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He was so taken up with it there among the heather, so much more beautiful than the fairest flower, that he did not notice how far he had given up his secret He caught the hand and fondled it, and still she repeated to herself like a coronach, "Islay, Islay."— Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure
Hardly had she gone when I heard a smothered sob, and then there was a hustle of feet as if she were being carried oft by force There was a boding of ill in her cry, like a coronach, and the domestics took it up in sympathy, as Highland women will.— The Black Colonel
And then arose the cry of the coronach, that wail, appropriate to the dead, but uttered also by women, as the fiery cross roused them from their peaceful occupations, and hurried from them their sons and their husbands 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.— Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume II.
Since rumours were daily increasing of the approach of Lord Athole's troops, the clan of Fraser was again, when Lady Lovat was conveyed from the scene of her anguish, called forth to assist their leader, and the wail of the coronach was again heard in that dismal and portentous night: for portentous it was.— Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume II.
The flanking parties of horse were forced in upon the centre, and though, as even Turner grants, they fought with desperation, a general flight was the result But when they fell there was none to sing their coronach or wail the death-wail over them.— Lay Morals
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