"Uncanny" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... a mile further on, she came to a huge button-ball tree that marked the trysting-place. Its great trunk and long branches, spotted with white patches, like scars on the twisted limbs of a giant, confronted her as a hideous and uncanny thing. This tree, the only kind in all the country that lacked beauty of line and colour, received a touch of ghastliness from the atmosphere that enveloped it which was not without its effect upon her imagination, and when she saw the mayor ...
— The Mayor of Warwick • Herbert M. Hopkins
... light another match. It sputtered noisily in the stillness. He blew it out, and the uncanny quiet fell again. ...
— The Adventures of Sally • P. G. Wodehouse
... of Helium had been strung from stem to stern of each of our mighty craft, but the Zodangans did not need this sign to realize that we were enemies, for our green Martian warriors had opened fire upon them almost as they left the ground. With their uncanny marksmanship they raked the on-coming fleet ...
— A Princess of Mars • Edgar Rice Burroughs
... sudden rustling, unlike anything I had ever heard. The uncanny creature dashed toward me in his awful fury. But I moved not, neither was I touched. Then I stretched forth my hand and commanded him, in the name of One who is supreme, to cease his foolish ragings, else would he be instantly flung ...
— Mr. World and Miss Church-Member • W. S. Harris
... uncanny about you when you first came on board. I used to watch you at meals, and wonder what it was. By God, Agar, I ...
— From One Generation to Another • Henry Seton Merriman
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