"Eldritch" Quotes from Famous Books
... 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
... wind burst upon us again, catching my empty denial and tossing the words to upper air with eldritch laughter. Then there was a lull, and I felt rather than heard the choking back of stifled moans and knew that the man by my side, who had held iron grip of himself before other eyes, was now giving vent to grief ... — Lords of the North • A. C. Laut |