coronach

Example Sentences

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

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

“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

There was a boding of ill in her cry, like a coronach, and the domestics took it up in sympathy, as Highland women will.

From The Black Colonel by Milne, James

Then rose the last coronach of his own people, hiding in wild glens, starving in corries, or going hopelessly to the death.

From The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies by Buchan, John

At the grave, the orator, or senachie, pronounced the panegyric of the defunct, every period being confirmed by a yell of the coronach.

From The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by Smollett, T. (Tobias)