coronach
Example Sentences
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This is the Scottish Lowland "coronach," characteristic and expressive as the wailing of the pipes to the Gael or the keening of women among the wild Eirionach.
From Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
But when they fell there was none to sing their coronach or wail the death-wail over them.
From Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson
And next morning their wives and daughters came, clapping their hands and crying the coronach and shrieking—and they carried away the dead bodies, with the pipes playing before them.
From Red Cap Tales Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North by Sir Walter Scott
After every fight will not some mother be crooning the coronach for her dear son?
From A Daughter of Raasay A Tale of the '45 by Stuart Travis
There more than once in what remained of the night, he woke, fancying he heard the ghost-music sounding its coronach over the dead below.
From Donal Grant, by George MacDonald by George MacDonald
