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Updated: May 29, 2025
"No, Signore; but this felucca was a lugger. Tommaso Tonti wished to mystify me about that, too; but I have not been podest
Our own Jehu has a job on to-night, from which we expect some results that will mystify the enemy not a little. We got our first suspicions of Ainsworth from a few incautious words that he spoke in one of our cabs."
And he held out, under the rays of the lamp, the sword-stick he had picked up in the Calle San Gregorio. She looked at it and then at him with startled eyes. "Of course," she said. "It is the sword-stick I sent papa for the New Year. You ordered it yourself from Toledo. See, here is the crest. Where did you get it? Do not mystify me. Tell me quickly is he here? Has he come home?"
"No, no! I have more to say: I have a thousand things!" "I shall not hear them" "Henry, there is a black devil in your face. Beware of it." "Who put it there?" "It was not I." "What power then?" "Something over which I have no control." "Are you trying to mystify me?" "Listen!" And as Donnegan raised his hand, the singing poured clear and small into the room. "That is the power," said Donnegan.
In tales of mystery, the interest is maintained chiefly by the deft manipulation of surprise; but even in novels wherein the aim to mystify is very far from being the primary purpose of the author, it is often wise to keep a secret from the reader for the sake of the emphasis by surprise which may be derived at the moment of revelation.
The marked reticence on the part of the British Cabinet in regard to its diplomatic proceedings tends further to mystify the inquirer, and leaves the bulk of the British nation in a painful state of suspense without conclusive data for judging whether the war is really justifiable or not.
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? To all these perfectly natural objections Mr. Tylor has replied.
The more they can mystify and mislead and perplex you, and leave their real or their possible meaning doubtful and involved, the greater the pleasure they have.
Here is the boat, for a certainty, yet how it came here and how you knew it would come to us are puzzles that mystify me. I do not question our good fortune, however, and my heart is bubbling with joy, for in this boat I will return at once to my City of Gilgad, from which I have remained absent altogether too long a time." "I do not wish to go to Gilgad," said Inga.
So does the violence of passion, which would leave no space between the mind and its object, defeat its purpose." "It is simply your intellectual foppery," I replied, "which makes you indulge in moral delicacy, ignoring the savage side of truth. This merely helps you to mystify things, and so you fail to do your work with any degree of strength."
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