She fixed him with an enigmatic smile that might have said, Don't worry, Ralph-you were just another part of the scenery to me.
Stephen King
Insomnia
Against Moat Cailin?” He gave her an enigmatic smile.
George R. R. Martin
A Storm of Swords
Beyond that there was nothing but a haze that would sometimes lift a tiny bit, just enough to afford a glimpse of some enigmatic object or memory (Boo Dinkway, for instance .
King, Stephen
The Stand
Her expression became enigmatic.
Dick, Philip K.
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
He gave Dunk an enigmatic smile.
George R.R. Martin
The Tales of Dunk & Egg
Thought is moved in its most sombre depths, social philosophy is bidden to its most poignant meditations, in the presence of that enigmatic dialect at once so blighted and rebellious.
Victor Hugo
Les Misérables
In her enigmatic remoteness Jenny was a little disquieting.
Aldous Huxley
Crome Yellow
I was at first unable to solve these questions, but perpetual attention and time explained to me many appearances which were at first enigmatic.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus
He strikes a match and proceeds to light the cigarette with enigmatic melancholy.
James Joyce
Ulysses
This explained the empty streets, Anteac’s enigmatic “Yes.” It explained many things.
Frank Herbert
God Emperor of Dune
“But I thought you might have the mouth organ or something.”Dumbledore beamed at him, peering over the top of his half-moon spectacles.“Very astute, Harry, but the mouth organ was only ever a mouth organ.”And on that enigmatic note he waved to Harry, who understood himself to be dismissed.
J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
I knew a young lady of the last “romantic” generation who after some years of an enigmatic passion for a gentleman, whom she might quite easily have married at any moment, invented insuperable obstacles to their union, and ended by throwing herself one stormy night into a rather deep and rapid river from a high bank, almost a precipice, and so perished, entirely to satisfy her own caprice, and to be like Shakespeare’s Ophelia.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Brothers Karamazov
Brilliant, enigmatic, lovely Cinna is dead because of me.
Suzanne Collins
Mockingjay
He was disappointed, but not inclined to believe Yossarian, for he had been given a sign, a secret, enigmatic vision that he still lacked the boldness to divulge.
Heller, Joseph
Catch-22