eerie

Well, and you ought to feel a little--what one may call "fairyish "--the Scotch call it "eerie," and perhaps that's a prettier word; if you don't know what it means, I'm afraid I can hardly explain it; you must wait till you meet a Fairy, and then you'll know.

As a rule when we play the wit at first flows free, but on this occasion I strode to the crease in an almost eerie silence.

Sometimes Leslie went to the lighthouse with them, and she and Anne wandered along the shore in the eerie twilight, or sat on the rocks below the lighthouse until the darkness drove them back to the cheer of the driftwood fire.

There was, to my mind, something eerie and ghost-like in the endless procession of faces which flitted across these narrow bars of light,--sad faces and glad, haggard and merry.

You've no idea what an eerie noise a great drop of rain falling with a mushy thud on a bare floor makes in the night.

From out of its black depths came the voice of a man singing in a cracked, eerie voice.

"They will certainly be misled," Letton agreed, his eerie gray eyes blazing out from the voluminous folds of the huge Mueller with which he was swathing his neck to the ears.

It had been a day of wild November wind, closing down into a wet, eerie twilight.

Yet, when this cherished volume was now placed in my hand--when I turned over its leaves, and sought in its marvellous pictures the charm I had, till now, never failed to find--all was eerie and dreary; the giants were gaunt goblins, the pigmies malevolent and fearful imps, Gulliver a most desolate wanderer in most dread and dangerous regions.

Roger laughs at me,' and there was a momentary bitterness in the little eerie face; 'but how can one live without hobbies?

For the moment they were feeling less eerie, because Tink was flying with them, and in her light they could distinguish each other.

Though written violently, it was in excellent English; but the editor, as usual, had given to somebody else the task of breaking it up into sub-headings, which were of a spicier sort, as "Peeress and Poisons", and "The Eerie Ear", "The Eyres in their Eyrie", and so on through a hundred happy changes.