coronach
Example Sentences
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On one grave a young woman was rocking herself to and fro, wailing with a sound like the Highland coronach, but longer and more despairing.
From Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume II (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs by Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy)
After every fight will not some mother be crooning the coronach for her dear son?
From A Daughter of Raasay A Tale of the '45 by Travis, Stuart
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
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
"In the grasses and the bracken," said Gilian, singing it to himself as if it were a coronach.
From Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure by Munro, Neil
