coronach

Example Sentences

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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 Porter, Jane

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 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

"Naihah" more generally "Naddábah" Lat. præfica or carina, a hired mourner, the Irish "Keener" at the conclamatio or coronach, where the Hullabaloo, Hulululu or Ululoo showed the survivors' sorrow.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 01 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

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