They grew very powerful, employing mysterious rites, deadly secrecy, vowing someday to rise again and take revenge on the Catholic Church.

They had withdrawn to whatever deeper caves they used, whether for sleeping or for whatever mysterious rites occupied their time.

Selena took her cake and sidled closer to the cousin who was the object of all these mysterious Midwestern female tribal nuptial rites.

She motioned that Ambrosio should be silent, and began the mysterious rites.

In 1984, they found a third structure filled with burned fragments of human skulls that might have been the product of a mysterious rite.

All told, the work had the feeling of a mysterious ceremonial rite.

The two fights with Liston are the mysterious rites on which the legend of Muhammad Ali was built.

The mysterious rites they practice that are unknown in our culture.

He knew the name but little more about them except that they observed some mysterious rites of their own.

Within the underground complex many mysterious rites take place which it is forbidden for any male to witness.