coronach
Example Sentences
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There more than once in what remained of the night, he woke, fancying he heard the ghost-music sounding its coronach over the dead below.
From Donal Grant, by George MacDonald by MacDonald, George
After every fight will not some mother be crooning the coronach for her dear son?
From A Daughter of Raasay A Tale of the '45 by Travis, Stuart
"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 Munro, Neil
And the mermen swam fast to be with her, and ceased from their own song, for the wind sang a coronach in the canvas and cordage.
From The Field of Clover by Housman, Laurence
A numerous band of Highland pipers preceded the bier playing the usual melancholy coronach.
