coronach
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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 Stuart Travis
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 Neil Munro
To us it seemed almost as the keening of the coronach.
From A Daughter of Raasay A Tale of the '45 by Stuart Travis
“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 George Manville Fenn
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 James Milne
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