coronach
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On one grave a young woman was rocking herself to and fro, wailing with a sound like the Highland coronach, but longer and more despairing.
From Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume II (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs by Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird
The separation for which the ewes wailed and their little ones wept, seemed a cruelty; that far-extending lamentation of the flocks was part of some universal coronach for things eternally doomed.
From Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure by Neil Munro
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
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
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 Jane Porter
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