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Example sentences for "mysterious"

Lexicographically close words:
mystagogue; mystere; mysteria; mysterie; mysteries; mysteriously; mysteriousness; mystery; mystic; mystica
  1. Mysterious currents drifted us here and there, with a stealthy power made manifest only by the changing vistas of the islands fringing the east shore of the Gulf.

  2. He was credited with wonderful adventures and with some mysterious tragedy in his life.

  3. I glimpsed grimy antimacassars scattered over that horrid upholstery, which was awe-inspiring, insomuch that one could not guess what mysterious accident, need, or fancy had collected it there.

  4. Mr. Burns met my outburst by a mysterious silence.

  5. While I wondered at this mysterious devilry, I received a slight blow under the left eye and felt an enormous tear run down my cheek.

  6. It was obvious that he was ill in some mysterious manner, and beginning to break up.

  7. Perhaps it was the sidelong glance he gave me; or possibly I was yet under the influence of Captain Giles' mysterious earnestness.

  8. I felt her slipping through it with no other noise but a mysterious rustle alongside.

  9. The darkness had risen around the ship like a mysterious emanation from the dumb and lonely waters.

  10. He nodded to me his frail and bony head in a wisely mysterious assent.

  11. For a long, long time I faced an empty world, steeped in an infinity of silence, through which the sunshine poured and flowed for some mysterious purpose.

  12. With a man as mysterious as my cousin, it is not easy to find out what is going on in his heart.

  13. Were they not indications of the mysterious changes that were taking place in her?

  14. And then there were the others who had found death in the heart of that mysterious cavern,--ugly death.

  15. The Sun came out on Thursday with a long and graphic account of the mysterious affairs of Monday night, including the views and theories of well-known citizens.

  16. Well, this pretty baby-face always intruded itself--this soul which I had brought into life lay ever before me, weighted with myriad mysterious and strange suggestions.

  17. He was fond of darkness; it contained mysterious possibilities, he had been heard to say.

  18. In my own mind I do not doubt that this secret related to Madeline, but whether it did do so or not cannot affect the issue of this trial; neither can the absence of Pauline and her mysterious friend affect it.

  19. He stands on the borderland between the here and the hereafter, like the mysterious [Greek: preobutes tritos] or senex tertius of Mani, whose becoming visible will betoken the end of the world.

  20. Nucky asked for extra work during his playtime yesterday in order to make some money, and for three hours spaded flower-beds, receiving a dime in pay, and making a mysterious visit to the village after supper.

  21. Then, at his instructions, she had written upon a yellow telegraph-form a cipher message addressed to the mysterious "Meteforos, Paris.

  22. If his young wife's remarkable friendship with the man Flockart often caused him bitter thoughts, then the mysterious Whispers and the fatality so strangely connected with them were equally a source of constant inquietude.

  23. Mysterious voices were heard, they say, last night, and for several nights previously.

  24. Those noises in the night were mysterious and puzzling.

  25. It seems to have been imagined in order to associate it with the mysterious Whispers which some superstitious people claim to have heard.

  26. No; the bond between the pair was an entirely mysterious one.

  27. They may yet be exposed," the mysterious visitor exclaimed.

  28. We all of us have enemies," replied the mysterious visitor.

  29. Unfamiliar as the girl was with business in any form, she had during the past year arrived at the conclusion, after much debate within herself, that this source of her father's income was a distinctly mysterious one.

  30. Is there anything concerning the mysterious fate of Cardinal Setoun within Glencardine?

  31. Mon cher ami, they know no more of the business of the mysterious firm of which the blind Baronet is the head than we do ourselves," said Krail.

  32. He was ignorant of the fact that she had actually heard the mysterious Whispers, and that, as a consequence, a great evil already lay upon her.

  33. These scores (of which he kept a painstaking catalogue) are headed in many cases with the mysterious formula "L.

  34. He had a mysterious presentiment that he must leave hurriedly.

  35. The mysterious message was at last announced, amid laughter and shouts from the youngest.

  36. Oh, yes," answered the mysterious one, "nothing is easier.

  37. He then remembered that night in Spain, when the same sweet and mysterious sounds were heard only by the young bridegroom and bride, of whom the latter perished on that very night.

  38. Equally mysterious it seemed, that about this time Miss Liebenheim began to receive anonymous letters, written in the darkest and most menacing terms.

  39. At this moment Sophie entered bringing wine, and I saw Bourgonef slowly turn his eyes upon her with a look which then was mysterious to me, but which now spoke too plainly its dreadful meaning.

  40. She placed it here, and it is said, you know, that when the closed cabinet is opened, and the mysterious motto is read, the curse will depart from the Mervyn family.

  41. If you could approach the mysterious legend from a slightly different point of view, or look at it from another distance, the clew to the puzzle would be seized, and the words would stand forth clear and legible in your sight.

  42. Had she not," I inquired, "something to do with the mysterious cabinet at the house?

  43. No other word will explain her influence; for it was not based on excellences such as the mind could recognize to be attractions; it was based on a mysterious personal power, something awful in its mysteriousness, as all demoniac powers are.

  44. I found Margrave in the room below, seated on his mysterious coffer, leaning his face on his hand.

  45. God only knows how many girls commit suicide and how many mysterious deaths might be explained by this cause.

  46. In some mysterious way the procreative cells have residing within themselves, in rudimentary form, all the attributes of the parents.

  47. As their children grow older and larger, in some mysterious way, they teach them the danger of men and guns, cats and snakes.

  48. Even sorrow is in some mysterious way linked with joy and associated with tenderness.

  49. To me much meditating on final causes, a vague suspicion at length arose that there was some mysterious relation between those twenty oblong boxes and a score of hogsheads of plug tobacco, said to be stored in the basement.

  50. Another roll-call by the mysterious heterogeneous if not hermaphroditical Carolina sergeant!

  51. In uttering these words old Felix put on a mysterious and important air, which denoted how serious the discussions going on in the adjoining room seemed to his mind.

  52. Cayrol rubbed his hands with a mysterious air.

  53. A mysterious light filters into that fresh and picturesque apartment through the stained-glass windows.

  54. The dandy guessed at some mysterious business and thought it possible that he might get to know it.

  55. Selo came to wile George up to the mysterious cave, but Lisa impatiently hurried them to the beach.

  56. Lisa had been but a child, but she had held her mother's head close to her stout little heart as she lay dying--that awful mysterious death of which the young man had tried to make a telling story.

  57. That great mysterious thing called living was done and past for her.

  58. Gateward, after looking round carefully, began in a tone of solemnity and mysterious import.

  59. You are walking forth in the soft morning air, when suddenly there comes a burst of bobolink melody from some mysterious source.

  60. Before I had passed this hidden stretch of water, a pair of those mysterious thrushes, the gray-cheeked, flew up from the ground and perched on a low branch.

  61. He was indeed an heteroclite ambassador, for he is described "as a youth with never a hair on his face;" in fact, a child who was to conceal the mysterious personage which he was for a moment to represent.

  62. Our bishop got hold of a palatine to write for the French cause in the vernacular tongue; and appears to have held a more mysterious intercourse with another palatine, Albert Lasky.

  63. Many of the heads of the opposition were pursuing some secret machinations; about this time I find many mysterious stories--indications of secret societies--and other evidences of the intrigues of the popular party.

  64. The police of the metropolis was long imbecile, notwithstanding their "strong watches and guards" set at times; and bodies of the idle and the refractory often assumed some mysterious title, and were with difficulty governed.

  65. In a constant source of concealed information, a shrewd, confident, and enthusiastic temper will find ample matter for mysterious prescience.

  66. This is not the place to continue the controversy respecting the mysterious Eikon Basilike, which has been ranked among them, from the ambiguous claim of Gauden.

  67. Though dwelling in the shadow of that mysterious melancholy, which ever enveloped his spirit, he must have enjoyed in the deep recesses of his soul, the majestic movements of his plans.

  68. It was the genius of Napoleon which thus penetrated these mysterious depths of the human soul, and called to his aid those mighty energies.

  69. A mysterious expression, which might mean anything, and was more than enough to clothe it with all the terrors which belong to the unknown.

  70. There was something mysterious altogether about Maggie's behaviour, for when the children reached the house they found that the others were full of excitement and curiosity.

  71. Altogether it was very mysterious and deeply interesting; soon she began to make up long stories about herself, in which it was always discovered at last that she belonged to very rich people with grand titles.

  72. Perhaps the rays were cast off from some other element even less understood than mysterious radium.

  73. Wells THE EYE OF ALLAH A Story of the Tracking Down of a Mysterious Scientific Killer By C.

  74. The music which issued from the depths of that stunningly mysterious passage swelled to a crescendo--and stopped.

  75. When he came down, he was dancing, and the portentious, the sickeningly mysterious ceremony for which such solemn preparation had been made, was begun.

  76. After he had assisted the scientist in building living organisms from basic elements, he ceased to cringe when he remembered that perhaps it was true that Aña was created in the mysterious life-machine.

  77. The mysterious rites and ceremonies which went on within were forbidden him.

  78. And all seemed eager to learn the mysterious arts of the schoolroom.

  79. After the next change Verney found himself, by some mysterious chance, left to occupy the seat beside Miss Elaine, while Baker had his former place.

  80. But catalogues are a mysterious subject, comprehended only by the elect.

  81. He has the right to many native titles, though he does not put them on his quiet little visiting-card, which bears only his name and a mysterious monogram in Arabic.


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