"Eldritch" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... decoration, is at this time doubtful. A visage of more than ordinary size projected from between a pair of shoulders that nearly overlooked the lower rim of his cap. A sort of dubious leer was its predominant expression, heightened ever and anon by a broad laugh, the eldritch shout of which first announced itself to the ear of the pilgrim. Matted and shaggy, the twisted locks hung wildly about his brow, whilst a short and frizzled beard served as a scanty covering to his chin. A "Sheffield whittle" stuck in his baldric; and ...
— Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 (of 2) • John Roby
... All their habitual indolence was cast aside. Toiling like Trojans, they made the old windlass rattle again as they spun the brakes up and down, every blanket-piece being hailed with a fresh volley of eldritch shrieks, enough to alarm a ...
— The Cruise of the Cachalot - Round the World After Sperm Whales • Frank T. Bullen
... event happened in the remaining hours of the night to change the current of affairs. While Grace had been absent from her room, her husband had had another paralytic stroke: whether he, too, had been alarmed by that eldritch scream no one could ever know. By the faint light of the rush candle burning at the bedside, his wife perceived that a great change had taken place in his aspect on her return: the irregular breathing came almost ...
— Curious, if True - Strange Tales • Elizabeth Gaskell
... equal to the work of heaving in blubber. All their habitual indolence was cast aside. Toiling like Trojans, they made the old windlass rattle again as they spun the brakes up and down, every blanket-piece being hailed with a fresh volley of eldritch shrieks, enough to alarm a deaf and ...
— The Cruise of the Cachalot - Round the World After Sperm Whales • Frank T. Bullen
... ails, And moans in many a sunless fall; And, o'er the melancholy, trails The black crow's eldritch call. ...
— Poems • Madison Cawein |
