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Example sentences for "mystification"

Lexicographically close words:
mysticall; mystically; mysticism; mystick; mystics; mystifications; mystified; mystifies; mystify; mystifying
  1. In money this mystification appears only more strikingly than in commodities.

  2. In commodities this mystification is as yet very simple.

  3. She paused on her way, wondering, and her wonder and mystification grew when she saw them cut across the square in the direction of Peden's dark and silent hall.

  4. Every morning now he took a ride into the country, to the mystification of the town, coming back before the heat mounted to its fiercest, always on hand at night to guard against any outbreak of violence among the visitors.

  5. But Nick apparently struck him as unashamed, and a faint colour coming into his withered cheek indicated his mystification and alarm.

  6. At the mystification which appeared in her aunt's face the girl laughed again.

  7. Whitwell took advantage of Westover's moment of mystification to explain that Jeff had written over to him from Italy, offering him a pretty good rent for his house, which he wanted to occupy while he was rebuilding Lion's Head.

  8. Will you never comprehend the whimsical mystification of which you are the dupes?

  9. It is worth observing the manner in which this mystification is effected.

  10. It assumes a special title, but in spite of all sorts of incoherent cackle and subsequent attempts at mystification it has, beyond this name, no kind of general artistic principle or clear æsthetic ideal.

  11. In mystification they dig it up, to find the roots in the form of a woman's body, lacking one foot, as had been the case with the woman who had lived there and whose husband had killed her secretly and buried her beside the porch.

  12. Inexplicable music forms one of the commonest elements of mystification in these romances.

  13. They have not the courage of their ghosts as such but, after they have thrilled the reader to the desired extent, they tear down the fabric of mystification that they have constructed and meticulously explain everything.

  14. The element of mystery and mystification is another family feature of the novel of suspense.

  15. As one may see, the comic possibilities are prominent and for a time we laugh over the mystification of the persons with whom he comes in contact, but soon stark tragedy results.

  16. It was thus, in the full flood of mystification and resentment, Charles Verity found her when presently he returned.

  17. If Aunt Anna has chosen to keep up the little mystification till to-morrow, it would be rather impertinent for us to interfere.

  18. But a feeling of increasing mystification was left in Philip's mind.

  19. Yes--I have met Ella, and the mystification is at an end.

  20. Ay,' said Severin, 'and yet how very natural that kind of self-mystification is.

  21. Perhaps--for Esme's sake--it would have been better not to keep up the mystification so long.

  22. I think the truth was, that she had thoroughly enjoyed the gypsy mystification which had been confided to her.

  23. As Jack drew out of sight about the rear of the building his mystification was added to when he saw West pause before the door, stoop and pick up a handful of gravel.

  24. At the next, and final, "demonstration" mystification of another kind came to the observant Kate.

  25. It was during the shouts of merriment following this ridiculous response that Kate's mystification began to dissolve.

  26. Dink purposely called it wrong, likewise the next; thereby completing the mystification of The Roman, who now concentrated his attention on Macnooder and the Tennessee Shad, as being next in order of suspicion.

  27. When she came out at suppertime, dressed for the evening's entertainment, she was her usual cheerful self, much to the mystification of her compassionate mother and the big brothers.

  28. He began, however, already to perceive the mystification which in this case was to be his happy effect.

  29. Mr. Longdon's momentary mystification was perhaps partly but the natural effect of constitutional prudence.

  30. Bob, unconscious of the broad smile with which Kobo was now regarding him, or of the look of mystification on the faces of the ladies.

  31. What HE said about the Diamond to Miss Rachel was said, as usual, by way of a mystification or joke.

  32. But I was resolved to see for myself what new mystification was going on before I trusted Rosanna's boot in the Sergeant's hands.

  33. The mystification was childish enough, though if Pope had committed no worse crime of the kind, one would not consider him to be a very grievous offender.

  34. I fancy that under Pope's elaborate masks of hypocrisy and mystification there was a heart always abnormally sensitive.

  35. His mystification had, as before, driven him into perplexities upon which he had never calculated.

  36. Thereupon the duke seized the opportunity of practising this mystification upon him; so much did he enjoy everything connected with Sancho and Don Quixote.

  37. His mystification frankly confessed itself, at this, plain curiosity.

  38. Grimm professed ignorance as to the authorship, but must have known it, as did Voltaire, who by way of mystification ascribed the book to Damilaville.

  39. Powell is certainly entitled to censure those recent writers who have wilfully kept up a mystification as to Spinoza's religiosity; but their lack of courage or candour does not justify an imputation of the same kind upon him.

  40. In 1737 was published in French a small mystification consisting of a Sermon prêché dans la grande Assemblée des Quakers de Londres, par le fameux Frère E.

  41. The mystification in regard to this work is elaborate.

  42. Hence, the mystification of Mr. Calton and Mr. Septimus Hicks, and the pre-engagement of the unwary Tibbs.

  43. He stalked dramatically to bed, and the Tuggses went to bed too, half an hour afterwards, in a state of considerable mystification and perplexity.

  44. In his manner was a little amused self-satisfaction, as one who relished the mystification of the outsiders.


  45. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mystification" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    burial; cabala; casuistry; circularity; corruption; covering; dark; darkening; darkness; deception; dilemma; distortion; enigma; equivocation; fallacy; fog; hiding; insincerity; interment; invisibility; misapplication; misdirection; misleading; mist; murk; mystery; mysticism; mystification; obscurity; occultation; opacity; perplexity; perversion; plausibility; puzzle; rationalization; riddle; secrecy; secretion; sophism; sophistication; sophistry; speciousness; subterfuge; subtlety; symbolism; vagueness; why