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

And now comes the ghostly music of the coronach: they are burying the dead.

From As We Sweep Through The Deep by Stables, Gordon

He played tune after tune until his breath failed him, and an exhausted grunt of the drone—in the middle of a coronach, followed by an abrupt pause, revealed the emptiness of both lungs and bag.

From Malcolm by MacDonald, George

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 Munro, Neil

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 Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy)