How To Use Pibroch In A Sentence
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So, I knowing the people to pe unchancy, and not to lippen to, and hearing a pibroch in the wood, I pegan to pid my lads look to their flints, and then —
The Heart of Mid-Lothian
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To this opinion Dr. Beattie has given his suffrage, in that following elegant passage: -- 'A pibroch is a species of tune, peculiar, I think, to the Highlands and Western Isles of Scotland.
The Lady of the Lake
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A pibroch would cry for the wounded man but I needed more - I needed something tougher.
They didn’t read Pitchfork or Stereogum or Gorilla vs. Bear or Hipster Runoff
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Jacob and Esau emerged from her bedroom and slipped into their piercing pibroch of meows, weaving in and out of her feet.
AN OLDER WOMAN
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Her Majesty's piper, Mackay, had orders to play a pibroch under her windows every morning at seven o'clock.
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The traditional music expert presents a programme in which he rediscovers what he maintains is the real ‘pibroch’ (Highland piping tradition).
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The Emperor desired him to play "a lament," and Donald having tilled his bag, played a pibroch of most melancholy strain.
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“Nay, then, I will don thy buff coat and cap of steel, and walk with thy swashing step, and whistling thy pibroch of ‘Broken Bones at Loncarty’; and if they take me for thee, there dare not four of them come near me.”
The Fair Maid of Perth
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He complained that pipers had lost the strong sense of rhythm and form which characterized the true pibroch style, and he published a number of well known tunes in settings which purported to give the true timings as originally played.
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However, a few wee drams and a CD of pibroch music helps me get over it.
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The last, nevertheless, again grasped his instrument, and the pibroch of the clan yet poured its expiring notes over the Clan Chattan, while the dying minstrel had breath to inspire it.
The Fair Maid of Perth
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So, I knowing the people to pe unchancy, and not to lippen to, and hearing a pibroch in the wood, I pegan to pid my lads look to their flints, and then —
The Heart of Mid-Lothian
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When our piper played a pibroch, the music of the waves drowned or softened down the harsh sound of the bagpipe, which discoursed most excellent music.
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The bagpipe-player in the centre dropped his melancholy eyes, filled with the reflections of the forests and the lakes, in profound inattention, while men were being exterminated around him, and seated on a drum, with his pibroch under his arm, played the Highland airs.
Les Miserables
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Oliver Shortsleeves became sadly twisted up after hearing those immediately before him spell in succession "schooner, tetrarch, pibroch and anarchy" and tried to spell "architrave" with so many letters that he would have needed no more to have spelled it twice over.
Ruth Fielding of the Red Mill Or, Jasper Parloe's Secret
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There is a voiced velar fricative in many Scottish English words (loch, pibroch) and in traditional Scots (bricht, micht, nicht = bright, might, night).
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British MP George Galloway, a supporter of the anti-Israeli boycott movement, in his relentless pibroch against the Jewish state compares the Palestinians to the 300 Spartans at Thermopylae.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
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I passed out of the library and as I did, I thought I heard from the other side of Arthur's Seat a lone piper playing a pibroch.
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Kneeling down he reverently happed him in afresh, then rising with a heart contented, whistled triumphant as a pibroch, and took the airt of
Border Ghost Stories
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Somewhere in the far distance the pipes played a pibroch, a lament for the day's dead that felt like it came from the wind itself, and the drone was echoed by groans and shrieks from deep in the mist.
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Tracie #57: I thought it was well known that the preferred musical instrument in hell was the pibroch.
Making Light: The new new TSA regulations
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He travelled to 40 different countries in search of Ceol Mor ‘the Great Music,’ the obscure, expressive, less formally rigid art of piobaireachd - also pronounced ‘pibroch.’
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The wild wailings of the pibroch were heard at times, interchanged with the drums and fifes, which beat the Dead March.
Chronicles of the Canongate
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Oliver at last relieved his host by swaggering off, imitating as well as he could the sturdy step and outward gesture of his redoubted companion, and whistling a pibroch composed on the rout of the Danes at
The Fair Maid of Perth
