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Its unnerving drones and belligerent skirls have been known to stir men's blood, their brains and, according to Shakespeare, their bladders.*

From Time Magazine Archive

He heard our skirls," Birse said, "but couldna grip the words ony mair than we could hear the earl.

From The Little Minister by Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew)

“How could I sit still, Gavin, and the town full o’ the skirls of women and bairns?

From The Little Minister by Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew)

"But she threeps to keep on a black fause-face, and skirls if we offer to take it away."

From The Surgeon's Daughter by Scott, Walter, Sir

"I heard the voice of that lad Andrew Lammie; can the chield be drowning, that he skirls sae uncannilie?" said the old woman, seating herself on the ground, and looking earnestly at the water.

From Stories of Mystery by Johnson, Rossiter