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  • You're all still here because of an uncanny will to survive despite the odds, among ...other reasons.†   (source)
  • Even Charles Wallace, the "dumb baby brother," who had an uncanny way of knowing when she was awake and unhappy, and who would come, so many nights, tiptoeing up the attic stairs to her—even Charles Wallace was asleep.†   (source)
  • The name was just a weird coincidence, but it left me with an uncanny feeling I couldn't shake.†   (source)
  • They reminded me of mushrooms that suddenly appear after a wet night, uncannily white and fully formed, miraculous but ominous.†   (source)
  • His scouts have an uncanny nose for vulnerable children.†   (source)
  • The lists were uncanny in their accuracy.†   (source)
  • He was the size of a small child, but his movements were uncannily adult; and his authority onstage was beyond "adult"—it was supernatural.†   (source)
  • Her uncanny ability to find my weakest spots.†   (source)
  • Dangerous animals became even more sinister and uncanny in the dark.†   (source)
  • It is just a sculpture that bears an uncanny resemblance to a thirty-foot-tall piece of asparagus—although I've also heard it likened to:†   (source)
  • Your timing is uncanny, as always.†   (source)
  • It was uncanny.†   (source)
  • She had not reckoned on his uncanny intuition.†   (source)
  • He had an uncanny ability to remember names.†   (source)
  • Certainly, Miss Emily could be uncannily sharp.†   (source)
  • The multiple ironies of this were so layered and uncanny that I gaped in horror.†   (source)
  • "This is really rather uncanny," he murmured.†   (source)
  • The first time they met, the day after she called him, at the bar of a crowded Italian restaurant near NYU, they had not been able to stop staring at each other, not been able to stop talking about the résumé, and the uncanny way it had fallen into Moushumi's hands.†   (source)
  • At that moment, the details of our conversations began to pile up in my mind like a stack of Polaroids—pictures of heaven that seemed uncannily accurate from the descriptions we all have available to us in the Bible—all of us who can read, that is.†   (source)
  • Ever since she'd hosted the spirit of Isis, goddess of magic, Sadie had had an uncanny ability to read hieroglyphs.†   (source)
  • Gusts of winds swirled around the avocado tree branches as the moonlight cast uncanny shadows near where we related our tales.†   (source)
  • It was uncanny how much Lucky looked like Marley and how much the description fit him.†   (source)
  • The caves turn out to be not quite as advertised: isolated in a barren wasteland, unadorned, strange, uncanny.†   (source)
  • It's almost uncanny how similarly the two formulate their ideas.†   (source)
  • And from the moment Fred Koornstra's name had popped into my mind, an uncanny realization had been growing in me.†   (source)
  • I let my glance wander round the room: its contours were indistinct as the smoke became thicker, and it looked strange and uncanny in the deepening twilight.†   (source)
  • Even with Alice keeping watch — Edward was relying on her uncannily accurate visions of the future to give us advance warning — it was insane to take chances.†   (source)
  • It's uncanny, the timing.†   (source)
  • Although I know his capacity for self-restraint in a dangerous moment is uncanny.†   (source)
  • In 1901 Burnham built the Fuller Building at the triangular intersection of Twenty-third and Broadway in New York, but neighborhood residents found an uncanny resemblance to a common domestic tool and called it the Flatiron Building.†   (source)
  • Suddenly Ma appears, gliding into the room with an uncanny mix of star power and unpretentiousness.†   (source)
  • Paul thought if you shaved off Dugan's singlesbar moustache , which she had probably gotten him to do as soon as the honeymoon was over , the resemblance would be just short of uncanny.†   (source)
  • The stench of stale alcohol and the sweet, uncanny smell Clary had come to associate with Downworlders filled the tiny space.†   (source)
  • The staff had no obligation to tell anyone, but many of them had developed an uncanny ability to sense problems, especially relapses and complications.†   (source)
  • I was so absorbed in the movie that real life feels slightly unreal; I have the uncanny sense of having stepped out of the screen and onto the street.†   (source)
  • The magnificent beasts moved among the trees with uncanny stealth, their coats shimmering in the emerald twilight.†   (source)
  • He was also a doer, a man blessed — as David Hackett Fischer recounts in his brilliant book Paul Revere's Ride — with an "uncanny genius for being at the center of events.†   (source)
  • When she had to bring money home from the register, her skills at secreting it away were uncanny.†   (source)
  • The aroma was uncanny, almost miraculous.†   (source)
  • It sounded uncannily like Wesley Rush's unnerving whisper.†   (source)
  • He had an ear for the street, an uncanny nose for picking up a story immediately after it happened, or while it was unfolding, and though he was too lazy for prolonged digging he could be counted on to stir things up.†   (source)
  • Not only was he adept at preparing the fifteen stock mixtures, ointments, and compounds which Missing provided to outpatients, he also had uncanny clinical sense.†   (source)
  • She shook her head sharply to rid herself of the illusion, but an uncanny fear gripped her, and her legs felt like lead.†   (source)
  • You got some kinda uncanny knack, makes a man leery of playing against such sharpies for real money tomorrow.†   (source)
  • Blackavar's hearing had weakened since the mutilation of his ears; but Holly found that his power of noticing and drawing conclusions from anything unusual was almost uncanny and that he seemed to be able to become invisible at will.†   (source)
  • Salander, he could see, was an uncanny chess player.†   (source)
  • People talked about him inside and outside the hospital (it was a time when news about who betrayed, who denounced, and who collaborated spread through nervous Prague with the uncanny speed of a bush telegraph); although he knew about it, he could do nothing to stop it.†   (source)
  • He takes a guess, he anticipates, it's the way you feel something will happen and then you watch it uncannily come to pass, occurring almost in measured stages so you can see the wheel-work of your idea fitting into place.†   (source)
  • No doubt you're sound enough; but it is rather uncanny to hear a young fellow talk like his grandfather," the Scotchman said finally.†   (source)
  • There was a more recent one of Hal beside it, his smile uncannily like Rachel's in the first.†   (source)
  • Something about the combination of her loyalty and patience creates an uncanny urge to confide.†   (source)
  • The man had an uncanny ability to look inside your head and leave it feeling grubby.†   (source)
  • The lymrill was peering intently at him, his small eyes betraying the uncanny intelligence that he conveniently masked whenever he misbehaved.†   (source)
  • Every now and then, she'd catch him studying her as he passed her one of the dishes, and though in many ways a lifetime had elapsed in the years they had been apart, she had the uncanny feeling that they'd never lost contact at all.†   (source)
  • He had an uncanny knowledge of wildlife and was not afraid of dogs or cats or beetles or moths, or of foods like scrod or tripe.†   (source)
  • The afternoon was getting late, and he thought this sudden sleepiness uncanny.†   (source)
  • This was Janjungpa, who had been head high altitude porter for a lavish Dutch-led expedition to K2 during Mortenson's time on the mountain, and who possessed an uncanny ability to stroll over to base camp for a visit at the precise moment his friend Akhmalu was serving lunch.†   (source)
  • Another blonde, who has to be the girl's mother, since the resemblance between the two is uncanny (except that Mom has about twenty pounds on her daughter), is speaking in long-suffering, but still distinctly Texan, tones.†   (source)
  • I do have an uncanny capacity for bitterness and misdirected rage, but I don't think that counts.†   (source)
  • The absurd, the inspiring, the uncanny, the awesome, the terrifying, the ecstatic—none of these had a place, for you, before.†   (source)
  • "Yes," she said, her voice deep and uncanny, "I am the Devil's creature, and, mark me, he will be revenged for my life!"†   (source)
  • It was a numbing sensation, eerie and uncanny.†   (source)
  • I admired Gazzy's uncanny mimicking ability but resented his fascination with bodily functions, a fascination apparently shared by Weird Al.†   (source)
  • I could see the word Chthonian on the storm awning stretched above the walk as I got out with the others and went swiftly toward a lobby lighted by dim bulbs set behind frosted glass, going past the uniformed doorman with an uncanny sense of familiarity; feeling now, as we entered a soundproof elevator and shot away at a mile a minute, that I had been through it all before.†   (source)
  • To me, this display of bones, though far more graphic, felt much less uncanny, much less unnerving than that empty remnant of a hospital.†   (source)
  • He was probably right, but the ease with which the man righted himself and faced her with such a reasoned conclusion struck her as uncanny.†   (source)
  • But Howard was blessed with an uncanny ability to see potential in unlikely packages, and he had a cavalryman's eye for horsemen.†   (source)
  • But he couldn't stop reading him, he said, because it had become increasingly obvious to him that Freud had possessed an almost uncanny insight into the nature of man.†   (source)
  • It was casual, friendly and uncannily intimate.†   (source)
  • An uncanny solitary intelligence.†   (source)
  • ....You don't know what's been going on lately, but ....but it's sort of uncanny.†   (source)
  • By the end of the warm-up, Angel's pitches found the center of Chuy's targets with uncanny accuracy.†   (source)
  • Archie was uncanny.†   (source)
  • Wulfgar shook his head and laughed at the dark elf's uncanny composure.†   (source)
  • Venice seemed buoyant, as in a dream, and gave Alessandro the uncanny feeling that were he to leave the train he might defeat time by reaching out to grasp the opposite part of the loop upon which time was about to billow.†   (source)
  • Oh, very profitable, Joseph, absolutely uncanny at recognizing cutting-edge technology in start-up companies and then acquiring them—or backing entrepreneurs who need cash to develop their ideas.†   (source)
  • Kids also have an uncanny sense of when something is up: They know a fake smile when they see one, they realize when we're uneasy, they can tell when we're lying.†   (source)
  • When they had all departed, and our workers, too, the place seemed quite uncannily quiet for a day.†   (source)
  • I'd never placed a lot of faith in psychiatry before I met Tom, but his uncanny ability to diagnose personality disorders and psychotic illnesses made a believer of me.†   (source)
  • But I am bolstered by Liv Crawford, whom I haven't actually seen in some time but whose daily contact with me is most regular, in the form of a different catered box dinner delivered each afternoon by her new assistant, Julie, a cheery, bouncy young woman whose talk and dress are uncannily like Liv's.†   (source)
  • At times they made a little too much of the family quirks—of both Amanda and Jeannie marrying men named Hugh, for instance, so that their husbands were referred to as "Amanda's Hugh" and "Jeannie's Hugh"; or their genetic predisposition for lying awake two hours in the middle of every night; or their uncanny ability to keep their dogs alive for eons.†   (source)
  • John Alexander was a splendid looking cadet, erect and arrogant, with an instinct for survival in the Corps that was as uncanny as it was disingenuous.†   (source)
  • It was uncanny to observe the growing identity of interest between Fiedler and Control: it was as if they had agreed on the same plan, and Leamas had been dispatched to fulfill it.†   (source)
  • It was uncanny to hear two voices in the dark air a little distance away; Scrubb and his owl were talking to one another.†   (source)
  • But being curious as to how far Mike would go, to pull my leg, I feigned conversion and asked him to tell me more about Ootek's uncanny skill.†   (source)
  • His wife, usually so quiet and gentle, was his uncannily spirited accompanist at the piano.†   (source)
  • I have never written fast or easily and this was no exception, for even then I was compelled to search, however inadequately, for the right word and suffered over the rhythms and subtleties of our gorgeous but unbenevolent, unyielding tongue; nonetheless, I was seized by a strange, dauntless self-confidence and I scribbled away joyously while the characters I had begun to create seemed to acquire a life of their own and the muggy atmosphere of the Tidewater summer took on both an eye-dazzling and almost tactile reality, as if unspooling before my eyes on film, in uncanny three-dimensional color.†   (source)
  • The whole experience gave George an uncanny impression of being in contact with some purposeful, independent mind.†   (source)
  • When she speaks again, her face has cleared and is calm, and the quality of uncanny detachment is in her voice and manner.†   (source)
  • Why how perfectly uncanny!†   (source)
  • Miss Bartlett's sudden transitions were too uncanny.   (source)
  • Like all Cyclopes, Tyson had superhuman hearing and an uncanny ability to mimic voices.†   (source)
  • Hall's instincts were uncanny: it appeared that he had timed our attempt perfectly.†   (source)
  • Jasper was, in his own way, just as talented as Alice with her uncannily accurate predictions.†   (source)
  • He bore such an uncanny resemblance to Norm from the TV show I wondered if he got paid residuals.†   (source)
  • Strutting around the place with his friends and admirers...The resemblance between you is uncanny.†   (source)
  • Uncanny little beast, she could never take to him, but Farid loved him like a dog.†   (source)
  • A partner with an uncanny instinct for escaping.†   (source)
  • It must all seem quite inscrutable and uncanny.†   (source)
  • But mirrors have an uncanny way of telling the truth.†   (source)
  • My father, with his uncanny ability to forge friendships, said, "We don't keep pets in our homes.†   (source)
  • Her expression was stern—bitter—but the look did nothing to dispel her uncanny beauty.†   (source)
  • Maybe her programming was overwhelmed by Prince Kai's uncanny hotness.†   (source)
  • She could see herself in his uncanny eyes, the irises so dark they almost melded with the pupils.†   (source)
  • I'm a student of uncanny coincidence, especially where the Jackal is concerned.†   (source)
  • He was developing an uncanny ability to sense when I was turning skittish.†   (source)
  • The turtle's filmy inner eyelids blinked with uncanny precision, deflecting each shot.†   (source)
  • The still unfamiliar house looked uncanny in the blue light.†   (source)
  • You developed an uncanny sixth sense about when it was safe to communicate and when it was not.†   (source)
  • Careful to think before he spoke, he had uncanny authority.†   (source)
  • He made the impossible plausible and the uncanny commonplace.†   (source)
  • Moving with uncanny speed, Barst struck elf after elf, felling them with ease.†   (source)
  • The white light seemed unreal and uncanny in the blue time, revealing everything in its true colors.†   (source)
  • It was almost uncanny that anyone could look so...so...beyond description.†   (source)
  • In the pause one became aware of the uncanniness of the silence all about us.†   (source)
  • The description was accurate, uncannily accurate.†   (source)
  • The two of you ...there's something uncanny about the way you are with each other.†   (source)
  • The organist hit a series of notes that had an uncanny familiarity.†   (source)
  • Evidently there was no wish for any uncanny events in the Common Room again.†   (source)
  • The uncanny thing is that her face now appears so youthful.†   (source)
  • He used to handpick favorites at Hogwarts, sometimes for their ambition or their brains, sometimes for their charm or their talent, and he had an uncanny knack for choosing those who would go on to become outstanding in their various fields.†   (source)
  • ' "You're too young, you're not in the Order,' " said Fred, in a high-pitched voice that sounded uncannily like his mother's.†   (source)
  • Then he says something to my daughter that really displeases her: "It's uncanny how much you two look alike!"†   (source)
  • Apart from Andy—cryptic, isolated, self-sufficient, incapable of dishonesty and completely lacking in both malice and charisma—the other Barbours, even Todd, all had something slightly uncanny about them, a watchful, sly amalgam of decorum and mischief that made it all too easy to imagine their forebears gathering in the forest by night, casting off their Puritan garb to frolic by the pagan bonfire.†   (source)
  • Its shrunken body bore an uncanny resemblance to the creatures that had haunted my dreams, as did the color of its flesh, which was like something that had been spit-roasted over a flame.†   (source)
  • Scott Fischer's sister, Lisa Fischer Luckenbach, wrote, Based on your written word, YOU certainly seem now to have the uncanny ability to know precisely what was going on in the minds and hearts of every individual on the expedition.†   (source)
  • It is a bit of a marvel how Baba, at times, summons her with such uncanny precision—remembering, for instance, that she salted her food by bouncing the salt grains off the palm of her hand or her habit of interrupting people on the phone when she never did it in person—and how, other times, he can be so wildly inaccurate.†   (source)
  • Most of it went wide, but someone, probably Emmett, threw with uncanny precision, and I caught a lot of the ricochets off Edward's back.†   (source)
  • We had had many Jewish children over a night or several nights at the Beje and even the youngest had developed the uncanny silence of small hunted things.†   (source)
  • Vasily, with his uncanny awareness of whereabouts, still mans the concierge's desk directly across from Arkady, who remains ready to spin the register and offer you a pen.†   (source)
  • All goes well through the watches of X, Y and Z. Then it is the turn of B. She says she has an uncanny feeling, a hunch that all will not go well, but she is in the habit of saying this and is ignored.†   (source)
  • "What with your uncanny ability to know things you shouldn't, and your careful flattery of the people who matter — thank you fm the pineapple, by the way, you're quite right, it is my favorite — " As several of the boys tittered, something very odd happened.†   (source)
  • Her son, the teenage Tolstoyan, believed that wealth was shameful, corrupting, inherently evil, which is ironic because Chris was a natural-born capitalist with an uncanny knack for making a buck.†   (source)
  • They were preoccupied with what we usually refer to as the dark side of life, or the murky, uncanny, and mystical.†   (source)
  • "What with your uncanny ability to know things you shouldn't, and your careful flattery of the people who matter — thank you for the pineapple, by the way, you're quite right, it is my favorite —" Several of the boys tittered again.†   (source)
  • In asking Vasily for Nina's whereabouts, the Count was not making a passing inquiry of the first chap he happened to meet; for Vasily had an uncanny awareness of where people were at any given time.†   (source)
  • As usual, his imitation was uncanny.†   (source)
  • He looked at the splotches that had landed on the hard-pan and watched as they were sucked up with uncanny suddenness.†   (source)
  • Uncanny, isn't it?†   (source)
  • Despite the fact that she was airborne, there was something uncannily dense and ponderous about the demon's form and the slow-moving tendrils that protruded here and there like the hungry, searching arms of an anemone.†   (source)
  • It was the only reasonable explanation for the fact that the puppies seemed to favor the long, jagged crack in the garage floor, and their accuracy had been uncanny enough to force her to use a toothbrush to clean it.†   (source)
  • Unlike Max's previous opponents, however, Cooper was not cowed by Max's uncanny speed and aggressiveness.†   (source)
  • It was just something that accumulated when you had unlimited time on your hands and a sister who had an uncanny ability to predict trends in the stock market.†   (source)
  • Gollum hissed and whispered to himself, but it appeared that he was pleased: in some mysterious way, by some blended sense of feel, and smell, and uncanny memory for shapes in the dark, he seemed to know just where he was again, and to be sure of his road ahead.†   (source)
  • He shows remarkable understanding of human speech, especially profane speech, and even an uncanny —gift of reading men's thoughts, whenever those thoughts are directed against the peace and dignity of pigship.†   (source)
  • But in spite of their violent opposition, the Varden forced them to retreat a step at a time until the men in the crimson tunics stood knee-deep in the fast-flowing water, half blinded by the uncanny light shining down on them.†   (source)
  • He had suffered numerous injuries in the course of fighting the Empire—most notably when one of the Ra'zac had bitten his right shoulder during their capture of Katrina in Carvahall—but never before had he received such a large or uncanny wound.†   (source)
  • I can offer no explanation for why Sukeena stopped in front of the door to the second to last storage area, no reason for her choosing the hay wagon, except to say that she is a woman of uncanny perceptions, an almost magical ability to "see" beyond where we mere mortals see.†   (source)
  • But what was really uncanny was the position of its head—thrown back with its mouth open, as if, like the giant in the story we'd heard just last night, it had turned to stone while crying out to its friends on the mountaintop.†   (source)
  • For all of David's uncanny knowledge and power, Max knew he had never experienced anything like this before.†   (source)
  • The men in his legions worshipped him not only for his courage and cunning but for his uncanny ability —to evade death even when facing appalling odds.†   (source)
  • Yet somehow she staggered, upright still, the uncanny strength of the lunatic keeping her on her feet.†   (source)
  • The silence that followed his outburst had a fungus quality to it, as though it were breeding malignancies" and I had the uncanny feeling that I had somehow been stripped naked and violated.†   (source)
  • There's nothing uncanny about it.†   (source)
  • He had an uncanny prescience, as if he lived twenty seconds ahead of himself, seeing the coming trap along the rail or the route to the outside.†   (source)
  • He cocked his head and surveyed Eragon with uncanny intelligence, then gave a long, low croak and shrieked,"Wyrda!"†   (source)
  • Amanda had the uncanny feeling that her mother knew exactly where she was going, but with Tuck's words still ringing in her ears, Amanda was beyond caring.†   (source)
  • The sun had set an hour earlier, but the gunslinger had continued traveling, guided by the town glow in the sky, then by the uncannily clear notes of a honky-tonk piano playing Hey Jude.†   (source)
  • This tableau struck Joe as both exhilarating and ominous—and he could not identify the basis of either perception, other than to admit that the night was charged with an uncanny power that was beyond his understanding.†   (source)
  • We're a bit suspicious round here of anything out of the way —uncanny, if you understand me; and we don't take to it all of a sudden.'†   (source)
  • It struck her as uncanny that this man who'd never fully known a child of his own should so understand each wounding nuance that passed between her and Grace.†   (source)
  • The blond giant considered himself smart, but he had an enormous respect for Zala's almost uncanny strategic gifts.†   (source)
  • He mainly studied Helgrind and the strange happenings associated with it, but he also had this to say about Dras-Leona: The people of the city also often complain of peculiar sounds and odors wafting up from under their streets and floors, especially at night, which they attribute to ghosts and spirits and other uncanny creatures, but if they are spirits, they are unlike any I have heard of before, as spirits elsewhere seem to avoid enclosed spaces.†   (source)
  • There's a man at the next table and I've been waiting for him to turn this way so I can confirm the uncanny resemblance.†   (source)
  • Uncanny, I called it.†   (source)
  • He carried a stopwatch, but left it in his pocket; he had an uncanny ability to judge a horse's pace by sight, and he resented any distraction that might make him miss a nuance of movement.†   (source)
  • With uncanny speed, she pulled the tongs from the fire-revealing a ring of white-hot steel clamped in the pincers' jaws-looped the ring through the edge of an incomplete mail corselet hung over the anvil, grasped a hammer, and welded shut the open ends of the ring with a blow and a burst of sparks.†   (source)
  • "It's uncanny," Mr. Leighton says.†   (source)
  • The events of the day—the encounter with Rose Tucker at the cemetery, her words to him, the shocking message waiting for him at the Post—had been so extraordinary that he discovered a gut-deep faith in uncanny possibilities that surprised him.†   (source)
  • As the eagle moved with uncanny slowness, like a great battleship confidently steaming far offshore, and the birds scattered to bait the eagle away from their young, Alessandro's father said, "Their souls, at this moment, are full, and the eagle is nothing.†   (source)
  • A shack crumpled in on itself and collapsed, and another...It was uncanny and alarming...Back in the cave there was a sigh of relief from Rosalind.†   (source)
  • Worst of all, it seemed that the lead sloop carried a magician, for its arrows were uncannily accurate, splitting ropes, destroying ballistae, and clogging the blocks.†   (source)
  • It was uncannily steady, far steadier than it had been before the blast, steadier than it had ever been in pistol practice.†   (source)
  • And his sister, drifting in and out of the past but knowing him always in uncanny ways, seeing straight into his unadorned heart, and he loved her for all the stammered reasons you love a sister and because she'd narrowed her life to a few remarks that he found moving.†   (source)
  • And any two slices of it, as different as Bel Air and Watts, were nevertheless uncannily alike in essence: rich with the same crazy hungers, hopes, and despairs.†   (source)
  • Then the stories begin, word passing block to block, moving through churches and superettes, maybe garbled slightly, mistranslated here and there, but not deeply distorted—it is clear enough that people are talking about the same uncanny occurrence.†   (source)
  • Alessandro looked up at the hallucination, which had come closer, and was uncannily real, even in that its teeth were so imperfectly human.†   (source)
  • After that he talked solemnly, pedantically, of the Sunlight Man's uncanny powers, and the more he talked the surer he was that all he was saying (and all they said, too) was nonsense.†   (source)
  • His stare was calculated to wither me and Piedmont had risen to minuscule greatness by his uncanny ability to melt underlings or other prey with his rapacious glance.†   (source)
  • I want to tell you about this little side trip I've got planned—" The voice broke in with its ingratiating molasses pokiness and warmth, still an uncanny replica of the speech of my Carolina forebears, lilting, lulling: "I'm sho' lookin' forward to that trip with you an' Miz Sophie.†   (source)
  • He could quote things at great length (there was no way for them to know whether he was really quoting or inventing) and he had an uncanny ability to turn any trifling remark into an abstruse speculation wherein things that were plain as day to common sense became ominous, uncertain, and formidable, like buttresses of ruined cities discovered in deep shadow at the bottom of a blue inland sea.†   (source)
  • When we came close to her I saw that she had a strong, rather uncanny, resemblance to Maxim.†   (source)
  • The world in an uncanny fashion left him in peace.†   (source)
  • I whispered, for really it seemed uncanny.†   (source)
  • It is uncanny; one would think he conjured it out of the air.†   (source)
  • He hardly heard what was spoken to him, he was very frail, and his eyes were really uncanny.†   (source)
  • Wolves are afraid of fire at all times, but this was a most horrible and uncanny fire.†   (source)
  • I had heard her uncanny communication clearly word for word.†   (source)
  • But the child lifted his uncanny blue eyes.†   (source)
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