coronach

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The separation for which the ewes wailed and their little ones wept, seemed a cruelty; that far-extending lamentation of the flocks was part of some universal coronach for things eternally doomed.

From Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure by Munro, Neil

To us it seemed almost as the keening of the coronach.

From A Daughter of Raasay A Tale of the '45 by Travis, Stuart

And the mermen swam fast to be with her, and ceased from their own song, for the wind sang a coronach in the canvas and cordage.

From The Field of Clover by Housman, Laurence

"Naihah" more generally "Naddábah" Lat. præfica or carina, a hired mourner, the Irish "Keener" at the conclamatio or coronach, where the Hullabaloo, Hulululu or Ululoo showed the survivors' sorrow.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 01 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

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

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