St. Patrick's Day sight

Usage examples of bagpipers.

The musicians were sitting cross-legged on a raised platform behind the buffet, a live ensemble of oboists, percussionists, bagpipers, and one-string violin players in the plaid tribal robes of the Islamic Kingdom of Scotland and Wales.

The bagpipers fell silent, and the Mackenzie archers stood motionless, their bows up, the pointed chisel bodkin heads of the arrows aimed down at the dense mass of men on the road.

I saw the bagpipers now dancing as they played, which was no small feat.

Down the street, another whistle shrilled, and the whole business began again as a company of kilted bagpipers swung into view.

The limousine was trapped by bagpipers ahead, and, behind, by a squad of gold-epauleted Royal Parmesans, who had sallied from an Automatic Market across the street from the courthouse.

English bagpipers and Viking horn-blowers had all alike been threatened with disgrace, torment and forfeiture of a week's ale ration if they sounded a note.

Into sight, from down the deeply rutted track, came a column of bagpipers, four abreast, cheeks puffed.

The four passed bagpipers, poets, boxers, phi­losophers discoursing in tag-teams, tightwire fiddlers, clowns, caricaturists, and such.

In battle the pipers' job was to save the wounded, but Harness had blithely disobeyed the order and brought his bagpipers.