"Perhaps you remember the wonderful development of the case, which so completely mystified the policeand in fact everybody except myself.

The elaborate Knickerbocker notes with which Irving, following a passing fashion of the time, sought to mystify the reader, are here omitted.

That is a fortune which has once befallen me, and no greater calamity followed than my having to call myself le Capitaine Smeet', and finding out the means of mystifying le vice-governatore.

Norma and Alice were the last to arrive, and when they did come they mystified their friends by prancing in silently and waltzing gaily about the room.

That is a fortune which has once befallen me, and no greater calamity followed than my having to call myself le Capitaine Smeet', and finding out the means of mystifying le vice-governatore.

That no such accusation came from Pringle set these able but mystified deniers entirely at a loss, left the denial high and dry.

At times she lets drop hints of knowledge concerning little nothings that are none of hers, just to mystify folks.

Affecting to be anxious to get up to the precise point where the boat lay, I mystified Monsieur Le Gros in my answers, telling him I would stand on a short distance, or until I could fetch him, when I would tack.

How can you pretend to raise a science on such foundations, especially as the savage informants wish to please or to mystify inquirers, or they answer at random, or deliberately conceal their most sacred institutions, or have never paid any attention to the subject?

In this way our people amuse themselves by mystifying these poor islanders, who think they are gods, with power to make the very leaves reveal what they believe to be secret.

"Done what?" asked mystified Kitty.

It was obvious from the complete success of XXth Corps' operations against the Turkish left, which had been worked out absolutely 'according to plan,' that General Allenby had so thoroughly mystified von Kressenstein that the latter had put all his reserves into the wrong spot, and that the 53rd Division's stout resistance against superior numbers had pinned them down to the wrong end of the line.

Nobody who has not had the chance to mystify a leader of cheerful murderers in a city packed with conspirators, with the shadow of a vulture on the road in front, and fanged death waiting to be let loose, need talk to me of excitement.

Encouraged by this success, the poor fellow undertook to mystify a little concerning the Reef; but here he soon found himself met with plump denials.

Her words mystified Max, and he was on the point of asking her to explain.

A similar method of mystifying his opponent is adopted by the base-ball pitcher in his demonstrations with the ball before letting it drive at the batsman.

It was a brave letter, closing with the following mystifying paragraph:

"Yes, I don't mean to say I think he's got any idee of sich a thing, Bildad," replied Bildad himself, who took great delight in mystifying people, and who sometimes, in order to express the most unqualified negation, was accustomed to employ this apparently ambiguous form of speech.

Anything that mystifies moral perceptions is not so easily removed from youthful minds as breath is wiped from a mirror.

"Perhaps you remember the wonderful development of the case, which so completely mystified the policeand in fact everybody except myself.

Yet, yetmy original guess stuck firmly in my mind, improbable though it might be, and had just been nailed down tightlyI scorn to mystify the readerby a few simple sentences spoken in French.

You will not tell, for you love to mystify the ruffian as much as I do.

A copper sun, a sea of glass, a brown easterly blight, day after day, while Thurnall looked grimly aloft and mystified the sailors with "Fine weather for the Flying Dutchman, this!" "Coffins sail fastest in a calm.

Yet, yetmy original guess stuck firmly in my mind, improbable though it might be, and had just been nailed down tightlyI scorn to mystify the readerby a few simple sentences spoken in French.

But Obed Grimes suits me just as well, and it ain't never kept me from eatin' three square meals a daywhen I could get 'em," he told them, soberly, though that odd little gleam in his eyes mystified Max somewhat.