"Enigmatic" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... this morning. I prefer to leave Grace to you and Tom." Again her eyes met those of the older woman with the same enigmatic smile. ...
— Grace Harlowe's Golden Summer • Jessie Graham Flower
... Valonne smiled his enigmatic smile. "Yes," he said. "I have once or twice—perhaps you think this room shows traces of some rather violent amusements, and really on looking ...
— His Hour • Elinor Glyn
... Nazareth was ever "the little Jesus," the curly-headed babe of the sacred picture; and in truth, for the parents as well, such was the image oftenest brought to mind by the Name. Not the sad enigmatic Christ of the Protestant, but a being more familiar and less august, a newborn infant in his mother's arms, or at least a tiny child who might be loved without great effort of the mind or any thought of the ...
— Maria Chapdelaine - A Tale of the Lake St. John Country • Louis Hemon
... enigmatic sentence which impressed me so much that I find I entered it verbatim in ...
— Allan and the Holy Flower • H. Rider Haggard
... this talk with its jargon of words which he did not comprehend, bored him considerably, but by degrees he felt that he was being drawn into a vortex, and began to understand its drift. Even while it was enigmatic it acquired a kind of unholy attraction for him, and he began to seek out its secret meaning in which he found that company ...
— Love Eternal • H. Rider Haggard |
