mysterious (exact matches only)

There was a robbery in my second apartment, too, on Piazza Tricolore, just as clean and just as mysterious: I found the front door unlocked and the only valuable things I possessed gone.

No one seemed to notice Rolfe sniffing the mysterious green branch coming out of Max's breast pocket.

What if one day he were to shoot off an arrow into her fair green breast?Then she vanished -- as instantly and mysteriously as she had once arrived.

There were many drawbacks to living with Bob, not the least of which was the way he created a mysterious amount of self-replicating debris that constantly threatened to engulf him.

`Ontological proof,' Bob shouted mysteriously in his sleep — a concept he wouldn't even know the meaning of if he was awake.

They had given me up for dead, and now that I had confounded their predictions and mysteriously failed to die, what choice did I have but to live as though a future life were waiting for me?I began with small outings, no more than a block or two from my apartment and then home again.

The origin of the name, however, remains mysterious.

This rather mysterious weak force mediates the decay of neutrons into protons and electrons, and also plays a role in nuclear fusion, radioactivity and the production of the elements in stars.

If the president of Egypt himself, no less, was searching for his identity, no wonder that I, crossing the threshold into my teenage years in that era of revolution, would find myself profoundly confused and conflicted and, forever after, haunted by feelings of deep uncertainty and a mysteriously guilt-ridden sense of ambiguity.

My father had been taken seriously and rather mysteriously ill out west, had been carried east by train only to be shifted from hospital to hospital and nursing home to nursing home in what seemed to my child mind an endless, baffling captivity.

Surely from the baseline of my infancy there had been some intuition of the mysteriously twining roots of love and pain, even love and death.

He had made much of us, his first grandchildren, and we had adored his dry and wistful humor, doled out with mysterious pennies in a cunning sleight-of-hand and accompanied by tickles of his peppery handlebar mustache, which he wore wickedly curled and waxed to a fine arabesque.

The temperature was -30 [degrees] Fahrenheit, and around the ship, extending to the horizon in all directions, was a sea of ice, white and mysterious under the clear, hard stars.

This is how Neruda describes it in his impassioned poetry: Night, snow and sand compose the form of my slender homeland, all silence is contained within its length, all foam issues from its seaswept beard, all coal fills it with mysterious kisses.

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