coronach
Example Sentences
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Then a pause, and anon the coronach or wail for the dead.
From Kenneth McAlpine A Tale of Mountain, Moorland and Sea by Gordon Stables
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
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 Seosamh MacCathmhaoil
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 Jane Porter
Bruce ordered his bards to raise the sad coronach, and the march commenced toward the open tent that canopied the sacred remains.
From The Scottish Chiefs by Jane Porter
