coronach
Example Sentences
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And now comes the ghostly music of the coronach: they are burying the dead.
From As We Sweep Through The Deep by Stables, Gordon
To us it seemed almost as the keening of the coronach.
From A Daughter of Raasay A Tale of the '45 by Travis, Stuart
He played tune after tune until his breath failed him, and an exhausted grunt of the drone—in the middle of a coronach, followed by an abrupt pause, revealed the emptiness of both lungs and bag.
From Malcolm by MacDonald, George
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)
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)
