coronach
Example Sentences
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In every house there would be a crying of the death wail—the coronach of sorrow.
From Red Cap Tales Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North by Sir Walter Scott
To us it seemed almost as the keening of the coronach.
From A Daughter of Raasay A Tale of the '45 by Stuart Travis
A chorus of singing tars must create uncommon emotion, chanting this coronach of the storm.
From The Story of the Hymns and Tunes by Theron Brown
"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 Neil Munro
Some old soldier, probably, playing a gathering or a coronach.
From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) by John Lyde Wilson
