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Sentences starting with mysterious

Mysterious things were going on in the weeks immediately preceding the wedding. [4]

Sentences ending with mysterious

The woods never seemed so vast and mysterious. [4]
All his own schemes took larger shape and more misty and majestic proportions; and in this congenial air, the Colonel seemed even to himself to expand into something large and mysterious. [5]
There is a quality of refinement in their granite robustness; their desolate, bare heights and sky-scraping ridges are rosy in the dawn and violet at sunset, and their profound green gulfs are still mysterious. [4]
Whether Calvin died of old age, or was carried off by one of the diseases incident to youth, it is impossible to say; for his departure was as quiet as his advent was mysterious. [4]
He became very mysterious. [9]
Such a letter it was--so saintly, so unhappy, so mysterious! [11]
In fact, yours interests me more, because it is more mysterious. [9]
It was as if that lofty, infinite canopy of heaven that had once towered above him had suddenly turned into a low, solid vault that weighed him down, in which all was clear, but nothing eternal or mysterious. [2]
It is still damp and slimy, it is true; but from above, it is always beautiful, with its luxuriant growth of vines, and at twilight mysterious. [4]
The man brooded and looked mysterious. [11]

Short sentences using mysterious

Is this a mysterious story? [7]
Oh, these mysterious meetings! [6]

More example sentences with the word mysterious in them

Nay, many a young Alexandrian, passing the group on foot or in a carriage, looked at her a second time, for that smile lent a mysterious charm to her pale, calm face. [10]
Ah, that shows you the power of music, that magician of magicians, who lifts his wand and says his mysterious word and all things real pass away and the phantoms of your mind walk before you clothed in flesh. [5]
It is neither you nor Ulrich, who drives me hence, but the mysterious ancient curse, that pursues my people when they seek to rest; it is, it is. [10]
He had never yet visited the northern part of the lake, there where it was so dark, and mysterious, and where--as old Nonna used to relate--evil spirits dwelt, and a giant covered with pumice-stone was compelled by a curse to live. [10]
Mr. Davis's pamphlet would hardly be complete without a mysterious letter from an unnamed writer, whether a faithless friend, a disguised enemy, a secret emissary, or an injudicious alarmist, we have no means of judging for ourselves. [6]
Nothing in the world affords a newspaper reporter so much satisfaction as gathering up the details of a bloody and mysterious murder and writing them up with aggravating circumstantiality. [5]
The forces at work in a human intelligence to bring harmony out of its discordant movements are as mysterious, as miraculous, we might truly say, as those which give shape and order to the confused materials out of which habitable worlds are evolved. [6]
The thrilling, mysterious word had been dropped into a woman's heart. [4]
The physician noticed, with warm sympathy, how deeply this mysterious expectation had influenced her excitable nature, ever torn by varying emotions, and the excellent man was ready to aid her as a friend and intercessor. [10]
It left her with a renewed sense of energy and restlessness, brought her nearer to high discoveries of mysterious joys which a voice out of the past called upon her to forego, a voice somehow identified with her father! [9]
There were certain wise and cynical atheists who did not attend the sessions at all except when they received mysterious hints to do so. [9]
It was Austen who made a note of the gratings over the drains, and of the acres of orderly forest in a mysterious and seemingly enchanted realm. [9]
From her hand, which she lays upon his head, a mysterious influence steals through him; and he sinks into a dreamy tranquility. [5]
You feel it when some mysterious power, without any will of your own, prompts you to some act, be it what it may. [10]
What reverent and what worshiping looks they bent upon that dread, mysterious power, the Doctor! [5]
I don't know what for, but possibly they are devising new and mysterious ways for remunerating authors. [5]
And fairer still were the faraway blue mountains beyond the river, the nunnery, the mysterious gorges, and the pine forests veiled in the mist of their summits... [2]
They had been well schooled, and, as the mysterious and to them incomprehensible ceremony was enacted, maintained the most stoical aspect of tranquillity. [6]
A mysterious burden weighed on the Heart of the busy city and clicked its pulses, as a nightmare oppresses the dreamer. [10]
On this great wedge grim shapes loomed in the mist, uncouth and shadowy and unnatural--a lonely, mysterious Brocken, impossible to human tenantry. [11]
How immense it was, how mysterious, how it begot in one feelings both of love and of awe! [11]
And Pierre's soul was dimly but joyfully filled not by the story itself but by its mysterious significance: by the rapturous joy that lit up Karataev's face as he told it, and the mystic significance of that joy. [2]
His social prestige was as mysterious as his diplomatic, but it was now unquestioned, and he might be considered as one of the first of a class who are to reconcile social and political life in this country. [4]
To Honora there was an irresistible and mysterious fascination in all these trophies, each suggesting a finished --and some perhaps a cruel--performance of the man himself. [9]
Of course there was a great variety of comment, its character depending very much on the sense, knowledge, and disposition of the citizens, gossips, and young people who talked over the painful and mysterious occurrence. [6]
No mysterious attraction warned me that the heart warm with the same blood as mine was throbbing so near my own. [6]
Honora has a vivid remembrance of the impression the house made on her, with its polished floors and spacious rooms filled with a new and mysterious and altogether inspiring fashion of things. [9]
It was all very mysterious to me, and I lay awake many a night with curiosity, trying to solve a puzzle that was none of my business. [9]
There was something very mysterious in all his movements. [5]
Mr. B. was very complimentary to me when Trollop's break-down in the House showed him the object of my mysterious scheme; I think he will say, still finer things when I tell him the triumph the sequel to it has gained for us. [5]
Indeed, so delicately, vaguely, had the work been done that only eyes like Gaston's, trained to observe, with the sight of a hawk and a sense of the mysterious, could have seen so quickly or so distinctly. [11]
Wherever in the uttermost parts of the globe, a Lynch has penetrated, there has the Mysterious Cross been seen, and those who have seen it have shuddered and said, "It is his mark, he has been here. [5]
Then he delivered us over to another miscreant, who emerged from some mysterious place, and he in turn to another! [5]
Mr. Cooke stood up, and drawing from his pocket a small and mysterious paper parcel he forthwith delivered himself in the tone and manner which had so endeared him to the familiars of the Lake House bar. [9]
Once he started up to fly, but he again heard the bewitching tones of her musical laugh, and mysterious powers detained him, forcing him to listen. [10]
He had been under the coercive power of a demon; a mysterious spell had forced him--" "The mightiest power, love," interrupted Iras with enthusiastic warmth--"a love as great and overmastering as ever subjugated the soul of man. [10]
The supposed lover turned out to be the husband of the lady, and a noted contrabandista; and all his mysterious signs and movements had doubtless some smuggling scheme in view . [4]
The simplest things turn out to be unfathomable mysteries; the most mysterious appearances prove to be the most commonplace objects in disguise. [6]
Some morning this town will flock aghast to view a gory corpse; on its brow will be seen the awful sign, and men will tremble and whisper, "He has been here--it is the Mysterious Avenger's mark! [5]
Every day he took a mysterious book out of his desk and absorbed himself in it at times when no classes were reciting. [5]
Miss Millicent Skinner, too, was in a like mysterious way compelled to abdicate her high place in favor of Cynthia, and Wetherell was utterly unable to explain how this miracle was accomplished. [9]
They had come to-day from many mysterious (and therefore delightful) places which Honora knew only by name, and some had driven the twenty-five odd miles from the bunting community of Banbury in coaches and even those new and marvellous importations--French automobiles. [9]
It was evident to the most casual acquaintance that he was a man of affairs, and that his time was engrossed in the largest sort of operations, about which there was a mysterious air. [5]
No eyes wished to sleep, and those whose slumber overpowered for a short time, were startled and terrified by strange, mysterious noises. [10]
What mysterious right to play tyrant is conferred on a district of country, with its people, by merely calling it a State? [7]
Mr. Bixby, unknown to me, of course, sent somebody down to the forecastle with some mysterious instructions to the leadsmen, another messenger was sent to whisper among the officers, and then Mr. Bixby went into hiding behind a smoke-stack where he could observe results. [5]
And he wanted to know all about it right off, because it was a grand adventure, and mysterious, and so it hit him where he lived. [5]
Cleopatra was accustomed to hear these mysterious sayings from his lips, and interpreted them in her own way. [10]
So he began to drop into a drowse once more, at last; and all at once he felt that mysterious touch again! [5]
For the first time she ventured to call herself unhappy and, while walking through the streets with downcast eyes against the wind, struggled vainly to resist some mysterious, gloomy power, that compelled her to minutely recall everything that had resulted differently from her expectations. [10]
I told her, though, to go slow," added the Colonel, as if that mysterious admonition from him would set everything right. [5]
It was by this well that Jesus sat and talked with a woman of that strange, antiquated Samaritan community I have been speaking of, and told her of the mysterious water of life. [5]
And one Saturday this inexplicable person carried in his hand a mysterious package which, when opened, revealed two pairs of diminutive boxing gloves. [9]
It was in this hour that the sick man opened his eyes and raised his head, as though the mysterious influence of primitive life were rousing him. [11]
In this altar they used to keep one of the most curious relics that human eyes ever looked upon--a thing that had power to fascinate the beholder in some mysterious way and keep him gazing for hours together. [5]
For a half-hour they played in silence, the slight, delicate-featured half-breed, and the mysterious man who had for so long been a thing of wonder in the North, a weird influence among the Indians. [11]
We suspected that they had headed for the great Debil-devil Waterhole, where, it was said, the Bunyip appeared: that mysterious animal, or devil, or thing, which nobody has ever seen, but many have pretended to see. [11]
Twenty-four hours later the story was all over the village that Maurice Kirkwood was the subject of a strange, mysterious, unheard-of antipathy to something, nobody knew what; and the whole neighborhood naturally resolved itself into an unorganized committee of investigation. [6]
In skilful hands, the silent, bloodless noose, flying like an arrow, but not like that leaving a wound behind it,--sudden as a pistol-shot, but without the telltale explosion,--is one of the most fearful and mysterious weapons that arm the hand of man. [6]
It was now the season of singing-birds, and the woods were haunted with mysterious, tender music. [6]
The gates of the sanctuary screen were closed, the curtain was slowly drawn, and from behind it a soft mysterious voice pronounced some words. [2]
Some touch of the mysterious, some sweet fantastical melody in all he played, charmed them, even when he gave them old familiar airs. [11]
We both feel the mysterious power that draws us to one another. [10]
What then is the mysterious power that aided you to do it? [10]
She had seen the moisture sparkling in his eyes; but his tears were not for the Persian, but for the mysterious something--he himself knew not what to call it--that he had forfeited in this last hour, and of which the loss gave him unspeakable pain. [10]
He might be the minister of a dauphin or a fool, but he was now only the mysterious Parpon who thrilled them. [11]
Richter gone, and the Judge often away in mysterious conference, he was left for hours at a spell the sole tenant of the office. [9]
The crevices in the ice yawned deep and blue and mysterious, and it made one nervous to traverse them. [5]
I expect, from the extravagance of his behaviour, and from mysterious hints he drops (for he never will speak out plainly), that we shall be hearing news of fresh debts contracted by him soon. [14]
The inmates of the Dudley mansion were not scandalized by any mysterious visits of a veiled or unveiled lady. [6]
Master Gridley treated the Doctor to a cup of such tea as bachelors sometimes keep hid away in mysterious caddies. [6]
But why had the departure of the Irish, the coming of the Syrians made Dey Street dark, narrow, mysterious, oriental? [9]
Jim can do that; and when he wants to send any little common ordinary mysterious message to let the world know where he's captivated, he can write it on the bottom of a tin plate with a fork and throw it out of the window. [5]
I say, then, that, if these odd sounds coming from the Little Gentleman's chamber sometimes make me nervous, so that I cannot get to sleep, it is not because I suppose he is engaged in any unlawful or mysterious way. [6]
Is it strange that this mysterious influence or effluence should belong especially or exclusively to the period of complete womanhood in distinction from that of immaturity or decadence? [6]
But very near that precipitous border line there is a charmed region where, if the statelier growths of philosophy die out and disappear, the flowers of poetry next the very edge of the chasm have a peculiar and mysterious beauty. [6]
Again, there was that mysterious barrier between them of which she had seen so many evidences. [9]
It was evident that her eyes did not see Princess Mary but were looking within... into herself... at something joyful and mysterious taking place within her. [2]
And the horror that had seized her when she touched him and convinced herself that that was not he, but something mysterious and horrible, seized her again. [2]
Mr. Wetherell didn't talk, but had he been the most incurable of gossips he felt that he could have done no damage to this mysterious affair, whatever it was. [9]
This was the tabu--an agent endowed with a mysterious and stupendous power, an agent not found among the properties of any European monarch, a tool of inestimable value in the business. [5]
The horses are stamping impatiently outside; duty summons the most faithful of men, and he stands like a prophet, indulging in mysterious sayings! [10]
Wondrous afternoons they spent together in that stillest and most mysterious of seasons in the hill country--autumn! [9]
That a mysterious spell emanates from the cup is certain, but one still more powerful dwells in the magic of your own nature. [10]
It will cast some light upon my mysterious sayings if I bear you away from the enemy through one of the secret corridors. [10]
They withdrew from society, and grew more and more mysterious and dreadful. [5]
Even with the small amount of information obtained by the search among his papers and effects, the gossips of the village had constructed several distinct histories for the mysterious stranger. [6]
Like many other simple-hearted souls, it was her pet vanity to believe she was endowed with a talent for dark and mysterious diplomacy, and she loved to contemplate her most transparent devices as marvels of low cunning. [5]
He purposed to show himself in all his dignity to the overbearing architect, but he also remembered that it was not advisable to provoke unnecessarily the mysterious bearded stranger, with the big clog. [10]
And never had she so distinctly represented to him the mysterious essence of fate. [9]
In summer, when she sat, in the face of all the conventions of the village, reading under the butternut tree before the house, she would feel his eyes upon her, and the mysterious yearning in them would startle her. [9]
What outside law shall apply to anything that happens within those mysterious walls? [11]
There they were served with elaborate attention by a darky waiter who had, in some mysterious way, learned Jethro's name and title. [9]
It had been separated from the city in those days by an endless country road, like a Via Claudia stretching towards mysterious Germanian forests, and it was deemed a feat for Peter to ride thither on his big-wheeled bicycle. [9]
Did her keen senses deceive her, or was not what was occurring actually a mysterious transformation? [10]
A mysterious lesion seemed to have taken place, I felt astonished and relieved, yet I was heavy with sadness. [9]
The lofty tales sang in his veins: of primitive man, adventure, mysterious and exalted romance. [11]
The mysterious old sage had no sooner left the judgment-hall with the Vekeel than he begged for a private interview. [10]
Hides from frozen Russia were piled high beside barrels of sugar and rum from the moist island cane-fields of the Indies, and pipes of wine from the sunny hillsides of France, and big boxes of tea bearing the hall-mark of the mysterious East. [9]
He does indeed rule over mysterious powers, and he used them in his intercourse with the young princess. [10]

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