| 1. | 'But it is so lonely and eerie in this dim light that I was frightened and ran out again. - from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 2. | Then was heard a crowing sound which was well understood by the boys, but to the pirates was almost more eerie than the screech. - from Peter Pan by James M. Barrie |
| 3. | I caressed him, and he wagged his great tail but he looked an eerie creature to be alone with, and I could not tell whence he had come. - from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte |
| 4. | Every night, regularly, at nine, at twelve, at three, they lifted a nocturnal song, a weird and eerie chant, in which it was Buck's delight to join. - from The Call of the Wild by Jack London |
| 5. | This must have been an amazingly new piece of realism at the time, and is wonderfully used, to give an eerie effect to the darkened end of the room. - from The Practice and Science Of Drawing by Harold Speed |