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
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
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
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
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)
