This rapid fall of temperature and wind produced weird effects.
These patches in the landscape had a weird fascination.
The question relating to the text will only be noticed so far as it is inextricably involved with the argument respecting the nature of the weird sisters.
The poet, in the text of the play itself, calls these beings witches only derogatorily; they call themselves weird sisters; the Fates bore this denomination, and the sisters remind us indeed of the Northern Fates or Valkyries.
A veil of wild, weird grandeur might be thrown around them; but can it be supposed that Shakspere would degrade them by representing them with chappy fingers, skinny lips, and beards?
The earlier critic saw the absurdity of such a supposition when he wrote: "Shakspere may have raised the wizard and witches of the latter parts of Holinshed to the weird sisters of the former parts, but the converse process is impossible.
It presupposes that the "weird sisters" are on the stage as well as the witches.
The only vestige of a difficulty, therefore, that remains is the use of the term "weird sisters" in describing the witches.
Did ever such a moonlight take Weird photographs of shrub and tree?
Loose on her shoulders fell her hair, With sprinkled ashes gray; She stood in the broad aisle strange and weird As a soul at the judgment day.
Oh, weirdand still the dark hours passed; No human sound she heard, But up and down the chimney stack The swallows moaned and stirred.
Stateliest forest patriarch, Grand in robes of skin and bark, What sepulchral mysteries, What weird funeral-rites, were his?
What miracle of weirdtransforming In this wild work of frost and light, This glimpse of glory infinite!
The gray-haired Hersir trembled As a flame by wind is blown; A weird power moved his white lips, And their voice was not his own.
None but those who have experienced it can understand the weird feeling that possesses one in the dawn of that consciousness.
Silence reigned supreme at length within, and without was broken only by the hoarse croaking of the frogs, an occasional call from a night owl, and the weird wail of the curlew.
Neville, too, was fairly captured by this weird yet fierce and savage sham-fight.
When day had dawned a wild, weirdscene was revealed.
She sighed and fled, leaving him amazed and wondering in what weird activities the life of that woman had been passed.
He liked knowingly spiced foods, ardent wines heavy with aromatics; he dreamed of unknown gems, weird stones, uncanny metals.
Alice Arden, if she be indeed a daughter of Shakespeare's, is the eldest born of that group to which Lady Macbeth and Dionyza belong by right of weird sisterhood.
Then from gourd-lutes of a weird band of musicians, tinkled out a soft refrain.
They performed a number of weird ceremonial dances before him, and gave an exhibition of their skill in the throwing of boomerangs and spears.
And let Bothwell Grahame dree his weird as best he may.
The great house is yet unoccupied, and likely to remain so; and he who looks through its western window may still be startled by the weird image of himself.
How unlike are thoseweird and gloomy nights to this sunny noon, when I rest my oars in this sheltered bay, where a small lagoon makes in behind Coaster's Harbor Island, and the very last breath and murmur of the ocean are left outside!
It was a weird sight, and chilled Grace Suffield with an eerie and awesome creep, for it was evident that, in spite of her erect attitude and open eyes, Mona was not awake.
There was something inexpressiblyweird and spectral in the aspect of the deserted saloon as Roden made his way through it.
The moment was rather a tense one, as standing amid those weird ruins he bent his gaze long and eagerly upon the darkness of the straight euphorbia stems, round, regular as organ pipes.
Then, as the blackness of night fell, a faint breeze stirred the water, and there came a change, one of weird and unearthly splendour.
Then Sonnenberg opened his mouth and there gurgled forth weird and sonorous German oaths mingled with full-flavoured English blasphemies, all rolling out so thick and fast as to tread upon each other's heels and well-nigh to choke the utterer.
There was something very quaint in this cosy corner, with the hideous echoes and weird re-echoes of my men's squealing.
At Yün-nan-ï bunting and weirdstreet decoration made the place hideous in my eyes.
Then upwards we toiled in the dark, the weirdgroans of my exhausted men and the falling of the gravel beneath their sandalled feet alone breaking the hollow's gloom.
Strangely silenced were we by this weird terror, and watched and listened, chained to the deck by a thousand mingled fears and fascinations, which breathed upon our nerves like a chill wind.
Deep, jagged gullies break the uneven rolling of the mountains; dark, weird caverns of terrible immensity yawn hungrily from the surface of weariest desolation, ever widening with each turn.
The old panelled room looked weird and strange, and dark shadows lurked in the corners and were cast by the flickering flames of the fire on his left.
Little scope is afforded for suggestions of far-away weird thoughts, or for elaborately studied motives.
Sometimes, but very rarely, weirdimages are sought to clothe passion, as in the following (p.
One gets right round the bulk of Epomeo, and looks up into a weird region called Le Falange, where white lava streams have poured in two broad irregular torrents among broken precipices.
All is so silent, still, and weird in this white world, that one marvels when the spirit of winter will appear, or what shrill voices in the air will make his unimaginable magic audible.
Papua and Kalabahai, Weird Haunts of Strange People.
Frowning cliffs rise precipitously from the waves, and weird caves, only to be entered when the tide is low, add to the romantic character of the scenery.
There were miles of weird passages beneath the surface of the earth, one tunnel alone being nearly a mile and a half in length, stretching towards Worksop, while others ran in various directions.
Jedburgh Castle, a weird and gruesome episode which Edgar Poe expanded into his "Masque of the Red Death.
In the meantime, Dorothy's weirdwent steadily on to its fulfilment, until the family sank into poverty, and at length disappeared.
The well-known story of Faust reminds us of the many similar weird tales which have long held a prominent place in family traditions.
Then there is the well-known tradition that prior to the death of any of the lords of Roslin, Roslin Chapel appears to be on fire, a weird occurrence which forms the subject of Harold's song in the "Lay of the Last Ministrel.
Historical romance, again, with its tales of adventure, has invested numerous rooms with a grim aspect, and caused the imagination to conjure up all manner of weird and unearthly fancies concerning them.
Then, when dried and prepared with certain weird unguents, it is ready for use.
But through it all, weird and ghost-like shone Ida's girlish face, with its love-lit eyes and sweetly curving lips.
There is something weird in the idea of her living there all alone; though, of course, her maid, Jessie, will take care of her.
She drew a breath of relief: it was quite evident that he knew nothing of that weird walk, and that it had not affected him injuriously.
Tis a weird tale, Sweetheart, and one to make the blood run cold, for 'tis the story of a cruel and a wicked man, and how he came by a violent and a fearsome death.
It was all so weird and horrible that Thomas wondered what manner of folk he had come to dwell among, and if he would ever get back to his own country.
The thunder rolled and the lightning flashed, and strange and weird figures were seen floating in the air.
I am quite satisfied on that point," replied the Jew, whose thin, bent form under the rigid folds of the black kaftan looked curiously weird in the feeble yellow light.
The little city lay quite peaceful and still under the weird brilliancy of the moon which threw many-hued reflections on the snow-covered surfaces of roofs and tall gables.
A few lanthorns are allowed, far into the interior of that weirdforest of beams under the molens where slender protection against a bitter north-westerly wind can alone be found.
The next moment from far away comes a weirdcry through the mist.
Then with a quick sweep his eyes suddenly rested on the wooden erection beyond the molens that loomed out so tragically through the mist, pointing with its oneweird arm to some infinite distance far away.
With all the trees warped or distorted, the effect of timber-line is weirdand strange.
A dead and broken tree on the edge of the grass-plot looked like a weird prowler just out of the woods, and seemed half-inclined to come out into the light and speak to me.
The feeling in the air was not agreeable, and for the first time in my life I felt alarmed by the shifting, rioting clouds and the weird haze.
The splendid and spiry Engelmann spruces climb the stern slopes eleven thousand feet above the ocean, where weird timber-line with its dwarfed and distorted trees shows the incessant line of battle between the woods and the weather.
Weird and strange are the feelings that flow as the winds sweep and sound through the trees.
But far in the icy Northland, with weird witch-lights aglow, Locked in the Greenland glaciers, is a tale we do not know.
One evening when the Southern Cross was lifting above the darkling sea, and the violins were crooning something with a weird burden to it, Doughty mused aloud.
Even after they were out of the seaweed there was something weirdand unnatural in the sluggish calm of the sea.
Early in the morning, before he was quite ready to start, a canoe came down stream, in which were three weird figures resembling the devils in a medieval miracle-play.
He is the same that carries the headless rider; and this weird equestrian is still bestriding him, with but little appearance of change, either in apparel or attitude, since first seen by the searchers.
As she did so, the mustanger's words were ringing in her ears, and echoing through her heart with a strange forebodingweird signification.
It was at an earlier hour, and a point in the prairie five miles farther east, that to these the weird figure had made itself manifest.
The rumour became rife that Maurice Gerald had told them a tale--a strange weird story--but of its details the world outside remained in itching ignorance.
The figures looked weird and strange and, to Maud's eye, horribly numerous.
The strangest figure of all was cut by the old snake who pirouetted on the end of his tail at the greatest speed, in whichweird performance he was soon joined by his wife.
In a second the air became black, peals of thunder echoed among the hills, lightning danced about the buildings, and the inhabitants in the darkened rooms heard the clatter of hoofs and the weird shrieks of the hosts of the gods.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "weird" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
