coronach
Example Sentences
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But when they fell there was none to sing their coronach 16 or wail the death-wail over them.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XXII (of 25) Juvenilia and Other Papers by Stevenson, Robert Louis
And now comes the ghostly music of the coronach: they are burying the dead.
From As We Sweep Through The Deep by Stables, Gordon
This is the Scottish Lowland "coronach," characteristic and expressive as the wailing of the pipes to the Gael or the keening of women among the wild Eirionach.
From Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)
He caught the hand and fondled it, and still she repeated to herself like a coronach, "Islay, Islay."
From Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure by Munro, Neil
A numerous band of Highland pipers preceded the bier playing the usual melancholy coronach.
