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The patter of the pistol bullets against the wall, like so many crackers, the faces felt rather than seen in the dark, the clamour which to me was pure gibberish, had all the madness of a nightmare. Only Peter, cursing steadily in Dutch by my side, was real. And then the light came, and made the scene more eerie!
You've been there, haven't you, Margaret?" "Once," said Mrs. Cole-Mortimer, who had not been east of Cap Martin, but whose rule it was never to admit that she had missed anything worth seeing. "In a wild, eerie spot," Jean went on, "and miles from any human habitation." "Are you going to take me?" Jean shook her head. "That would ruin the spell," she said solemnly.
It was evidently what gave the name to the creek, and I have since noticed the same name elsewhere in the Western country, and I suppose the phenomenon is not uncommon. For an hour or more it remained; we never seemed to get nearer to it; it was an eerie thing the earth-light of the moon on that side, I saw it all the time.
I suppose I have some Vandaleur features, from an eerie little incident which befell me on the threshold of The Vine an appropriate beginning to a life that always felt like a weird, shadowy dream. Thither I ran so hastily, that a straggling sweetbriar caught my hat and my net, and dragged them off, sending my hair over my shoulders.
It was because the knowledge was too much for me to stand just as it is too much now. And I can't share it with anybody. I'll never be able to get it off my conscience. If I did, they'd hang him or the other one who " At that thought, she screamed aloud, a wild, eerie sound that chilled the blood of even Miss Kelly, accustomed as she was to the cries of suffering and despair.
And be my readers few or many, there will be no small proportion of them to whom once, at least, in the course of their existence, a something strange and eerie has occurred, a something which perplexed and baffled rational conjecture, and struck on those chords which vibrate to superstition.
Dalgard flung himself through the trap door, luckily landing on one of the steep, curved ramps. He lost his balance and slid down into the dark, trying to brake his descent with his hands, the eerie screech of the box trumpeting in his ears.
On the lower level a ray of white light still showed like the gleam of a malevolent eye behind a mask. Meantime a cold mist came stealing up the valley. The eerie lonely aspect of all about him made Donald shiver and earnestly debate his intention. Spying about, he saw an outcrop of rock some two hundred yards further along the fell side.
Strange glooms were gathering about the bottles on the shelves, and especially about one corner of the room, where but I must not particularize too much. It must be remembered that he had awaked suddenly, in a strange place, and with a fitful light. He confessed to Mr Cupples that he had felt a little uncomfortable not frightened, but eerie.
Altogether, what with the increasing darkness and the hissing squall, and the night-voyage before them, and the fires of Krakatoa which were now clearly visible on the horizon, Nigel Roy felt a more eerie sensation in his breast than he ever remembered to have experienced in all his previous life, but he scorned to admit the fact even to himself, and said, mentally, that it was rather romantic than otherwise!
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