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mystification
1. mystification surrounding the subject of theTarot
2. much to the mystification of James
3. mystification at why someone would want to kill him
4. Sociologists speak about the mystification of knowledge as a means of power and control
5. As he frantically made hand signals indicating for Brynne to calm down and stay close to him, he was met with only mystification on her face
6. Olsen nodded his head in acceptance of the instructions on the one hand and shook it in mystification on the other
7. " The boys were shaking their heads in mystification
8. As she uttered these words, with incredible energy and swiftness she flew upon Lothario with the naked dagger, so manifestly bent on burying it in his breast that he was almost uncertain whether these demonstrations were real or feigned, for he was obliged to have recourse to all his skill and strength to prevent her from striking him; and with such reality did she act this strange farce and mystification that, to give it a colour of truth, she determined to stain it with her own blood; for perceiving, or pretending, that she could not wound Lothario, she said, "Fate, it seems, will not grant my just desire complete satisfaction, but it will not be able to keep me from satisfying it partially at least;" and making an effort to free the hand with the dagger which Lothario held in his grasp, she released it, and directing the point to a place where it could not inflict a deep wound, she plunged it into her left side high up close to the shoulder, and then allowed herself to fall to the ground as if in a faint
9. Thereupon the duke seized the opportunity of practising this mystification upon him; so much did he enjoy everything connected with Sancho and Don Quixote
10. The light in the room was dim, but so far as I could see their faces, they played the part of mystification very well
11. If it was easy to reflect, however, that such a boy could postpone school, it was at least as marked that for such a boy to have been "kicked out" by a schoolmaster was a mystification without end
12. Marius thought he had encountered a wag, the beginning of a mystification in the open street
13. Had it not been a chance find, it would have borne the air of a mystification
14. One unexpected sentence came from her lips after another, till I got involved in a web of mystification; and wondered what
15. "[115] And it occurs to you that perhaps it is all a mystification; perhaps the performer is trying you—just throwing his hands and fingers wildly about the keyboard in the hope that you will fall into the trap and praise him, and then he will laugh and confess that he only wanted to see if he could hoax you
16. The best character in the book is the old duchess, for whose mystification Penelope’s scheme is planned, and who only at the climax discovers, like the rest of us, which of six men her niece has married, though all of them lay claim to that honor