| 单词 | mysterious |
| 例句 | Drawn to the spot by the mysterious power that seemed to connect him with his foul cat, Argus Filch burst suddenly through a tapestry to Harry’s right, wheezing and looking wildly about for the rule-breaker. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z “You are so mysterious, Diana” Lissa looked into my eyes, hungry to learn more about me. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z Not as dark and mysterious, perhaps, but more alive. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Was he about to see the mysterious broken object it was so important to mend? Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z But, as time passes, a mysterious force begins to convince them that it will be impossible for them to realize their Personal Legend.” The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Eventually a mysterious lawyer rescued them and checked them into a boarding school, but Nico had no memories of his life before the casino. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z “The mysterious merchling. I wonder what Van Eck did that was bad enough to send Wylan to slum it with us.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z They could lay bare in the utmost detail everything that you had done or said or thought; but the inner heart, whose workings were mysterious even to yourself, remained impregnable. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z One day when she was coming downstairs she heard Daddy say something mysterious and important. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z But he always liked to get visitors alone in the billiard-room and tell them stories about a mysterious lady, a foreign royalty, with whom he had driven about London. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z It feels like something I might hear in a cafeteria lunch line when I've stared too long at a mysterious noodle dish. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z Even before the change of operations, however, mysterious reports had begun to come in. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Whatever it was, it startled Carolina, giving her a brief, undefined chill that stayed with her for a minute or sometimes throughout the day, nagging, inarticulate, untouchable, mysterious—perhaps like the aura from her saints. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I do know this—the big and mysterious America is bigger than I thought. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z In the kitchen, I couldn’t help but notice that my dad’s mysterious pile of depressing papers was just sitting on the table, in plain view. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Far down the island the skyscrapers rose tall and mysterious in the thin, pastel haze. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z After the long, torchlit approach, walking straight into the gaze of the snarling deity, mysterious bellows reverberating off the stone, the oracular declamation from above must have been spine-chilling. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z And, of course, the mysterious disease I had had might have been dormant and contagious. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z At some mysterious and critical point, the crime rate began to turn. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z While he hadn’t found steady work, he always had mysterious ways of hustling up pocket money, and he’d come home at night drunk and gunning for an argument. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z In some mysterious way, it turned the running of the river into power for the city. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z To me nembutal was a powerful and mysterious liquid, but when I asked questions about its properties I could not obtain a single intelligent answer. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes, too, the mysterious power, Fate, is spoken of as stronger than he. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z But as all they knew for sure about the mysterious object was that it was about two inches long, they didn’t have much chance of guessing what it was without further clues. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z Then the flames died down, leaving no trace of the mysterious Ash Being. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z There is scarcely an instance of hypothermic death that isn’t in some measure mysterious and improbable. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z That was one of the mysterious and fascinating things about it. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z “And e-mail. And post mysterious statements on Omnictionary’s Paper Towns talk page.” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z For most people, the question was kind of mysterious. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Then she did hear something: a mysterious, vastly distant rustling and crackling. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z And then there was the talk about two mysterious letters, and also what she’d overheard him saying that fall to her mom: Everyone has something to hide. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z You are meant to feel disorientated and in the grip of mysterious powers. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z No one really knew why he had left such a position of honor, although there were many wagging tongues and interesting stories that tried to explain his mysterious appearance in our small village. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z True to her word, Mrs. Richardson filed her story and turned to the mysterious photograph. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Jo’s face was a study next day, for the secret rather weighed upon her, and she found it hard not to look mysterious and important. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z They have led to illness and death of workers in electrical industries; and more recently, in agriculture, they have been considered a cause of a mysterious and usually fatal disease of cattle. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z A terrible sense of loneliness came over me; they seemed to enact a mysterious pantomime. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Holmes stuck to his claim that Minnie Williams and the mysterious Hatch had killed the children. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z It is a mysterious thing how cheerful people become in the face of disaster. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I have driven through the Southwest many times, and even more often have flown over it—a great and mysterious wasteland, a sun-punished place. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘You are very mysterious! What are you afraid of?’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z He wanted to meet this mysterious brother, maybe learn something about Hazel’s background —who her dad was, what secret she was hiding. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Berlin surrenders; Goring surrenders; the great mysterious vault of Nazism falls open. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Those post-cards would be very fine in America; strange and mysterious. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z She glared at me, then returned to her mysterious activity. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z By Friday morning, I’m pretty sure I’ll never get a response from the mysterious poet. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z Everything was suffused with a mysterious golden light, which seemed to come from the stadium itself. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Three-quarters of its ruins were still covered with shifting sand; she liked the thought that she was named after a mysterious place of buried secrets. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z Eurasia and Mesoamerica developed indigenous writing, which failed to emerge in Polynesia, except perhaps on Easter Island, whose mysterious script may however have postdated the islanders’ contact with Europeans. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The failure of Mars 6 is more mysterious. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He had died of a mysterious African plague that had turned him as yellow and wrinkled as a piece of parchment. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z In later years the humble feast grew into a mysterious worship, about which we know little. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z I envied them the order of their lives, the precision with which they marched with no prodding and no harsh glances, the mysterious black figures beside them like veiled anchors. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z Die this way, die that way; pass out at hard labor, or get shot shuffling from one mysterious mound to the next—what's the difference? What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Libby’s research began in the global scientific race during the 1930s and 1940s to understand cosmic rays, the mysterious, ultrahigh- velocity subatomic particles that continually rain onto the earth from outer space. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z My bowl was always full, three five-course meals every day, beginning with a soup full of mysterious things I didn’t want to know the names of. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Beowulf was down on his haunches, scratching Reginald gently between the ears and murmuring to him in some mysterious doggie language. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z All had died from some mysterious cataclysm just under twelve million years ago in the time known to geology as the Miocene. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z At home Toño rinses our mysterious meal, grinning grinning with wicked glee all the while. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z Last year, however, Hagrid used his mysterious influence over the headmaster to secure the additional post of Care of Magical Creatures teacher, over the heads of many better-qualified candidates. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Lindsey had kissed five girls before, and had done other, mysterious, serious stuff with three of those. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z “Always like to meet magicians. In fact I always like to meet anybody. It passes the time away, what, on a quest” “Hail,” said Merlyn, in his most mysterious manner. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Our mysterious ferryman having deposited us on a wharf off Essex Street, we made our way to South Street, where Dr. Trefusis recalled that there was an inn that might accommodate us. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z A couple of hours after the mysterious jelly bean appearance during cerealball, my mom gave Robin and me each a grocery bag. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z “We’re in for some mysterious trouble,” whispered Fiver, “and it’s not elil. It feels more like—like mist. Like being deceived and losing our way.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Jones was a valuable and mysterious secret agent operating along the watery borders between Union and Confederate territory. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The evidence found in Booths hotel room included the mysterious “Sam” letter that seemed to predict the assassination. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Liam was a great many things, but mysterious and unpredictable weren’t included in that deck of cards. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Then, like mysterious invaders, they popped into their burrows. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z All I needed was a bald, mysterious black man to come into my life and show me the way. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z In another, he was looking down in a close-up shot, his face a blurred and mysterious silhouette. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z In some mysterious way, from this horror of blank boundless vacancy the best of all things came into being. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Polly was unaccustomed to being this close to a Negro, and she marveled at how dark and mysterious the girl’s face looked. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z The sun created a halo around it, making the moon’s surface dark and mysterious in comparison with its shining rim. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z "Some very mysterious things go on in the world of witches." The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z Mattie had grown so mysterious to her, that he took the place of someone like the Holy Ghost—he was never seen but his presence was felt. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z And as things returned to a semblance of normalcy, Ophie began to wonder more and more about the life and death of the mysterious Clara. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z In a small fraction of the time it took her to form her plea, Our Father irritably countered that the Lord operates in mysterious ways. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The aura of Miss Lumley’s dark, mysterious, repulsive bloomers clings around her and colors the air in which she moves. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z After the magistrate had left, the villagers found out Babulya was the mysterious potions maker. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z Every time I go down to the Hideout, I keep hoping the mysterious poet will be there. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z Or what the source of this mysterious evil might be. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z A look of mysterious thoughtfulness crossed his face. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z She was a sort of cat goddess, and there was a famous statue of her as a cat, with cruel mysterious eyes and earrings in her ears. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Now it was a cool night with that mysterious excitement in it which comes at the two changes of the year. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z “A sailor off the coast of Ephesos heard a mysterious voice crying out from the shore, ‘Tell them that the great god Pan has died!’ The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z I was eager to once again experience the Lord’s mysterious ways. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z It was almost as if they were a little bit afraid of finding out whether there was any mysterious writing on the slip of paper that still hung, damply limp, from Thoth’s beak. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z But to their chagrin, the mysterious messages turned out not to be from the Nazis. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z It was a mystery, but then there are many mysterious things in our social thinking. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Then they were over clear sky again, and she turned to her mother with a sudden mysterious air of secret knowledge. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z Ralph found a clue as to what teachers did in that mysterious place from a television commercial shown several times a day. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z For it was time that filled his mind, time that was violent with the mysterious love of God. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z Evidently it was the natural formation of the terrain that inspired this extraordinary work of landscape architecture, as mysterious and moving in its way as Stonehenge. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z We’d talked about it plenty of times, so it wasn’t like either of us had forgotten the mysterious midnight date we’d arranged. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z It was a strange time and a mysterious journey, to Jody—an extension of a dream. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z There was the yearning for identification loosed in me by the sight of a solitary ant carrying a burden upon a mysterious journey. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘God works in his mysterious ways,’ she said, which was her stock reply whenever she didn’t know the answer. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z It only served to reason that the olive oil Tessie drizzled over everything had some mysterious power to stop the body’s clock, while the mind, impervious to cooking oils, kept going. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Was it the stone, my antics, or the Lord once again moving in mysterious ways that had turned the horses? Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z The secret room that had spun them around and somehow joined the Greystones’ basement with the mysterious house really did feel more like a tunnel now. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z And the story of a mysterious stranger who no longer seems quite so mysterious and who is definitely no longer a stranger. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z Human nature is both predictable and mysterious; prone to great and sudden advances, yet still mired in despicable self-interest. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Odin learned them at the cost of mysterious pain. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Josef’s is of a voluptuous but not overweight woman, sitting on a stool with a sheet draped between her legs, her breasts exposed; her face is Pre-Raphaelite, brooding, consciously mysterious. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z He had been struck with a sudden and mysterious sickness. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z “But I don’t want to be cute and funny. I want to be mysterious.” Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z The Russians were fed up with a sickly prince swallowing strange herbs to combat a mysterious illness. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z The aura of Miss Lumley’s dark, mysterious, repulsive bloomers clings around her and colors the air in which she moves. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Her eyes were mysterious and kind and her skin dark brown with a glow, darker than toast and looking a little like it had been buttered. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Basically, due to certain mysterious circumstances, I'm now out to my whole family and will soon be out to the whole freaking universe. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z That would be humiliating, because then he would show that he knows that gallantry enchants me; will he be mysterious? The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z Toddling Callie, wobbling Mona; they seemed to be always emerging from under the kitchen table — Callie on a mysterious errand, Mona forever chasing that sister gone around the corner. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Around us, the countryside lay veiled and mysterious, silent in the night and fog. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Since I can’t read the language, the signs seem like art pieces with beautiful, mysterious forms. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z They were made of some mysterious metal with no shine to it, some material developed especially for the Assassins. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z It is mysterious, not merely a copy of ourselves as, after all, the hanged men and seaweed women are. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “They do not know that God works in mysterious ways.” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z It was lost in a mysterious silence somewhere in Georgia. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z “You are because the Lord, to quote a great woman, works in mysterious ways.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z But they had sent her back to her own mother and father, a mysterious act hinting at disgraces not told me. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z At that time, there was a widespread belief that these stones that looked like living things were just that—rocks, which, through some mysterious process, mimicked the appearance of life. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z He has me visualize smooth running, which in some mysterious way seems to help. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z Really he was just as mysterious as everything else in the Glade. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z Almost every day someone claimed to have heard a mysterious moo. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z Scrimgeour was already rummaging in his pocket for the mysterious powder that turned the fire green. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z North American researchers tended to scoff at the notion that some mysterious non-Indians had lived fifteen thousand years ago in the heart of Brazil, but South Americans, Pena among them, were less dismissive. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z She pictures the maids in their quiet, mysterious cluster at the end of the patio, Altagracia with her hands in her lap. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z But Jason doesn’t have “spy” or “secret agent” or even “mysterious.” Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z And since the lives and practices of rich men were mysterious, who knows what they could use or not use? East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z What if Park realized that all the things he thought were so mysterious and intriguing about her were actually just . . . bleak? Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z I wanted to twist the little metal dial to those mysterious numbers that would magically open my locker. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z I wasn't about to drink some mysterious street brew. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z I had to admit, it was exciting and mysterious how the diviner could draw a whole story out of these little somethings. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z There are not that many subjects that could be spoken about, between us; there’s not much common ground, except this one mysterious and chancy thing. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z “It is a mysterious Business, Conception,” says Mr. S. “And wonderful,” says Shem, thinking clearly of some seaside Trollop. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Floating on a raft down the Mississippi to one mysterious place after another with nothing else around except trees and water, it beckoned to him. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z To him, the words on the page were a scramble of codes, indecipherable, mysterious. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Shay sometimes talked in a mysterious way, like she was quoting the lyrics of some band no one else listened to. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z “There’s no camera in here, but keep your voice down anyway. Sorry to be mysterious, but the bedrooms are the only places the drones and cameras can’t get to.” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z Whether released into soil or water or a man’s blood, these unrelated chemicals do not remain segregated; there are mysterious and unseen changes by which one alters the power of another for harm. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z There was a tremendous fishy odor like a thousand tuna cans had been opened, and a sizable pool had formed on the ground below its mouth—blood, seawater, and mysterious shark fluids. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z The problem with mysteries is they’re mysterious-, if any bozo could figure them out, then they wouldn’t be mysteries, would they? Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z Both my tutor and our mysterious captain leaned out over the water opposite to me, that they might right the boat while I struggled over its gunwales. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z This mysterious underground railroad was spoken of, in whispers, in the quarter on the Brodas plantation, just as it was on all the other plantations. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z When I saw her smiling face, I was suddenly relieved Jenna hadn’t told me her mysterious secret. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z He had almost as much as declared his conviction of her criminality last night: what mysterious cause withheld him from accusing her? Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Livingston also was perplexed about his inability to coax the protons to more than seventy-five accelerating steps, a mysterious constraint on the machine’s effectiveness. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Via mysterious connections available only to initiates, they learned of Clara’s existence, established telepathic contact with her, and immediately realized they were astral sisters. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘No, I don’t think any harm of old Butterbur. Only he does not altogether like mysterious vagabonds of my sort.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Turner felt as if the world was suddenly a more mysterious place. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z The eyes that Frankie had found mysterious and intriguing were narrowed as Tad zeroed in on him. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z There is, alas, no step-by-step method to guide us, but this does not mean that the process is entirely mysterious. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z I wondered about the mysterious messenger, and I wondered about all the things in the course of a lifetime that would not matter. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z He worked on energy contracts for the government, which sounds as mysterious as it was. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z And there were still complaints of flogging or mysterious deaths. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z I trusted Timothy, and kept telling myself that he wouldn’t harm me, but it was the whole mysterious jumbi thing that was frightening. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z It all added up to more than he could really put into words, maybe more than even a poet could—something beyond the sum of its parts, something mysterious and ineffable and gorgeous to behold. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z He had some kind of handheld electronic device with which he was taking mysterious readings of the sky or landscape. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Interesting . . . and brilliant . . . and mysterious . . . and perfect . . . and beautiful . . . and possibly able to lift full-sized vans with one hand. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z “Most mysterious. And now, over to Jim McGuffin with the weather. Going to be any more showers of owls tonight, Jim?” Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z But a fault line ran through the center of his thinking, a kind of mysterious region where ideas entered going in one direction but then emerged headed the opposite way. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z He would undress and get into the water with the boys, and his mysterious sense of orientation would allow him to avoid the deep and dangerous spots. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Once again physicists are talking about the cosmological constant—the mysterious term that Einstein added to his equations to balance the push of gravity. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z If it was a star then it must be a miracle, some sort of mysterious divine sign whose meaning urgently needed to be deciphered. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z All were complete with goggles—like Soulzeren’s, but weirder, with luminous yellow lenses and mysterious clockwork gears. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z And it was on one such afternoon that they noticed something mysterious far out at sea. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z “Which is by far the most mysterious,” said Julian. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z We must remember, though, that Mr. Gonzalez is under orders from that mysterious tycooness, the reputedly brilliant and learned Mrs. Levy, to treat Miss Trixie well and to make her feel active and wanted. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The imagination is one of our most mysterious facets. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z “There are two courses open to our mysterious assassin,” said Poirot slowly. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z The Platypus-Thing puffed one last gout of steam, then turned away, continuing slowly down the street in the same direction as the mysterious mob. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z He cleaned off his glasses to get a better look and found himself walking towards a mysterious glow. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Maybe it was because the Corcorans were Irish, maybe it was that Mr. Corcoran was born in Boston, but the whole family seemed to feel, somehow, that it had a mysterious affinity with the Kennedys. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z I lie down on many a station platform; I stand before many a soup-kitchen; I squat on many a bench;—then at last the landscape becomes disturbing, mysterious, and familiar. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Last night George had eaten two plates of roast beef, veal and ham pie, carrots sweet as candy, and a mysterious dessert called meringue pudding. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z There is nothing quite so delightfully mysterious as a secret in your own backyard. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Penelope wondered what, if anything, in the mysterious woods they once inhabited could have prepared them for this sight. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z Details of Rivington’s exploits, founded more on legend than on fact, remain mysterious. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Everyone wants to capture the mysterious and powerful reactions we have to the world around us. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Mrs. Turner’s brother was back on the muck and now he had this mysterious sickness. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z People tended him now, and he helped with farm chores, but his energy was gone, taken away by the mysterious energy that lived in lightning. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z Junior high schools seemed to be wonderful and mysterious palaces. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Her husky voice was irresistible, and I glimpsed starlight in her dark, mysterious gaze. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z She believed mysterious people were trying to kill her with alien sound wave machines, so she would sleep in a tool shed to hide herself. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z The gentle curves of the vase, its mysterious green color. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z To me the front is a mysterious whirlpool. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z So Pong was willing to wait until the mysterious Ampai returned. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z So April called up all the other Egyptians and made the invitation sound just as mysterious and intriguing as she could. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z But just like with the sex at Hailsham, there was an unspoken agreement to allow for a mysterious dimension where we went off and did all this reading. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z “Remember those messages I showed you on the Hideout wall on game night—the mysterious person I’m writing to? I want to find out who it is.” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z But even in the earliest Greek poem, the Iliad, this idea is beginning to give way to the idea of an Olympus in some mysterious region far above all the mountains of the earth. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z The governess had red hah and some mysterious wound from which she derived a lot of prestige by showing it to all the women of the castle, behind closed doors. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z His two- dimensional universe must have been warped, bent or curved through a mysterious third dimension. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z And the fog continued to roll in from the north, dense and cold and occasionally drenched with the strangest imaginable light, in which great forms could be vaguely seen, and mysterious voices heard. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z And how can I know who wrote the second letter, the one that came to me directly, with that mysterious list of words? Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z Because having my mysterious pen pal felt like having a little bit of Gram back. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z It was all one with the mysterious fox and the white bird. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Moreover, the crowd in the mysterious room at the bottom of the basin was comprised of adults, and Harry knew there were not nearly that many teachers at Hogwarts. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z The mysterious “New York bettor” was in fact Lin, who had talked the track official into placing the call. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Though the waltz was playing, those not dancing quieted themselves as the mysterious masked girl lifted her skirts and took a step, then another. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z The words ballooned from the lips and hovered about our heads—silent, separate, and pleasantly mysterious. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z “I have half a mind to join that group and go back with them and just be mysterious about where I came from.” From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z When one is concerned with the mysterious and wonderful functioning of the human body, cause and effect are seldom simple and easily demonstrated relationships. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Jem made mysterious papal passes over Dill’s head and said, “Look, Ned. He’s coming to.” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z To most whites, the reasons for the boycott that was devastating downtown merchants were mysterious at best and mean-spirited at worst. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Or a monstrous mysterious sphinx, aloof from all that lives. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z While the furrier thumbed through them, Sefia fidgeted impatiently, glancing around at the swirling crowd, reaching behind her every so often to reassure herself that the mysterious angular object remained inside her pack. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z There was nothing very mysterious about Gebu’s going there; he went there often. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z “The Rattler. That sounds as mysterious as the Shadow.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z “We shall solve this highly mysterious mystery ourselves.” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Determined to find the cause of a state of things so mysterious and shocking, I kept on until I arrived in the East Room, which I entered. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z So they put it on the altar, too, and called it the Crocodile Stone, and from then on it became the mysterious and powerful source of much of Set’s power. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z And one of the things they had in common, at that time, was a vague and mysterious fear of the old mart called the Professor. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z To his astonishment, he saw a nineteenth-century horse-drawn carriage, as if it had been conjured by the house itself from the mysterious sounds Joseph had been hearing. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z For instance, this morning she was saying “Gack!” over and over, which probably meant, “Look at that mysterious figure emerging from the fog!” The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z Without saying another word, they proceeded to strip the house of furniture, seizing the wardrobe, chairs and table, saying that the goods were payment for a mysterious debt of honor my father owed them. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z “This whole trick where you haven’t turned pretty yet. Very mysterious.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z “To what mysterious and fantastical lands may I offer you passage today?” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z The recipe is incomplete, since the lamp ought to be inscribed with mysterious characters and there is an incantation to be mumbled. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z There are others that aren’t board games—more like “Ms. Dale Stuff,” where she asks big, mysterious questions, like “How do you find good friends?” A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z It was as though some mysterious allknowing master had given each one a cloak of ugliness to wear, and they had each accepted it without question. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z They said I looked like Morpheus when I came out, all bald and mysterious.” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Hutton was by all accounts a man of the keenest insights and liveliest conversation, a delight in company, and without rival when it came to understanding the mysterious slow processes that shaped the Earth. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z She decided that the statue was not only the most beautiful in the world but also the most mysterious. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z There’s no mysterious warmth taking over me, no voice in the wind. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z He wanted to make sure there was nothing mysterious, nothing scary about any of it. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z It looked—so quiet and solid; the air over it was lavender in the evening light, and mysterious. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z Or the underground railroad could help you, with its secret trunk lines and mysterious routes. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The men say nothing, not even a single swear, and I take that to be because they’re still trying to put their best foot forward with the mysterious Katherine Deveraux, fine lady from the east. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z The mysterious newcomer sputtered dirt out of his mouth as he shook his head back and forth, and dirt puffed out of his dark hair like a cloud. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z For some mysterious reason I find it difficult to lie to the tinkerer. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Only the mist is cold, this mysterious mist that trails over the dead and sucks from them their last, creeping life. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z “Aberdeen Lake” sounds romantic and mysterious, like it might be located somewhere in die Scottish Highlands, as opposed to an abandoned outpost at the edge of Death Valley. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z For some mysterious reason, he responded as if he saw me as a regular human being who had made a reasonable request. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z He didn’t know anything about his bio dad, other than his last name and the fact that Joaquin only had to look in the mirror to know that his mysterious father hadn’t been white. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z Just as Emma hoped, the mysterious lines inside each dot joined, too. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z Clearly, the mysterious killing force was still in Philadelphia, still working its way into households despite every precaution, still infecting at an alarming rate. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z A mysterious roaring in his ears at times made it difficult for him to attend to conversation. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z She looked up at him, but her eyes were unfocused, and he was sure she was still thinking about the mysterious mark on the book. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z They were probably afraid something crazy would happen if they left me alone in the house with all my mysterious happiness. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Gut feelings about what the public wants are too mysterious and too iffy. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z “I love her, but she’s all about being, like, untethered and mysterious. It’s so annoying.” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z That leaves us with the theory that they were built for some mysterious cultural purpose that archaeologists have a hard time deciphering. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Then I see the sculpture, a few hundred yards away from the doors we entered through yesterday, gloomy and massive and mysterious, like a living entity. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z The heart of any other, because it had a will, would remain forever mysterious. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z “Colette tried to avoid our lesson this morning by complaining of a mysterious illness,” tattled Jeannine. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Then know that some man that all those mysterious and imperious concealed. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z At the time, South America was a very mysterious continent. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z Some of them were whitish and dried-out-looking, and some were covered with a mysterious green mold, but most of them were fine. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z I don't mean a nasty sneer, but an amused, mysterious sneer, as if all the people around her were pretty silly and she could tell some good jokes on them if she wanted to. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z The world beyond Earth had always been a mysterious place, silent, dark, and cold, the realm of magic and gods. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z I can't even begin to imagine what mysterious circumstances led to your being outed to the universe, but it doesn't sound pleasant, and I know it's not what you wanted. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z Not that either of them is very mysterious. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z This scar was the only hint of Harry’s very mysterious past, of the reason he had been left on the Dursleys’ doorstep eleven years before. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z I want to write another note to this mysterious person, but it can wait until later. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z "Even to me, it is mysterious. Full of wonders—and endlessly maddening." The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to perform and surely He has a special purpose for Mikey, fits and all. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Like the power plant manager who quelled a riot in Huntington Beach, and the mysterious good Samaritan in Tustin who saved a whole bunch of people at a nursing home, then disappeared. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Once again the giant peach was sailing peacefully through the mysterious moonlit sky. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z For a long time, this was the only image Mia had of Mr. Wilkinson, a mysterious cross between Marco Polo and Santa Claus who filled his home with treasures. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z That fall, a mysterious British visitor turned up at the estate, lugging a briefcase. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Rabat in Morocco, our next stop, with its ancient and mysterious walls, its fashionable shops, and its medieval mosques, seemed a charming mixture of Africa, Europe, and the Middle East. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z But he wanted to know what the “mysterious force” was; the merchant’s daughter would be impressed when he told her about that! The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z She held a few pages up against the window to see if the light would betray hidden watermarks or other mysterious evidence. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Aztec survivors were demoralized by the mysterious illness that killed Indians and spared Spaniards, as if advertising the Spaniards’ invincibility. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I mean, Dolly Parton—THE Dolly Parton—is singing to some mysterious Jolene who she thinks is more beautiful and more worthy than her, begging her not to take her man. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z She laughs in response, but in a friendly way, and it makes Bailey feel more at ease, as though he is just talking to a regular person and not someone mysterious or magical. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z “You ask deep questions, Mr. Potter. Wandlore is a complex and mysterious branch of magic.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z In Los Angeles, thousands of people found their eyes and throats stinging with mysterious fumes. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z The mysterious nature of his death was unlucky enough, but it would be even worse for him to be buried in the clothes he was wearing when he died. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z There was something gorgeous and mysterious about it, but it was also somewhat revolting if you thought about it too closely. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z That night, Cypriot military personnel reported a mysterious malfunctioning of their radar screens. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z That way each one could sign his messages with his symbol and that would make the whole thing more mysterious. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z “Maybe she’s got some mysterious illness and doesn’t want to be a burden to him.” Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z If Mr. Curtain knew the truth, by tomorrow Reynie might become someone else entirely—a mixture of mysterious pain and forgotten purposes, forgotten dreams. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z He would be whimsical, generous, mysterious with his money. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z Mrs. Bedlow marched her over to the hospital after dinner where a doctor cruelly gouged her leg and poured a mysterious liquid directly into the wound. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z What sets the real artist apart is not so much the desire to seek, but that mysterious ability to find, which we call talent. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Miss Mortimer had replied, with a warm and mysterious smile. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z Dozens of mysterious blue-green pools lie below, glowing at their edges. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z They also hadn’t realized that the art in museums can be mysterious, that grown-ups don’t always know what it means or where it came from. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z She often works in mysterious ways, organizes and orchestrates things he never sees coming until all the threads come together. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z “My reasons for coming to this school aren’t so mysterious,” she says. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z It is such a mysterious place, the land of tears. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z Carrie spent several weeks looking smug and mysterious, rubbing her hand on her belly, before Mr. Avengard, the vice principal, called an assembly to address the entire grade. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Its mysterious origins are lost to a prior age of this world. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z Seen from a car window they appear as fragments, evoking memories of woodchucks, badgers, skunks, voles, snakes, sometimes the mysterious wreckage of a deer. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z However, Poncelet had no idea that projective geometry would reveal the mysterious nature of zero, because the second important advance, the complex plane, was still needed. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z This mysterious man drove us to the Congolese border, which was jammed with crowds of people trying to get out of the country and head into Burundi. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z The mysterious force, once again, might be the force of the vacuum. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z As he said this he sighed and looked so grave and noble and mysterious that for a second Digory really thought he was saying something rather fine. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z The thing to do, I thought with a smile, was to give them hints that whatever you did or said was weighted with broad and mysterious meanings that lay just beneath the surface. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Benches were springing up all over town for the mysterious tourists. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z One by one, Cooke took out the rats and held them as the doctor solemnly injected the mysterious fluid under their skins. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z At the very next corner, deep inside the dense, impenetrable shadows of a narrow, winding side street, he heard the mysterious, unmistakable sound of someone shoveling snow. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z When we make our announcement asking the mysterious author of this wonderful poem to please come forward, I wish for back when a pack of birds and fifteen minutes of recess would fix everything. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z He grabbed the end of the rope and swung out toward the other bank with a kind of wild exhilaration and landed gently on his feet, taller and stronger and wiser in that mysterious land. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z She’s worried about something having to do with her mysterious appointment. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z It was dusted with flour, which explained the mysterious white powder on her face. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z A couple of quick flashes popped from the mysterious figure. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z He glanced at Percy, as if to say: like mysterious Greeks, for instance. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z “With torches and a big purple curtain over the entrance . . . really mysterious. But inside, a totally decked-out pad with a game room and one of those home theater systems.” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z It is in our collective behavior that we are most mysterious. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Now, it all had a mysterious anger to it. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Some of the men spoke of God: His mysterious ways, the sins of the Jewish people, and the redemption to come. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z But the Lord works in mysterious ways; it was two of the oddest things that come together and saved my life. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z “And don’t tell me God works in mysterious ways,” Yossarian continued, hurtling on over her objection. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z The angel appears to kneel on a mysterious oval cloud, which envelops the sleeping disciples. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z To the unschooled eye, the scribbles would have been wholly mysterious and indecipherable: Yet I read it back to him without pause, and this time I was struck by the import of the words. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z There’s an odor of witch about them, something mysterious and exotic; it remains despite the scrubbing and the welts on their feet and the time they’ve spent in Solitary. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z He’d withdraw to his hammers and nails, to the mysterious books in his dresser, to the newspapers and magazines he brought home rolled up in his wooden toolbox. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z The mysterious electricity must have come on in the night and awakened the merry-go-round. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z He said, “Uh-uh, she was right, this is mysterious and special, so that grin’s got to go, brother.” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z It was one of those mysterious, oppressive days we sometimes had at Hampden, where the mountains that lowered at the horizon were swallowed up in fog and the world seemed light and empty, dangerous somehow. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z No one paid me any special attention, although the street was alive with pedestrians, all moiling along in the mysterious tint of green. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z How the news channels would all do a story about the mysterious skeleton found at the bottom of a cave. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z Or, as John Quincy Adams described the seamless character of the partnership, “it was a phenomenon, like the invisible and mysterious movements of the magnet in the physical world.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Had that mysterious creature been frightened to death? The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Above all he wanted the exposition landscape to produce an aura of “mysterious poetic effect.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z And yet it was hard to tell about teachers—they were mysterious, they could sense when something unusual was going on. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Rarely did a murder involve the mysterious elements of dime novels and mystery stories. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z They were the last people you’d expect to be involved in anything strange or mysterious, because they just didn’t hold with such nonsense. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z “Just tell me! Don’t come here acting all mysterious. I’ve been through everything with you, man. Everything. And now because you meet some girl, you think I’m going to change my mind?” We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z “I wouldn’t say it happens every time, P. K., but I am saying it could happen at any time. The Lord works in mysterious ways.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “About why you wear that heart About your mysterious someone.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Equipment manufacturers were appointed in the same mysterious manner while supposedly awaiting Lawrence’s approval. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The robot tapped his head a few times, but the mysterious signal remained. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z The words were mysterious and beautiful, so I let him stay. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z God works, as is very well known, in mysterious ways. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Ripping out cables, crushing components, stealing mysterious gizmos that could not be replaced. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z It was as if some mysterious energy bound his life to that of the sheep, with whom he had spent the past two years, leading them through the countryside in search of food and water. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z And someone has to flush out the mysterious “we” lurking in the “our” in the “Our people make the difference” statement we wear on our backs. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The basis of Thula’s was less so, and somewhat mysterious to her family. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z That was the real threat to be dealing with, not some mysterious, inexplicable evil Elena had mentioned. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z There was also a mysterious growth developing on my body that defied explanation. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The only thing more mysterious than failing to invent the wheel would be inventing the wheel and then failing to use it. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Home from the hospital, I sat for hours by his bassinet and absorbed his mysterious perfection. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The insides of the stores seemed even more exotic and mysterious than the vegetables displayed on the sidewalk, but he couldn’t get her to go in one with him. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z The ice looked colder and more mysterious, the sky a cleaner shade of blue. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z If there was a single group in America that Bull had difficulty with over the simplest forms of address, a group as mysterious to him as children, it was southern blacks. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z He felt himself in the presence of the mysterious. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z This was a strange and mysterious war zone but I supposed it was quite well run and grim compared to other wars with the Austrians. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z There is something mysterious as well, something fantastical. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z It was a part of her nature that some of the other black employees at Langley found mysterious, even vexing. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z If the secret and mysterious land of Egypt was fascinating in the daytime, it was doubly so at night. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z The mysterious river Eridanus, which no mortal eyes have ever seen, received him and put out the flames and cooled the body. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z There were long, dark alleyways between the historical buildings, hidden paths, secret entrances, and a few unsavory occult shops where only the most mysterious villagers seemed to congregate. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z Each one is intricately formed to the smallest detail and, even weathered as they are, the black pearl eyes still flash with a mysterious power. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z In imagining myself as modest, mysterious, and fiercely intelligent, I'm forced to realize that, in real life, I have none of these qualities. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Her employment record is sketchy, even downright mysterious at times. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z It was mysterious to me and also very impressive. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z And we can hear that shift in the voice of one remarkable, mysterious Indian. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z “How much do you want to bet that our mysterious benefactor is behind the trophy as well?” he said to Candice. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z There was something inside him that nobody else understood, something mysterious and strong. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z I see a mysterious emotion in his eyes—anger? Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z “Her accuser recanted after he was struck with mysterious boils. Some said these proved his charges, while others said they were God’s punishment for his wicked lies.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z A few weeks later George and Florah came down with a mysterious illness, which left them emaciated and lethargic, their stomachs so distended that I thought they would burst. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z “Shall I give you a performance this evening—show you what the bottles, the cotton wool, and all the other mysterious things in my bag are for?” he asked without looking at her. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z So Rogers set out to find this mysterious Helen Lane. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z I glanced back just as the mysterious pirate was hurling Luno’s stubby gun into the basin. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z “In the meantime, let’s find your mysterious Master Ash. I’d love to ask him a few questions about what he saw back at the Mauthen farm.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Hazel might have plunged into a mysterious fantasy woods after an evil witch with a pack of wolves at her disposal, but at least she’d brought a compass. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z I whispered, slowing down to get a better look, but as I did, the mysterious woman turned away from me. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z But the inside of a square is forever mysterious, unless some terrible accident or autopsy breaches the sides and exposes the interior parts. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z And there had been times when it had seemed to have a mysterious sort of reality about it. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z All of this seemed mysterious to Jack, who believed in God but at that time knew more about the Catholic faith than the Jewish faith. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z Her engagement this evening was a mysterious one. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z I knew that those hills cradled the mysterious Hidden Lakes, but I had never been there. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I had just finished telling Gram and Gramps about the mysterious message when Gramps pulled off the freeway. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z After the last mysterious phone call, Milton had waited for another. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z At twenty weeks a mysterious line starts drawing itself down from her navel. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The white night-world looked wonderful and mysterious on either side of the road. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z The Count’s mysterious warning frightened me at the time; it frightens me more now when I think of it, for in future he has a fearful hold upon me. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z Her mysterious disease was rampant in the neighbourhood and had already claimed an infant’s life. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z His music, drawn by light touches, holds together by some mysterious link between them - and by his gift of luminous clear-sightedness. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Two determined explorers posed on a ridge and gazed at the mountains of the west, the mysterious country with its perils and discoveries before them. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z I lean in and make my voice raspy and mysterious. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z He established a network of mysterious contacts that enabled him to buy antiques, particularly baroque French porcelain, for which he had a weakness. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He just sat, holding Security on his lap and listening, and if he had any theories about mysterious powers or hidden watchers, he kept them strictly to himself. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z It made the music seem mysterious, which filled Jesse with a feeling of power over the hills rolling out from behind the truck. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z The ghost had disappeared when Richard sat in the chair, and now that she was no longer distracted she was better able to focus on the matter at hand: Richard and his mysterious conversation. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z “Jellyfish are really mysterious to me. The most poisonous one in the world is the size of a gnat or something.” Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Cox went home to bed, confused and disappointed, not knowing what to think about the mysterious Russian man. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z One of these rare tales told of a mysterious object called a book, which held the key to the greatest magic Kelanna had ever known. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z That evening, I took a break from drawing sharks to pick at a mysterious casserole with Dad. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z “We tell each other stuff we find mysterious about the world or whatever we might be thinking about.” Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z For years a mysterious, sinister man known as Trademaster had appeared now and then in the village, bringing tawdry thrills and temptations but leaving chaos and discontentment behind. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Here was a tool he could use, a process that could reduce the mysterious ways of politics to scientific testing and evaluation. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z The nuns I’d had in grades one and two were mysterious, unknowable, but Mr. French was a civilian. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z But I am confident - as I was then - that the sorts of elaborate and mysterious processes performed by someone like Mr Jack Neighbours had little or no discernible effect on the end result. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z Yet as weird as these singularities behave, they were no longer mysterious to mathematicians, who were learning to dissect the infinite. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z I was thinking the glow of his cigarette made him look mysterious. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Why would that seem so mysterious to me? Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z But in the wild lands beyond Bree there were mysterious wanderers. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z The mysterious third person, who is circumstantially presumed to be in charge, allegedly instructed McMillian to 'get rid of Myers,' which Mr. McMillian said he couldn't do because he was out of bullets. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z He's always so calm—bordering on mysterious, even. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z He opened it, raised his hand above it, fingers stretched taut, and again a mysterious icy stone appeared, just below the old man’s skin. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z Clothes never dried: tweed and woolen coats housed living things, sometimes sprouted mysterious vegetations. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z And their mysterious books, wrapped in shopping-bag paper, remained on the table next to the door, closed firmly behind them. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “Excuse me,” he said, when he was right under the mysterious figure, “but can you tell me the way back to Sir Ector’s castle?” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Something occurred inside of him then, something mysterious and definitive that uprooted him from his own time and carried him adrift through an unexplored region of his memory. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z I think that approach is a mistake, and if we are to learn to improve the quality of the decisions we make, we need to accept the mysterious nature of our snap judgments. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z He’s like Captain America and Batman had a baby—he’s polite, and cool, and mysterious all at once. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z “An ugly lives for tricks. Haven’t you ever done something just because a mysterious stranger intrigued you?” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z I tried to look very female and mysterious, slightly troubled by internal things they could not imagine and did not want to. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The state of the crops, the price of fat cattle, the mysterious ailments of swine, I relish them all. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Because it was a wind strange to me, and therefore mysterious, it set up mysterious responses in me. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z She felt she must look mysterious, with a large bag on her back and full of excitement. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z Maybe even more important, it gave the average citizen—trapped in Philadelphia and at the mercy of the mysterious killer—cause for hope. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z It means that in principle, then, we are not ruled by mysterious, unpredictable forces, but that, on the contrary, we can in principle control everything by means of calculation. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z What would it be like to know all the mysterious secrets of Fablehaven? Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z They had returned with a crew of ten more men and two trucks—one hauling the giraffe-drill along with other mysterious equipment, and the other loaded with plastic pipe. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z And what Blink is—what all the stories and studies and arguments add up to—is an attempt to understand this magical and mysterious thing called judgment. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z These boys brought with them voodoo superstitions, more mysterious than the ones I already held. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z “The number of mysterious persons who had rented houses in and about Indianapolis multiplied from day to day,” Geyer wrote. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z And as she thought and watched and listened, Beetle noted that the midwife had taken to mysterious errands. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The ways of God are mysterious, but if you live it out, just live it out, you see that it always works out. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z But Jean de Satigny held him in mysterious regard and was training him to be his assistant in the laboratory. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z No persuasions or enticements could overcome her fear, till, the fact coming to Mr. Laurence’s ear in some mysterious way, he set about mending matters. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z It is not mysterious to be home on a Saturday night, reading a novel in a pile of smelly golden retrievers. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z "But there's nothing mysterious about it. I escaped for a while—I went to France with the Army Medical Corps and remained there after the Armistice to study and practice." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z "We gods have our ways. Most of them mysterious." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z We can now understand that to Johns the leap of his imagination in Target with Four Faces remains as mysterious as it first seemed to us. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Breakfast comes to the dining room and the omelet is like a science experiment: is the lack of cheese explained by the mysterious holes that dot the alleged egg? It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z As my body rounded and my voice deepened, I was struck by this mysterious question of why. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Everyone wanted to talk about the mysterious James Parker, his secret life as Reggie Bradley, and his money. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Tally remembered Shay, the last night they’d seen each other in the city, saying that the mysterious David would take her to the Smoke. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z It allowed me to see a little of the mysterious world of the pervert. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z But for so dangerous and mysterious a planet as Mars, there was also at least an element of luck. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “Strange and mysterious and to make up rhymes, sing songs, tell fortunes. He said I looked startled by life, Chaya. Do you think so?” The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z They're just way stations before the prisoners are taken out of the country, to other camps with foreign-sounding names, to places where healthy young men may die of mysterious illnesses. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Yet she is drawn to these small, mysterious lives. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Elizabeth fell in love with this mysterious blue-eyed Russian man. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Rumors continue to fly about the mysterious recent disturbance at the Ministry of Magic, during which He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named was sighted once more. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z Stephen and his mother eventually gave up trying to find the mysterious baby opossum. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z The world is sometimes just, and I spent the next eighteen months sick in bed with a mysterious illness. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Of course, Booth was gone, but they searched his trunk and discovered an incredible and mysterious letter to Booth signed only “Sam” that described a large conspiracy against the Union government. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z But they had been gone so long at Thurmond that I had stopped trying to imagine what it must have been like for them to speak the mysterious language of electricity. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Ron, full of turkey and cake and with nothing mysterious to bother him, fell asleep almost as soon as he’d drawn the curtains of his four-poster. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z Soon, other two-legs would come to do the mysterious things that would hoist him to the surface of the arena. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z It was odd, but this time his smile seemed to her neither mysterious nor supercilious. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Once quantum mechanics was accepted, so, too, would the mysterious powers of zero. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z “I mean, why does everything gotta be so mysterious? Can’t I get a clear instruction or something? A manual? A step-by-step guide to being a hero?” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z Stirred by air currents of a mysterious origin, the fabrics flapped up and floated around the room. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z I had been to big food markets in Rwanda, but Walmart was a new ball game—more like a town than a market, with its aisles and aisles of mysterious foods, like boxes of cereal. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z The mysterious whistles intensified, and High John paused, then began to whistle again. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z Inside the bookstall I traveled to mysterious places to meet ancient beauties or terrible monsters. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Human minds, for all we’re learning about them, sometimes remain mysterious, human acts inexplicable. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z She loved me, in some mysterious sense I understood without her speaking it. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z Somewhere in all this, it was thought, there also resided a mysterious élan vital, the force that brought inanimate objects to life. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z I sometimes dreamed about sine, cosine and tangent, about mysterious angles and concussed computations, but for all this I made no real progress. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The Runners had just returned and entered the mysterious Map Room, clanging the iron door shut; Minho had already gone in earlier. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z Beneath us are the whitecapped waves and ahead the shimmering lights of mortal towns, like a mysterious land strewn with stars. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Mama tries to push the door open, but the chain’s still on and my mysterious grandmother doesn’t seem ready to move out of the way. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z I’d had a dream, nothing scary really, in which Charles and I were on a train, trying to evade a mysterious third passenger. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Ham skins, bacon rinds, and things too mysterious to mention. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z “Though not the way you think. Sometimes the line on the page is more mysterious than the problem.” Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z One government worker in the Mexican state of Tabasco, who in 1999 denounced corruption by certain judicial police agents, was dead a few days later in a mysterious car accident. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Two years ago her father disappeared into the preparation of mysterious consultation documents for the Home Office. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z This time the sled had—and continued to have, as he blinked, and stared at it again—that same mysterious quality that the apple had had so briefly. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z In a mysterious dance of sunlight and sugar, water and wind and soil, we build invisible bridges to connect with the world. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z As Kalugin would learn throughout the day, his mysterious protector was not the only KGB agent or soldier opposed to the coup. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z But for people who were unaware of that view, the reports about the mysterious planet kept alive the possibility that Martians existed. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z He knew only that it was impossible to count them, and that this was somehow due to the mysterious identity between five and four. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z In April 1960, Francis Crick and Jacob met at Sydney Brenner’s cramped apartment in Cambridge to discuss the identity of this mysterious intermediate. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z It took twelve years and a ton of good luck for me to find the mysterious Frances. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z In 1871, just when it appeared that Mary was recovering from her considerable grief, her eighteen-year-old son, Tad, died of a mysterious heart condition. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z Then, after two hours of watching mysterious symbols move across the lighted panel high on the wall of the broker's office, her eyes began to cross. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z And to make matters worse, bears have an instinct that drives them to attack when a creature runs away, especially if the creature running away is a mysterious, sparkling monster. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z One mysterious phrase called out by an older boy could rout the whole group in shrieks and laughter. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z It gave him a mysterious air, like a putative from the law. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z She explained about her mother disappearing, and the note from Mrs. Cadaver, and Mrs. Cadavers missing husband, and the rhododendron, and finally about the lunatic and the mysterious messages. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z He could hear sounds everywhere now, cracks, rustles, mysterious whispers—but his dogged, realistic brain knew them for what they were—the creations of his own heated imagination. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z Marigold handed her the oboe, wondering if perhaps this mysterious woman was a Talented oboist. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z Finally a doctor came, gray-haired, white-coated, spectacled, efficient, serious, taciturn, bearing a tray upon which sat a bottle of mysterious fluid and a hypodermic needle. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z But that night was a bit more mysterious, as I wasn’t sure exactly what I was looking for. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z “He has kept his wild-card choices surprising and mysterious. Why did he pick them? We’ll have to see. But don’t count the Phoenix Riders out yet!” Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z No one knew where Scipio spent the nights, and he never spoke about it, although every now and then he would drop a mysterious hint about an abandoned church. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z She didn’t have a mysterious admirer; it appeared they both had a mysterious matchmaker, which set Citra working on another mental list—at the top of which were her own parents. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z "She wasn't even into you, you know. She was just bored, and she thought you were mysterious and quiet—like, 'still waters run deep.' I told her that sometimes still waters just run still." Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z The most mysterious aspect of difficult science is the way it is done. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps since I am worried over her mysterious paramour, it is fitting that she seems equally worried over mine. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z But he could make it to the mysterious object. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z Did he seriously think she could possibly have heard any of his mysterious mouthings? Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z Adina saw no repeat of the mysterious lights, but she hunched closer to the fire, grateful for its light like some primitive ancestor. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Holding it up to the sunlight, I saw it was muddy and full of mysterious particles, but I put iodine in until it was cast purple and hoped for the best. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z For once her false eyelashes were on straight, and she had heavy black eye makeup that made her eyes look long and mysterious. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Well, Melias went left for a’ that—and he came by ill-luck stricken through the hauberk at the hands or some mysterious knight wha rode upon him, as Galahad foretold. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z The Lord hath given to Each his especial Gift & Work; & I reckon that when that mysterious Work is taken up, we finding it at long last, then do we most fulfill what we Need Be. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Even if the succeeding sensations are not common, they are at least not mysterious. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z She saw how welfare caseworkers kept clients in the dark about their rights, justifying arbitrary actions by citing mysterious regulations. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z This was the only association the two women had, and Angela truly must have been ignorant of the fact that her mysterious benefactor was also her victim’s mother. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z His affection grows day by day, but some mysterious force is holding us back, and I don’t know what it is. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z Surrounding her were candles she burned in daylight, clean yellow diamonds, footlights that ringed her, mysterious masked mother, nose and mouth veiled with a cowboy handkerchief. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z It was all part of a mysterious uncertainty about even the smallest item of public information about the old man. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z On the glass that covered it, some mysterious unknown person had crayoned a mustache right above my toothless grin. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z It was all very mysterious to her, and very uninteresting. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z I feel like Gregory is the kind of person who understands that life’s just more mysterious than most people think, and is okay with leaving it like that. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z Desks and chairs were falling apart as if being demolished by mysterious unheard dynamite explosions. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The Lord does work in mysterious ways His wonders to perform. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z It’s the one I remember from our Toronto house; I still think of it as mysterious, the repository of treasure. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z And this, even more wonderful and mysterious, is also true: when I read it, when I read what Julie’s written, she is instantly alive again, whole and undamaged. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z There it was again, that mysterious smile, sad and supercilious at the same time. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Instead, she studied the Fannings intently for clues as to their mysterious behavior. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z The immediate advantages of falsifying the past were obvious, but the ultimate motive was mysterious. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z And do not think we Americans are immune from this mysterious plague of dancing possession. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z It looks odd, and perhaps a bit mysterious, but not extraordinary. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z His smile reminded the boy of the old man—the mysterious old king he had met. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The mysterious decanter had been found outside the service door to the del Valle house on the same day and at the same time that the roast pig was delivered. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “Lord, now would be a good time to move in your mysterious ways,” I said aloud. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z But that lonely figure in the ragged flapping shawl — it was easy enough to imagine any sort of mysterious brew in that pot! The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z I’ve gone as far as I can on a conscious level, and now it’s up to those mysterious operations below the level of awareness. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z It is impressive and unusual news, the sudden appearance of a mysterious circus. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z “She was a case,” and, parenthetically, “You know Faye run Kate’s place. Nobody really knows how Kate come to own it. It was pretty mysterious, and there was some that had their suspicions.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Dear Diary, It’s amazing how life works in mysterious ways. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Though crowds made her uneasy, she scouted populated areas for signs of the woman in black and her mysterious companion, asking after them in nearby villages and in lumber encampments in the forest. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z He had imaginary conversations with Anulika all the time, and, right after he touched himself at night, Nnesinachi would appear briefly with a mysterious smile on her face. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z It was an island boy’s face and at the same time mysterious. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Before I have this mysterious vision issue under control, I’m about twenty rows past Jeffrey, so I’ve missed the moment for a quick reply. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Right on schedule, Ryan came running into the lobby, warmly dressed to go to that mysterious place known as school. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z Behind the King's Tower, the Wall glimmered in the light of the moon, immense and mysterious. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z It is the story of the people who battled over the meaning of the mysterious number—the scholars and mystics, the scientists and clergymen—who each tried to understand zero. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z And his mother had been so apologetic about this mysterious protection she was going to give him. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z How can something so wonderful and mysterious be true? Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z In tiny print below the letter, newspaper editors, under pressure from the FBI, the police, and a committee of museum directors, explained that they would not publish any more of the mysterious advertisements. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z I loved the strange and mysterious shapes of the letters, the sounds of the prayers as we all recited together, and the stories about how to live a life according to the teachings of Allah. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Musical timbre is one of the most critical of all components of music, yet remains one of the most mysterious of all human perceptual attributes. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z “Disguise yourself as a mysterious lady and find out how bad he is.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z He passed out the mysterious envelopes while his family watched him in stunned amazement. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z It made a bold scientific declaration: even in the mysterious jungles of the New World, toads did not spring from mud, leaves did not change into moths, or butterflies into birds. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “Aunt Ivy’s right again. The Lord surely does work in mysterious ways.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Music that is in a minor key is sometimes described as sounding more solemn, sad, mysterious, or ominous than music that is in a major key. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Not long after the Crowell house bombing, another close neighbor, Mrs. Ryles, came home from teaching school one day and saw a mysterious brown paper bag lying in the bushes by her front porch. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z There were only some books in a pile, a small cooking stove, and the carpets, covered with mysterious designs. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s one thing to be purposely mysterious, but it’s rude to be scribbling stuff right in front of someone. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z With my eyes covered, I feel it again: this mysterious presence, like a stranger you keep spotting in unconnected times and places. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “You mustn’t put yourself at risk in these mysterious regions,” he warns. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Hopefully, my mysterious pen pal is still awake. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z Ambrose made a few mysterious passes and produced the shell, straight out of the mouth of an awestruck infant mouse. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z We’d been on a hunt the last time we really drilled him for info on our mysterious love interest, a little before Rose showed up. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z Then the woman who is not my grandmother shuffles out of the kitchen, leaving me alone with the mysterious box. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z When Ann started losing her breakfast in the mornings and sleeping all afternoon, her father fretted about the mysterious illness that had swept over his youngest child. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Apparently, however, for all his mysterious powers Helenus was not aware that Sicily, at least the southern part, was now occupied by the Cyclopes, for he did not warn the Trojans against landing there. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z But though this explanation makes sense on engineering grounds, he said, it doesn’t make the long-ago actions of the moundbuilders any less mysterious. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z His mysterious death sixteen days later raised charges by blacks that he had been cold-bloodedly murdered by the South African police. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Consequently, many of the stars today have Arabic names, which I think are mysterious and beautiful. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The viola is kept in the coat closet, and Cordelia takes it out and shows it to us, lying there mysterious and important in its velvet-lined case. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Postulating the existence of such a mysterious force was a desperate act. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Rebuffed, unhappy at the obtuseness of the very flat, the apple bumps the square and sends him aloft, fluttering and spinning into that mysterious third dimension. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The Lord certainly does move in mysterious ways. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Without warning he had found himself on the ground, struck down and weakened by a mysterious power summoned by the man. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z But she was resolute and most mysterious about her reasons for turning me down. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z A Frenchman, not an Englishman, would be remembered for taking the first nibble at the mysterious zeros and infinities that suffused calculus; mathematicians learn of l’Hôpital’s rule when they first learn about calculus. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z He has written mysterious things on the lines that he draws between cities. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z Part of the public trust in such an eventual outcome results from the misconception that cancer is a single, though mysterious disease, with a single cause and, hopefully, a single cure. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z But for all that, word of mouth remains very mysterious. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I was nervous but excited: Sing Sing, storied and mysterious, was exactly where I wanted to be. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Although the cold was sudden and the snow had fallen thick and mysterious overnight, the water of the lake was still open just past a skim of delicate ice onshore. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z In the house they became mysterious and subtle. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Rachel pulled the mysterious vehicle, her head down, as if she were in mourning, too. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z A clear version of the mysterious conversation never did emerge. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “Can you add something about our tea with Mrs. Sharpe? And maybe even Tommy’s letter and the disconnected phone, and your dad’s mysterious trip? You know the way writing things down sometimes makes stuff clearer.” Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z Can that kind of mysterious reaction be controlled? Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z A meal has been sent up from the mysterious kitchen with a container of my medications for dessert. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Some evil spell had settled on the community: mysterious maladies swept the flocks of chickens; the cattle and sheep sickened and died. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “There’s a way,” he said with a mysterious grin, “for you to take part in the qualifying rounds. And if you win, you could find yourself facing Stan Smith in the first round.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z “She did like being mysterious. Maybe she wanted it like this.” Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z The universe went on into infinity, dotted with innumerable worlds, each inhabited by mysterious creatures. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Here I am looking out at the stars, everything so still, so mysterious. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z As Roz sat in the airship, broken and alone and speeding toward a mysterious future, she looked back at her miraculous past. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z At our table, all the talk is about the identity of the mysterious racist/vandal/jerk. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z Clouds like mountains towered high above their heads on all sides, mysterious, menacing, overwhelming. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z ‘Dreams,’ he said, ‘is very mysterious things. They is floating around in the air like little wispy-misty bubbles. And all the time they is searching for sleeping people.’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z It is beautiful, ancient, mysterious and - in its incredible test of human memory - miraculous. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z He was liable to drag in bits of what he called poetry; and sometimes, after a glass or two, would allude to the absurd adventures of his mysterious journey. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z At the end of Harper Avenue they stopped and both ate an M&M, agreeing that the color blue had a rare and mysterious taste. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z The fields shine green and wet, and tree leaves drip, and I can almost see, hovering in the air, those mysterious red arrows and black letters hiding a world from me. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The will to live, it would seem, existed in this mysterious clear fluid that Strange had given of without a second thought. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z They seemed the embodiment of the kind of young thug feared by nearly all urban-dwellers, and the mysterious gunman who shot them down seemed like an avenging angel. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Marshall sniffed thoughtfully as April got him into his crown and robe and tried to make his baby-round eyes look long and mysterious with the eyebrow pencil. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Not surprisingly, she recovered from her mysterious illness after being dislodged from Faulkner’s grip. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z To survive, he ate worms and snails and other sluggish, deaf, and blind little creatures that inhabited the soft, mysterious soil. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He claimed to know of the existence of a mysterious country called Sugarcandy Mountain, to which all animals went when they died. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z Now they rotted quietly, neglected, sad, but filled with mysterious memories. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z She said that God works in mysterious ways, and it just so happened that she had inherited some land in Texas when Grandma died. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z A mysterious silence flowed over the heart of town. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z It was so near the time of starting that I had no time to ask any one else, for it was all very mysterious and not by any means comforting. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z Because all the events that had overturned the world had their origin in his mysterious activities. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “Listen, it’s not my fault he’s a mysterious and retiring young royal and you’re the tempestuous ingénue that caught his eye, okay?” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z He knew all kinds of secrets, understood the depths of this mysterious new world. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z It was the ocean of his blood, stretching in all directions, grainy and mysterious, faintly glowing with green. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Though the Casimir force—a mysterious, phantom force exerted by nothing at all—seems like science fiction, it exists. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z They arise no more; we are dead and they stand remote on the horizon, they are a mysterious reflection, an apparition, that haunts us, that we fear and love without hope. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s been over a week since I left my last message telling the mysterious person to write back soon. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z At night, wonderful and mysterious things began happening in this place, but since I was forbidden to be out after dark, I missed them all. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z Yossarian bounded up with a one-syllable cry that crackled with anxiety and provided the only rational explanation for the whole mysterious phenomenon of the flak at Bologna: Orr! Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z I’m relieved when the mysterious box jumps a couple of times. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z “And text constantly, and here”—she thrusts a mysterious manila envelope out at me, pulled from her bag. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z There was much sound of tissue paper, rustling and mysterious. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z I have sometimes watched men do mysterious things. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z As though I were carrying around a mysterious, unexplained burden or weight. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “Aha,” the mysterious potion brewer says, lifting a vial of blue fluid in one hand. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z He was the mysterious figure I’d heard of all my life but never seen. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z It had called him in some mysterious way, because it wanted to be his, because it had somehow always belonged to him. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z But she wouldn’t say and was quite mysterious about it. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z That struck me as odd, and I often wondered why people were so mysterious or obnoxious when they talked about this subject. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z Antinous’s words rang in his ears - about the giants in Athens, the impossible trip facing the Argo II, the mysterious hunter Gaia had sent to intercept the Athena Parthenos. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z She gives her best mysterious look, eyes mostly closed and mouth a thin, serious line. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z It sounds rich and mysterious, lingering in the air even after his hand moves away. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z But in spite of his immense wisdom and his mysterious breadth, he had a human burden, an earthly condition that kept him involved in the small problems of daily life. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Jody knew something was there, something very wonderful because it wasn’t known, something secret and mysterious. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z The hazard extends to human beings as well as animals and may help to explain the recent mysterious increase in “silo deaths.” Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z A stack of mysterious books, in a Near Eastern language which looked like Arabic and bearing the stamp of the Williams College Library, materialized in the back seat of his car. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z But he revealed the identity of the mysterious third man who had been seen with Anna shortly before her death. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z I was going to explain about the nervous young man and the mysterious messages, but my father would call me a goose. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z There had been a mysterious figure known as the Rattler, who had never really been a spy. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z Tuesday, April 18, acting on what was now a stale tip, a cavalry officer decided to follow up on the information about the mysterious strangers who stopped by Mudd’s farm on assassination night. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Aureliano, whose mysterious intuition had become sharpened with the misfortune, felt a glow of clairvoyance when he saw her come in. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z There were accusations and counter accusations, but no one would admit to writing the mysterious and puzzling words that straggled across the back of Ken’s question. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z It took no time for the mysterious name to pass from Soviet mouths to American ears: Sputnik. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z “Nico is kind of mysterious. He makes everybody else nervous, being the son of Pluto, and all.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Lawrences visceral feel for the mechanics and capabilities of the calutrons matched the mysterious affinity he had always shown for the cyclotrons. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z If the car hadn’t been adulterated for the mysterious and missing goats, it would hold thirty-two horses. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z The river, still dark and mysterious, was spanned by bridges that were turning coldly grey, with here and there at top a warm touch from the burning in the sky. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z “Shake hands in confirmation of the word. What cold fingers! They were warmer last night when I touched them at the door of the mysterious chamber. Jane, when will you watch with me again?” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z She was late for work every morning and excused herself by saying that she had overslept, and she complained of mysterious pains, although her appetite was excellent. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z Reader, it was on Monday night—near midnight—that I too had received the mysterious summons: those were the very words by which I replied to it. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Spices were expensive and came from the mysterious east, which made them a necessary part of any nobleman’s banquet. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z “No. I assume that whoever he is, he likes being mysterious. I bet he’s the same guy who made the donation to the library.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Their feet fell in with the rhythm of that mysterious heart; they quickened their pace. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z When I asked her if she had done what they claimed, she looked at me with a mysterious smile and said, “Rebellion is as American as apple pie. And so is fascism.” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z And even if I were French, it's not as if English is some mysterious tribal dialect spoken only by anthropologists and a small population of cannibals. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z “Something very big that will reveal itself with time,” Professor Ekwenugo said, with a mysterious smile. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z That’s the other powerful motivation—the customers, or “patients,” as I can’t help thinking of them on account of the mysterious vulnerability that seems to have left them temporarily unable to feed themselves. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z As strange as Logan County was, as often as its residents dealt with odd threats and weird occurrences and mysterious happenings, it wasn’t all bad. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z Since the chemical was acidic, its name was later modified to nucleic acids—but the cellular function of nuclein had remained mysterious. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Sixteen children and young people were stricken with the mysterious fever, and none of the familiar remedies seemed to be of any benefit. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z I could feel that mysterious divide between black and white again, just like at my last school, and I didn’t understand the reason for it. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z “There are a lot of mysterious stories associated with this wing. Did your client tell you about them?” The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z I, also, would like to look and smile, sit and walk like that so free, so worthy, so restrained, so candid, so childlike and mysterious. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z And yet, because these failures are so instantaneous and so mysterious, we don’t really know how to understand them. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z The mention of “openings” recalled the mysterious window in the air through which she had entered this world; and the first words seemed to say that she should go upward. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z And instead of being grave and mysterious like most Calormenes, they walked with a swing and let their arms and shoulders go free, and chatted and laughed. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z Celia had only vague notions about spiritual possession and animal sacrifice, and suspected that our rites had caused her daughter’s mysterious disappearance. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Exhausted and wet, he felt like the survivor of a shipwreck himself, a lost boy who’d just washed up on the doorstep of his uncle’s mysterious house. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z “Don’t you mean ‘Mr. X, the mysterious killer’? Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z I would track the bridle path to its mysterious end, wherever it might be. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z Soon, I trust, those conventions will be every bit as mysterious as the ones that governed the writing of Whig political history. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z It’s one thing to acknowledge the enormous power of snap judgments and thin slices but quite another to place our trust in something so seemingly mysterious. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Maybe one day we’ll visit that mysterious blue field in New Mexico. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z The majority of my teachers treat me as if I, and I alone, hold the answers to the mysterious creatures that African Americans are, like I’m the Rosetta Stone of black people. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z And the mysterious creatures must be strong to have rocked the box as they were being born. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z “My Lord”—his arms were spread open wide before the congregation—“your Lord, works in mysterious ways.” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z It is all so wild, and mysterious, and strange that if I had not known Jonathan’s experience in Transylvania I could not have believed. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z And then the nose began to tip down toward the mysterious high country forest where they would not be discovered in years. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Marriage was still more mysterious to him than it was to me, but in the fourteen months we’d been engaged, he’d been nothing but all in. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z It had ceased to be my childhood playground and had become its own reality, one whose physical laws were mysterious, hostile. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Navy SEALs had stormed a mysterious compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, looking for Osama bin Laden. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Apollo promised that he, the disgraced, the homeless wanderer, would bring to the place where his grave should be a mysterious blessing from the gods. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z In the Middle Ages, this mysterious group of stones was believed to be either the creation of an ancient race of giants or conjured by Merlin the Magician, who allegedly transplanted it from Ireland. The Annotated Mona Lisa 1992-06-01T00:00:00Z When the officers had left, I imagined them returning to the mainland, writing up a report, telling stories in the pub, spreading the news that the mysterious southerner really had been digging for treasure. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z “That was Aunt Ivy’s favorite saying, too. Well, letting me lose the claim is more than mysterious. It’s downright mean.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Langley added state-of-the-art facilities on the West Side like the Seven-by-Ten-Foot High-Speed Tunnel and the Four-by-Four-Foot Supersonic Pressure Tunnel, machines that could blast models with winds that approached or exceeded the mysterious speed of sound. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Pippin felt again its weight in his hands, and saw again the mysterious red depths into which he had looked for a moment. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z The lumpy ropelike braided features in the particle are the mysterious structural proteins. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z There’s something about the vegetation, too, that I respond to instinctively—the stunning bougainvillea, the flamboyants and jacarandas, the orchids growing from the trunks of the mysterious ceiba trees. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z During the last two months of school, everyone buzzes about the mysterious actress who brought the whole village—even rich foreigners—to tears. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z He had done some investigating of the man behind the mysterious radio voice. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z I dreaded the thought of her asking my grandmother about a mysterious letter arriving from New York addressed to me. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s hard to make sense of such a tragedy, surely it is, but the good Lord works in mysterious ways. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z Her breath made the glass misty, and so did Marly’s, so everything had a kind of mysterious fog around it. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z The whole scene quivered vague and mysterious in the green light, then the door closed and the sound muted down. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z I felt like some mysterious foreign species he was observing and trying to figure out. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “I like new. New is mysterious. Tell me about him.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z “This mysterious box thing: It’s got to stop.” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z Would I find any answers about his mysterious life? Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Victor felt as if he had crossed at least a hundred bridges when, finally, he turned into the alley where he hoped to find Dottor Massimo's mysterious movie theater. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z I have believed that sex was unspeakable and words so strong and fathers so frail that “aunt” would do my father mysterious harm. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z When my friend was an inexperienced young doctor, he was called into a hospital room to deal with a married couple stressed-out by a mysterious illness. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z She could tell he was wondering the same thing she was—was this tied to the mysterious benefactor from the library? The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z At other times, mysterious, hooded men would appear; they were Bedouins who did surveillance along the caravan route. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “Sometime in the summer of 1930, an amiable but faintly mysterious peddler suddenly appeared in the black ghetto of Detroit.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Of course, it had been a very special one, more serious and important and mysterious than most—and a lot more fun. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z The mistletoe dagger in Anya’s hand throbbed, and she remembered the mysterious woman’s instructions: Death. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z They saw a mysterious battered figure who had killed a demon. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z She was a mysterious and reclusive figure whom few had ever seen. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z She could in some mysterious way communicate with her God. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Someone had initiated her long ago; some mysterious shadowshaper had brought her into the fold, even against the wishes of her own grandfather. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z On the farther bank of Ocean were mysterious people, whom few on earth ever found their way to. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Looking to the mountains around us, I saw that the mysterious artist who comes at night had paid us a visit. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z She had been winked at, complimented, given a gift, and now mistaken for the mysterious Alyce who could read. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Her reasons for picking on me were as mysterious as Johannes’s reasons for catching up with me one day after school and offering to carry my books. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z Violence and shame have lined the old man’s face with mysterious calm. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z Mother and son had gone for a weekend vacation to Montauk, but left hastily, under mysterious circumstances. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z And so the legend grew of a mysterious group of enchanters who spirited children away. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z The seven mysterious proteins that, assembled together, make up the Ebola-virus particle, work as a relentless machine, a molecular shark, and they consume the body as the virus makes copies of itself. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z "There's nothing mysterious about it," Sunny tells me. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Even that mysterious chill she’d been feeling since the ship launched had dissipated, at least for now. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Their conviction of Sula’s evil changed them in accountable yet mysterious ways. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z He zeroed in on my scalp and pinched a group of hairs at the root, sliding mysterious debris to the end and setting off a ripple of chills from my shoulders to my face. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z It was also said that they had a pact with the devil, and that they kidnapped children and, taking them away to their mysterious camps, made them their slaves. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z I prepared to walk into a life that appeared suddenly mysterious and frightening. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “Because people in her line of work like to be mysterious. Just like whatever it is we re traipsing through the woods for in the dark right now. There’s a mystery.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z I mean, once you got past the rodents and the mysterious the-building-is-falling-apart groans in the walls, there wasn’t anything to do. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z A mysterious woman to me, my only living grandparent. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Distantly, the rendering sails wash back and forth, a borealis yielding some mysterious benefit to our business partners and guests. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z They walked among the lentil fields to a mysterious mounded shrine encircled by large smooth stones. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z To tamper with something as mysterious and miraculous as the birth of a child was an act of hubris. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “My mind works in mysterious ways,” says Johnny. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z I stare at the messages on the wall that I’ve been exchanging with the mysterious kid—Oliver?—and wish I could talk to them right now. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z Now that he was dead, they marked his passage to another plane in impersonal and almost tribal fashion—chanting, weaving mandalas, beating on drums, performing their own inscrutable and mysterious rites. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z It looked like a tremendous silver ball lying there in the grass, silent, mysterious, and wonderful. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z Only the deep hunger to unravel this mysterious photograph could have convinced her to approach her mother. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z "I've been very mysterious, though," she says, her eyes squint half shut. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z This God does not work in especially mysterious ways. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yes, well, Michael has a habit of talking too much. All I can tell you, Luke, is the Lord works in mysterious ways.” Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z We were sitting on the floor of Mary Lou’s room, and Phoebe was telling Mary Lou about the mysterious potential lunatic. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z I look to Alyssa, who, just like me, is shocked by the appearance of this mysterious girl, and terrified by what her intentions might be. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z And there was the mysterious shadowy figure that loomed from nowhere, accidentally frightening Finn into stepping in one of Uncle Louvers traps. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z Their leader was a mysterious, illiterate, one-eyed recluse named Mullah Omar, who, Rasheed said with some amusement, called himself Ameer-ul-Mumineen, Leader of the Faithful. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z And he concluded by saying the mysterious word: “Maktub” “You should pay more attention to the caravan,” the boy said to the Englishman, after the camel driver had left. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z It was spirit of the body—the clear fluid pumped by the second heart through its own network of vessels, subtler and more mysterious than the primary vascular system. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Only the soul, obsessed with the journey it had made, and had still to make, pursued its mysterious and dreadful end; and carried, heavy with weeping and bitterness, the heart along. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z They settled on this complicity: they would not heal their rift — their mysterious rift — but bridge it, with manners. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z “It means,” said Hanuman loudly, “that your fathers are mysterious, but always for a reason. These gifts from them are intended to help you in your quest.” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z I believe in God, that He works in mysterious ways...but this, this is too much. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z The old gentleman liked the fun, and amused himself by sending odd bundles, mysterious messages, and funny telegrams, and his gardener, who was smitten with Hannah’s charms, actually sent a love letter to Jo’s care. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z The priest who delivered Holmes’s last rites was found dead on the grounds of his church of mysterious causes. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “And besides, maybe your mysterious someone will show up, and it won’t matter anyway.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z With these fears upon me, I began either to imagine or recall that I had had mysterious warnings of this man’s approach. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z Then, when he’d picked out a nice mysterious quotation, he’d sneaked back to Egypt at night with a flashlight and written it on the back of the paper. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z All the dead Champions and mysterious evil powers and this ridiculous competition had made her go mad. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Not only did the mesmer prove ineffective, but the mysterious pair seemed to find it amusing. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z Both of Aurelia’s older brothers died before their father, one in battle, and one in mysterious circumstances, a fate that befell a number of heirs to the Caesars down the centuries. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z Rumor was that the mysterious painter struck in the dark of night, like the mysterious Shadow on the radio show. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z He talked with a friend from down the hall, a fellow physics student who had also been recruited by the mysterious man from Washington. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The music for each of the weekly programs was crucial to setting the mood—cheerful, mysterious, sinister. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z “Your leg,” said Orr with a strange, mysterious laugh. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z The rough stone walls beaded and dripped with moisture of mysterious origin. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z For most modern-day music lovers, music is something mysterious, unpredictable, sensual and, above all, emotional. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z She was happy, absorbed — she seemed like a new, mysterious being to me then, someone outside the “mom” persona I took for granted. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z |
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