Sentence examples for old mysterious from inspiring English sources

She encounters the garden's owner, an old, mysterious woman.

Our friends approaching their annual ordeal with the moving men, are buoyed up by the old, mysterious conviction that this time they actually entering paradise.

In a way, "Ringu" and "The Eye" are working the tension between the old, "mysterious" East and modern Asia that is the subject of one of the movies' finest ghost stories: Stanley Kwan's "Rouge" (1987), in which a courtesan who committed suicide in the 1930's appears in present-day Hong Kong to search for her lover; he was supposed to kill himself, too, but never joined her on the other side.

It doesn't matter that these words were written 500 years ago, the sentiment expressed rings as true today as it did then: "Anyone who has lain hundreds or thousands of miles from home, listening to strangers' rain falling on a stranger's roof," Mantel explains, "will respond to the vehement longing in this old, mysterious fragment".

He departs for the mountains and discovers many secret herbs, plants, and fungi about which he is taught more by an old, mysterious woman who is something of a witch.

The idea of a moody teenage boy going gooey over a centuries-old, mysterious, super-strong woman who can fly feels revolutionary.

"How many times have you read the question, 'What were the contents of the stomach?' " Otto Penzler, owner of the 33-year-old Mysterious Bookshop in Manhattan, said that "in a grim story, food can give readers comfort".

Otto Penzler, owner of the 33-year-old Mysterious Bookshop in Manhattan, said the murder-and-dining category "has been pretty big for 15 years and it's growing, just as the fascination with food in general has been increasing".

The Vatican rarely clarifies anything, often still clinging to its worn-out image as a centuries-old mysterious institution that sits above the fray, even though it is a global empire with websites, social media accounts and sophisticated p.r. operatives who work for it in dozens of countries.

Maester Luwin -- like other characters in the story -- doesn't want to see that an old, deep and mysterious magic is stirring on both sides of the Wall.

No wonder I developed a taste for the old, strange, mysterious and gothic.