coronach

Example Sentences

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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

Then a pause, and anon the coronach or wail for the dead.

From Kenneth McAlpine A Tale of Mountain, Moorland and Sea by Stables, Gordon

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)

There more than once in what remained of the night, he woke, fancying he heard the ghost-music sounding its coronach over the dead below.

From Donal Grant, by George MacDonald by MacDonald, George

Bruce ordered his bards to raise the sad coronach, and the march commenced toward the open tent that canopied the sacred remains.

From The Scottish Chiefs by Porter, Jane