But under no circumstances must it disappear by mysterious means.

However, despite efforts to discourage him, Page introduced unwanted competition by what appeared at the time to be mysterious means.

By whatever mysterious means, word of the Wife's passage had spread up and down the Indus.

Sibyls enter a trance and by mysterious means, can answer questions.

If these were truly witches, they might know mysterious means to communicate without sound.

She was in a large bare hall, lit by the same mysterious means as the stair.

And, most horribly, by some mysterious means, each body had been completely drained of blood.

So he allies himself with a West German publisher who has access, through mysterious means, to all kinds of money.

And, in the end, the pictures excite less curiosity than the mysterious means by which they were obtained.

It is as if he had some secret power; some mysterious means to keep up his influence.