Quotes About Mystery

Damn it, he was in here with the door locked!' Stephen said. 'He can't have been stabbed'.

Ten yards upstream of us, the body of a man was grounded face-down at the edge of the mud. Not much more showed than a hump of shoulder and the line of a leg but there was no doubting what it was. Below the water, lank hair of indeterminate colour floated as if raised in fear and the wavelets caused his hips to rise and fall in an obscene parody of the sexual act.

From Him it is that we exist, and are intelligent beings, as from the source from which all intellect flows, as the stream from its fountain. Since then human nature is so much inferior and less worthy than the angelical, tell us, O man, with what face, with what temerity thou presumest to scrutinize and trace out those mysteries, to the investigation of which the very angels esteem themselves wholly incompetent?

Quill was full of glories ineffable. Feelings scrabbled about in him like a mouse inside an owl.

the holy men sat in an atmosphere reeking of antiquity, so thick with the dust of ages that you can't see through it --nor can they.

but while you are wondering whether she be angel or devil, she is gone.

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the children could tell, because they could hear the hum of

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That's what we thought," said Mr. Alden. "You see, the week after Bill disappeared, his brother Sam was killed by a car. So he couldn't help us find Bill.

I certainly do," said Mr. Alden. "I think S. M. means Sam McGregor.

Then she saw something ahead of her in the woods. It

The Aldens did not know that soon they would meet a wonderful friend and find some people who were not friendly at all.

Forgetting Henry's headlamp, the Boxcar

Mr. Farrier is acting weird

of the boxcar and was just right for a step.

strange man came here last summer and he gave Mr. Moss ten dollars for an old quarter.

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they went up the steps of the small caboose, Benny said in a low voice to his brother, "Did Mr. Carr say history or mystery?" "He said history," said Henry, laughing. "But I'm sure you'll think there is a mystery, too.

None of the Aldens knew that they were the first real callers Miss Gray had had for many years.

knew something that the children did not, but he went right to work and