How To Use Enigmatical In A Sentence
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His ugliness was embittered somewhat by sunken, toothless jaws and an enigmatical stare from a cross-eye; he was also knock-kneed, and as an erstwhile gunpowder worker, had lost two fingers and a large part of one ear.
Across China on Foot
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Beauchamp, Lucien Debray and Château-Renaud were not the only persons puzzled with regard to the enigmatical M. Dantès; all Paris was more or less bothered about him; his entire career prior to his appearance at the capital as the Deputy from Marseilles seemed shrouded in impenetrable mystery, and this was the more galling to the curious Parisians as his wonderful oratorical powers and his intense republicanism rendered him the cynosure of all eyes and made him the sensation of the hour.
Edmond Dantès
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It was headed, "March, 1869," and beneath were the following enigmatical notices:
Sole Music
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The enigmatical form of the inculcation is the device whereby that mind will be compelled to follow his track, to think for itself his thoughts again, to possess itself of the inmost secret of his intention; for it is a school in whose enigmatical devices the mind of the future was to be caught, in whose subtle exercises the child of the future was to be trained to an identity that should restore the master to his work again, and bring forth anew, in a better hour, his clogged and buried genius.
The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded
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Sean's expression became enigmatical, and he spread his hands. ‘That's for you to decide.’
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As I glanced up from reading this enigmatical message, I saw Holmes chuckling at the expression upon my face.
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England, she hoped to recover for herself and for him; and, in later years, Sir Ralph could still recall the enigmatical words in which his mother had (possibly with the idea that the rhyme might, as it did, cling to his childish memory) spoken to him of the hidden treasure.
Fifty-Two Stories For Girls
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Just as in the case of the relationship between collective ownership and human degeneration, which seemed so "enigmatical" to this same Baron Garofalo -- and although he has not offered his gratitude for the solution of this enigma to the socialist Oedipus who explained it to him -- here also, in the case of this other enigma, the explanation is very simple.
Socialism and Modern Science (Darwin, Spencer, Marx)
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He leaves one at the most interesting point with an enigmatical reference to a man of a bygone age.
CHAPTER 12
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Finally, this carpenter found, still in the same enclosure, a third paper on which was written in pencil, but very legibly, this sort of enigmatical list: —
Les Miserables
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His essay offers an intriguing interpretation of a Tudor portrait featuring five enigmatically blank panels.
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But these are not so numerous, nor placed in such a way as to obscure the sense, and make it allegorical or enigmatical, which is the kind of expression properly called figurative.
On Christian Doctrine, in Four Books
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It was no affair of theirs that the enigmatical white men should be out trying to kill each other, and whatever interest in the proceedings might be theirs they were careful to conceal it from Sheldon.
Chapter 27
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What was the use of trying to understand this vastly complicated and enigmatical world, especially when one was married to a nagging woman?
THE FEATHERS OF THE SUN
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Granting that Korean unification is indeed an enigmatical problem, why should scholars be so concerned with the problem of Korean unification?
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Most dramatic of all are the tall, enigmatically smiling kouros, which are archaic statues of godlike young men.
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What was the use of trying to understand this vastly complicated and enigmatical world?
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Corbiere didn't deserve this," she said enigmatically.
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I had almost forgotten that enigmatical message of his, but now my curiosity was aroused afresh.
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He refers to a method which he calls the enigmatical, which has an affinity with it,
The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded
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What was once enigmatically mesmerising in this kind of modish Iranian movie is now redundant and exasperating.
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To his credit, the former centre‑back, described somewhat fancifully as a Derby and West Ham "legend" at Derby maybe, but I think you have to play for a team longer than a couple of seasons to have legendary status bestowed upon you, smiled enigmatically, and swatted it away like he used to troublesome attackers.
It's worth staying up, if only to avoid a night in with Manish | Martin Kelner
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‘Watch and learn,’ his friend replies enigmatically, before changing the clockwise finger-spin to widdershins.
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In one painting enigmatically titled Hoovering, there appears to be a black silhouette of a rabbit.
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The singular and mystic forms of initiation, the system of enigmatical phrases, the use of the signs and symbols of recognition, may probably be ascribed to the period when the whole system was united to the worship of the Deities of Vengeance, and when the sentence was promulgated by the Doomsmen, assembled, like the Asi of old, before the altars of Thor or Woden.
Anne of Geierstein
