coronach
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In the 1980s, I discovered that Lewis Carroll's first ever published works were two poems in the Whitby Gazette – Coronach and the Lady of the Ladle – verified by the Lewis Carroll Society.
From The Guardian • Mar. 15, 2013
His father was Lancegaye who finished second to Coronach in the Derby of 1926.
From Time Magazine Archive
It might be Colorado,* the favorite on which a total of some $10,000,000 had been bet because he had recently beaten Coronach, the winter favorite, by five lengths.
From Time Magazine Archive
The piper played the mournful Coronach for the slain, and by his notes reminded the survivors how honorable was the conduct of the dead.
From An Historical Account of the Settlements of Scotch Highlanders in America by MacLean, J. P. (John Patterson)
When Father Brindle had concluded, the pipers, accompanied by muffled drums, played the Coronach as a lament.
From Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan by Burleigh, Bennet
