There was no human keening; The birds from Knocknarea And the world round Knocknashee Came keening in that day.
When the folk at the palace of Bóv the Red heard that, they also were sorely grieved at the death of their foster-child, and they lamented her with keening and with weeping.
But upon Wiseman and Wishart the significance of that barbaric keening was lost.
All the evening afterwards the old woman sat on her stool at the corner of the fire with her shawl over her head, keening piteously to herself.
I walked down the lane and heard the keening in the house where the young man was.
Then she sat down and put it in her lap--it was the skull of her own mother--and began keening and shrieking over it with the wildest lamentation.
One time I was walking the road and I heard a great crying and keening beside me, a woman that was keening, and she conveyed me three miles of the road.
There was a family of the name of Fox in Moneen, and never one of that family died but she'd be heard keening them.
Rachel had not yet been heard mourning for her children when the white-skinned girl whose keening has never ceased in Ireland washed red clothes at the ford.
It was the most mournful thing ever you heard, keening about the house for the same term as before, till 12 o'clock of night.
From Cuchulain's day, or it may be from a yet earlier time, that keening woman of the Sidhe has been heard giving her lamentable warning for those who are about to die.
I wonder if our Banshee will think me worth keening for?
The very wind had forsaken them, and gone off keening into the far distance.
Lay him out fair and straight upon a stone, till I will let loose the secret of my heart keening him!
Do not make a great keening When the graves have been dug to-morrow.
Her voice was a thin thread in the keening murmur of sounds.
Those bodies had been the one available route back to all familiar things and out of this weird place of expanded forms, warped physical laws, keening sounds and distances multiplied a millionfold.
Crazy beauty was all around: strange, rich colors; keening musical notes--fine overtones of normal sounds.
And there was a chorus to it that was like a keening for the dead: Fhir a' bhata na horo eile!
The old woman sat on the stone ditch beside him and began swaying backward and forward, and the keening note came into her voice: "Is it gone?
There came to him the shrill keening of the old woman as some one brought her toward the house: "Ochanee!
And after a while an ould one falls to her knees and raises the keening cry: "'Mavrone!
Thus the Irish practice of keening is becoming less and less general.
In the silence and solitudes of the island of Achill you will see tears and hear sobs as you listen to the keening for the dead.
At these seven churches of Clonmines, there was once held a Moorish slave market, and one cannot but think that that keening for the dead must have come from the chant which one may still hear amongst the followers of the prophet.
All the morning long Mat Murnane's coffin lay on four chairs by his cabin, with a kneeling ring of dishevelled women keening round it.
The women were crying bitterly, keening like an Atlantic gale; the men looked as sober as if they had never heard of a wake, and spoke sadly of the dead man, and of what a pity it was that he could not see his funeral.
Before long either party could hear the keening of the other, for you know the roads grow nearer as they converge on Carrala.
You can still hear her outside, keeningand screeching.
It was then borne toward the house, whilst the keening commenced in a loud and wailing cry, accompanied with clapping of hands, and every other symptom of external sorrow.
The spinning egg began to drop at once, but he let out a long, keening cry, adding a slight flip of his other arm.
The Grange attacked by robbers, and the doctor tied in a chair with the clothes-line, and laid down on his back, as Mr Keening and Doctor Brande found him, with a knife stuck in his throat.
