coronach

Example Sentences

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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 Maclean, Norman

There was a boding of ill in her cry, like a coronach, and the domestics took it up in sympathy, as Highland women will.

From The Black Colonel by Milne, James

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 Munro, Neil

Two or three women sate under the gallows, who seemed to be mourning, and singing the coronach of the deceased in a low voice.

From A Legend of Montrose by Scott, Walter, Sir

Then a pause, and anon the coronach or wail for the dead.

From Kenneth McAlpine A Tale of Mountain, Moorland and Sea by Stables, Gordon