The entire city was in excitement over the mystery, even the police station was shaken out of its usual business-like indifference. There was no other topic of conversation in any of the rooms but the mystery of the golden bullet and the doors closed from the inside. The attendants and the policeman gathered whispering in the corners, and strangers who came in on their own business forgot it in their excitement over this new and fascinating mystery.英文原著 · 《The Case of the Golden Bullet》
Have the bill of lading handed over to our agent to check up. "Well," said the jewel dealer, "somebody's going to ship nine hundred horses. Where's the mystery?" The Baronet shrugged his big shoulders. "The mystery," he said, "is everywhere. It's before and after and in the body of this message. There's hardly anything to it but mystery." "Who sent it?" said Hargrave. "That's one of the mysteries," replied the Baronet. "Ah!" said the jewel dealer.英文原著 · 《The Sleuth of St. James Street》
Thoth, says the old legend, travelled in the Boat of the Sun. If you would love Egypt rightly, you, too, must be a traveller in that bark. You must not fear to steep yourself in the mystery of gold, in the mystery of heat, in the mystery of silence that seems softly showered out of the sun. The sacred white lotus must be your emblem, and Horus, the hawk-headed, merged in Ra, your special deity. Scarcely had I set foot once more in Egypt before Thoth lifted me into the Boat of the sun and soothed my fears to sleep.英文原著 · 《The Spell of Egypt》
The eagerness with which Danville put his question, and the disappointment he showed on getting no satisfactory answer to it, were of a nature to satisfy the observant chief agent that his superintendent was really as ignorant as he appeared to be on the subject of the man and woman Dubois. That one mystery, at any rate was still, for Danville, a mystery unrevealed.英文原著 · 《AFTER DARK》
Then a whisper--a whisper suppressed these twenty minutes--ran through the apartments,--"The bridegroom has not come!". He never came. The mystery of that night remains a mystery after the lapse of a century and a quarter.英文原著 · 《An Old Town By The Sea》
"There is a mystery attached to that night's work, Afy," observed Mr. Carlyle; "a mystery that I cannot fathom. Perhaps you can help me out."英文原著 · 《East Lynne》