coronach

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There was a boding of ill in her cry, like a coronach, and the domestics took it up in sympathy, as Highland women will.

From The Black Colonel by Milne, James

Some old soldier, probably, playing a gathering or a coronach.

From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) by Wilson, John Lyde

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

A numerous band of Highland pipers preceded the bier playing the usual melancholy coronach.

From The Celtic Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 3, January 1876 A Monthly Periodical Devoted to the Literature, History, Antiquities, Folk Lore, Traditions, and the Social and Material Interests of the Celt at Home and Abroad by Various

But when they fell there was none to sing their coronach 16 or wail the death-wail over them.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XXII (of 25) Juvenilia and Other Papers by Stevenson, Robert Louis