Although Dunkirk on this particular August night seemed uncannily quiet, the hour was not late.
The look was so mournful, so uncannily intent that he turned away from it.
These words that had all his life been a far-off nightmare to him, seemed to make uncannily real that suspicion of suicide which must on no account be entertained.
With her pale, prematurely wrinkled face and uncannily bright and watchful eyes, she seemed the controlling, all-pervading spirit of the place.
They have bat-webbed fingers, the hound bays uncannily at their approach, they show supernatural knowledge of events, and they chant a wild prophecy of doom, then mysteriously disappear.
It forms a subtle psychologic study and is uncannily effective.
And Keith could never recall whether the complete shape of a full-sized vessel was finally revealed to him by reality or by that reflection of it which, at an uncannily premature age, he began to find in books.
Branching to the right, at the foot of the stairs, was another passage from which the cellar was reached after you had used all your strength to push open a huge iron door that squeakeduncannily on its stiff hinges.
Of course the reason it caught him like that was simply that it echoed so uncannily the things that went through his own head sometimes in his stolen hours of solitude--thoughts he had often tried, unavailingly, to stamp out of existence.
And that, had he believed it seriously, would have been an almost uncannily correct guess.
It was almost uncannily clever, the way all the latest devices for modern comfort wore, so demurely, the mask of a perfectly consistent medievalism.
When Dave, seated before the thing, proved that she uncannily could justify the lines of type before casting them in metal, the dismayed printer had shuddered at the mystery of it.
Uncannily beautiful man, hear what I must demand of you: Tell me your name!
On the southward mountainside, he created by sorcery a wonderful pleasure-palace and garden, in which uncannily beautiful women grew.
I had to slip the guards, who seemed to be uncannily alert and who, if they had caught the slightest glimpse of me, would have blazed away with their rifles without first yelling a challenge.
Sallie, and pointed to where a pair of white eyeballs had been uncannily visible for a moment and then disappeared.
A muted gurgle and squatter that came uncannily to his ears told of the subterranean tide crawling in to cleanse again the far floor of the pit below which had so often in the past served for a charnel-house.
We have been having, as I believe you have, a blessedly mild winter, and the climax at this moment is a kind of all uncannily premature May-day of softness and beauty.
Here is a young man out of nowhere, who foretells the weather in a way that is uncannily verified soon afterward.
It is a question whether this uncannily penetrative study of power and the need for love of a woman of sixty does not surpass The Garden of Allah.
It was just a cry of almost overpowering joy and gladness; and it was so uncannily different from any dog-talk she had ever heard, that the singed and frightened husky bitch by the fire stood gaping open-mouthed to harken at it.
He set a tremendously high working standard, and hustled the team into accepting it by the exercise of an almost uncannily far-seeing severity.
All of which it might have been open to me to feel I had uncannily promoted.
Her mouth was opened, and the tusks of her upper jaw shone forth uncannily from the black abyss.
Some one passed my door swiftly, carrying a light, whose rays swept through the cracks and swung uncannily across the ceiling.
Had that been Miriam's room in which I found the intruder; and if so, why was it kept uncannily the same when all the family were striving to guard the mother from remembrance?
Her power of visualization was uncannily strong; it amounted almost to second sight.
Later on he became strangely, uncannilysecretive about it all.
There was something uncannily real but hideously mirthless in its Ha-ha-ha!
He was moving down the hallway, blotching like some misshapen toad in the shadowy light, lurching in his walk, that was, nevertheless, almost uncannily noiseless.
The rushes are strangely rustling, The ocean uncannily gleams, As with tears in his eyes down gushing, An Ichthyosaurus swims.
There was something uncannily cruel and treacherous about them that sent a chill all over me.
It seemed uncannily quiet and dead within its walls.
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