coronach

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Come, pipes, sound A crooning coronach round, Till hill and hollow glen and shadowed lake o’erflow With welling music of our woe.

From The Mountainy Singer by MacCathmhaoil, Seosamh

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 Stevenson, Robert Louis

A chorus of singing tars must create uncommon emotion, chanting this coronach of the storm.

From The Story of the Hymns and Tunes by Brown, Theron

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)

The venerable figure clasped his hands, and in a voice of mournful solemnity exclaimed: "Art thou come, doomed of Heaven, to hear thy sad coronach?"

From The Scottish Chiefs by Porter, Jane