coronach

Example Sentences

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Two or three women sate under the gallows, who seemed to be mourning, and singing the coronach of the deceased in a low voice.

From A Legend of Montrose by Scott, Walter, Sir

There was a boding of ill in her cry, like a coronach, and the domestics took it up in sympathy, as Highland women will.

From The Black Colonel by Milne, James

Come, pipes, sound A crooning coronach round, Till hill and hollow glen and shadowed lake o’erflow With welling music of our woe.

From The Mountainy Singer by MacCathmhaoil, Seosamh

The maidens are smiling in rocky Glencoe— The clansmen approach—they have vanquish'd the foe; But sudden the cheeks of the maidens are pale, For the sound of the coronach comes on the gale.

From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume VI The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century by Rogers, Charles

In a few minutes they arrived at a thatched building; from which, to their surprise, issued the wailing strains of the coronach.

From The Scottish Chiefs by Porter, Jane