"Skirl" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... an instant as 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 ...
— The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer, Complete • Charles James Lever (1806-1872)
... 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 |
