He slumped into merciful unconsciousness before it was done, so he did not hear the lone piper begin his lament for the dead chief, or the women keening as they drew around the body to take it away.

The princesses sobbed, their women keened and chanted ritual thernodies.

On the wind, old women keened.

Outside the council hall, the women of the village were keening the deaths of sons and lovers who had gone with their lady to die in a far land.

The women keened and wailed, and the men howled with despair, like dogs.

She sings, and you may hear-see an old woman keening or, perhaps, a seductive siren gradually turning into something completely inhuman.

A woman was keening somewhere below, and I could hear faint voices.

The woman keened weakly with new agony until he let the soul go.

Outside the women are keening.

The woman in the bed writhed and keened aloud from the depths of her need.