It was as mystifying to experienced pilots as to groundlings who have trouble in identifying conventional planes.
He had a mystifying encounter with a strange, fast-moving "light" over Fargo Airport in the fall of 1948.
The partisanship of the big football games has always been to me one of the most mystifying features in American life.
It is all the more mystifying from the fact that it grips me acutely twice a year when Harvard plays Princeton, and again when we play Yale.
According to this theory, mediumistic phenomena would lose their mystic or mystifying character and would pass into the domain of ordinary physics and of physiology.
Bianchi that, as between professors met in order to make scientific studies and researches in common, mystifying pranks like this could not but cast a slur upon the respect due to science.
It was all quitemystifying and Titine was worried, but then Mademoiselle was no longer a child and, of course, Titine had only to obey orders.
If you wear mannish clothes and a Bath-bun, it is because they become you extraordinarily well and because they form a disguise more complete and mystifying than anything else you could assume.
Meanwhile he had delighted in mystifying his friends before letting them hear any of the work by describing it as gloomy and awesome and referring to its key as F minor instead of D major.
When she was weary of mystifying foreign statesmen she turned to find fresh sport in mystifying her own ministers.
Back in camp barely in time for mess, Bob was forced to postpone his search for information concerning the mystifying angle.
Jack immediately following his brother's remarks with a further account of their flight and descent that afternoon, the Khaki Boys forebore inquiring into the nature of that mystifying term "dihedral angle.
She witnessed life in London through the distorting, mystifying veil of a foreign language imperfectly understood.
Still, her demeanour, mystifying as it might be, was benign, benevolent, with a remarkable appearance of genuine humility.
You have repeatedly spoken of the murder having taken place in some place which is difficult of access and under most mystifying circumstances.
And yet--I fancy I shall succeed in mystifying you presently--not precisely of you, but of somebody else!
But as for my mystifying Bewley acquaintance--I confess I cannot make head or tail of him.
Though the gaucho thinks he has at last got the clue to what has been mystifying them, like all skilled tacticians he intends for a time keeping it to himself.
His whole demeanor showed that he was more than ever hugely enjoying his own verbosity--the florid language which was both maddening and mystifying the tramp.
What was to be accomplished by it, she did not trouble herself to define; it only gave her a kind of confused satisfaction to think that she was mystifying somebody who had for a long time been mystifying her.
Whether the French really are so, or whether they are mystifying us in the accounts they send over, I will not presume to decide.
Hume may have inwardly laughed, while mystifying his readers with arguments which he himself perceived to be futile.
The terms of Gregory's declaration and of its withdrawal were mystifying, but not more mystifying than many such things, and from what happened in the novels she read, the affair might be trusted to come out all right of itself in time.
The vice-consul suppressed any surprise he might have felt at a decision given with mystifying cheerfulness.
He was prepared for her refusal to see him; he had imagined her wounded and pathetic; he had fancied her insulted and indignant; but she met him eagerly and with a mystifying appeal in her welcome.
A year or so after celebration of the marriage, Crewe became the junction point of the railway to Manchester; thence afterwards extended in a mystifying net-work of lines over all the manufacturing towns of Cheshire, Lancashire, and Yorkshire.
In the north, Crewe engines worked as far as Carlisle, westward to Holyhead, and eastward along the mystifying net-work of lines which fertilise Cheshire and its two adjacent manufacturing counties.
Newton Winch with a face from which themystifying smile had vanished, yet in which distinction, as Mark so persistently appreciated it, still sat in the midst of ravage.
The mystifying cause does not stop here, for if we look further into the matter we see that the energy has to pass from the trolley wire to the car through the very small contact between it and the trolley wheel.
The rings are almost as mystifying to-day as they were in the time of Herschel.
She apparently has the same marvelous capacity as Mrs. Rohlfs for concocting the most complicated plots and most mystifying mysteries, and serving them up hot to her readers.
The letter N was no doubt the initial of the name of thatmystifying individual in command beneath the seas!
I saw this mystifying individual anew for what he inevitably must be: cruel and merciless.
Even Captain Nemo's personal insights were denied me, because that mystifying individual didn't appear one single time during our high-speed crossing.
A Mystifying Watch Trick [313] Borrow a watch from one of the audience and allow the owner to place it in the box, as shown in Fig.
