He possessed an almost uncanny intuition, and was credited with the faculty of getting wise in advance to most of the big happenings in the baseball world.
With his usual uncanny intuition, he saw through it all, and, as usual, he made no mistake.
An uncanny feeling crept upon him, and he was annoyed.
Departing tenants, when they had spoken to him at all on the subject, had confined themselves to demands for a rebate on rents paid in advance, on the rather untenable ground that the room was uncanny and depressing.
I hear and obey," quoted Toppleton, his mind reverting to the Arabian Tales, the splendour of his surroundings and the generally uncanny quality of his experience reminding him forcibly of the land of the Genii.
Again and again she won, until even Watson seemed to think there was something uncanny about it.
It was but a glimpse, for the vision was hardly embodied when it faded from view with uncanny suddenness: and after a further fantasia upon the chain, the door was tugged open, to reveal the shrinking figures of Mrs. Welwyn and Amelia.
That uncanny blend of off-hand camaraderie and jealously guarded independence which constitutes a modern engagement meant nothing to them.
The trio disappeared into the dining-room, leaving a most uncanny silence behind them!
Milroy, who had appeared from his lair with uncanny celerity, was already in the outer hall.
It was the first of the kind the Irish boy had ever seen, and, as he pulled the struggling ray into the shallows and exposed its body, he was struck mute for a few seconds with astonishment, and not a little alarm, at its uncanny appearance.
Large numbers of these uncanny creatures, which were clinging to the roof and sides, disturbed and dazzled by the light, flew about in aimless fashion, often striking the boys in their uncertain flight.
I mean that it's anuncanny thing to go in there on Frau Rosa's own birthday.
Heaven forbid that I should do anything of the kind,' he replied; 'it's an uncanny toast and an uncanny night for it.
His little ride was taking him at a gallop to the owl, and I was startled to find that quiet Joe, the mildest gardener in the county, should be one of the uncanny crew whose signals still hooted along the combes.
Even my own reading of the books in Aunt Janet's little library, and the dear lady's comments on them, mingled with her own uncanny beliefs, left little opening for doubt.
Do what I would, my mind would keep turning on theuncanny subjects brought before it.
I hae had dreams an' veesions an' a' sorts o' uncanny fancies.
For myself, as you know, uncannythings hold no fear.
They carried conviction of their sincerity with them, and Dartmouth was sensible that they produced a somewhat uncanny but strangely responsive effect upon himself.
I felt as if it were a shroud, vivid in color as it is; but it had an uncanny fascination for me, and I experienced a morbid delight in feeling both spirit and flesh revolt, and yet compelling them to do my will.
Then it all came about so quickly, and the tragedy of it was so unexpected and painful, throwing our peaceful camp into momentary confusion, that now it all seems to have happened with the uncanny swiftness of a dream.
There was something uncanny about it, and he began to wish he had chosen the alternative of the walk to the station.
It floated out from the dark by-ways whence they had themselves just emerged, and something eerie and uncanny in its clamor brought a thrill of terror to the young knight's nerves for the first time.
That uncannytinkling floated back from this strange vision, confirming to the ear what otherwise might have appeared a mere trick of the vision.
Many a footpad or belated townsman, warned by the mystic tinkle of a spectral bell, had turned with a start, to faint or run at sight of this uncanny traveller.
Slowly Bridge realized that he could not leave this defenseless youth alone even though a dozen women might be menaced by the uncanny death below.
Familiar sounds became unreal and weird, the deep bass of innumerable bull frogs took on an uncanny humanness which sent a half shudder through the slender frame.
Slowly the uncanny clanking drew closer to the first floor.
The sound of the THING climbing out of the cellar was indeed uncanny--so uncanny that Bridge discovered himself looking about for some means of escape.
He hazarded foolish explanations of the uncanny noises of the night and suggested various theories to account for the presence and the mysterious disappearance of the dead man.
He was a diligent student of all the abstruse sciences, and wrote freely about them; and he was credited with uncanny attributes by the learned as well as by the vulgar of his day.
Mile after mile the wild, uncannychase of the phantom continued.
When he failed to return, the mother, now thoroughly alarmed, made her way, by some uncanny sense of direction, to the entrance and gave the alarm.
Over and over again he reviewed the uncanny events as Lees sat awaiting orders.
But he was a gallant soldier, and he did his work not only well, but with a snap and a dash and an almost uncanny intelligence which made him an idol to the men.
Sergeant Mahan's career in the regular army had given him an almost uncanny power of sizing up his fellowmen.
For his uncanny power of scent told him the garments worn by the impostor belonged to some one else.
Although the surrounding peaks were as yet invisible through the haze of sleet and vapor, objects near at hand were revealed with uncanny distinctness.
It had an uncanny sound, this plaint of grief in such a quiet, sunlit spot.
It bore an uncanny resemblance to the edges of a grave.
In the arrangement of their home some other principle, remarkably active, but uncanny and obscure, had operated instead, with consequences depressing to behold, consequences that took the form of a universal futility.
It was a man, a man on all fours, yet moving swiftly, a sight natural enough in the deer-stalking Highlands, but uncanny on these Wessex downs.
After playing for about five minutes, Smithers, who had maintained anuncanny silence, broke off the game.
I was silent, watching him while he put the glass case with its uncanny occupant away out of sight.
I said--"I confess, if I were you, I should not care to make a pet of such an uncanny object.
Already, with his uncanny insight, derived from knowledge of himself, he had piercingly divined in "N.
Through the fissures, as it were, of his unstable being rose the marvellous, uncanny gleam.
In the evening, just as we had returned from a most successful guanaco hunt, we found Donaldson's uncanny creature coming along the path.
For it must be remembered we were living in what Moncrieff called uncanny times.
True, that numbing sense of the uncanny had ceased to grip her, for Reason told her that spectres do not sing rag-time songs.
If she did not know he lived in this place, how in the name of everything uncanny had she found her way here?
She shrank at the bare thought of the man, his subtle force, his callous strength of purpose, his almost uncanny intelligence.
Her first sensation of repugnance for this man had turned into a species of unwilling admiration, His adroitness, his resource, the almost uncanny power of his personality, compelled her to a curious allegiance.
