Adjective : unearthly beauty. ,an unearthly scream. ,to get up at an unearthly hour. From Dictionary.com.
He had the strength of the angels, and something of their unearthliness. From Wordnik.com. [The Thorn Birds]
What once had saintly unearthliness is now a powerful motor among worldly interests. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864] Reference
The strangeness of what we were about to do, the unearthliness of it, overwhelmed me. From Wordnik.com. [First Men in the Moon] Reference
The beauty of the blued clouds and dark skyles had an unearthliness that made Carl shiver. From Wordnik.com. [In Other Worlds]
Ruth, all dream, all unearthliness gone from a face now a tragic mask of human woe and terror. From Wordnik.com. [The Metal Monster] Reference
But there seems to have been an unearthliness about them, as though a deep enchantment were upon them. From Wordnik.com. [The Treasury of Ancient Egypt Miscellaneous Chapters on Ancient Egyptian History and Archaeology] Reference
The intensity of the clear light had something strange and wonderful in it, touched with unearthliness. From Wordnik.com. [Peter and Jane or The Missing Heir] Reference
In every age religious souls have voiced this unearthliness of reality, the noble other-worldliness of the goals of the natural order. From Wordnik.com. [Preaching and Paganism] Reference
Clary had seen some of the fey before at Magnuss party and had been struck by both their cold beauty and a certain wild unearthliness they possessed even when they were dancing and drinking. From Wordnik.com. [City of Ashes] Reference
He sometimes found himself trembling with his sense of its simple unearthliness. From Wordnik.com. [Robin] Reference
The unearthliness of things about him produced a positively painful mental distress. From Wordnik.com. [The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories] Reference
This comes nearer to explaining the wild unearthliness of Hukweem's call than anything else I know. From Wordnik.com. [Wilderness Ways] Reference
Here more unearthliness hovers round a pendulum than any merely mechanical trick-movements could impart. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of the Moving Picture] Reference
With all its shortcomings it has about it an unearthliness of atmosphere, a quiet coldness of beauty that has come of the thought. From Wordnik.com. [Irish Plays and Playwrights] Reference
One of the warmest admirers and ablest commentators of Baxter designates the leading and peculiar trait of his character as unearthliness. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Works of Whittier] Reference
Anyways, the music fits seamlessly into each scene and adds to the wonderful sense of unearthliness and mystery that this show is cloaked in. From Wordnik.com. [Anime News Network] Reference
We have to await his coming, and when he comes we know him by the unearthliness of his gifts, and the strains that breathe of another and a mysterious clime. From Wordnik.com. [The Epistles of St. Peter] Reference
Amy could not sleep any more, but lay musing over that ever-brightening goodness which had lately at all times almost startled her from its very unearthliness. From Wordnik.com. [The Heir of Redclyffe] Reference
The mystery that enveloped the origin of the sounds gave them an unearthliness which froze the very fountains of their life, and rendered them incapable even of motion. From Wordnik.com. [St. George and St. Michael] Reference
That he cudgeled it was true, and though his brain never cracked and to the end was the best brain in a hundred, yet from this time forth I began to mark in him an unearthliness. From Wordnik.com. [1492] Reference
As Patsy sank down, too weary to speak, the figure above her took upon itself once more that suggestion of unearthliness that it had worn when she had discovered it at dawn -- hanging to the stump fencing. From Wordnik.com. [Seven Miles to Arden] Reference
But for all his unearthliness, Heathcliff is poignantly human, from his childhood when he implored Nelly Dean to make him "decent", for he is "going to be good", to his last hour of piteous dependence on her. From Wordnik.com. [The Three Brontës] Reference
I should be seized with lunacy before long, through mere contemplation of her very unearthliness, and be goaded into fancying her a picture, and hanging her up framed and glazed over my drawing-room mantelpiece!. From Wordnik.com. [Dreams and Dream Stories] Reference
Mac lay there through the whole of that long terrible day, a day of strange unearthliness, when he seemed to float away into a weird dreamland and at times into nightmare, and yet it was not a day of unmixed suffering. From Wordnik.com. [The Tale of a Trooper] Reference
But, in addition, there is in the Irish tales an unearthliness free from all that is monstrous and horrible; and their unearthly creatures could become in aftertime the fairies of the moonlight and the greenwood, so different from the trolls and gnomes and misshapen giants bequeathed to later generations by the Norse mythology. From Wordnik.com. [X. The Ancient Irish Sagas] Reference
Giovanni, "where you find unearthliness of a very different sort. From Wordnik.com. [Old Scores and New Readings Discussions on Music & Certain Musicians] Reference
But for all his unearthliness, Heathcliff is poignantly human, from his childhood when he implored Nelly Dean to make him “decent ", for he is “going to be good", to his last hour of piteous dependence on her. From Wordnik.com. [The Three Brontes]
His poetry is as pure in its unearthliness as. From Wordnik.com. [Brief History of English and American Literature] Reference
Her unearthliness made him forget earth himself. From Wordnik.com. [Robin] Reference
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