This I thought it prudent not to tell them, and Bigg tried to mystify them as much as possible.
In this case also Bigg did his utmost to mystify them; and I believe that they were under the impression that I was a regular black prince, the son of some mighty potentate or other to the north of their country.
If he could not mystify them, or draw them into the circle of his fantasies, or discover in them any decided talent for comicality, he preferred the society of men.
This necessity appeared to me an insult, and I felt very angry; but a spirit of revenge quickly whispered to me the best way to mystify them, and the idea made me very joyful.
In an endeavour to mystify the Turk observers, the few men left at Anzac became very energetic.
The batteries were ordered to continue firing in "an extraordinary erratic manner" in order to mystify the enemy.
In order tomystify the enemy and to encourage him to disperse his forces, two subsidiary attacks were undertaken.
There was no attempt on Byron's part to mystify his young friend, who had no epistolary intercourse with those credulous people in England whom Byron so loved to 'gull.
I will not mystify you, Mr. Cleggett, about the box.
Father says he was educated to amuse and mystifythe people.
Peregrine paid like with like, himself mystifying Swammerdamm, who thought to mystify him.
We must have changed our parts; and I have begun to mystify myself and play the child at the moment you have left the world of dream to enter into real life.
If it had been Mrs. Bowen's purpose to mystify him, she could not have done it more thoroughly than by this bold treatment of the affair.
They tried to mystify him further about the bouquets; they succeeded in being very gay, and in making themselves laugh a great deal.
Still he did not scruple about giving it, or attempt in any manner to mystify or to deceive.
The suddenly conceived purpose of le Bourdon, to attempt to mystify the savages, and thus get a hold upon their minds which he might turn to advantage, was much aided by the different directions taken by these several bees.
All that Peter had said, therefore, served rather to mystify him, than to explain, in its true colors, what had actually occurred.
A word was said about the launch, which the mate had ordered to be dropped astern, out of the way, and the explanation seemed to mystify the captain.
Perhaps he felt safer at a hotel than at home, and, having reached the Imperial, taking two cabs to mystify the villain who might be tracking him, he might have registered under an alias.
Even at this crucial moment, he could not resist the temptation to mystify the other a little.
Well, I'll not attempt to mystify you any further.
