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
"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
But when they fell there was none to sing their coronach 16 or wail the death-wail over them.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XXII (of 25) Juvenilia and Other Papers by Robert Louis Stevenson
And now comes the ghostly music of the coronach: they are burying the dead.
From As We Sweep Through The Deep by Gordon Stables
A numerous band of Highland pipers preceded the bier playing the usual melancholy coronach.
