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Example sentences for "arcane"

Lexicographically close words:
arcade; arcaded; arcades; arcading; arcana; arcanum; arce; arced; arces; arch
  1. The luminous genius who had illustrated the demonstrations of Euclid was penetrating into the arcane caverns of the cabbalists, and in a state of spiritual elevation fell into many a dreamy trance.

  2. The earth is tapped of its arcane energies, the very air yields to us its mysterious powers.

  3. The sentiment engendered by the Gaelic literature was an arcane presence, though unconscious of itself, in those who for the past hundred years had learned another speech.

  4. There is something arcane and elemental in it, a quality that the most careful stylist cannot attain, however he uses the file, however subtle he is.

  5. For in the Phaedrus being evidently inspired, and having exchanged human intelligence for a better possession, divine mania, he unfolds many arcane dogmas concerning the intellectual, liberated, and mundane gods.

  6. By the first principle here, the one is to be understood for that arcane nature which is beyond the one, since all language is subverted about it, can only, as we have already observed, be conceived and venerated in the most profound silence.

  7. Thus, after 4 or 5 drinks, spurious and arcane ideas were seriously considered.

  8. It's a pretty arcane branch of engineering, even for techy types.

  9. Also in 1860 William Lewis Manly who with John Rogers, a brave and husky Tennessean had rescued the survivors of the Bennett-Arcane party, returned to the valley he had named, to search for the Gunsight.

  10. He named Bennett's Well on the floor of Death Valley to honor Asa (or Asabel) Bennett, a member of the Bennett-Arcane party.

  11. Scoffing Hunt's warning, the Bennett-Arcane party deserted and with the Jayhawkers became the first white Americans to cross Death Valley.

  12. Eighteen years before the Bennett-Arcane party came to grief, Walker had discovered Walker River and Walker Lake in Nevada, afterward named for him.

  13. Once George told me of watching the sufferings of the Jayhawkers and Bennett-Arcane party: "Me little boy, first time I see white man.

  14. Bennett and Arcane assisted their wives down along the little narrow ledge which we used in getting up, keeping their faces toward the rocky wall, and feeling carefully for every footstep.

  15. We circled around till we found his track and then Arcane followed it while we made ready the others.

  16. Arcane took his Charley from the other pocket and laid him on the ground, while he devoted his own attention to the animals.

  17. Bennett was at Watsonville, and Mr. Arcane at Santa Cruz, and I desired to visit them.

  18. They would not consent to try riding again, after their circus experience, and Mrs. Arcane said her limbs ached so much she did not think she could even go on the next day.

  19. Rogers and I hurried along, assisting Arcane and his party as much as we could, while Bennett staid behind and assisted the women as much as possible, taking their arms, and by this means they also reached camp an hour behind the rest.

  20. Arcane said the whole story was so incredible, that he never should fight anyone, even if he should tell him he lied when he related the strange sad truth.

  21. Bennett and Arcane were emphatic in their belief and expressions that we would succeed, "I know it--Don't you Sally?

  22. Arcane all along had an idea that Rogers and I meant to surprise them by leading them to believe the house we had visited was quite a distance off, and then to so manage it that it should appear upon their sight suddenly.

  23. Bennett and Arcane caught us in their arms and embraced us with all their strength, and Mrs. Bennett when she came fell down on her knees and clung to me like a maniac in the great emotion that came to her, and not a word was spoken.

  24. Arcane said to her--"Me Catholic" which she seemed partly to comprehend and seemed more friendly.

  25. The women, however, were pretty nearly exhausted, and little Charley Arcane cried bitterly all day and almost all night.

  26. Mrs. Arcane could hardly speak when she bade us farewell, she was so much affected.

  27. Arcane used to say he expected the boys--meaning Rogers and I--would try to surprise the party by letting them get very near the house before they knew how near they were.

  28. He was a pudgy, unassuming engineer, the moderately successful founder of a moderately successful high-tech startup that had done something arcane with software agents.

  29. Imagineer packs rolled in and out with arcane gizmos, or formed tight argumentative knots in the corners as they shouted over whatever their HUDs were displaying.

  30. Its limitations include the inability to back up NFS or other non-ext2 filesystems and some rather arcane defaults.

  31. Jesus the ideal represents, and will continue to represent, all that was implied in the arcane religions in the East.

  32. It was the designation of the matters represented in the Eleusinian, Dionysiac, and other arcane rites.

  33. It embraced the same notions as were denoted by the mysteries of the Western peoples, and hence the Mithraic worship in a very great degree superseded the arcane religions of Asia Minor and Europe.

  34. The same ambiguity prevailed in the case of Christianity where it had been in contact with the arcane worship of Mithras.

  35. These comprised the arcane literature of the Jews, which was to be kept carefully away from the laity.

  36. There was a Gospel in the possession of the Ebionites carefully guarded as a sacred or arcane book, a copy of which Jerome procured with great difficulty, but which has since been lost and forgotten.

  37. I myself have seen a sign: "Bohemians are not permitted within the precincts of this commune"; but the laws of a great republic are too complex and arcane to permit of this simple treatment.

  38. Whether or no the involutions of the "Golden Bowl" will titillate his arcane sensibilities.

  39. The Tablets themselves constitute a grand arcane Tarot of man, God and the universe, and of all the powers that dwell therein.

  40. Here we approach one of the most arcane secrets within the wide scope of Occult philosophy, hence must be exact, and at the same time clear, in our statements.

  41. What security there was, was entirely physical, for it was assumed that anyone allowed near this expensive, arcane hardware would be a fully qualified professional expert.

  42. Their users "invaded" the deepest, most arcane recesses of their operating software almost as a matter of routine.

  43. The Netsys machine proved to contain a plethora of arcane UNIX software--proprietary source code formally owned by AT&T.


  44. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "arcane" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.