Unearthly

(a.) Not terrestrial; supernatural; preternatural; hence, weird; appalling; terrific; as, an unearthly sight or sound.

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• He looked at me with an unearthly quiet in his face. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• Oh the ecstasy, the pure, unearthly ecstasy of that moment! 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• The unearthly quiet of his face had changed to an unearthly sorrow. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• The tall man called out again with a most unearthly cry, Dead! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• Simultaneously, there came the unearthly abhorrent scream of a rabbit in the fear of death. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• She was an unearthly being in his eyes, superior to his father--to all the world: to be worshipped and admired at a distance. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• You--you strange, you almost unearthly thing! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• She seemed growing old and unearthly. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• As Mr. Weller said this, the man's features assumed an unearthly twinge, perfectly hideous. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• And he saw her eyes black as night in her pallid face, she looked almost unearthly. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• 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. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• He was hollow-cheeked and pale, almost unearthly. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• 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. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• Seated on an upright tombstone, close to him, was a strange, unearthly figure, whom Gabriel felt at once, was no being of this world. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• Clasping his hands, he uttered a short unearthly broken cry, and went his way. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• He would keep his councillors up to unearthly hours, and betray a simple pride in his superior wakefulness. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• There was a sensibility and sweetness in his disposition, that gave a tender and unearthly tone to our converse. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Books tell us that such unearthly creatures have existed--but what does our own experience say in answer to books? 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• The twilight spread a weird, unearthly light overhead, bluish-rose in colour, the cold blue night sank on the snow. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• Think on thy sins, Reginald Front-de-Boeuf, said the almost unearthly voice, on rebellion, on rapine, on murder! 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• On the evening of the first day out from Goliad we heard the most unearthly howling of wolves, directly in our front. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• 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. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• Bless my soul, what unearthly prudence! 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• I call them birds since they were winged, but mortal eye ne'er rested on such odd, unearthly shapes. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.

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