Da Souza's arm unchidden sought once more the back of his neighbour's chair, Miss Montressor's eyes did their utmost to win a tender glance from their lavish host. Suddenly Trent rose to his feet. He held a glass high over his head. His face was curiously unmoved, but his lips were parted in an enigmatic smile. "A toast, my friends!" he cried. "Fill up, the lot of you! To our next meeting! May fortune soon smile again, and may I have another home before long as worthy a resting-place for you as this!英文原著 · 《A Millionaire of Yesterday》
"This is enigmatical discourse," said Vizard, dryly. "Please explain."英文原著 · 《A Woman-Hater》
He was used to such strange associations of ideas, that thrive in the minds of children. But words, vague as they may be, are still too precise to express those feelings; one would need that uncertain language that comes in dreams, of which upon awakening, one retains merely enigmatical, senseless fragments.英文原著 · 《AN ICELAND FISHERMAN》
She hesitated, then gripped it heartily, and smiled through her tears. "I wish--" she faltered, "I wish, instead of that black Mary, you'd given me somebody to swear for me."
And with this enigmatic utterance she turned away.英文原著 · 《Adventure》
"My aunt Dugan'll know. I'll run right round to her the minute I get my papers off," the dress-maker promised; and Ann Eliza thanked her. An hour or two later the priest appeared. Ann Eliza, who was watching, saw him coming down the steps to the shop-door and went to meet him. His expression was kind, but she shrank from his peculiar dress, and from his pale face with its bluish chin and enigmatic smile. Ann Eliza remained in the shop. Miss Mellins's girl had mixed the buttons again and she set herself to sort them. The priest stayed a long time with Evelina.英文原著 · 《BUNNER SISTERS》
Judging from its stains and scars and other accidents, the whole of the hundred-and-nineteenth psalm had been a special favourite; while the hundred-and-forty- third also was all broidered round with shorthand symbols. But the secret key of all those symbols and dates and enigmatical marks was no longer to be found; it had been carried away in the owner's own heart. But, my head being full of Christiana at the time, I felt as if I held her own old Bible in my hand as I turned over those ancient leaves.英文原著 · 《Bunyan Characters-2》