Use mystery in a sentence
Sentences starting with mystery
- Mystery is dear to a woman's heart. [11]
- Mystery brooded in the place. [9]
- Mystery was not pleasing to Trafford. [11]
- Mystery and the million happenings of life lay hidden in that far silver haze. [11]
- Mystery of mysteries how can it be? [9]
Sentences ending with mystery
- Indeed, the Island Wilderness is the very home of romance and dreams and mystery. [5]
- This chair itself was a mute witness of luxury and mystery. [4]
- I have hunted up the guide-books, and the gist of what they say is this: "They are there, but how they got there is a mystery. [5]
- At this point, under most circumstances, I would close the doors and draw the veil of privacy before the chamber where the birth which we call death, out of life into the unknown world, is working its mystery. [6]
- Youth is in truth a mystery. [9]
- The young gentleman touched his cap politely, for though the woman was not fashionably dressed, she was distinguished in appearance, with an air of remoteness which gave her a kind of agreeable mystery. [11]
- If you had told her all, there had been an end of mystery. [11]
- This was fairy-land to us, to all intents and purposes--a land of enchantment, and goblins, and awful mystery. [5]
- She was face to face with discovery and mystery. [11]
- Her reflections on this recently attained state alternated with alluring conjectures on the place of abode of which Howard had made such a mystery. [9]
Short sentences using mystery
- Then the mystery was explained. [5]
- Now, where was the mystery? [5]
- Venters had solved the mystery. [13]
- There's a mystery somewhere. [11]
- Good Lord, such mystery! [11]
- The mystery inflamed her imagination. [11]
- This is a great mystery. [5]
- The mystery was explained. [5]
- One mystery fed another. [11]
- There is mystery about you! [11]
Sentences containing mystery two or more times
- So my mystery was a mystery still. [5]
- All is mystery here, and in order to preserve that mystery we shall delay for a little the few words which will explain Mr. Weed's successful mission. [9]
- But that is all a mystery until this day--the nature of the crown, I mean--and will remain a mystery to the end of time. [5]
- That's as great a mystery as the mystery of death. [8]
More example sentences with the word mystery in them
- Go to the young surgeon who had accompanied them, ask him who she was, and so learn the clue to the mystery concerning her lover? [11]
- Why in the world she should ever have been curious about Jethro Bass is a mystery to many, for the two of them were as far apart as the poles. [9]
- We can only wonder at this mystery, not account for it. [5]
- Beautiful, wild, invested with the mystery which belongs to untrodden spaces, and with enough of terror to give it dignity, it had yet closer relations with the town over which it brooded than the passing stranger knew of. [6]
- At first, bursting with mystery, she could do no more than sit and look in Guida's face. [11]
- Here he was, with mystery and peril to hasten his steps, loitering at the spot where the light of home streamed out upon the roadway. [11]
- By and by, when the lull came, he said in the most deferential way, and with the gratified air of a man who has had a mystery cleared up which had been puzzling him uncomfortably: "Now I understand it. [5]
- But none asked what these songs of lamentation might signify, for about this sacred place lamentation and mystery for ever lingered. [10]
- Misery and mystery were in my heart all at once. [11]
- Pools of mystery were her eyes. [9]
- Cheerfulness and serenity were ever with her, undisturbed by wish to probe the mystery of the life which had once absorbed her own. [11]
- What occasion there was to be dod derned about it is a thing which is still as much of a mystery to me now as it was then. [5]
- Of course there was the mystery of Mrs. Maitland--still to be cleared up. [9]
- What the thing was that happened to him and his grandfather's old ram is a dark mystery to this day, for nobody has ever yet found out. [5]
- And what mystery was it that sent him here this night of all nights? [9]
- But the mystery was explained when we got under way again; for these people were evidently bound for a large town which lay shut in behind a tow-head (i.e., new island) a couple of miles below this landing. [5]
- Fortunately, a murder was committed in one of our suburbs, creating a mystery that filled the "extras" for some weeks, and this was opportunely followed by the embezzlement of a considerable sum by the cashier of one of our state banks. [9]
- But this idea was cast aside by and by, as the mystery of the strange alphabet began to clear itself. [5]
- To write "poetry" was an art and mystery in which only a few noted men and a woman or two were experts. [6]
- During the long voyage, the strange mystery of the ocean was wrought into her consciousness so deeply, that it seemed to have become a part of her being. [6]
- She was the victim of more than accident of fate--a victim to some deep plot the mystery of which burned him. [13]
- Here was a very unusual man, with mystery and tragedy, and yet something above both, in his eyes. [11]
- For when the veil no longer hid that face from my gaze, I felt as though the gods had revealed a mystery to me which till now only the immortals had been permitted to know. [10]
- Then, passing through veil after veil of mystery, it told of a grand Seigneur whose boat was overturned in a whirlpool, and was saved by a little brown diver. [11]
- This was why Valmond interested her--not as a man, a physical personality, but as a mystery to be probed, discovered. [11]
- Sometimes it swelled up and for a moment seemed less remote; but when we were hopefully expecting it to betray its cause and nature, it dulled and sank again, carrying its mystery with it. [5]
- It related only to what was to happen to him in Deception Pass; and he could no more lift the veil of that mystery than tell where the trails led to in that unexplored canyon. [13]
- All this added to the mystery which surrounded the young man. [6]
- He came straight to the heart of the mystery around which they had been maneuvering. [11]
- I don't want to shut out the mystery of the stars and the awful hollow that holds them. [6]
- What she found to say under the eyes of the servants is of little value, although the fact itself deserves to be commended as a high accomplishment; and while she talked, she studied the brooding mystery that he presented, and could make nothing of it. [9]
- Though a desire to meet and talk with quality pushed him hard, he would not go a step to the ordinary, and gave orders to be served in our room, thus fostering the mystery which had enveloped us since our arrival. [9]
- The mystery as to how this had been effected was the more elusive when she considered the absence of all methods which might have been deemed revivalistic. [9]
- Confusion was rare to him, and his senses, feeling the fog, embarrassed by a sudden air of mystery and a cloud of futurity, were creeping to a mind-path of understanding. [11]
- How she comes to be unmarried is a mystery to me; it must be that she has found nobody worth caring enough for. [6]
- Nature is apt to be belittled by this sort of display, but the noble dignity of the vast arch of stone was superior to this trifling, and even had a sort of mystery added to its imposing grandeur. [4]
- I have come to a new place, which is neither hell nor heaven, and in the mystery of it you--you alone are real. [9]
- A shudder ran through her now, for the mystery of that hood had never been cleared up. [11]
- In one corner they found a closet that promised mystery, but the promise was a fraud--there was nothing in it. [5]
- And some of these things had small round holes bored through them--nobody knows how it was done; a mystery, a lost art. [5]
- To the north there was a great opening, the lost arc of the circle, through which the mystery of the Pole swept in and out, or brooded there where no man may question it. [11]
- How she got there must remain a mystery. [5]
- The commissioners say there is a spell upon him that makes him hopeless--yes, and that it is shut up in a mystery which they cannot fathom. [5]
- Between these two there had never been even the faint shadow of romance or passion; but in the terrible mystery of pain and humiliation, they had drawn together to help each other, through a breach of all social law, in pity of each other. [11]
- It seemed to them that what they had lived through and experienced could not be expressed in words, and that any reference to the details of his life infringed the majesty and sacredness of the mystery that had been accomplished before their eyes. [2]
- The mystery of the young Doctor's long visits to the neighboring town was satisfactorily explained by what we saw and heard of his relations with our charming "Delilah,"--for Delilah we could hardly help calling her. [6]
- The man in the window had been his lifelong enemy: more than this, Jethro Bass, was not like ordinary men--his ways were enshrouded in mystery, and when he struck, he struck hard. [9]
- Every jay in the whole lot put his eye to the hole and delivered a more chuckle-headed opinion about the mystery than the jay that went there before him. [5]
- He also understood the value of the mystery that attends inaccessibility. [4]
- The curves of the tiled roof enfolded the upper windows; the walls were thick, the note one of mystery. [9]
- However, I thought the thing out, and solved the mystery. [5]
- Had they seen the thing done, there would have been sensation, but no mystery; but night, secrecy, distance, mystery, all begot, not a reaction in Mazarine's favour, but a protest against the thing being done under cover, as it were, unhelped by popular observation. [11]
- Jake went to the tannery house and received his orders--orders of which he made a great mystery afterward at the store, although they consisted simply of directions to be prepared to drive Jethro to Brampton the next morning. [9]
- I have told the story of a blighted life without reserve, so that there shall not remain any mystery or any dark suspicion connected with my memory if I should be taken away unexpectedly. [6]
- Spaciousness, remote altitudes, the sense of mystery which haunts apparently inaccessible mountain domes and summits reposing in the sky--these are the things which exalt the spirit and move it to see visions and dream dreams. [5]
- How he stood the rigors of that campaign were a mystery to friend and foe alike. [9]
- They showed us the noisome cell where the celebrated "Iron Mask"--that ill-starred brother of a hardhearted king of France--was confined for a season before he was sent to hide the strange mystery of his life from the curious in the dungeons of Ste. [5]
- And yet--such is the mystery of Providence--no one would expect that one of the sweetest and most delicate flowers that blooms, the trailing. [4]
- There is where the mystery lies. [5]
- That passed to the memory of the love and light in Oldring's eyes and the mystery in his whisper. [13]
- Every day also the headgroom and the huntsman came, and in the village Gaston's humble friends discussed the mystery, stoutly defending him when some one said it was "more nor gabble, that theer saying o' the poacher at the meetin. [11]
- In place of the former close dark circles formed by thousands of bees sitting back to back and guarding the high mystery of generation, he sees hundreds of dull, listless, and sleepy shells of bees. [2]
- When she discovered the envelope, a sense of mystery and premonition possessed her. [11]
- In spite of the contradictions of science, it explains as nothing else can the mystery of the divinity as well as the humanity of the Saviour. [9]
- Mr. Bentley was the chief topic, and little by little he became exalted into a mystery of which she sought the explanation. [9]
- I do believe that they have some kind of understanding together, that they meet elsewhere than at our table, and that there is a mystery, which is going to break upon us all of a sudden, involving the relations of these two persons. [6]
- Isn't it queer that the further we go into science the deeper we go into mystery? [4]
- There is no tale of mystery and fanaticism and daring I would not believe if a Spaniard is the hero of it, and it is not necessary either that he should have the high-sounding name of Bodadilla or Ojeda. [4]
- The situation is suggestive of a reality and a tangibility that seem at variance with the vagueness and mystery and ghostliness that one naturally attaches to the character of a god. [5]
- I find myself suddenly checked and stopped short, in the execution of my design, by a mystery which I cannot penetrate. [12]
- But even now, such was the mystery that ever veiled her soul, he could not read her feelings, nor know what these might be towards the brother whose death he announced. [9]
- But it opened such depths of solemn thought in her awakened consciousness, that it seemed as if the whole mystery of human life were coming up again before her for trial and judgment. [6]
- To them the stage was compounded of mystery, gaiety and the forbidden. [11]
- And the two spent most of the dark hours remaining in unprofitable discussion as to whether Virginia were at last engaged to her cousin, and in vain queried over another unsolved mystery. [9]
- There was no special mystery about all this travel and hurrying from place to place, but it gave Margaret a sense of varied and large occupations that she did not understand. [4]
- He saw the sparkle of her large blue eyes, which never ceased to question, yet appeared to contain the mystery of the world. [10]
- And as it somehow reminded him of his prospect in life, so it suddenly resembled the woman near him, only in her there were greater beauty and peril, a mystery more unsolvable, and something nameless that numbed his heart and dimmed his eye. [13]
- Other quaint windows, some of them of triple width, suggested an interior of mystery and interest. [9]
- It is still some mystery what he was doing all these days other than hiding in the woods and staying out of communication so he would not receive any more uncomfortable orders. [7]
- So, there was some mystery again? [11]
- There has been some little mystery about their authorship, but it is evident that they are not all from the same hand. [6]
- Her mind becomes so trained in the mystery of this pleasure that she experiences no thrill of delight in giving away only the things her husband does not want. [4]
- If woman is so different from man, to the extent of being an unexplainable mystery, science ought to determine the exact state of the case, and ascertain if there is any remedy for it. [4]
- This distance was so ample and full and quiet, this mystery of the desert and the sky was so immense, the spirit of it so boundless, that in the judgment of his soul nothing mattered now. [11]
- In that moment she felt the mystery of heaven and hell, of all kinds of power. [9]
- The sages who served the Pharaohs in the gray dawn of time succeeded in fathoming the mystery of these names given to the everlasting ones at their birth, and their wisdom has come down to him through the generations as a priceless secret. [10]
- It may have served Oldring to create mystery. [13]
- They had a sense of mystery, an air of forbidden imagination. [11]
- To Ann it seemed that my uncle was but now opening her eyes and ears to the mystery of the forest, which Gotz had shown me long years ago. [10]
- She did not seem to think of the past of what she left forever, but of the color and mystery and wildness of the sage-slope leading down to Deception Pass, and of the future. [13]
- I did not seek to explain the mystery which had brought her across the sea into that little garden of Mrs. Temple's and into my heart. [9]
- I can therefore see a large significance in the somewhat bold language of Burdach: "There is for me but one miracle, that of infinite existence, and but one mystery, the manner in which the finite proceeds from the infinite. [3]
- I could not rest nor sleep till I had this mystery solved. [13]
- The very butcher respected it as a gate of mystery, and left off whistling when he rang the bell. [12]
- Then the uncertainty remains, the mystery abides, and with it the charm. [5]
- That at present remains a mystery. [10]
- It had to remain a present mystery, for all we could get from the conductor in answer to our hails was something that sounded, through the clatter of the wheels, like "Tell you in the morning! [5]
- That must ever remain a mystery to the living because--but that is no matter, and evil would befall me if I were to chatter. [10]
- In the Bible records there is not much mystery about her; there are many tributes to her noble qualities, and some pretty severe and uncomplimentary things are said about her, but there is little affectation of not understanding her. [4]
- She was playing Ranulph's game, because she instinctively felt that behind this story there was gloom in his mind and mystery in the tale itself. [11]
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