Quiet mysteries were in progress behind those tossing horizons: the West, as ever, was retreating with some secret which may not be worth the discovery, but which no practical man will ever discover.
So wonderful to the girls, it held no mysteries for him.
It explains the mysteries of the universe, radio-activity and life.
And then by mutual consent they began on themysteries of the trousseau, and they had not half finished when Olivia looked at the clock and declared that she had stayed too long.
I think I know the last two verses by heart,-- "'Beside the unveiledmysteries Of life and death go stand With guarded lips and reverent eyes And pure of heart and hand.
Each clan takes a root for its medicine, known only to those initiated into themysteries of the clan.
The medicine dance is a sacred rite, in honor of the souls of the dead; the mysteries of this dance are kept inviolable; its secrets have never been divulged by its members.
The Sacred Feast is given in honor of the sacred medicine, and is always given by medicine-men or women who are initiated into the mysteries of the medicine dance.
And the lad seemed to have already fathomed by guesswork the deepest mysteriesof art and life; had surmounted the greatest obstacles as if involuntarily, lightly, by chance, almost in play.
His mind is darkened by Satanic pride; he seeks to penetrate into the mysteries of nature by steeping himself in mathematics and black magic.
And do we not all know that thou thyself art the prince of alchemists, the possessor of the most recondite mysteries of nature, the new Hermes Trismegistus, the new Prometheus.
Little could they understand of the mysteries of the faith, and in some places long continued to worship Christ and Mary with the ritual and attributes of older deities.
There are many mysteries in the Bible, Luther acknowledged, that seem absurd to reason, but it is our duty to swallow them whole.
The church and the papacy found an ally in Raphael, {680} whose pencil illustrated so many triumphs of the popes and so many mysteries of religion.
Even Bacon, either from prudence or conviction, said that theological mysteries seeming absurd to reason must be believed.
These are mysteries into which I shall not attempt to enter, speculations with which I have no concern; it is sufficient for us to know that all human effort had never seemed to her so barren and thankless as on that fatal afternoon.
You'll leave the solving of mysteries and crimes to your father hereafter, won't you?
In another minute they were walking reverently into the old building, and for the next hour and a half, robberies and mysteries were forgotten in the solemn beauty of the service.
Already she had shown marked ability in the same line herself by unraveling two baffling mysteries the preceding summer.
It recognized the need for a thorough training in the mysteries of the craft; and it recognized the need that, at the close of this training, the lad should find opening out for him a career for which he had been specially prepared.
They will say to this, I guess: "Civil princes have learned to govern a commonwealth, and to order matters of war, but they understand not the secretmysteries of religion.
The nature of that small matter of business which had brought him to the Astor last evening might better remain a mystery since mysteries were the order of the day and attempted solutions were likely to land one before a magistrate.
Now the mysteriesof the Egyptian cat and the strange signal from space were behind them.
Two mysterieson your hands, one detective type and one scientific type, and now you're walking into the middle of a few million tons of rock.
He was deeply versed in the mysteries of the turf, and in all practical and theoretical knowledge connected with the race-course was acknowledged to be the most accomplished adept of his own time.
It was the same in everything connected with school wisdom, as in the mysteries life gave him to solve in regard to men and circumstances.
And now, once for all, for I hate all mysteries and enigmas, what doctor are you talking about and what hopes has he given to you?
In the first chapter of the "History of Greek Poetry," Schlegel speaks of the religious rites and mysteries of the primitive Greeks, and of the Orphic poetry to which they gave rise.
It seemed to the priest, tired and clear-brained as he was, as if he sat in some place of expectation--some great cavern where mysteries moved and passed in preparation for a climax.
In the year following their marriage, the Bakers went to Egypt, determined to clear up that greatest of all mysteries to African explorers--the secret of the Nile sources.
Then, too, sometimes she thought of these mysteries under a form rather more aesthetic and sentimental than scientific; but she thought of them.
We meet its sad mysteries on every side, in every form.
She could only pass on her lessons and study to produce on Lisette the impression of having mysteries in her life, wondering the while whether she succeeded in the air of shading off, like her mother, into the unknowable.
The mysteries of our order, the mandate of our Lord Hassan Sabah, are known to you.
None addressed him, for he was as it were a prophet, a Samuel called up from his long rest to disclose the mysteries hid to human ken.
You know how nervous and high-strung she is, and you cannot think her capable of looking fairly at the awful mysteries with which a creed deals.
Ah, I don't mean your pretty little childish mysteries about where you got it.
It was a policeman who at last explained to them that England's Mysteries are now appropriately enough enacted at St George's Hall.
The Arabian Nights, Robinson crusoe, The Mysteries of Udolpho, and such like, were his favourites, and gave a healthy filip to his imagination.
We produced phosphorus from bones, and elaborated many of the mysteries of chemistry.
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