coronach

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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 Scott, Walter, Sir

"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

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 Travis, Stuart

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)

Two or three women sate under the gallows, who seemed to be mourning, and singing the coronach of the deceased in a low voice.

From A Legend of Montrose by Scott, Walter, Sir