coronach

Example Sentences

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

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

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)

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

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

From Lay Morals by Stevenson, Robert Louis

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