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 ''.

:" If I had stated ... the possibility of the introduction or origination of fresh species being a natural, in contradistinction to a miraculous process, I should have raised a host of prejudices against me, which are unfortunately opposed at every step to any philosopher who attempts to address the public on these mysterious subjects ".

The latter document has been criticised for claiming that non-Christians are in a " gravely deficient situation " as compared to Catholics, but also adds that " for those who are not formally and visibly members of the Church, salvation in Christ is accessible by virtue of a grace which, while having a mysterious relationship to the Church, does not make them formally part of the Church, but enlightens them in a way which is accommodated to their spiritual and material situation.

During the journey Corum observes a mysterious giant who trawls the ocean with a net.

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

Marlow is an English sailor who speaks of a time when he gained a position to captain a steamboat for an ivory trading company ; his job was to transport supplies, company personnel, and ivory-up and down a large river that snakes its way through a mysterious wilderness.

" Marlow continues describing the trials and tribulations that must have been encountered by the first Romans who made their way to England ; how mysterious and incomprehensible the place must have seemed to them.

Bogart never forgot Howard's favor, and in 1952 he named his only daughter " Leslie Howard " after Howard, who had died in World War II under mysterious circumstances.

In one part of " The Tales of Genji ( Genji monogatari )", Genji falls deeply in love with a mysterious woman, who he has never seen before, after he hears her playing koto from a distance.

The story shifts from a failed Martian political revolution of 2248, to an expedition to explore a mysterious monument on the north pole of Pluto three centuries later, and ultimately to a space station orbiting Saturn, home to a reclusive and wealthy woman who may hold the key to solving a mystery spanning centuries.

In his article, " Gray Barker: My Friend, the Myth-Maker ," John C. Sherwood claims that at age 18, he cooperated when Gray Barker urged him in the late 1960s to develop a hoax – which Barker subsequently published – about what Barker called " blackmen ", three mysterious UFO inhabitants who silenced Sherwood's pseudonymous identity, " Dr. Richard H. Pratt ".

This capacity, personified as a mysterious alter-ego called the Avatar, is dormant in most people, who are known as sleepers, whereas Magi ( and / or their Avatars ) are said to be Awakened.

Owain is perhaps best remembered outside Wales as the mysterious Welshman of ' Owen Glendower ' in Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part 1 who claims to be able to " call spirits from the vasty deep ," and proves later on that he can, at least, summon unearthly music.

The group includes Pat Conley, a mysterious young woman who has an unprecedented parapsychological ability to undo events by changing the past.

Soap opera storylines sometimes weave intricate, convoluted, and sometimes confusing tales of characters who have affairs, meet mysterious strangers and fall in love, and who commit adultery, all of which keeps audiences hooked on the unfolding story twists.

* The Sathar are a race of mysterious, worm-like beings who are the enemies of the UPF ( they are not intended to be used as a player race ).

The Saint Steps In reveals that Templar is operating on behalf of a mysterious individual known as Hamilton who appears again in the next WWII-era Saint book, The Saint on Guard.

However, Sayers ' first reference to Le Fanu appears in an earlier Lord Peter Wimsey novel, The Nine Tailors ( 1934 ), where he is quoted directly ( from Wylder's Hand, in the opening to the seventh " part " of Chapter II and again in the opening to the second " part " of Chapter III ) and a mysterious letter is referred to ( first by Wimsey's valet, Mervyn Bunter ) as " written by a person of no inconsiderable literary ability, who had studied the works of Sheridan Lefanu and was, if I may be permitted the expression, bats in the belfry, my lord.

In a vision, David's wish was granted and told that from then on, people who lived in the land of Dewi Sant ( Saint David ) " would be forewarned by the dim light of mysterious tapers when and where the death might be expected.

The protagonist of " Molly and Poo ," Molly is a tortured writer who dreams of a mysterious muse (" Ma Malai ") and murders her husband with a butcher knife.

This mysterious Western, offshoot of Gnosticism had no single feature about it which could soften the hostility of a character such as Martin's, but he resisted the introduction of secular punishment for evil doctrine, and withdrew from communion with those bishops in Gaul, a large majority, who invoked the aid of Maximus against their erring brethren.

Arriving at the scene is a mysterious personage identified as the doctor's brother who formerly was a stage magician in Europe.

The series follows a British former secret agent who is held prisoner in a mysterious coastal village resort where his captors try to find out why he abruptly resigned from his job.

The Village is further secured by numerous monitoring systems and security forces, including a mysterious balloon-like device called Rover that recaptures those who attempt escape.

Hermine also introduces Harry to a mysterious saxophonist named Pablo, who appears to be the very opposite of what Harry considers a serious, thoughtful man.

KOF ' 99 introduces a new story arc involving a mysterious corporation known as NESTS, which seeks to create an army of genetically altered fighters.

#* This story arc introduces the Mugai-ryū, a mysterious sword school intent on hunting down Anotsu Kagehisa.

When he wakes up, a mysterious woman with a single large breast flies down next to him and introduces herself as Whoa.

The player meets a mysterious halfling, Hobart Stubbletoes, who introduces himself in the Whistling Gallows Inn in Lonelywood.

* This play also introduces the Forge, a mysterious government / military group dealing with paranormal research.

It also introduces Shizuma Kusunagi, a traveling Street Fighter with mysterious powers.

When Dag Hammarskjold was negotiating the Middle East peace after Israel's 1956 invasion of Egypt, he soon found himself speaking the mysterious phrases of Cairo, a language as anarchic as Casey Stengel's.

On the first day of the tournament, a bout of individual jousting, a mysterious masked knight, identifying himself only as " Desdichado " ( which is described in the book as Spanish for the " Disinherited One ", though actually meaning " Unfortunate "), makes his appearance and manages to defeat some of the best Norman lances, including Bois-Guilbert, Maurice de Bracy, a leader of a group of " Free Companions " ( mercenary knights ), and the baron Reginald Front-de-Boeuf.

Zwide himself escaped with a handful of followers before falling foul of a chieftainess named Mjanji, ruler of the baPedi clan ( he died in mysterious circumstances soon afterward ).

The young King Ananda Mahidol ( Rama VIII ) died in 1946 under somewhat mysterious circumstances, the official explanation being that he shot himself by accident while cleaning his gun.

When he wakes, he finds himself held captive in a mysterious seaside " village " that is isolated from the mainland by mountains and sea.

This immediately explained the appearance of two-component wave functions in Pauli's phenomenological theory of spin, something that up until then had been regarded as mysterious, even to Pauli himself.

Henry quickly gained enough power and support to have himself declared King Henry IV, imprison King Richard ( who died in prison under mysterious circumstances ) and bypass Richard's seven-year-old heir-presumptive, Edmund de Mortimer.

Thanks to divine favour and Romulus ' inspired leadership, Rome became a dominant force, but Romulus himself became increasingly autocratic, and disappeared or died in mysterious circumstances.

Corwin travels to Tir-na Nóg ' th, the mysterious, moonlit Amber-in-the-sky where he hopes to gain insight into the situation, and upon his return finds himself at the Primal Pattern rather than Amber.

Merlin traces his way back to his first confrontation with Jasra, where he finds himself at a magical fort, the Keep of the Four Worlds, a nexus of magical energies which has recently fallen under the control of a mysterious blue-masked sorcerer calling himself " Mask ", who seems to have a vendetta against Merlin.

He came, unexpected and unbidden, from a part of myself no less mysterious and inaccessible than the part where dreams come from ; and little by little there came with him a whole world of people and places that was as heretofore unknown to me as Bebb was himself.

However, Megatron, found himself unwilling to carry out the instructions of his ancestor, instead attempting to amass power through the huge reserves of energon and portions of mysterious alien technology that littered the planet.

Belshazzar, being greatly alarmed at the mysterious handwriting on the wall, and apprehending that someone in disguise might enter the palace with murderous intent, ordered his doorkeepers to behead every one who attempted to force an entrance that night, even though such person should claim to be the king himself.

That he allowed this, and that he amassed such wealth himself, is all the more mysterious since he lived a relatively modest life.

In addition to the story narrated by John Dee himself, which features Kelley as an important character, the novel also features a second ( entirely fictional ) story narrated by Matthew Palmer, who inherits Dee's mysterious residence in the 1990s.

He tells Albin and Henrik that he himself is so old, he cannot remember how he became a vampire ( though he alludes briefly to a trist he had with a mysterious woman ,) and cannot create more of his own kind.

As each team reaches the final stage and defeat Eggman, they finally meet together and discover that the enemy they have been chasing is not Eggman, but is actually Metal Sonic, disguised as Eggman ; the Doctor himself has been locked away, and Team Chaotix discovers that Eggman was their mysterious client.

As he looks over the cards he remembers all his brothers and sisters: sneaky Random, Julian the hunter, well-built Gérard, the arrogant Eric, himself, Benedict the master tactician and swordsman, sinister Caine, scheming Bleys, and the mysterious Brand.

Another more Corsair-like possibility is one of the guests at her Scottish home, Portray Castle, the older Lord George de Bruce Carruthers, a man who supports himself in a somewhat mysterious manner.

The moment of revelation in which the mysterious leader was literally unmasked by the prisoner was brief and unclear, but there are fans of the series who believe the unmasked leader was the prisoner himself.

At the same time he finds himself surviving-at increasingly improbable odds-numerous assassination attempts by a mysterious conspiracy which has long worked to prevent anybody from locating the Jokers, assassinating anybody deemed by p-math having a chance of doing so.

He was proven right when her mysterious stalker, an unnamed, telepathic mutant, made himself known.

Meanwhile Keane himself starts to focus his legal efforts on Colonel Paradine's mysterious servant, Andre Latour ( Louis Jourdan ).