coronach
Example Sentences
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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
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
"In the grasses and the bracken," said Gilian, singing it to himself as if it were a coronach.
From Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure by Munro, Neil
To us it seemed almost as the keening of the coronach.
From A Daughter of Raasay A Tale of the '45 by Travis, Stuart
A numerous band of Highland pipers preceded the bier playing the usual melancholy coronach.
