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.
Alone on the sands of the bar Anne gave herself up to the eerie charm of the night.
Yet I feel rarely rarefied, heavily rarefied, wornly rarefied in this living-place where Loneliness burns me in strong fire and where I can shake my life like a hollow gourd and hear the eerie rattling sound I make in it.
But my passing life, my eerie lonely life, is lived in my Two Dresses and none besides, and I need no more.
So long ago and longer I consciously owned an eerie quality which toppled over the edge of my humanness.
She laughed--a mocking, mirthless little laugh that startled a dozen eerie little echoes in the corners of the room.
The sweet song-birds fly affrighted from its shrill, eerie sound.
His complexion had the color and general appearance of drawing-paper, and in his large blue eyes was an eerie hint of sightlessness.
A low, eerie whistle, minor, rising in three irregular notes and falling in weird, unusual cadence to silence again, came from somewhere outside the room.
I--" He broke off, hearing a noise in the forest, a longeerie howl.
Just behind us came another of the long eerie howls.
It was the girl of the spaceport cafe, the girl who had appeared and vanished in the eerie streets of Canarsa.
And something, some random joggling of a memory, in that eerie trading in the city of the Silent Ones.
I recalled vague rumors of the Silent Ones, and concluded that, eeriethough it seemed, this was merely their way of doing business.
The fire was now quite out, and they were beginning to move the furniture in again, but the place had been entirely dismantled, and looked eerie and forlorn.
The grim old trees looked gaunt and eerie as they waved their naked arms about in the cutting wind.
The three dark figures with their long fantastic shadows looked eerie and unnatural in the yellow glare.
The wind, too, penetrated the building through many cracks and crannies, so that there was a constant sighing and soughing in the big dreary rooms, which had a most eerie and melancholy effect.
Blanche does not seem so eerie and elf-like while gliding through the ruins when Juba barks by her side and scares the birds from the ivy.
I caressed him, and he wagged his great tail; but he looked an eerie creature to be alone with, and I could not tell whence he had come.
Puylaurens has as eerie a site as any combination of walls and roofs that one has ever seen.
Again she had suddenly experienced that unpleasant, eerie sensation--the sensation that she was not alone.
Here also the closed shutters gave the room a curious, eerie look of desolate greyness.
It was hard now to believe that she should have had that queer, eerie feeling of discomfort and disquietude in such a commonplace, cheerful room.
And then they grew curiously still as they spied the eerie shadows on the high black wall, where the sunlight, as it glinted down into the glen in wanton sport, played hide-and-seek with golden glimmer.
He got no answer from any of the three strangers, who looked ghastly eerie in their silence on the wall.
It came from a thick clump of undergrowth to the left of our night's lodging, not sixty yards away, and in the half-light of the morning had something of the eerie about it.
Pungent, asphyxiating fumes drifted slowly down the narrow thoroughfare, while the glare of the burning buildings threw an eerie light upon the surroundings.
It was an eerie business lowering Fuller through the darkness, but without mishap he alighted on the soft ground.
The wan, eerie light lying on the world, shadowing about this strange, defiant old man, seemed in itself a sinister premonition.
It had given Gefty the feeling that the ship itself was plowing at high speed through this eerie medium.
They had both been absurd to come to this eerie place without a light.
Across the park an owl called persistently, its eerie hoot curiously like the cry of a human voice through the rustling night.
The echoes of Toby's laughter as she went down the chill, dark stairway had an eerie quality that sent an odd shiver through his heart.
He uttered a wild whoop that filled the eerie place with fearful echoes, and gave chase.
The eerie glow of the walls and pipes is familiar enough, but the human sized and shaped blob glowing in the living room isn't.
There's no recoil on my weapon, giving it the eerie feel of a simulation.
A hillside so terraced looks like a flight of giant steps, and it is a unique spectacle to children of the plains to descry, perhaps on the twentieth story, so to say, a team of oxen ploughing one of these eerie fields.
The short Indian twilight was already upon us as I stood there for a moment, contrasting the dead and almost eerie silence, with the lights and laughter that would so quickly replace it.
Of course not--you were not in a condition of health to discuss such eerie questions just then.
But Green was recalling certain eerie stories he had heard in years gone by, and there in the dark and silent woods many disturbing doubts besieged him.
If the negress were seeking to hide herself, the woods in themselves formed an eerie protection.
He could not free himself from the idea that this eerie colored woman was in some way connected with the mystery, although Green scoffed at its possibility.
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