The firing sometimes seemed to be coming our way, so we three went round the garden and made sure that all the gates were locked--a jolly creepy job it was out there in the dark, and I jumped every time I heard a rifle go off.
The Minister's wife made them close the big windows and that drowned a good deal of the noise, and I couldn't see the dark creepy shadows of the palms outside and felt less uncomfortable.
We doctors pretend to be skeptical, but we all come up againstcreepy stuff, inside confession stuff that we don't talk about.
I admit that I began to have creepy sensations when Seraphine went into an entranced condition in the cabinet.
There was an uncanny, creepy atmosphere that disturbed her, in spite of her strong nerves and indomitable will.
The aspens brushed against the windows with their eternal soughing, their leaves whispering,--hissing creepy secrets, and their branches tapping eerily on the panes.
A creepy business, going down to interview Mr. Ponders!
There's a frightful constraint, a chilly, creepydreadfulness steals about the party.
She was so cold, it made me quite creepy to look at her.
Then we went to the mouth of the cavern and listened to a peculiar creepy sound far off.
There are very peculiar and creepy sounds to be heard in the country at night, and I heard them all.
But the snags were thick, the water was treacherous and shallow, the boiler seemed indeed to have a sulky devil in it, and thus neither that fireman nor I had any time to peer into our creepy thoughts.
The glow threw a sombre light on the water that gave one a creepy feeling, as if a crocodile were on the watch for us in the water, and lions at our back between the large trees.
It was the first time that we had heard a fight at night, and it gave us a creepy feeling.
I suppose it's the poison of those ants that makes us imagine creepy things.
It is a skeleton," said Edwin, walking nearer to it to take off the creepy feeling it awakened.
No matter if it did always turn out to be nothing but a toy soldier or a tin whistle, there was always some kind of a surprise, and that delicious uncertain creepy feeling first.
Every time I think of her I have the same excited, creepy feeling that I used to have when I opened a prize pop-corn box.
I thought that this red and white glaring terrace at noon was really more creepy and more lonesome than a glimmering churchyard at midnight.
It's very cowardly, of course, but the place is so creepy and strange.
But all was still now, and a curious creepy sensation ran through him and made him shiver with apprehension--a strange, superstitious kind of apprehension, as if something invisible were close to him.
There grew upon Inglewood an almost creepy sense of the real childishness of this creature.
My companion went on playing with the pistol in front of him, and talking with the same rather creepy confidentialness.
I must confess that I never passed through it that I did not feel a creepy sensation and a shrinking fear that our unknown guide might again try to aid me.
But as he still stood staring at me, and directly into my eyes, as if he would read into the very depths of my mind, I began to have what is commonly called a creepy sensation.
Insects gave creepy feelings, and whenever such feelings, or the paresthesiae generally, were complained of, a poultice or ointment made of insects seemed to be the natural remedy.
Even the men who work most confidently have some creepy feelings return to them whenever they stop and think about this and let their eyes wander to the distance below them.
These sensations are variously described ascreepy feelings or as of "pins and needles," and occasionally as if the fingers and sometimes the arm were asleep.
He can raise you hosts Of ghosts, And that without reflectors; And creepy things With wings, And gaunt and grisly spectres.
But inasmuch as I already have a creepy feeling I might as well finish the story.
You can't steer, so you're just as likely to go down backward as frontward; and being so near the ground gives you a lovely creepy sensation.
Every now and again, as the fire died a little, his glance swept shadowy corners nervously and he shivered at some particularly creepy detail of the stories he had been told about the place.
Then suddenly it moved with a slow, creepy motion along the wall, and with a gurgle of fright, Furn clutched his bedfellow.
