They are, I believe, equally innocent of lard and fat; but that a general dread of being Christianized has by some means or other been created is without doubt, though there is still much that is mysterious in the process by which it has been instilled into the Sepoy mind, and I question if the government itself has any accurate information on the subject.

[Footnote 7: This would seem to be absurd; but the writer evidently intended to convey the idea that there was something mysterious about the number of the topes.

It seemed to Gifford that there was something of undisclosed knowledge behind his words, and he fell to wondering how far the motive was mysterious to him.

It came again, as mysterious as a shadow, and then out of the air there floated down as silently as a huge snowflake a great white owl.

" "But," said Salaman, "there are few things more mysterious than its whereabouts or why it should be where it is.

Just what the forces at work in this most mysterious of all natural processes are, has been an intellectual mystery that the best minds of the race have attempted to get rid of with words like pangenesis (Darwin).

We knew them for the surf and the wind in the grasses: but they were not the less mysterious for that.

I knew at once that he was going to be mysterious with me.

There is also that great marsh in the west by the lean and desolate sea, more mysterious by far, whence a man may see far off the great and solemn mountains of another land.

It was true that Life would never let him rest in the quiet byways of his desire; but after all, unrest was Life; and it was good to be alive tonight, alive and weary and not ill-content with self, in a motor car swinging swiftly and silently along a river road in the hills of Southern France, with a woman lovely, soignée and mysterious at the wheel.

Their voices indicated the solitude of the mountain, but without sadness; they were mysterious without being awe-inspiring.

He rode past the churchstanding out black and mysterious against the light skyand the rows of silent cottages, until he came to the inn.

I had seen himanother effort and I might have touched him!now the long and deserted street lay dark and mysterious before me, and behind me I could hear the measured tramp of the gendarmes and their peremptory call of "Halt, in the name of the King!"

She impressed again and again upon Rust's imagination a picture of herself sleeping unprotected, in a room not far distant from his own, while beneath her pillow reposed a paper precious and mysterious beyond words to describe.

Mysterious from first to last, the blind Thessalian had vanished from the living world!

XXXVII The dawn that crept so gray and mysterious over the frosty green of spruce brought no hope to Beatrice, sitting beside the unconscious form of Ben in the cave fronting the glade.

Recollection told her no story of how even as a child she had liked to go to the crowded church with other children and watch the procession of the bridesall mysterious under their white veils, and following one and another so closely during springs and autumns that in truth they were almost a procession.