coronach
Example Sentences
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He caught the hand and fondled it, and still she repeated to herself like a coronach, "Islay, Islay."
From Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure by Neil Munro
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
"Naihah" more generally "Naddábah" Lat. præfica or carina, a hired mourner, the Irish "Keener" at the conclamatio or coronach, where the Hullabaloo, Hulululu or Ululoo showed the survivors' sorrow.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 01 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
This is the Scottish Lowland "coronach," characteristic and expressive as the wailing of the pipes to the Gael or the keening of women among the wild Eirionach.
From Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
The open door will invite them into the sanctuary of peace, and they will croon the coronach of their woe in the holy place.
From The Great Discovery by Norman Maclean
