coronach
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In a few minutes they arrived at a thatched building; from which, to their surprise, issued the wailing strains of the coronach.
From The Scottish Chiefs by Jane Porter
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 James Milne
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 Stuart Travis
Some old soldier, probably, playing a gathering or a coronach.
From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) by John Lyde Wilson
Oh! set the bridal feast aside, And bear the harp away; The coronach must sound instead, From solemn kirk-yard gray.
From Indian Legends and Other Poems by Mary Gardiner Horsford
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