coronach

Example Sentences

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And now comes the ghostly music of the coronach: they are burying the dead.

From As We Sweep Through The Deep by Stables, Gordon

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

“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 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

"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