The novel opens with a fugitive convict frantically trying to avoid the nemesis of being `` laid hands on '' -- a mysterious figure who looks into Pip's frightened eyes in the churchyard `` as if he were eluding the hands of the dead people, stretching up cautiously out of their graves, to get a twist upon his ankle and pull him in ''.

It was founded by a mysterious figure Grandfather Paradox, who it is believed was once a Time Lord from the House of Lungbarrow.

* 1900 – Birsa Munda, an important figure in the Indian independence movement, dies in British prison under mysterious circumstances.

In the 1990s, the Arab terrorist became a common villain figure in Western movies, and portrayals of the Jew as a mysterious, deceptive, all powerful menace were prevalent in Western and European cultures up until the middle of the 20th century.

In Children of Dune ( 1976 ) a mysterious figure known as The Preacher emerges from the desert and preaches among the people of Arrakis.

The character appeared on television several weeks later, animated by Nelvana Studios for The Star Wars Holiday Special ( 1978 ) as a mysterious figure who betrays Luke Skywalker ( voiced by Mark Hamill ) after saving him, Chewbacca, C-3PO ( voiced by Anthony Daniels ), and R2-D2 from a giant monster, only to be revealed as a bounty hunter working for Darth Vader.

They also refer to a mysterious figure, " G ", of whom they seem to be scared.

A mysterious figure with black leather gloves is soon seen following and observing Hooker.

As an author, she kept her public image as a charismatic, mysterious old Baroness with an insightful third eye, and established herself as an inspiring figure in Danish culture, although shunning the mainstream.

Later, during the Babylonian Exile, the Exilarchs ( officially recognised community leaders ) claimed Davidic lineage, and when the Exile ended, Zerubbabel ( the leader of the first Jews to return to Yehud province ) was also of the Davidic line, as were Shealtiel ( a somewhat mysterious figure ) and Nehemiah ( one of the earliest and most prominent Achamenid-appointed governors of Yehud ).

The film's narrative is circular, and repeats a number of psychologically symbolic images, including a flower on a long driveway, a key falling, a door unlocked, a knife in a loaf of bread, a mysterious Grim Reaper – like cloaked figure with a mirror for a face, a phone off the hook and an ocean.

As soon as she is asleep, she experiences a dream in which she repeatedly tries to chase a mysterious hooded figure with a mirror for a face but is unable to catch it.

After the final defeat of Valhalla Sector in the opening episodes of Season 2, a new threat emerges in the form of a crusading army from the East, led by a mysterious prophetic figure known as Daniel.

Gwyn then relates his exploits on the battlefield and his role as a psychopomp, a mysterious figure who gathers the souls of fallen British warriors, such as Bran the Blessed, Meurig ap Carreian, Gwendoleu ap Ceidaw and Llacheu ab Arthur.

Toplis was a mysterious figure and the film, as well as the book, depicted him as an active participant of the Etaples Mutiny, before he was tracked down and killed some years after the end of World War I.

Ghostwatch, the tale of a single mother haunted in her Northolt home by a mysterious figure called " Pipes ", was taken by many anxious viewers to be a genuine documentary.

The mysterious figure went on to rule the kingdom of Jolof.

In the midst of their revelry, a mysterious figure disguised as a Red Death victim enters and makes his way through each of the rooms.

A mysterious figure, Raglan James-the eponymous " Body Thief " of the story-approaches Lestat with what seems to be a cure for his ennui and depression.

* Lysistratus: A notorious practical-joker and a high-society figure, he is mentioned as somebody who shouldn't be mentioned in a song about horses, on account of his mysterious poverty ( 1266 ).

Nemo, one of the most famous antiheroes in fiction, is a mysterious figure.

Tovey describes this variation as " a wonderfully delicate and mysterious web of sounds on a figure suggested partly by the treble and partly by the bass of the first four bars of the theme.

Apocryphal stories abound about his reputed amorous affairs and adventures which are enough to show that he enjoyed a reputation as a glamorous and mysterious figure in Paris life.

Alan's violent death at the hands of some shadowy figure becomes the most recent in a series of mysterious murders in Holstenwall.

He is a mysterious figure, closely associated with Rembrandt, with very few paintings clearly attributable to him.

However, a crisis on Arrakis begins when the mysterious Muad ' Dib emerges as a leader of the native Fremen tribes against the rule of the Harkonnens.

Ribaldi / Rigoletto-Ribaldi is a deformed, mysterious man who comes to the town of Castle Gate and, supposedly, begins buying people's homes and land.

At the end of " Day of the Moon ", a mysterious young girl tells a homeless man that she is dying and then begins to regenerate.

A story of realities within realities, World on a Wire follows a researcher, working at the institute of cybernetics and future science, who begins to investigate the mysterious death of his mentor.

The rest of it begins to rapidly disappear through mysterious bankruptcies, suspensions of payment, and more bad luck on the Stock Exchange.

Ying Ko is kidnapped by agents of the mysterious tulku, who then begins to reform the warlord using the psychic power of his evolved mind to restore Cranston's humanity.

Goin ' Quackers begins with Donald Duck, Gladstone Gander, and Gyro Gearloose watching television reporter Daisy Duck discovering the mysterious temple of the evil magician Merlock.

It is revealed that the Time Traveller himself is the mysterious stranger who gave his younger self the Plattnerite sample under the alias " Gottfried Plattner ", and that because of this, the circle of causality is closed and thus, the whole multiplicity of histories which ends up creating the Constructors and their successors begins anew.

She begins to question the treatment they receive while incarcerated in the mysterious " Factory ".

Austin picks up her cell and begins a desperate search to figure out who his " Cinderella " really is, the result being that every girl in school claims to be the mysterious owner of the phone.

A mysterious illness begins afflicting the members of the expedition ; one by one, they fall into a mysterious coma.

As the episode begins two mysterious men, known only as " Knight Two " and " Knight One ", meet at Babylon 5.

As the episode begins, Babylon 5's command staff receives reports of mysterious attacks on merchant ships near Babylon 5.

Not accepting this prognosis, Jack begins a painful regimen of blood filtering treatments in order to delay the inevitable, and appeared to be experiencing memory loss related to medication ; he is also puzzled by the appearance of a mysterious implant in his hand, which his doctor said was designed to regulate the anti-radiation medication.

As the part ends, Luthor's third plan begins, when Luthor is given a mysterious green lantern found in an alien ship that crashed at Roswell, New Mexico.

He stays with the Buendías and begins to write the mysterious parchments, which are eventually translated by Aureliano Babilonia.

Life changes as the homosexual police (' Greyboys ') become more active and more repressive-something that begins as a mysterious blight spreads across the world.

The relationship between Jennifer and Brandon eventually fizzles and Jennifer begins dating Colin Murphy, a mysterious Irishman she met in Africa who she had originally gone to Ireland to meet.

His memory of the events still completely in tact, and when he hears of the mysterious unexplained death of a little girl ( which occurs in the film's prologue ), he begins to suspect It has returned.

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A crisis on Arrakis begins when the mysterious Muad ' Dib, in actuality Paul Atreides, emerges as a leader of the native Fremen tribes against the rule of the Harkonnens.

Frank begins to tease the traveller, Morris, pretending to assume an interest in the mysterious box.

The drama begins to unfold with an encounter between two pilgrim monks and a mysterious old woman.

The book begins with a mysterious letter that is delivered to three unknown recipients, two women and one man.