Unearthly

Examples

• He looked at me with an unearthly quiet in his face. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Oh the ecstasy, the pure, unearthly ecstasy of that moment! Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• The unearthly quiet of his face had changed to an unearthly sorrow. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• The tall man called out again with a most unearthly cry, Dead! Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Simultaneously, there came the unearthly abhorrent scream of a rabbit in the fear of death. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• She was an unearthly being in his eyes, superior to his father--to all the world: to be worshipped and admired at a distance. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• You--you strange, you almost unearthly thing! Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• She seemed growing old and unearthly. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• As Mr. Weller said this, the man's features assumed an unearthly twinge, perfectly hideous. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• And he saw her eyes black as night in her pallid face, she looked almost unearthly. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• With unearthly howls and shrieks, a l'Indien, he pranced about the room, incidentally giving Edison a scare that made him jump up from his work. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• He was hollow-cheeked and pale, almost unearthly. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• I approached this tremendous being; I dared not again raise my looks upon his face, there was something so scaring and unearthly in his ugliness. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• Seated on an upright tombstone, close to him, was a strange, unearthly figure, whom Gabriel felt at once, was no being of this world. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Clasping his hands, he uttered a short unearthly broken cry, and went his way. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• He would keep his councillors up to unearthly hours, and betray a simple pride in his superior wakefulness. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• There was a sensibility and sweetness in his disposition, that gave a tender and unearthly tone to our converse. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Books tell us that such unearthly creatures have existed--but what does our own experience say in answer to books? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• The twilight spread a weird, unearthly light overhead, bluish-rose in colour, the cold blue night sank on the snow. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Think on thy sins, Reginald Front-de-Boeuf, said the almost unearthly voice, on rebellion, on rapine, on murder! Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• On the evening of the first day out from Goliad we heard the most unearthly howling of wolves, directly in our front. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• I don't know what it was, in her touch or voice, that made that song the most unearthly I have ever heard in my life, or can imagine. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Bless my soul, what unearthly prudence! Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• I call them birds since they were winged, but mortal eye ne'er rested on such odd, unearthly shapes. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.

Editor: Nettie