"Mystery" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the matter?" I whispered back impatiently. I do not relish mystery and I detest being ...
— Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man • Marie Conway Oemler
... upon its walls in the repose of a thousand years, the rude and gaudy mosaics, and above all the captured horses of Corinth which start from out the sombre mass in the glory of Grecian art, received from the solemn and appropriate light, a character of melancholy and mystery, that well comported with the thick recollections which crowd the mind as the eye gazes at this rare relic ...
— The Bravo • J. Fenimore Cooper
... clear up this mystery. It is certain that I sent the old woman Lu to you with your little slipper. ...
— Eastern Shame Girl • Charles Georges Souli
... step off the ship in this strange valley and promptly drop dead? How could a well-equipped corps of tough spacemen become a field of rotting skeletons in this quiet world of peace and contentment? It was a mystery Peter and Sherri had to solve. If they could ...
— The Judas Valley • Gerald Vance
... sources of his good humour to be precisely that his success was independent of that. He had none the less become in a manner the fashion; the critics at least had put on a spurt and caught up with him. We had found out at last how clever he was, and he had had to make the best of the loss of his mystery. I was strongly tempted, as I walked beside him, to let him know how much of that unveiling was my act; and there was a moment when I probably should have done so had not one of the ladies of our party, ...
— Embarrassments • Henry James
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