coronach

Example Sentences

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Some old soldier, probably, playing a gathering or a coronach.

From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) by Wilson, John Lyde

The venerable figure clasped his hands, and in a voice of mournful solemnity exclaimed: "Art thou come, doomed of Heaven, to hear thy sad coronach?"

From The Scottish Chiefs by Porter, Jane

“Na, na, Strathspeys, laddie; but if she tuked a holt o’ the pipes the noo it wad pe a coronach she’d blaw.”

From Steve Young by Fenn, George Manville

"The coronach has for some years past been suspended at funerals by the use of the bagpipe; and that also is, like many other Highland peculiarities, falling into disuse, unless in remote districts."

From The Lady of the Lake by Scott, Walter, Sir

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