, and a loud shout of the men, most of whom knew him per- sonally, ... ...n a most unpleasant and dangerous situation. He soon lost the sound of the bagpipes; and, what was yet more unpleasant, when, after searching long in ...

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... Now when amid the thickest woods they were, They heard a noyse of many bagpipes shrill, And shrieking Hububs them approching nere, Whi...

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... coarser. She sang to the instru- ment, too; first, a song about village bells, and how they chimed; then a song about how I went to sea; winding up w... ...rapped in a long thread-bare black coat, fastened up the front with more pins than buttons, and under his arm he squeezed an umbrella without a handle...

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... (that is, dressed as well as his master). 351. Chanters. The pipes of the bagpipes, to which long rib- bons were attached. 357. The sounds. Misprinte...

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...e continuous gala in Monastier; people spent the day in the wine-shops, and the drum or the bagpipes led on the Bourrees up to ten at night. Now these...

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... smell, came flying into the room, humming louder than the drones of as many bagpipes. Some of them seized my cake, and carried it piecemeal away; oth...

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...ual hour of rising in the forenoon, in spite of all the drums, bugles, and bagpipes in the British army, but for an interruption, which did not come f...

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... rock a thousand waves, so Inisfail met Lochlin. —Ossian. The trumpets and bagpipes, those clamorous harbingers of blood and death, at once united in ...

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... after hearing good per- formers on particular instruments, especially the bagpipes. 88 Thomas de Quincey Of kicking? But of kicking what or whom? I ...

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...ish ground. I did intend to carry it back to Lundie that he might play his bagpipes over it, but now it shall lie here on the spot where he acted his ...

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...ut by her voyage, with a serenade of discordant music—a fearful concert of bagpipes, I suppose— and brought her and her train home to her palace on mi...

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...d!” said Don Quixote, “what a life we shall lead! What hautboys and Zamora bagpipes we shall hear, what tabors, timbrels, and rebecks! And then if amo...

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.... One joyful night, therefore, I noted down the music of the parliamentary bagpipes for the last time, and I have never heard it since; though I still...

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...ual hour of rising in the forenoon, in spite of all the drums, bugles, and bagpipes in the British army, but for an interruption, which did not come f...

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...d!” said Don Quixote, “what a life we shall lead! What hautboys and Zamora bagpipes we shall hear, what tabors, timbrels, and rebecks! And then if amo...

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..., where, on the green grass, to the sound of the merry flutes and pleasant bagpipes, they danced so gallantly, that it was a sweet and heavenly sport ... ... a safe conscience, upon my oath of wool. And I see ordinarily in all good bagpipes, that, when they go to the counterfeiting of the chirping of small... ...mpaign fields and pleasant heathy ground, at the sound of the hautboys and bagpipes playing reeks with the high and stately timber, and preparing seat... ...lia along a little hill, and marching furiously towards us at the sound of bagpipes, sheep’s paunches, and bladders, the merry fifes and drums, trumpe... ... old-fashioned codpieces instead of mit- tens, girded him about with three bagpipes bound together, bathed his jobbernowl thrice in the fountain; then...

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...I think the Captain was 117 Burlesques rather hard upon mine host of the ‘Bagpipes Hotel and Post- ing-House,’ whence they instantly proceeded. I fol... ...scribe the young gentleman’s emotion when, preceded by a band of trumpets, bagpipes, ophicleides, and other wind instruments, the Prince of Cleves app...

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...home, talked eternally, and played upon the French-horn. He patronized the bagpipes. Captain Barclay, who walked against Time, would not walk against ...

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...ice in its peruke; Marechausee sabre in hand, guarding the place, till the bagpipes can begin. The dance interrupted, in a quarter of an hour, by batt...

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...ded men with the regimental pipers nervously fingering the big, beribboned bagpipes. The Skidars were what they call a Pioneer regiment, and the bag- ...

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...Rivers are running over With red beer and brown beer. An old man plays the bagpipes In a golden and silver wood; Queens, their eyes blue like the ice,...

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... about him, full of flutes and kettledrums and braying horns and whin- ing bagpipes, and torches would flare red and yellow, mak- ing a tent of light ...

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... out ranging through the whole of the Spectator’s culinary music, will the bagpipes be found within benefit of jury law? War to the knife I say, befor...

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... Walter Scott. She seemed to hear through the mist the sound of the Scotch bagpipes re-echoing over the heather. Then her remem- brance of the novel h...

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...e in its peruke; Marechausee sabre in hand, guard- ing the place, till the bagpipes can begin. The dance inter- rupted, in a quarter of an hour, by ba...