coronach

Example Sentences

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A chorus of singing tars must create uncommon emotion, chanting this coronach of the storm.

From The Story of the Hymns and Tunes by Brown, Theron

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

But when they fell there was none to sing their coronach or wail the death-wail over them. 

From Lay Morals by Stevenson, Robert Louis

In a few minutes they arrived at a thatched building; from which, to their surprise, issued the wailing strains of the coronach.

From The Scottish Chiefs by Porter, Jane

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)