His stripling son stands mournful by, His youngest weeps, but knows not why; The village maids and matrons round The dismal coronach resound.
There shall never be coronach cried, or dirge played, for thee or thy bloody wolf-burd.
Never was the fiery cross borne throughout the beautiful country of Invernessshire, never was the wail of the coronach heard on a more ignoble occasion, than on the summons of the Master of Lovat, in the September of the year 1698.
The separation for which the ewes wailed and their little ones wept, seemed a cruelty; that far-extending lamentation of the flocks was part of some universal coronach for things eternally doomed.
Footnote 6: A coronach is a funeral song or lamentation, from the Gaelic 'Corranach'.
Glenurchy at its foot was wailing with one loud unceasing coronach made up of many lamentations, for no poor croft, no keep, no steading in all the countryside almost, but had lost its man at Inverlochy.
They would as soon be weeping as singing; have you not seen them hurrying to the hut to coronachupon a corpse, with the eager step of girls going to the last dance of the harvest?
Dinna ye gang there, Sandie, to hear the Campbells come down the glen to cry the coronach over their dead, and them dead and gone themselves these hundred years.
I play, and you'll soon be able to play pibroch or coronach with the best piper between Cape Wrath and ta Mull o' Cantyre.
And now she'll pe playing you ta coronach of Clenco, which she was make herself for her own pipes.
For a long while thereafter upon the twilight-water rose and fell, mingling with the solemn, rhythmic chant of the waves, the plaintive, mournful wail of the Coronach for those who have passed into the silence.
Farewell to you for a while, and if you will go to the top of the Tom an Lonach behind the house, you will see a gallant sight, and hear such a coronach as will reach the top of Ben Lawers.
The coronach was again, and for the last time, shrieked as the body was carried into the interior of the church, where only the nearest relatives of the deceased and the most distinguished of the leaders of the clan were permitted to enter.
And bear the harp away; The coronach must sound instead, From solemn kirk-yard gray.
Then set the festal board aside, And bear the harp away; The coronach must sound instead From solemn kirk-yard gray.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "coronach" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
