Example Sentences

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The huntsman has ridden too far on the chase, And eldrich, and eerie, and strange is the place!

From Lucile by Meredith, Owen

For truth is appalling and eldrich, as seen By this world's artificial lamplights and we screen From our sight the strange vision that troubles our life.

From Lucile by Meredith, Owen

"Is that little Missie?" said the eldrich voice of the jotteryman, close at the Lady's ear.

From The Shepherd's Calendar Volume I (of II) by Hogg, James

While they lingered a shrill whistle, echoing like an eldrich laugh among the cliffs of the upper gorge, announced the coming of a train from the direction of Carbonate.

From A Fool for Love by Lynde, Francis

If he had been brought there to parley with Thomas the Rhymer, then had he laid himself open to all the eldrich Powers of Darkness.

From The Scottish Fairy Book by Grierson, Elizabeth Wilson