"Enigmatically" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... and near that great poet (forgetting, strangely, Arthur Rimbaud) he places two poets who are curious—the disconcerting, tumultuous Tristan Corbiere, and the painted and bejewelled Theodore Hannon. With Edgar Poe he has the instinctive sympathy which drew Baudelaire to the enigmatically perverse Decadent of America; he delights, sooner than all the world, in the astonishing, unbalanced, unachieved genius of Villiers de l'Isle-Adam. Finally, it is in Stephane Mallarme that he finds the incarnation ...
— Figures of Several Centuries • Arthur Symons
... been interested in Schloss for some time," he said enigmatically. "He has had some pretty swell customers. I'll keep you wised up, if anything happens," he added in a burst of ...
— The War Terror • Arthur B. Reeve
... Montmorency or St. Clair—not Lobb. Wouldn't I now? . . . Of course, you won't understand, at your age; but there's a sort of sheltered feelin'. An' I'm a bundle of nerves. You should see me," wound up Mrs. Lobb enigmatically, ...
— True Tilda • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
... walked back, "I have to leave a call for seven and catch a train at eight-thirty. There's no use in your getting up. No, please don't, and please don't hunt me out again." At the door of the hotel she said enigmatically, "What a wonderful balance Nature might have struck between your brother's ...
— Destiny • Charles Neville Buck
... lead a good moral life for six months, I shall accept you.' The master enigmatically added, 'Otherwise I won't ...
— Autobiography of a YOGI • Paramhansa Yogananda
... grandnephews of the Pope, and, finally, that Peppino does not love her, that he wants her dowry, and that he will have for her as little feeling as they have for her." She glanced at Madame Maitland. "It is worse than I can tell you," she said, enigmatically, as if vexed by her own words, and almost frightened ...
— Serge Panine • Georges Ohnet
... itur ad astra!" murmured his dragoman enigmatically, and, lifting his eyes, he followed the ...
— Another Sheaf • John Galsworthy
... of Transformations" consists of sixty-four short essays on important themes, symbolically and enigmatically expressed, based on linear figures and diagrams. These cabala are held in high esteem by the learned, and the hundreds of fortune-tellers in the streets of Chinese towns practice their art on the ...
— Handbook of Universal Literature - From The Best and Latest Authorities • Anne C. Lynch Botta
... excuse this only on the ground that he was completely carried away by his emotion, so that to him there was no one present save this enigmatically fascinating woman and himself. But the lady on her side was wiser; or perhaps a slight delay gave her time to recover her discretion. When Gambetta's note was brought to her she took it quietly and tore it into little pieces without reading it; and ...
— Famous Affinities of History, Vol 1-4, Complete - The Romance of Devotion • Lyndon Orr
... where I saw it!" exclaimed Grace enigmatically, apparently deaf to Elfreda's questions. "It was in the note. She wrote it. Strange ...
— Grace Harlowe's Third Year at Overton College • Jessie Graham Flower
... said the Jinnee, enigmatically, and indeed it proved to be another false alarm, for they turned down Cannon Street and towards the ...
— The Brass Bottle • F. Anstey
... instant, and Mr. Starr looked after him with inscrutable eyes. "Fathers are—only fathers," he said enigmatically. ...
— Prudence Says So • Ethel Hueston |
