Mysterious Sentence Examples

They still had something mysterious and exciting to explore.

Stepping around the horse, he disappeared down that mysterious pathway.

And what did the mysterious stranger look like?

She is no more mysterious and complex than any other person.

He hadn't yet discovered who Talal's mysterious man was.

Once again, the mysterious notebook took a back seat to the more pedestrian happenings at the Ouray inn.

The vatic passages in the Bible are often very mysterious.

The chimera is a mysterious mythical creature, only a fable.

Greece, ancient Greece, exercised a mysterious fascination over me.

Fred displayed a tad more interest in the mysterious find than the prior evening.

Fred called after him, your mysterious buddy called again, twice.

As if this action had some mysterious and menacing significance, the workmen surrounding the publican paused in indecision.

This is an intimate and sometimes mysterious process.

Along with this affirmation, the Church of Rome (if less decisively) has adopted the limitations of the Thomist theory by the condemnation of " Ontologism "; certain mysterious doctrines are beyond reason.

There is, however, nothing novel or mysterious about it.

But the mysterious has another face.

Dean reluctantly explained Fred O'Connor's idea about the newspaper subscription and the fact that a paper had been sent to Scranton to a somewhat mysterious occupant.

As Dalton said, "The doctrine of definite proportions appears mysterious unless we adopt the atomic hypothesis."

The strange contrast between the succession of dynasties and kings cut off by assassination in the northern kingdom, ending in the tragic overthrow of 721 B.C., and the persistent succession through three centuries of the seed of David on the throne of Jerusalem, as well as the marvellous escape of Jerusalem in 701 B.C. from the fate of Samaria, must have invested the seed of David in the eyes of all thoughtful observers with a mysterious and divine significance.

Nicolas of Basel, the mysterious layman from whose visit Tauler dates his true religious life, seems to have been the chief organizing force among the Gottesfreunde.

In 1802 he published Reflections upon the State of Religion in Christendom, in which he attempted to explain and illustrate the mysterious foreshadowings of the Apocalypse.

During this time Rome was horrorstruck by the mysterious murder of the young duke of Gandia, and the bereaved pope mourned his son with the wildest grief.

They carry off children, leaving changeling substitutes, transport men and women into fairyland, and are generally the causes of all mysterious phenomena.

Similar myths are found in relation to the Finnish smith-god Ilmarinen, who made a golden woman, and the Teutonic Wieland; a belief in the magical power of metal-workers is a common survival from an age in which their art was new and mysterious.

The conception of the Unconscious, by which von Hartmann describes his ultimate metaphysical principle, is not at bottom as paradoxical as it sounds, being merely a new and mysterious designation for the Absolute of German metaphysicians.

Gowrie Palace was the scene of the mysterious "Gowrie" conspiracy against James VI.

A proof is the mysterious rapid extinction of savages the moment that their group-life is broken up; they are individually so many lost sheep, without self-reliance or initiative.

To the mob the mob-leader is mysterious in his power of bringing luck and salvation; to himself also he is a wonder, since he wills, and to !

One of the chairs pushed back from the table, and this was so astonishing and mysterious that Dorothy was almost tempted to run away in fright.

Even people who know her fairly well have written in the magazines about Miss Sullivan's "mysterious telegraphic communications" with her pupil.

And fairer still were the faraway blue mountains beyond the river, the nunnery, the mysterious gorges, and the pine forests veiled in the mist of their summits...

Evidently for them "the marshal" represented a very high and rather mysterious power.

But what is this mysterious smoke coming out of the volcano?

For centuries, the mysterious half-human, half-aquatic creatures have captured the hearts of mortals.

If your children are captivated by the mysterious and rebellious nature of pirates and the romance of the high seas, these crafts will be sure to capture their imaginations.

In the TV commercials, Erin will often encounter a "mysterious stranger," whose name is Erik.

If you prefer to keep things dark and mysterious, this set offers you the chance.

In the UK, the band is seen as ultra cool and hip and as embodying some kind of mysterious Deep South gothic persona - Deliverance in drain pipe jeans and thrift shop cool t-shirts.

Crazy by Gnarls Barkley - The mysterious Gnarls Barkley brings you soul for the 21st century, with nods to, well, just about every other genre your little heart desires along the way.

Mike Morrell specializes in audio, attempting to use the latest technology to capture sounds from the mysterious creatures the team is investigating.

Dawn was created from the essence of Buffy's blood as a human hiding place for a mysterious "Key" that could open Hell dimensions.

Goa'uld had both great powers and advanced technology, much of the technology pirated from the mysterious Ancients.

Mulder is, if not credulous, at least more open to accepting unconventional explanations for mysterious phenomena than Scully, who persistently fights to find a 'logical' explanation.

The White Witch captures and bewitches the youngest boy, Edmund, and it is up to the other three, abetted by the mysterious lion called Aslan, to find and rescue him.

Lucas' 'Force' as a concept is only mysterious and 'other' sounding to people of Western cultures.

Add one disgruntled former girlfriend and various mysterious middle-eastern types to the blend, and Indiana clearly has his work cut out for himself.

His mother, to the casual eye, would appear to be severely disturbed; paranoid, hiding from mysterious stalkers, her care devolves on her young son, who is aware that something is just 'not right' with his fragile mother.

Since days of old, important warriors bore important weapons; these weapons were unique to them, often forged under mysterious or magical circumstances, or came to the bearer in unusual, often magical ways.

And hovering over her is a mysterious presence...

Now, all these rooms are unfurnished and unoccupied, so that his expedition became more mysterious than ever.

Sheer bodysuits are among the most mysterious and sensual lingerie items available.

He becomes embroiled in mysterious happenings that center around a fading screen legend.

Thus the early idea of the services, as occasions for mutual edification through the interchange of spiritual gifts, gave way in course of time to the theory that they consisted of sacred and mysterious rites by means of which communion with God is promoted.

Recent grail researches have made it most probable that that mysterious talisman was originally the vessel of the ritual feast held in honour of a deity of vegetation, - Adonis, or another; if the Round Table also, as Dr Mott suggests, derives from a similar source, we have a link between these two notable features of Arthurian tradition, and an additional piece of evidence in support of the view that behind the Arthur of romance there lie not only memories of an historic British chieftain, but distinct traces of a mythological and beneficent hero.

By a mysterious sympathy the bread and wine over which the words, " This is my body which is for you," and " This cup is the new covenant in my blood," had been uttered, became Christ's body and blood; so that by partaking of these the faithful were united with each other and with Christ into one kinship. They became the body of Christ, and his blood or life was in them, and they were members of him.

The popularity of the pamphlet and its translations soon led to reports of the appearance of this mysterious being in almost all parts of the civilized world.

This mountainous character and the absence of any tolerable harbour - Pliny, in enumerating the islands of the Aegean, calls it "importuosissima omnium" - prevented it from ever attaining to any political importance, but it enjoyed great celebrity from its connexion with the worship of the Cabeiri, a mysterious triad of divinities, concerning whom very little is known, but who appear, like all the similar deities venerated in different parts of Greece, to have been a remnant of a previously existing Pelasgic mythology.

For some mysterious reason, probably connected with the increasing estrangement between the two sections of the empire, the ministers of Arcadius conferred upon Alaric the government of some part - it can hardly have been the whole - of the important prefecture of Illyricum.

A mysterious symbol much used in their ceremonies of initiation consists of the three letters these being the initials of `Ali, Mahomet and Salman.

It is certain that this mysterious people were Asiatic, for they are called so by the Egyptians.

But in general the tales that passed current about the gods are referred to only in mysterious and recondite allusions; as Herodotus for his own times explicitly testifies, a reticence in such matters seems to have been encouraged by the priests.

And the mystical bent of the Egyptians found satisfaction in the multiplicity of forms that their gods could assume; among the favorite epithets which the hymns apply to divinities are such as mysterious of shapes, multiple of faces.

At other times the ceremonial was more mysterious and symbolical, as in the feast of the raising of the Ded-column when a column of the kind was drawn by cords into an upright position.

The priests and certain wise men were the depositaries of this mysterious but highly useful art, that was called hik or magic; and one of the chief differences between gods and men was the superior degree in which the former were endowed with magical powers.

That mysterious upheaval, most generally attributed to a love of adventure, stimulated by the pressure of over-population, began with the ravaging of Lindisfarne in 793, and virtually terminated with the establishment of Rollo in Normandy (9r r).

The pottery accompanying the remains is often elaborately ornamented, and the mound builders were evidently possessed of a higher development of taste and skill than is evinced by any of the modern aboriginal races, by whom the mounds and their contents are regarded as utterly mysterious.

It is not known whether the mysterious events that culminated in the slaying of the earl of Gowrie and his brother, by John Ramsay, in their own house in Perth, on the 5th of August 1600, had any connexion with James's attitude to England and the kirk.

If in one mysterious passage Jesus speaks of " the Father " and " the Son "- terms with which the Gospel of St John has made us familiar St Mark also in one passage uses the same impressive terms " the Son " and " the Father."

This significant action provokes a challenge of His authority, which is answered by a mysterious saying, not understood at the time, but interpreted afterwards as referring to the Resurrection.

Mythical features abound in the cherubim and seraphim, the pillars of Jachin and Boaz, the mysterious Nehushtan, the bronze-sea and the lavers.

This mysterious Western, offshoot of Gnosticism had no single feature about it which could soften the hostility of a character such as Martin's, but he resisted the introduction of secular punishment for evil doctrine, and withdrew from communion with those bishops in Gaul, a large majority, who invoked the aid of Maximus against their erring brethren.

This same purpose, namely, to hold fast to the historic Jesus, triumphed in the doctrine of the Trinity; Jesus was not to be resolved into an aeon or into some mysterious tertium quid, neither God nor man, but to be recognized as very God who redeemed the soul.

Belief in mysterious powers attached to food, feasts, ceremonial rites and sacred things is all but universal.

Sacrifice was believed to exert an influence on the deity which is quasiphysical, and in sacrificial feasts God and worshipper are in mysterious union.

In the early Church, still Jewish, the belief was in the coming of a mysterious power from God which produced ecstasy and worked wonders.

This mysterious language, despite the existence of more than 6000 inscriptions, and the publication in 1892 of a book written in the language and handed down to us by the accident of its use to pack an Egyptian mummy, remains as obscure as ever, but apparently it underwent very great phonetic changes at an early period, so that the voiced mutes B, D, G disappeared.

Some had the rare courage to investigate the mysterious disease by dissecting the bodies of the dead.

A special feature of the Sakti cult is the use of obscure Vedic mantras, often changed so as to be quite meaningless and on that very account deemed the more efficacious for the acquisition of superhuman powers; as well as of mystic letters and syllables called bija (germ), of magic circles (chakra) and diagrams (yantra), and of amulets of various materials inscribed with formulae of fancied mysterious import.

Protestantism centred - or was by Catholics supposed to centre - in a mysterious " right of private judgment "; the council accordingly retorted by hymning the praises of obedience, of submitting to authority and never thinking for oneself.

Then he conceived the idea of using the Cossacks, who were deeply attached to him, as a means of chastising the szlachta, and at the same time forcing a war with Turkey, which would make his military genius indispensable to the republic, and enable him if successful to carry out domestic reforms by force of arms. His chief confidant in this still mysterious affair was the veteran grand hetman of the crown, Stanislaw Koniecpolski, who understood the Cossacks better than any man then living, but differed from the king in preferring the conquest of the Crimea to an open war with Turkey.

The art of making the wine was kept secret for some time, and many mysterious fables were circulated concerning it; inter alia it was believed that the Evil One had a hand in its manufacture.

His purpose was to defend what may be called a humanist position in moral philosophy; that is, to show that morality was not an affair of mysterious innate principles, or abstract relations, or supernatural sanctions, but depended on the familiar conditions of personal and social welfare.

Starting with careful and accurate observations on facts concerning the mysterious properties of amber and the lodestone, Gilbert laid the foundations of modern electric and magnetic science on the true experimental and inductive basis.

Another quasinegative notion of more restricted distribution is that of the mysterious or strange, as we have it expressed, for example, in the Siouan wakan, though possibly this is a derivative meaning.

At the bottom is the vague feeling that it is man's own self-directed mysterious energy that is at work, however much it needs to be reinforced from without.

Divine persons, objects or powers, connected with ritual, are not here considered, such as the Brahman priests who claimed to be manushyadevah (human-gods), or the sacred soma-juice which grew by strange analogies into a mysterious element, linking together heaven and earth.

The mysterious fish-man Oannes,who taught the primitive inhabitants of Babylonia, according to Alexander Polyhistor, has been identified with Ea, god of the deep, the source of wisdom, culture and social order.

Voltaire, in his Siècle de Louis XIV (1751), told the story of the mysterious masked prisoner with many graphic details; and, under the heading of "Ana" in the Questions sur l'encyclopedie (Geneva, 1771), he asserted that he was a bastard brother of Louis XIV., son of Mazarin and Anne of Austria.

It accounts, too, for his polemic on the one hand against a Substantial Soul, a Buddhistic Absolute, an Infinite Spiritual Substance; on the other hand against the no less mysterious material or dynamic substratum by which naturalistic Monism explains the world.

The first son had died in 1705, and in 1712 the second son, the duke of Brittany, as well as his father and mother, was carried off by a mysterious disease.

Second only to Tegner in genius, the brief life and mysterious death of Erik Johan Stagnelius (1793-1823) have given a romantic interest to all that is connected with his name.

But the most characteristic passage of the epopee is the mysterious disappearance of Shah Kaikhosrau, who suddenly, when at the height of earthly fame and splendour, renounces the world in utter disgust, and, carried away by his fervent longing for an abode of everlasting tranquillity, vanishes for ever from the midst of his companions.

Fire, the most mysterious and impressive of the elements, the giver of light and of all the good things of life, is a thing sacred and adorable in primitive religions, and fire-worship still has its place in two at least of the great religions of the world.

In justice, however, it should be added that his health was being steadily undermined by a mysterious internal complaint, and that Fenelon's tutorship came to an end on his disgrace in 169 7, before the pupil was fifteen.

His attention had been directed to the growing importance of the affairs of India, and there is evidence in his correspondence that he was meditating a comprehensive scheme for transferring much of the power of the company to the crown, when he was withdrawn from public business in a manner that has always been regarded as somewhat mysterious.

The relations, however, between Alaric and Stilicho had been closer and more mysterious than those between Alaric and Theodosius, and men who had seen Stilicho surrounded by his body-guard of Goths not unnaturally looked on the Goths who assailed Rome as Stilicho's avengers.

Toland, writing at first professedly without hostility to any of the received elements of the Christian faith, insisted that Christianity was not mysterious, and that the value of religion could not lie in any unintelligible or self-contradictory elements; though we cannot know the real essence of God or of any of his creatures, yet our beliefs about God must be thoroughly consistent with reason.

They steadfastly sought to eliminate the miraculous from theological belief, and to expel from the system of religious truth all debatable, difficult or mysterious articles.

It is safe to say that no prehistoric monument in Great Britain has given rise to more speculation as to its origin, date and purpose; and although the few hoary stones still extant are but a small portion of the original structure they are still sufficiently imposing to excite the wonder of the passing traveller, and mysterious enough to puzzle the antiquary.

The Kuznetsk Ala-tau mines are only now beginning to be explored, while the copper, and perhaps also the silver, ores of the Altai proper were worked by the mysterious prehistoric race of the Chudes at a time when the use of iron was not yet known.

At last, in August 1905, the long and mysterious silence was broken by the announcement that a son had been born to Pigott by his "spiritual wife," Miss Ruth Preece, an inmate of the Agapemone.

It was supposed at one time that the air sacs of birds contributed in some mysterious way to flight, but this is now known to be erroneous.

The want of harmony between the facts and the statements about them is patent to all scholars, and it is the knowledge of this, unacknowledged to themselves, which has made the literati labour with an astonishing amount of fruitless ingenuity and learning to find in individual words, and the turn of every sentence, some mysterious indication of praise or blame.

In man, both size and complexity contribute to the increased area of the cortex or outer layer of the brain, which has been fully ascertained to be the seat of the mysterious processes by which sensation furnishes the groundwork of thought.

Until greater knowledge of protoplasm and particularly of proteid has been acquired, there is no scientific room for the suggestion that there is a mysterious factor differentiating living matter from other matter and life from other activities.

He held extreme Catholic views and wrote on the most risque subjects; he gave himself aristocratic airs and hinted at a mysterious past, though his parentage was entirely bourgeois and his youth very hum-drum and innocent.

At this time took place the mysterious distribution of chapatis, small cakes of unleavened bread, which had previously been known in connexion with the mutiny at Vellore (1806).

The landscape, with its mysterious spiry mountains and winding waters, is very Leonardesque both in this picture and in another contemporary product of the workshop, or as some think of Leonardo's hand, namely a very highly and coldly finished small "Madonna with a Pink" at Munich.

The next year his Amyntor and Christianity not Mysterious were under discussion in both houses of Convocation, and the Upper House declined to proceed against the author.

Toland is generally classed with the deists, but at the time when he wrote Christianity not Mysterious he was decidedly opposed to deism.

Some mysterious obstacle intervened.

On Saturday, the 26th of October, Lord Monteagle (q.v.) received the mysterious letter which revealed the conspiracy and of which the conspirators received information the following day.

And thus the Pacific, ravaged so long by this powerful and mysterious band of corsairs, was at length at peace.

The earliest form of the Grail story, the Gawain- Bleheris version, exhibits a marked affinity with the characteristic features of the Adonis or Tammuz worship; we have a castle on the sea-shore, a dead body on a bier, the identity of which is never revealed, mourned over with solemn rites; a wasted country, whose desolation is mysteriously connected with the dead man, and which is restored to fruitfulness when the quester asks the meaning of the marvels he beholds (the two features of the weeping women and the wasted land being retained in versions where they have no significance); finally the mysterious food-providing, self-acting talisman of a common feast - one and all of these features may be explained as survivals of the Adonis ritual.

In the halo of his mysterious power he passed through Greece, Italy and Spain.

The story of her tragedy is still one of the most horrible and mysterious pages in English history.

It is hinted that he made a mysterious visit to the American colonies.

But it may be doubted whether De Morgan's own system, "horrent with mysterious spiculae," as Hamilton aptly described it, is fitted to exhibit the real analogy between quantitative and qualitative reasoning, which is rather to be sought in the logical works of Boole.

Jean Nicolet, an experienced explorer, was sent west by Samuel de Champlain, the governor-general of New France, in the summer of 1634 to investigate mysterious rumours of a people known as "the men of the sea" who were thought by some to be Tatars or Chinese.

It is possible to exaggerate the influence of the revived knowledge of Aristotle; but, so far as one can trace causes in the mysterious intellectual life of mankind, that influence gave scholasticism its vigour.

The mysterious malady continued, and Disraeli set out with William Meredith, who was to have married Sarah Disraeli, for Travel.

How, then, could it be imagined that with six years of power from his seventieth year, the Jew "adventurer," mysterious and theatrical to the last, should fill a greater space in the mind of England twenty years after death than Peel or Palmerston after five?

Even to his friends, and to many near him, he remained mysterious to the last.

There was a great deal too (though little to his blame) in Lord Malmesbury's observation that he was not only disliked in the House of Commons for his mysterious manner, but prejudiced by a pronounced foreign air and aspect.

About the beginning of the Christian era a great trade was carried on in coral between the Mediterranean and India, where it was highly esteemed as a substance endowed with mysterious sacred properties.

Shortly after the birth of this third son, Chilperic himself perished in mysterious circumstances (584).

He wore the royal diadem, assumed the title of lord, and introduced a complicated system of ceremonial and etiquette, borrowed from the East, in order to surround the monarchy and its representative with mysterious sanctity.

Wind dispersal of the spores would account for mysterious appearances of the disease, in some years almost every straw in a wheat-field being affected, while in other years scarcely one is attacked.

In 1399, however, owing to the king's "sickness of the body," his elder son, David, duke of Rothesay, was appointed lieutenant of the kingdom; but this event was followed by an English invasion of Scotland, by serious differences between Rothesay and his uncle, Robert, now duke of Albany, and finally in March 1402 by Rothesay's mysterious death at Falkland.

Justice is executed, and taboos, feasts, taxes, &c., arranged by a mysterious disguised figure, the duk-duk.

Milchhdfer believes that the story was a mere invention of Greek fancy, an attempt to interpret the mysterious figure which Greek art had borrowed from the East.

Heitsi Eibib was born in a mysterious way from a cow, as Indra in the Black Yaj;'r-Veda entered; nto and was born from the womb of a being who also bore a cow.

It is the latter which mentions the mysterious garden and the wonderful trees which Yahweh planted, and depicts Yahweh conversing with man and walking in the garden in the cool of the evening.

Gabel, who veiled under a mysterious reticence considerable financial ability and uncommon shrewdness, had great influence over the irresolute king.

Societies of a similar nature had existed in other countries and epochs, but the stories of the derivation of the Carbonari from mysterious brotherhoods of the middle ages are purely fantastic. The Carbonari were probably an offshoot of the Freemasons, from whom they differed in important particulars, and first began to assume importance in southern Italy during the Napoleonic wars.

Its organization was both curious and mysterious, and had a fantastic ritual full of symbols taken from the Christian religion, as well as from the trade of charcoal-burning, which was extensively practised in the mountains of the Abruzzi and Calabria.

In Yonec a mysterious bird visits the lady kept in durance by an old husband, and is turned into a valiant knight.

A snake which she had fashioned for the purpose stung the god, who sent for her as a last resort in his unendurable agony; whereupon she represented to him that nothing but his own mysterious name could overcome the venom of the snake.

Thus the mysterious hoard is all but lost sight of; no mention is made of the curse attached to it; and it is only as an afterthought that Siegfried (Sifrit) is described as its master.

It wasn't important who they inherited their traits from, but it was a brief look at the soul of this mysterious woman no one seemed to understand.

And lately her curiosity had been going beyond the usual questions about his mysterious family tree - beyond the questing of his vast knowledge of the ranch.

Consider this as an example of my brilliance; "After," is an organization designed to follow up on unresolved crimes, many being pursued because of mysterious tips from my nemesis.

The entry went on with no more mention of the mysterious vamp.

She wanted to see the mysterious D and couldn't repel his magnetic draw.

This was too crazy, even for her, and yet she wanted to unwrap the mysterious man before her and experience his heat, his strength.

Figured it was no coincidence that a mysterious man named after a dead-dead Immortal just happened to fall into the life of a former deity, Gabriel replied.

He kept no notes on his computer about the mysterious meetings.

Why else would they want Jenn, if not because they'd seen her name written as the mate of the one creature who could prevent them from executing goals as mysterious as those of the Watchers?

Once again she was struck by their mysterious attraction to each other.

Mysterious invading aliens who want to conquer our corner of the galaxy, present.

I guess there lays the mysterious allure that makes you wonder just what could be on the grooves inside.

In the first volume a stressed and pressurized woman with a fragile mental state gets attacked by a mysterious bat wielding assailant.

When Jewel's father is attacked and killed by mysterious assailants at a local fair, Jewel vows to avenge his murder.

The only thing stopping her enjoying her find is a mysterious assailant.

He had a mysterious aura, dark purple in color.

In this instance, Li plays Su, a Taiwanese security force officer, sent to intercept a shipment of mysterious black diamonds.

People are missing, very mysterious crop circles are appearing and hidden cameras are being exposed.

The mysterious Dracula House is situated inside the walls of this medieval citadel.

Mr Clifton-Brown was assured by boffins they knew nothing after he probed about mysterious objects on behalf of a concerned constituent.

This might sound a bit crackpot but I do actually believe that language institutes reality in some mysterious way.

Little Keills Tayvallich, Argyll - truly ancient Scotland, this is an enchanting, mysterious, stunning, dreamland.

Francesca Dow gave her speech in front of a brick wall, with a mysterious and perhaps emblematic number 3 at her shoulder.

He would have nothing grotesque or obscure; he would not even have anything emphatic or even anything mysterious.

They provide evidence of the accelerating expansion of Universe and hence for the existence of the mysterious Dark Energy which drives this process.

Distinctively Besson embraces a certain fetishism of style, developing a film language that is essentially colored, highly stylized, energetic and mysterious.

There's no mysterious footsteps in the night, no groans or ectoplasmic blood forming on the floors.

Some die in swamps of mysterious tropical diseases, some grow geraniums outside their garages " .

There has long been talk in Kirkby of mysterious goings on in the sky's.

Baker's personal life was soon thrust into the limelight, along with the mysterious goings-on at the Quorum Club.

That mysterious change is too subtle and too gradual to be measured by dates.

Its mysterious intrinsic beauty and practicality may well have led the Samurai warriors to cover the hilts of their swords with such skin.

With her starboard hull intact elsewhere what could have caused this mysterious damage in her forward section?

Adore the mysterious child, offering him gifts with profound humility.

Mysterious Skin A teenage hustler and a young man, obsessed with alien abductions, cross paths discovering a horrible, liberating truth.

Alerted to a new danger by the murder of a fellow immortal, Sam begins an epic quest to find the mysterious Pandora Keys.

They provide a recognizable representation of the mysterious incantations actually performed by a computer.

In 1900 the three lighthouse keepers went missing in a mysterious episode and were never found.

Hmmm, was it cardio, the mysterious shadowy figure on the grass knoll on that fateful day is Dallas, that shot Kennedy?

What evil schemes will they conduct upon arrival at their mysterious mountain lair?

The spacecraft will release a small lander onto the surface of this mysterious cosmic iceberg.

Day followed day; and still the young man had never come by speech or sight of his mysterious lodger.

He was again in the grip of his mysterious malady.

I tell them about the search for food, and about the mysterious manna of the airship.

The mysterious goddess, Isis, has enlisted you to battle Set and his evil minions.

In contrast to common misbelieve there is nothing weird or mysterious about the hypnotic state.

In dim and mysterious groves of oak, wherefrom the sacred mistletoe was gathered, the Druids decided upon the merits of the competitors.

Her mysterious witchery disguises the real Lady Audley, a bigamist and would-be murderess.

His next novel is ' The Killing Circle ', a gripping psychological thriller about a mysterious, possibly murderous, book group.

The nature and extent of the relationship between Mr Brooks and Mr Khan is somewhat mysterious.

I do know that there's something deeply mysterious about it.

And the watchers headed for the tearooms, where quantities of hot drinks were made to disappear under equally mysterious circumstances!

You'll get to take control of Kian, who's a rather mysterious warrior from the world of Arcadia.

The slightly mysterious pair labeled " " or " Prev.

It is a very sad, very funny, very mysterious tale, narrated by Kenneth Haigh.

The big blocky " starring " credits, reminiscent of the Superman films, seemed to make the vortex less mysterious I thought.

The love-song of the common jack snipe seemed not a whit less mysterious than partridge drumming.

Death and dying remain mysterious, and perhaps they always should.

At all costs you must be practical, as examining objects which seem mysterious may lead you into the dark.

The term " closed cities " sounds mysterious - how can a whole city be " closed "?

The mist came down over the fields and everywhere looked very mysterious, and strangely beautiful.

The massive granite peaks that greet you are mysterious and inviting at the same time.

From his pilothouse perch river travel began on our cruise mysterious orinoco river.

Elsewhere ' shed light on this mysterious personage, or does it further obscure him?

Who is Mole, the mysterious insider, whose cruel practical jokes are gradually escalating toward violence - and perhaps, murder?

In 1877 he was the first to define a then mysterious childhood disease, which he named ' infantile scurvy ' .

He decides to use this opportunity to search for a mysterious woman shaman he had been told about by his mentor, Socrates.

In 1933, American showman Carl Denham returned from a mysterious, hidden island with a priceless treasure.

That they are often shrouded in light mists makes them appear all the more mysterious.

Dig and excavate the skeleton of a mysterious prehistoric animal and then assemble the skeleton to form a dinosaur model.

Elizabeth Bennett is feisty, intelligent, sharp, even sly, mysterious, and a nineteenth century version of sarcastic.

Rosslyn's vaulted soffit features hundreds of small stone cubes, intricately carved with mysterious symbols.

Make your own Scooby album of vile vampires and mysterious monsters with 60 re-usable stickers.

A tall, mysterious stranger had handed it to his servant in the street earlier in the evening.

It is suffused with " magic realism " a folk surrealism in which people fly and mysterious juxtapositions are the norm.

It was about a creature sent to Earth on some unknown mission, who had mysterious powers including telepathy.

Many things about Venus remain unknown, including the cause of mysterious bursts of radio waves.

When a mysterious videotape appears with intimate images of their personal lives, things begin to crumble.

A visit in the evening might be rewarded by seeing woodcock ' roding ' overhead and hearing the song of the mysterious nightjar.

That there are defects in the logical process as here outlined to account for the curious rite constitutes no valid objection to the theory advanced, for, in the first place, primitive logic in matters of belief is inherently defective and even contradictory, and, secondly, the strong desire to pierce the mysterious future, forming an impelling factor in all religions - even in the most advanced of our own day - would tend to obscure the weakness of any theory developed to explain a rite which represents merely one endeavour among many to divine the intention and plans of the gods, upon the knowledge of which so much of man's happiness and welfare depended.

Surrounded by ancient seats of culture in Egypt and Babylonia, by the mysterious deserts of Arabia, and by the highlands of Asia Minor, Palestine, with Syria on the north, was the high road of civilization, trade and warlike enterprise, and the meeting-place of religions.

It is no less than a cure for the dread disease of hydrophobia in man and of rabies in animals; and the interest of the achievement is not only that he successfully combated one of the most mysterious and most fell diseases to which man is subject, but also that this was accomplished in spite of the fact that the special microbe causing the disease had not been isolated.

Severe as were the losses in flocks and herds from these imported diseases, they were eclipsed by the ravages of the mysterious potato blight, which, first appearing in 1845, pervaded the whole of Europe, and in Ireland especially proved the precursor of famine and pestilence.

It is conceivable that the priestesses employed this exit when descending on their mysterious errand.

And the important consequences following from the demonstration of the identity in structure of Limulus and Scorpio are evaded by arbitrary and even phantastic invocations of a mysterious transcendental force which brings about " convergence " irrespective of heredity and selection.

The passage possessed for them a mysterious charm, largely due to its isolation and to their ignorance of the historic speculations which suggested it.

That the amplitude of the secondary wave should vary as r1 was to be expected from considerations respecting energy; but the occurrence of the factor A1, and the acceleration of phase, have sometimes been regarded as mysterious.

These are mysterious words implying (1) a formal ecclesiastical censure, (2) a physical penalty, (3) the hope of a spiritual result.

But their purely ritual functions gave them no means of establishing a considerable influence on the minds of men, and the technical knowledge which they possessed as to the way in which the gods could be acceptably approached was neither so intricate nor so mysterious as to give the class a special importance.

The language of the Mitanni state, however, was neither Aryan nor Semitic, and may very well be that of the mysterious "Hittite" hieroglyphic inscriptions (see Hittites).

He goes even farther and connects our legend with mortals visiting earth, as the Yima in Parsism, and the " Ancient of Days " in the Books of Daniel and Enoch, and further connects the legend with the whole medieval tendency to regard the Jew as something uncanny and mysterious.

Tacitus states that many Teutonic tribes worshipped her with orgies and mysterious rites celebrated at night.

We have a vision of intrigues, mysterious conferences, threats and bribery, dimly discernible through a shifting mirage of tradition.

In 1541 he lost two infant sons, and the mysterious affair of the death of that aesthetic ruffian, Sir James Hamilton of Finnart, was supposed to lie heavy on his mind.

At the words "Et expecto resurrectionem mortuorum" the music plunges suddenly into a slow series of some of the most sublime and mysterious modulations ever written, until it breaks out as suddenly into a vivace e allegro of broad but terse design, which comes to its climax very rapidly and ends as abruptly as possible, the last chord being carefully written as a short note without a pause.

Now, in order to discern this underlying truth in the various and apparently conflicting world creeds, appeal was made to a "Secret Doctrine," and "Esoteric Teaching," which Madame Blavatsky proclaimed had been held for ages as a sacred possession and trust by certain mysterious adepts in occultism, or "Mahatmas," with whom she said she was in psychical as well as in direct physical communication.

Robert doubtless decided upon this course owing to the fact that in 1402 his elder son, David, duke of Rothesay, had met his death in a mysterious fashion, being probably murdered by his uncle, Robert, duke of Albany, who, as the king was an invalid, was virtually the ruler of Scotland.

Voltaire, in his Siècle de Louis XIV (1751), told the story of the mysterious masked prisoner with many graphic details; and, under the heading of "Ana" in the Questions sur l'encyclopedie (Geneva, 1771), he asserted that he was a bastard brother of Louis XIV., son of Mazarin and Anne of Austria.

Such differentiations and integrations of living bodies are the subject-matter of discussions on evolution; some will see in the play of circumambient media, natural or supernatural, on the simplest forms of living matter, sufficient explanation of the development of such matter into the highest forms of living organisms; others will regard the potency of such living matter so to develop as a mysterious and peculiar quality that must be added to the conception of life.

In this he apologized for Christianity not Mysterious, as a youthful indiscretion, and declared his conformity to the doctrines of the established Church.

There they are, those rudely painted figures that once seemed splendid and mysterious.

Back at Eton, he discovers a secret, sinister Latin-speaking society with a mysterious link to the school.

The Monster Under My Bed by Charlotte Allen (aged 11) There is a monster under my bed a mysterious shadowy monster.

Dig and excavate the skeleton of a mysterious prehistoric dinosaur and assemble the pieces to form a dinosaur model !

Rosslyn 's vaulted soffit features hundreds of small stone cubes, intricately carved with mysterious symbols.

Sound effects are plenty here, such as the gurgling and squishing sounds of the mysterious creatures haunting our kids.

Sora, Sidious, Goofy and Donald just stood there staring in amazement at the mysterious figure take care of all the monsters.

It is dark and mysterious, and has thought provoking mental exchanges.

Breamore Down has several tumuli, the long barrow known as the Giant 's Grave, and the mysterious Mizmaze on its heights.

His teaching, essentially, was a training in the art of appreciating and living in the light of that mysterious unconditioned reality.

It is a novel about the mysterious and unknowable essence of the creative genius, about love and about death.

These mysterious locales, tainted sites and corrupt settings all bear the mark of some unmentionable crime or horrific transgression.

An unwilling witness to pirates burying a mysterious chest.

Destiny is a mysterious force that none can comprehend.

Her every utterance appears vatic in nature, prophetic and mysterious.

Cats tend to be a little more mysterious, so you can never be quite sure with them.

Cats are inherently mysterious animals, and so many of their habits such as scratching, kneading and perching are distinctively peculiar.

Psoriasis is a mysterious condition and it is always possible that the introduction of a foreign substance may actually trigger an attack.

In order to enhance the mysterious quality of the perfume, it is advertised as containing a secret ingredient - guaranteed to increase the wearers allure.

While those who are emo usually appear mysterious or reclusive, the truth of the matter is they often love the attention they receive for looking and acting differently from their peers.

Opt for one of those if you plan to be flashing your mysterious grin at a sexy acquaintance all night.

Green eyes are exotic and mysterious, while rich brown eyes are alluring and deep.

Daring, sexy and a little bit mysterious, So Sexy perfume is a limited edition scent launched in 2007.

Banderas envisions the woman who wears his Diavolo perfume as "sensual, magnetic, independent and mysterious."

It's blended with sandalwood and tonka beans to create the ultimate, mysterious, glamorous scent.

Why not incorporate a magical and mysterious look into your makeup routine by simply blending a smoky purple eye with a sheer pink glossy lip gloss and black eyeliner?

Rather than opt for a mask, why not showcase and express your individuality by creating any one of these many mysterious faces?

Requiring little more than black paint and a brush, you can draw a mysterious cat in minutes!

White is a unique way to create interest with your mysterious cat face design, while yellow, bright green or blue will add an exotic spin to your look.

Girls and women who prefer a dark and mysterious look may want to follow some gothic makeup tips to complete their goth ensemble.

Once applied liberally and blended, the effect on the eyes is smoldering and mysterious.

Dark makeup says hypnotic, sex kitten, mysterious, bombshell, and so much more.

Black will always be a goth's go-to color, but you'll find plenty of other deep shades that work well with your pale skin and mysterious nature.

Similarly, if you had a missed call on your phone from a mysterious number, a reverse phone lookup can tell you who it was-no call back necessary.

Her betrothed, much older than Anahita, has had three previous wives, all of whom have died under mysterious circumstances.

Early in fall, you can still incorporate some of the summertime picks into your mix to seamlessly blend the warmth and fun of summer with the more mysterious shades associated with fall.

Known best as the mysterious vampire Edward Cullen in the Twilight movies, Robert Pattinson was a model before he became an actor.

Jackson spent most of his life embroiled in one scandal after another, and in death the singer is still shrouded in mysterious circumstances and unusual situations.

Britney, the one who shells out for everyone's payroll, not to mention lawyer's fees (for both her and Kevin) and has to pay $25,000 for some mysterious audit at Jive Records is allowed access to a meager $1,500 per week of her own money.

Several months later, news and photos of Jon Gosselin out on the town with a "mysterious female" hit the tabloids and celebrity magazines.

Dr. Conrad Murray, the doctor treating Jackson at the time of his death, reportedly stopped over at a mysterious storage locker of his no less than six times on the day Jackson died.

One being rabies (because most skunks are not out during the day), and the other is being sprayed by this mysterious skunk.

Their magical and mysterious beauty continued to capture the hearts and imaginations of people throughout the ages.

Inspired by the elegant mysterious fairy in Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, this collection reflects the beauty and silvery elegance of the fairy princess.

While rather inconvenient, you must prepare for women to swoon all over you when you make such a mysterious entrance in your rockin' ensemble.

Practically the very definition of cool and mysterious, fedora hats for men have enjoyed renewed popularity in the 21st century.

Here in Kyrgyzstan, with the mysterious and primeval landscapes, you feel like the first and the sole man on the planet, as if you were transferred through the time, and appeared at the starting point of the Earth history.

Modest plus size bridal gowns are alluring in their mysterious nature.

Many women find that slipping a piece of sexy lingerie beneath their clothes instantly elevates their confidence and makes them feel infinitely more alluring and even a bit mysterious.

When they try to open their car, they will be greeted by a mysterious icky substance all over their hand.

This somewhat mysterious subject has always been on the forefront of speculation.

The importance of getting enough rest is no secret but the REM cycle is among the more mysterious aspects of sleeping.

Dreaming is a mysterious occurrence that continues to baffle researchers because it is fleeting.

They're dark and mysterious, often big and sexy.

One of the most convenient items for our day-to-day lives can be pretty mysterious if you are not familiar with the construction and function behind contact lenses.

At the Macworld show in 1999, Bungie demoed footage of a sci-fi shooter based on a mysterious alien ring thingie.

Taking place at an undetermined amount of time after the Black Mesa catastrophe, a mysterious and chilling new foe called the Combine have taken control of the planet and altered it to their liking, creating the dystopia around you.

As the ships hits the planet's horizon, a mysterious glow (in effect, a halo) surrounds the planets and then engulfs the ship.

Mysterious key appears - Japanese text with "stop", presumably a hint on what to do next.

With the time machine out of commission, it seems that all hope is lost, until a mysterious portal opens up in the castle garden.

The atmospheric games place you on a mysterious planet armed with only your power suit and your wits.

Hunted by a mysterious and violent race called the Ing, she must explore the doomed planet on the light and dark to discover its secrets and stop the chaos.

You find yourself stranded on some foreign planet… stop me if you've heard this one before… and they've found yet another lame excuse to have all of the abilities Ms. Aran learned in the last game sucked away through mysterious forces.

As you move your character from square to square, the fog is lifted to reveal a number of surprises, including villages of potential followers, new towns, the oasis, or the mysterious obelisk.

Scooby Doo and Shaggy are trying to find their way out of the mysterious tomb.

He obtains a mysterious map to Skull Island, an uncharted location only known in stories.

Any form of new media falls under the same category of "mysterious" and "scary".

The warrior reaches a mysterious looking tower and enters it.

Dialog is limited to only the mysterious voice that promises to help you raise the dead.

Stop the mysterious Dark Aliens who threaten the planet.

An alien race called the Morolians have invaded Earth and are shooting people with a mysterious ray gun.

As the story unfolds, the Spartan who wants to help his homeland finds out about his mysterious past, and goes forth to fulfill his destiny.

Play as the Spartan with a mysterious past, who helps Ares the God of War get vengence on an unknown opponent.

A mysterious Mario look-alike is painting Isle Delfino with a mysterious goop that summons monsters.

Still, there's another mysterious tournament to be held, Tekken Iron Fist Championship 5.

Link pursues but is sucked into a mysterious realm of twilight and transformed into a blue-eyed wolf.

The winner is a mysterious sorcerer named Vaati who, big surprise, breaks open the chest and releases monsters into the world.

Every Tomb Raider game presents a 3D world of underground caves, mysterious locations and of course, tombs.

Now Leon works for the government, and he's been sent to rescue the president's daughter, who has fallen into the hands of a mysterious Illuminati-like cult.

With the onslaught of strange disappearances and mysterious events, the threat upon the city is on the rise and the utopian haven is in danger of being tarnished forever.