1 The mystical Om-Om-Om of the dynamos in the electric-light plant behind the mill was louder in the darkness.
2 A wild, mystical, sympathetical feeling was in me; Ahab's quenchless feud seemed mine.
3 So that by no possibility could Coleridge's wild Rhyme have had aught to do with those mystical impressions which were mine, when I saw that bird upon our deck.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 42. The Whiteness of The Whale. 4 Human or animal, the mystical brow is as that great golden seal affixed by the German Emperors to their decrees.
5 He felt that he was hardly of the one blood with them but stood to them rather in the mystical kinship of fosterage, fosterchild and fosterbrother.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 2 6 The life of the senses was described in the terms of mystical philosophy.
7 Read the mystical book I am sending you; it has an enormous success here.
8 His heart was not in the mystical aspect of Freemasonry.
9 All these circumstances, so natural and so trivial, were gravely listened to as proofs, or, at least, as affording strong suspicions that Rebecca had unlawful correspondence with mystical powers.
10 The mystical school of Joseph de Maistre, which at that epoch seasoned with lofty cosmogony those things which were called the ultra newspapers, would not have failed to declare that Javert was a symbol.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER V—VAGUE FLASHES ON THE HORIZON 11 The three mates quailed before his strong, sustained, and mystic aspect.
12 Though neither knows where lie the nameless things of which the mystic sign gives forth such hints; yet with me, as with the colt, somewhere those things must exist.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 42. The Whiteness of The Whale. 13 Like those mystic rocks, too, the mystic-marked whale remains undecipherable.
14 Lying in strange folds, courses, and convolutions, to their apprehensions, it seems more in keeping with the idea of his general might to regard that mystic part of him as the seat of his intelligence.
15 And all this mixes with your most mystic mood; so that fact and fancy, half-way meeting, interpenetrate, and form one seamless whole.