Thesaurus / sphinxlike
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They all looked eagerly at the criminologist on his return, but his face was sphinxlike.
THE BLACK BOXE. PHILLIPS OPPENHEIMBut Burr, who was in New York, could not easily be communicated with and kept his sphinxlike silence.
THOMAS JEFFERSONGILBERT CHINARDGood and evil is the challenging riddle which life places sphinxlike before every intelligence.
AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A YOGIPARAMHANSA YOGANANDAMaster then sat sphinxlike in an unrelenting silence, punctuated by the boy's sobs for mercy.
AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A YOGIPARAMHANSA YOGANANDABut I really came to ask you to do something for me, Miss Roscoe, she smiled at the sphinxlike figure.
AINSLEE'S, VOL. 15, NO. 6, JULY 1905VARIOUSSlowly the Ohio receded from him, somber, implacable, sphinxlike.
MORTMAINARTHUR CHENY TRAINThe doctor sat with one leg crossed, smoking a cigarette, his expression sardonic, sphinxlike.
A MAN TO HIS MATEJ. ALLAN DUNNHer husband sat unbendingly silent, in a sphinxlike attitude that gave no outward indication of his mental uneasiness.
IN THE MIDST OF ALARMSROBERT BARRThe granite rests in unalterable calm, sphinxlike, on the edge of the watery desert.
IN THE OPENSTANTON DAVIS KIRKHAMKatherine for once took up the gauntlet, while one of her sphinxlike smiles hovered about her mouth.
THE CAREER OF KATHERINE BUSHELINOR GLYNWORDS RELATED TO SPHINXLIKE
- abstruse
- alchemistic
- arcane
- astrological
- baffling
- cabalistic
- covert
- cryptic
- curious
- dark
- difficult
- enigmatic
- enigmatical
- equivocal
- esoteric
- furtive
- hidden
- impenetrable
- incomprehensible
- inexplicable
- inscrutable
- insoluble
- magical
- mystical
- mystifying
- necromantic
- obscure
- occult
- oracular
- perplexing
- puzzling
- recondite
- secretive
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- spiritual
- strange
- subjective
- symbolic
- transcendental
- uncanny
- unfathomable
- unknowable
- unknown
- unnatural
- veiled
- weird
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- alchemistic
- arcane
- astrological
- baffling
- cabalistic
- covert
- cryptic
- curious
- dark
- difficult
- enigmatic
- enigmatical
- equivocal
- esoteric
- furtive
- hidden
- impenetrable
- incomprehensible
- inexplicable
- inscrutable
- insoluble
- magical
- mystic
- mystical
- necromantic
- obscure
- occult
- oracular
- perplexing
- puzzling
- recondite
- secretive
- sphinxlike
- spiritual
- strange
- subjective
- symbolic
- transcendental
- uncanny
- unfathomable
- unknowable
- unknown
- unnatural
- veiled
- weird
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