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- noun Plural form of
mystery . - noun a number of
secret societies orcults
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Examples
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And today she has a list of what she calls mysteries we might have missed.
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If we habitually looked at calamities as His loving chastisement, intended to draw us to Himself, we should not have to stand perplexed so often at what we call the mysteries of His providence.
Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Kings Chapters VIII to End and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Esther, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes Alexander Maclaren 1868
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And be sure of this, that if we understood better the meaning of life, that it was all intended to be our road to God, and if we judged of things more from that point of view, we should less frequently be brought to stand by what we call the mysteries of Providence and more able to wring out of them all the rich honey which is stored in them all for us.
Expositions of Holy Scripture Psalms Alexander Maclaren 1868
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I hope the Oscar Wilde in my murder mysteries is the real
Gyles Brandreth Answers Questions about the Oscar Wilde Mysteries 2010
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Each of these mysteries is sufficiently plotted to provide suspense and they do have an additive effect when they do eventually intersect.
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Calling them mysteries is fine, even though I always think of who-dunnits as mysteries.
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One of the Hypnerotomachias mysteries is that its author never explicitly gives his name, but his identity seems to be revealed when the first letter of every chapter is connected to the next: the letters form the Latin message Poliam Frater Franciscus
A Conversation with Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason, authors of the debut novel The Rule of Four 2010
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One of the Hypnerotomachias mysteries is that its author never explicitly gives his name, but his identity seems to be revealed when the first letter of every chapter is connected to the next: the letters form the Latin message Poliam Frater Franciscus
A Conversation with Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason, authors of the debut novel The Rule of Four 2010
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One of the biggest mysteries is how Gates got in to begin with.
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The cool thing about legends and mysteries is that they remain so.
Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat 2010
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