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  • Just throwing it out there, you know, as a supposedly arcane fact.†   (source)
  • He quickly found the more arcane sites: alien abduction, UFO sightings and the supernatural.†   (source)
  • I must attend to certain matters, but while I am gone you would do well to think on who you would rather serve: a Rider who betrayed your own order or a fellow man like me, though one skilled in arcane arts.†   (source)
  • He was probably groping for a word that was arcane and multisyllabic, one of those crossword items that could be confirmed only in the Oxford English Dictionary.†   (source)
  • Sol set aside the book he was working on-an analysis of Kierkegaard's theories of ethics as compromise morality as applied to the legal machinery of the Hegemony-and concentrated on collecting arcane data on time, on Hyperion, and on the story of Abraham.†   (source)
  • * There's an arcane dispute waiting for anyone who wants to have one about the meaning of the phrase "West Coast offense."†   (source)
  • Perhaps that was an arcane ward against evil spirits.†   (source)
  • She might take one casual glance in here and immediately realize in some arcane way what had happened.†   (source)
  • But first he will try to discover the extent of her arcane knowledge.†   (source)
  • He taught me everything—weapons training, demonology, arcane lore, ancient languages.†   (source)
  • Kvothe the Arcane and Kvothe Kingkiller are two very different men.†   (source)
  • It may help that I decided to not make this year's treasure hunt an excruciating forced march through my arcane personal memories.†   (source)
  • Cops doled out traffic tickets to drivers for violations that seemed impossibly arcane to many newcomers.†   (source)
  • Tom Gau, the quintessential Salesman, takes the very arcane field of tax law and retirement planning and repackages it in terms that make emotional sense to his clients.†   (source)
  • I like this one: their arcane trek.†   (source)
  • All the nuns at the convent wore plain blouses and skirts except for Sister Edgar, who had permission from the motherhouse to fit herself out in the old things with the arcane names, the wimple, cincture and guimpe.†   (source)
  • There is some arcane quality about his sketches; some way he makes you see past the face itself and into it.†   (source)
  • To simulate gravity, feign grief and pretend supernatural intelligence of the hereafter in so fearsome and arcane a circumstance as death seemed the most criminal of offenses.†   (source)
  • I have the right to speak, to advocate for my client, and I will not be silenced by some arcane technicality in your rules of procedure.†   (source)
  • Your rituals are arcane, and there remain many with which I am not entirely familiar.†   (source)
  • Besides, 'nor' is arcane."†   (source)
  • All Jessica had wanted was some help with trigonometry, not a course in the arcane ways of Bixby, Oklahoma.†   (source)
  • Max's roommate was on the lower level of the large, domed observatory, the top of his blond head just visible amid piled books, beakers, and arcane contraptions.†   (source)
  • During this time the streetcar traveled a kilometer or two and was forced to slow down behind a huge truck that was hauling an arcane piece of electrical equipment almost as big as a house.†   (source)
  • "I mean, having the confidence to study something so…arcane when so many qualified young people can't even find jobs in today's market.†   (source)
  • With his master gone, he, Akar Kessell, would be rightfully awarded his own meditation chamber and alchemy lab in the Hosttower of the Arcane in Luskan.†   (source)
  • Sophie loses track of much of the arcane detail, meanwhile regarding Durrfeld once more from a point of view that is singularly female: he is attractive, she thinks, then in a dampness of mild shame banishes the thought.†   (source)
  • And on and on I went in a happy torrent of arcane baseball speculation.†   (source)
  • the arcane science of dowsing
  • You can keep more of your money if you understand a few arcane Internal Revenue Service regulations.
  • He was a Shadowhunter, a member of the arcane world's secret police force.†   (source)
  • Ten thousand years of arcane knowledge in one place Then his voice trailed away.†   (source)
  • I have been called Kvothe the Bloodless, Kvothe the Arcane, and Kvothe Kingkiller.†   (source)
  • In real life, however, the arcane had a way of losing its power.†   (source)
  • I wondered what non-arcane visitors might think of the warning.†   (source)
  • Your other protection is human, and therefore fallible, whatever her arcane powers may be.†   (source)
  • The kid might actually know how to tie a bow tie, which was kinda scary arcane knowledge.†   (source)
  • You are surrounded by your own romantic aura, you lie cheek and jowl daily with the arcane.†   (source)
  • This is a highly arcane concept that I do not imagine Italians have fully absorbed.†   (source)
  • The appointment made one ineligible as a candidate during the election, and it also required one spend many days prior to conclave poring over the pages of the Universi Dominici Gregis reviewing the subtleties of conclave's arcane rituals to ensure the election was properly administered.†   (source)
  • He should avoid arcane metaphors.†   (source)
  • Peter and I talk about some pretty arcane things, but believe me, I'd tell him to get his head examined if he ever told me there was an ancient portal hidden anywhere at all.†   (source)
  • Not only had Langdon reunited the pieces of the Masonic Pyramid, he had figured out how to solve the arcane grid of symbols on the base.†   (source)
  • Anyway, Arya couldn't have returned it to us-she was too far away-and the elves' realm is warded by arcane barriers that prevent anything from entering their borders through magical means.†   (source)
  • For the same reason he'd taken to spending hours in the more obscure regions of the library stacks, ferreting out arcane lore.†   (source)
  • With the help of my offspring (cabin mates—I will call them cabin mates), I managed to master the arcane mysteries of the shower, the toilet, and the sink.†   (source)
  • For about three minutes I got really excited, like I was close to a breakthrough, and then two things became apparent: first, that Ralph Waldo Emerson had lived and died in the 1800s and therefore could not have written any letters dated September third, 1940, and, second, that his writing was so dense and arcane that it couldn't possibly have held the slightest interest for my grandfather, who wasn't exactly an avid reader.†   (source)
  • An act of God: that was what the insurance companies called it, catastrophe so random or arcane that there was otherwise no taking the measure of it.†   (source)
  • I am thy link to power arcane.†   (source)
  • But the test was not actually so easy as I thought it would be, with a lot more questions about arcane matters of New York State government than I'd anticipated (how many months of the year was the legislature in Albany in session?†   (source)
  • According to legend, the Lost Word was written in a language so ancient and arcane that mankind had all but forgotten how to read it.†   (source)
  • I never took it out except when Dad and Xandra weren't there and I knew they wouldn't be back for a while—though even when I couldn't see it I liked knowing it was there for the depth and solidity it gave things, the reinforcement to infrastructure, an invisible, bedrock rightness that reassured me just as it was reassuring to know that far away, whales swam untroubled in Baltic waters and monks in arcane time zones chanted ceaselessly for the salvation of the world.†   (source)
  • As the group moved gingerly through the wreckage of the steel door, through the rotating painting, and into the living room, Langdon explained to Sato that the Lost Word was one of Freemasonry's most enduring symbols—a single word, written in an arcane language that man could no longer decipher.†   (source)
  • Masonic teachings were arcane because they were meant to be universal …. taught through a common language of symbols and metaphors that transcended religions, cultures, and races …. creating a unified "worldwide consciousness" of brotherly love.†   (source)
  • Even the Institute of Noetic Sciences in California described the field in arcane and abstruse language, defining it as the study of mankind's "direct and immediate access to knowledge beyond what is available to our normal senses and the power of reason."†   (source)
  • Vestiges remained in the arcane rituals of Christianity, in its god-eating rites of Holy Communion, its hierarchies of saints, angels, and demons, its chanting and incantation, its holy calendar's astrological underpinnings, its consecrated robes, and in its promise of everlasting life.†   (source)
  • Virtually every mystical tradition on earth revolved around the idea that there existed arcane knowledge capable of imbuing humans with mystical, almost godlike, powers: tarot and I Ching gave men the ability to see the future; alchemy gave men immortality through the fabled Philosopher's Stone; Wicca permitted advanced practitioners to cast powerful spells.†   (source)
  • Of warmth and growth they sang, of muscle and sinew and pulsing blood they sang, and of other, more arcane subjects.†   (source)
  • For the most arcane of reasons: If you are in a submarine at the bottom of the ocean, quietly snooping in enemy waters, and one of your sailors starts suffering from chest pain, you really want to know whether you need to surface (and give away your position) in order to rush him to a hospital or whether you can stay underwater and just send him to his bunk with a couple of Rolaids.†   (source)
  • He moved past her to the wall, already murmuring in Latin; the familiar outline of a Portal, its arcane door shape outlined with glittering symbols, began to take form.†   (source)
  • The floor was as smooth as if it had been polished, alternating here and there with arcane patterns of gleaming inlaid stone.†   (source)
  • When the elves retreated into Du Weldenvarden after the fall of the Riders, they placed wards around the forest that prevent any thought, item, or being from entering it through arcane means, though not from exiting it, if I understood Arya's explanation.†   (source)
  • This is the final arcane knowledge.†   (source)
  • If that came to pass, Carn's magic would be of little help, for the Urgals had a spellcaster of their own, a shaman named Dazhgra, and from what Roran had seen, Dazhgra was the more powerful magician, if not as skilled in the nuances of their arcane art.†   (source)
  • Yet his scrutinizing inspection revealed no arcane runes or markings of any kind that hinted at its properties.†   (source)
  • I've been doing it a long time. l see the letters and pull out a good word first—like, karate, or arcane—and then I try to use the remaining letters to make—oh God, this is boring," he said, hoping it wasn't.†   (source)
  • He and Saphira spent most of that time going over the arcane sentences again and again, examining and debating every word and phrase—and even hispronunciation—in an attempt to ensure that the spells would do what he intended and nothing more.†   (source)
  • As the long hours dragged by, Eragon grew sore and weary and-stripped of many of his arcane defenses-accumulated dozens of minor injuries.†   (source)
  • —Arcane' is arcane."†   (source)
  • History was littered with tales of brilliant men and women who had delved too deeply in arcane matters and were driven mad for their insolence.†   (source)
  • Eragon lost himself in the arcane glyphs, happy to have a task that required nothing more strenuous than rote memorization.†   (source)
  • These were Bruenor's heritage, and though he had never seen them before, their arcane lines and curves seemed comfortably familiar to him.†   (source)
  • The scales slid past the pool and he glimpsed the underside of a thigh, a spike on her tail, the baggy membrane of a folded wing, and then the gleaming tip of a tooth as she turned and twisted, trying to find a position from which she could comfortably view the mirror Nasuada used for arcane communications.†   (source)
  • She was not only David's charge, but also his assistant, as Maya's enchanted blood could be used to translate even the most arcane languages and ciphers.†   (source)
  • He found naught but crumpled parchment, a Rowan sweater, and an empty bottle of crusted ulu blood—a rare substance priceless for its ability to translate arcane languages.†   (source)
  • When Eragon's arcane fetters ceased to exist, Oromis recoiled as if he had been pricked by a wasp and stood with his gaze fixed on his two hands, his thin chest heaving.†   (source)
  • They all fully understood the consequences if the archmage of the Hosttower of the Arcane ever learned of their murderous deed.†   (source)
  • …who, in contrast with Freowin, was fit and compact, with corded forearms, and who wore a mail hauberk and helm to every gathering; and finally to Íorunn, she of the nut-brown skin marred only by a thin, crescent-shaped scar high upon her left cheekbone, she of the satin-bright hair bound underneath a silver helm wrought in the shape of a snarling wolf's head, she of the vermilion dress and the necklace of flashing emeralds set in squares of gold carved with lines of arcane runes.†   (source)
  • Lifting their hems off the floor, she and Farica wended their way in single file toward the back of the room, past hourglasses and scales, arcane tomes bound with black iron, dwarven astrolabes, and piles of phosphorescent crystal prisms that produced fitful blue flashes.†   (source)
  • The Stooge When the wizards' caravan from the Hosttower of the Arcane saw the snow-capped peak of Kelvin's Cairn rising from the flat horizon, they were more than a little relieved.†   (source)
  • He imagined the response from the Hosttower of the Arcane in Luskan when the mages there, especially Eldulac and Dendybar, learned of Akar Kessell, Lord of Ten-Towns and Ruler of all Icewind Dale!†   (source)
  • They became more powerful than even their surface-dwelling cousins, whose dealings with the arcane arts under the life-giving warmth of the sun were hobby, not necessity.†   (source)
  • The true mages, lifelong students of the arcane arts, practiced their trade with due respect for the magic, ever wary of the potential consequences of their spellcastings.†   (source)
  • Suddenly, an urge came over him to make a certain gesture and speak an arcane word of command that he assumed he must have heard in the presence of Morkai.†   (source)
  • For one thing, although the publishing house—which had prospered largely through textbooks and industrial manuals and dozens of technical journals in fields as varied and arcane as pig husbandry and mortuary science and extruded plastics—did publish novels and nonfiction as a sideline, thereby requiring the labor of junior aestheticians like myself, its list of authors would scarcely capture the attention of anyone seriously concerned with literature.†   (source)
  • We say this, because we consider it our duty to shame irresponsible sorts who asserted that Dr. Krokowski had turned to arcane subjects in the hope of rescuing his lectures from what he feared was unmitigated monotony.†   (source)
  • Like everyone else, over the course of his life Hans Castorp had heard one thing or another about arcane natural, or supernatural, phenomena—there has already been mention made of his clairvoyant great-aunt, whose melancholy story had been passed down to him.†   (source)
  • Of late, however, although the transition had been so gradual his audience had scarcely noticed, his interests had moved in a new direction, toward magical, arcane matters; and his fortnightly lectures in the dining hall—the sanatorium's main attraction, the pride of its brochure—which were always delivered from behind a cloth-covered table in an exotic, drawling accent, to an immobile audience of Berghof residents and for which he always wore a frock coat and sandals, no longer dealt…†   (source)
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