I think, perhaps, the enigmatic smile with which she used to look back at me over her shoulder when she went into the bathing place was a sort of invitation.
We have to admit, first of all, that we know not yet by what process of alchemy the honey transforms itself into wax in the enigmatic bodies of our suspended bees.
He is watching, studying, catching every shade of this exceptional, enigmatic nature.
Again that sweet, tantalizing, enigmatic droop of her mouth's corner.
I observed anenigmatic something deep in her eyes .
The masked man tried to fathom the enigmatic expression in the girl's face.
The enigmatic man with the mask apparently had returned to Bryant's bedroom.
These have no halo, and the pedestals on which they rest their feet are groups of enigmatic beings.
And how well she knew that her smiling face, caught by him dimly in the obscurity of the night, troubled him like an enchanting andenigmatic vision!
Meshach murmured to himself with almost sad resignation, in the enigmatic idiom of the Five Towns.
By being matter-of-fact, by converting the girl from a luring, enigmatic figure into an employee, he had established an immunity in himself.
She appeared to relapse into her former self--the enigmatic and disdainful virgin of the Basine library.
It seemed to him that he was looking at his father--for the first time, that the man who had till now been a half enigmatic figure to him, stood at last in the room, strong and alive.
She was one of the many enigmatic ones, one of the many gaudy colored masks behind which sex paraded its mystery through the sun-awninged streets.
She looked at him with her enigmatic eyes and answered quietly, even a trifle shyly, it seemed: "Formerly, people lived more gaily and did not know prejudices of any sort.
This occurs, as popular wisdom has long ago noted, in isolated families, where disease or death suddenly falls upon the near ones in an inevitable, enigmatic order.
Magdalene, or, at the very least, has all the enigmatic piquancy of a Monna Lisa.
This strange dance is ushered in by two of the most enigmatic pages of Chopin.
I confess to see no littleness in the polished phrases, though irony lurks in its bars and there is fever in its glance--a glance full ofenigmatic and luring scorn.
Chopin here reveals not only his nationality, but his own fascinating and enigmatic individuality.
No doubt," replied the stranger, "mademoiselle is not touched upon in it except in an enigmatic and mysterious manner.
Grushenka’s mood and the enigmatic tone of some of her words he completely failed to grasp.
Instinctively feeling that the time of her mother’s absence was precious for her, Alyosha hastened to tell her of his enigmatic meeting with the schoolboys in the fewest words possible.
Yet even when I did know of this special circumstance I still felt Ivan Fyodorovitch to be an enigmatic figure, and thought his visit rather mysterious.
In the Mysteries, beyond the current traditions or sacred and enigmatic recitals of the Temples, few explanations were given to the spectators, who were left, as in the school of nature, to make inferences for themselves.
Kabalah, visions of Ezekiel veiled byenigmatic dogmas of the, 321-l.
The Gymnosophists of India and the Druids of Gaul lent to science the sameenigmatic language, and in the same style wrote the Hierophants of Phœnicia.
He was then taught some enigmatic formulas, as answers to questions, by which to make himself known.
Many of Jesus' parables, however, had no such enigmatic character, but were intended simply to help his hearers to understand him.
These have none of the enigmatic character; the parables of the last days of Jesus' life also seem to have been simple and clear to his hearers.
He chose at that time a form of parable which was enigmatic to his disciples, and could but further puzzle hearers who had no sympathy with him and his message.
To him "Parsifal" was a fresco, a decoration painted by a man whose true genius it was to reveal the most intimate secrets of the soul, to tell the enigmatic soul of longing as Leonardo da Vinci had done.
He had to force himself to stay in this room with so many thousands of the enigmatic cubes.
Was the feeling due to a guilty conscience, she asked herself, or was an implacable hatred that was biding its time, concealed by Kate's enigmatic face?
The shadow of her enigmaticsmile rested on her lips.
Mrs. Decie turned her enigmatic smile from one girl to the other.
Pondering on this enigmatic sentence he leaves her to her rest.
But, what was more important, he also grew into an acquaintanceship with ward politics, with the nameless Power above him and its enigmatic traditions.
About the entire figure, in fact, he could detect that familiar veiled wariness, that enigmatic and self-concealing cautiousness which had always had the power to touch him into a quick irritation.
You clum b'long me," was the enigmatic message uttered in the detective's ear.
I became aware, not merely that I had before me the most marvellously rare and exquisite and baffling subject for a portrait, but also one of the most peculiar and enigmatic of characters.
But I had the good fortune to read Ford before I had read anything except Hartley Coleridge's rather enigmatic verdict about him, and in the many years that have passed since I have read him often again.
She stopped and smiled at him with narrowed, enigmatic eyes.
An enigmatic lacy garment, and a surprisingly long pair of black silk stockings, occupied a chair; while the table was covered with columns of print on long sheets of paper.
