coronach
Example Sentences
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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 T. (Tobias) Smollett
To us it seemed almost as the keening of the coronach.
From A Daughter of Raasay A Tale of the '45 by Stuart Travis
"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
The maidens are smiling in rocky Glencoe— The clansmen approach—they have vanquish'd the foe; But sudden the cheeks of the maidens are pale, For the sound of the coronach comes on the gale.
From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume VI The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century by Charles Rogers
"The coronach has for some years past been suspended at funerals by the use of the bagpipe; and that also is, like many other Highland peculiarities, falling into disuse, unless in remote districts."
From The Lady of the Lake by Sir Walter Scott
