Mysteries

Examples

• Talking of mysteries, by-the-bye, says Mr. Franklin, dropping his voice, I have another word to say to you before you go to the stables. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Gerald was left behind like a postulant in the ante-room of this temple of mysteries, this woman. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• She was jealous of him, but there was another and graver source of trouble in her passion for religious mysteries. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• It expresses, as it were, the steward of the legal mysteries, the butler of the legal cellar, of the Dedlocks. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• They were implicated with each other in abhorrent mysteries. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Suddenly his strange, strained attention gave way, he could not attend to these mysteries any more. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• They told me that you were fond of queer mysteries, and I don't think you can find a queerer one than that. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• No human intelligence could have read the mysteries of his mind, in the scared blank wonder of his face. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• He once lived wi' a Scotchman that tached him the mysteries o' that craft, as they say. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Not to intrude on the sacred mysteries of medicine, he took it, now (with the jury droop and persuasive eye-glass), that this was Merdle's case? Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• It desc ribes itself as Instructions for arriving at the knowledge of all things, and of things obscure, and of all mysteries. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• He spoke very handsomely of my late tractate on the Egyptian Mysteries,--using, in fact, terms which it would not become me to repeat. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• But my mind had been running on Grace Poole--that living enigma, that mystery of mysteries, as I considered her. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• The suggestion of primitive art was their refuge, and the inner mysteries of sensation their object of worship. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• As to his shirt-collar, and his coat-collar, they were perplexing to reflect upon,--insoluble mysteries both. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• He realised that there were great mysteries to be unsealed, sensual, mindless, dreadful mysteries, far beyond the phallic cult. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Mental reservations and artful mysteries grew out of these things. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Who invented the game and the early processes of its evolution remain mysteries. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Mysteries of Udolpho! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• These mysteries tire me very much. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• I have no desire to make mysteries, but it is impossible at the moment of action to enter into long and complex explanations. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• But I will not further withdraw the veil of our mysteries. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• I don't particularly favour mysteries. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Mr. Fairlie, in his state of health and with his horror of difficulties and mysteries of all kinds, is not to be thought of. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• What's the use of making mysteries? Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• A man can no more penetrate or understand those mysteries than he can know what the ladies talk about when they go upstairs after dinner. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• We do not know enough to cut under such mysteries. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• He was never so happy as when teaching her of what all these mysteries of the law were the signs and types. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• You have no right to preach to me, you neophyte, that have not passed the porch of life, and are absolutely unacquainted with its mysteries. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• He called me on the line and asked me to come to the stage and explain the mysteries of the Morse system. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.

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