Genevieve wailed, the high, hopeless cry of a child, man or creature, lonely and lost.

A bird over the lake not so far away made its lonely cry.

Somewhere to the north the wolf howled, a long and lonely cry.

Above her, some night bird of the high places lifted a long lonely cry.

From the hills above them came the lonely cry of a coyote.

There came the cry of a gull, lonely and querulous as if it had somehow lost its way.

The loon voiced its lonely cry out on the lake again.

Overhead, Risk lifted off from our mast with a lonely cry that rode down the wind.

The swan circled over the hold once, made one long, lonely cry, and merged with the flock to disappear in the distance.

Then his voice came, faint and disembodied, a single lonely cry.