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The film even gives us a mustache origin story — Poirot’s eely facial hair is a trademark — and a poignant romantic past.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 7, 2022

Indeed, he’d been one-upped by his eely opponent, Russia’s Sergey Karjakin, who’d slipped from his opponent’s grasp repeatedly, drawing the first seven games of the 12-game match from some dubious positions.

From Slate • Dec. 1, 2016

The Galloping Ghost is off�long strides, mighty stiff-arm, eely hips, a broken field�a touchdown, a kicked goal, and victory.

From Time Magazine Archive

For nearly 20 years the most agile, deft and eely politician in Southeast Asia's luxuriant political quagmire had been Thailand's steel-willed, soft-voiced Dictator Pibulsonggram.

From Time Magazine Archive

Strikes me you’ve got hold of one of them big eely mud-fish by the way he hugs the bottom.”

From Rob Harlow's Adventures A Story of the Grand Chaco by Burton, W.