While he was ploughing one morning, Mary first heard him singing: pibroch o' Donuil Dhu, pibroch o' Donuil, Wake thy wild voice anew, Summon Clan Conuil.
"The Pioneers"
Katharine Susannah Prichard
The wild scream and fitful burst of a highland pibroch is certainly not the most likely thing in nature to allay the irritable and ruffled feelings of an irascible person-unless, perhaps, the hearer eschew breeches.
"The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer, Complete"
Charles James Lever (1806-1872)
He has taken the only course open to him: he has despatched myself and my brother officers here"-O'Flaherty glanced at two privates dressed up in his regimentals-"to offer you terms"- O'Flaherty paused when he arrived thus far, expecting that the opposite party would make some reply; but they continued silent: when suddenly, from the dense forest, there rung forth a wild and savage yell, that rose and fell several times, like the pibroch of the highlander, and ended at last in a loud whoop, that was echoed and re-echoed again and again for several seconds after.
"The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer, Complete"
Charles James Lever (1806-1872)