Lexicographical Neighbors of Coronachs
Literary usage of Coronachs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Bookman (1899)
"... divided between the making of coronachs and the building of their homes, they
had still the art to pick a dinner, as it were, off the lichened stone. ..."
2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1890)
"... warlike strains, Nerving arms for battle plains ; Playing love's soft lullaby,
Leaving but a yearning sigh ; Playing coronachs sad and low, ..."
3. Dramatic Values by Charles Edward Montague (1911)
"... in lacerating all bosoms, according to custom, with a lethal series of what
an ignoramus in music can only assume to have been the dirges, coronachs, ..."
4. A New Geographical, Historical, and Commercial Grammar; and Present State of by William Guthrie, John Knox, James Ferguson (1801)
"The Highland funerals were generally preceded by bag- pipes,_which played certain
dirges, called coronachs, and were accompanied by the voices of the ..."
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