| As the truck made its way across the square, women and children spilled out of their houses, sat down in the dirt, and keened. |
| That evening, St. Mary's Church opened its doors, and the people of Chardon sank to their knees and keened. |
| And they buried him, and put a flag-stone over his grave, and keened him there. |
| An aeolian harp — a line strung tautly between the shack and the compound, amplified by a tomato-juice can — keened like a Martian opera. |
| When another daughter died in infancy she keened and mourned over the body for hours until the body finally had to be taken from her. |
| Seagulls keened and skied, pelicans bobbed on the swells, sandpipers left sharp three-toed tracks along the tidal margin. |
