coronach

Example Sentences

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“Na, na, Strathspeys, laddie; but if she tuked a holt o’ the pipes the noo it wad pe a coronach she’d blaw.”

From Steve Young by Fenn, George Manville

"The coronach has for some years past been suspended at funerals by the use of the bagpipe; and that also is, like many other Highland peculiarities, falling into disuse, unless in remote districts."

From The Lady of the Lake by Scott, Walter, Sir

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

And next morning their wives and daughters came, clapping their hands and crying the coronach and shrieking—and they carried away the dead bodies, with the pipes playing before them.

From Red Cap Tales Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North by Scott, Walter, Sir

Bruce ordered his bards to raise the sad coronach, and the march commenced toward the open tent that canopied the sacred remains.

From The Scottish Chiefs by Porter, Jane