With coronach, and arms reversed, forth came "MacGregor's" clan. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 572, October 20, 1832] Reference
Mrs. Gwilty was, she explained, showing her niece the way of a proper coronach. From Wordnik.com. [A Breath of Snow and Ashes]
In every house there would be a crying of the death wail -- the coronach of sorrow. From Wordnik.com. [Red Cap Tales Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North] Reference
There shall never be coronach cried, or dirge played, for thee or thy bloody wolf-burd. From Wordnik.com. [Chronicles of the Canongate] Reference
"In the grasses and the bracken," said Gilian, singing it to himself as if it were a coronach. From Wordnik.com. [Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure] Reference
He caught the hand and fondled it, and still she repeated to herself like a coronach, "Islay, Islay.". From Wordnik.com. [Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure] Reference
To us it seemed almost as the keening of the coronach. From Wordnik.com. [A Daughter of Raasay A Tale of the '45] Reference
When the widows of the foeman cry the coronach for thee!. From Wordnik.com. [The American Union Speaker] Reference
"Art thou come, doomed of Heaven, to hear thy sad coronach?". From Wordnik.com. [The Scottish Chiefs] Reference
And now comes the ghostly music of the coronach: they are burying the dead. From Wordnik.com. [As We Sweep Through The Deep] Reference
After every fight will not some mother be crooning the coronach for her dear son?. From Wordnik.com. [A Daughter of Raasay A Tale of the '45] Reference
But when they fell there was none to sing their coronach or wail the death-wail over them. From Wordnik.com. [Lay Morals] Reference
A chorus of singing tars must create uncommon emotion, chanting this coronach of the storm. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the Hymns and Tunes] Reference
"Na, na, Strathspeys, laddie; but if she tuked a holt o 'the pipes the noo it wad pe a coronach she'd blaw.". From Wordnik.com. [Steve Young] Reference
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 Wordnik.com. [The Black Colonel] Reference
Then rose the last coronach of his own people, hiding in wild glens, starving in corries, or going hopelessly to the death. From Wordnik.com. [The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies] Reference
In a few minutes they arrived at a thatched building; from which, to their surprise, issued the wailing strains of the coronach. From Wordnik.com. [The Scottish Chiefs] Reference
A cruelty; that far-extending lamentation of the flocks was part of some universal coronach for things eternally doomed. From Wordnik.com. [Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure] Reference
Lies silent in the grave, "when Lachlan seemed to lose the tune, and be falling into a coronach. From Wordnik.com. [Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush] Reference
The dismal coronach resound. From Wordnik.com. [Lady of the Lake] Reference
The coronach must sound instead. From Wordnik.com. [Indian Legends and Other Poems] Reference
The coronach must sound instead. From Wordnik.com. [Indian Legends and Other Poems] Reference
Prevailing in weakness, the coronach stole. From Wordnik.com. [King John of Jingalo The Story of a Monarch in Difficulties] Reference
And now she'll pe playing you ta coronach of. From Wordnik.com. [Malcolm] Reference
For the sound of the coronach comes on the gale. From Wordnik.com. [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume VI The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century] Reference
The coronach. From Wordnik.com. [Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Literature] Reference
A coronach in the canvas and cordage. From Wordnik.com. [The Field of Clover] Reference
369. = coronach. From Wordnik.com. [Lady of the Lake] Reference
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