A steady high keening note rang in his head, the sound of a TV test-pattern turned up to full volume.

The minstrel didn't look up from the guitar again until the last keening notes quivered off his strings to die in the stillness around him.

Less than a minute later, the craft dropped to subsonic speed, and a new keening note entered the cabin.

My head was full of singing, a keening note, high and shrill, death's anthem.

And the dream enacted itself against a background of somber music, the low keening note of mind-music that denoted the peril-dream, the threat-dream, the death-dream.

The keening note in Ghyl's voice was stronger.

Nhym's voice had taken on the same keening note as Ghyl's, only stronger.

All the dragons gave voice to the eerie, hair-raising, barely audible high keening note that signified the passing of one of their kind.

The knight reeled and staggered, his -word giving off a keening note.

I can't recall those nights, but do remember saying to him, and hearing the querulous keening note in my own voice, "He could have stopped.