"Eerily" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... sought her in churchyards old, In churchyards by the sea; And in many a church, when the midnight tolled And the moon shone eerily, Down to the crypt he crept, grown bold, Sat all night in the dead men's cold, And called to her: ...
— Poetical Works of George MacDonald, Vol. 2 • George MacDonald
... blearily, eerily Lit our pale faces outstretched for one kiss, While we stood prest to them, with a last quest to them Not to court perils ...
— Poems of the Past and the Present • Thomas Hardy
... she realised, shivering, that the room had grown very cold. The calm afternoon had given place to a stormy night and heavy gusts of wind were sweeping round the angle of the house, shrieking and whistling eerily; from the window came the soft swish swish of dry hard snow beating against the panes. She started to her feet. She had no idea of the hour but she knew it must be late. Perhaps the dinner gong had already sounded and, missed, somebody ...
— The Shadow of the East • E. M. Hull
... glimpsed through doorways and windows, and grotesque, gigantic figures flitted in silhouette. While through the interstices between the buildings I might see other structures, ranging from those of tolerable size to simple wall tents and makeshift shacks, eerily shadowed. ...
— Desert Dust • Edwin L. Sabin
... at dusk Geoffrey rode home. In forecast of winter, a bitter breeze sighed across the heather and set the harsh grasses moaning eerily. The sky was somber overhead; scarred fell and towering pike had faded to blurs of dingy gray, and the ghostly whistling of curlew emphasized the emptiness of the darkening moor. The evening's mood suited Geoffrey's, ...
— Thurston of Orchard Valley • Harold Bindloss |
