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‘A figure can be mysterious.’

[⟨det figure.n⟩ mysterious.a]

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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Uncle Bob, the artist,? was always a mysterious figure in our family.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

A mysterious figure with a web of connections to terrorist organizations, Horn has a knack for emerging on the scene just as a major operation goes down.
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In Wikipedia:

Joseph is a lone, mysterious figure who serves as a Demoniac hunter.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

She glanced at Henry on her left, silently asking if he would go after the mysterious figure.
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In Simple Wikipedia:

Mark Pellegrino returns in his role as Jacob, the mysterious figure in charge of the island, while Titus Welliver also reprises his role as the mysterious unnamed character, known only as “The Man in Black”, who appeared to be antagonistic to him in the season 5 finale.
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In Wikipedia:

As depicted in “Blood Meridian”, Holden is a mysterious but authoritative figure, a cold – blooded killer, and possibly a pedophile.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

I was then offered a cloak by a different friend literally 15 minutes before we left and I accepted and I was the’ ’ mysterious cloaked figure’ ’.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

She is soon in trouble with the Fingermen, this government’s version of the secret police, and is about to be raped and probably killed, when a mysterious figure, wearing a cloak, hat, and Fawkesian mask, appears, kills her attackers in spectacular fashion, and introduces himself with a long monologue largely consisting of words beginning with the letter V, which is worth repeating here, not only because it more or less sets out his basic motivations, and because I’ll want to refer to it later, but because is also quite a decent piece of writing: In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of fate.
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In Wikipedia:

A mysterious figure symbolizing death appears and they scatter.
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In Wikipedia:

Benitora and Sasuke also meet a mysterious figure who identifies himself as Bontenmaru.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

One night Travis ends up on the outskirts of Silent Hill following a crash caused by suddenly swerving his truck after a mysterious figure steps in front of his truck.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

We have so little information about this mysterious figure, it is not known whether he really is a spell throwing mage or if he is indeed black at all.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

A mysterious figure with a web of connections to terrorist organizations, Horn has a knack for emerging on the scene just as a major operation goes down.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

The mysterious figure appeared to cast a shadow as it moved through the school’s hallways at 2:51 am last Friday.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

I love the dreams where your not some mysterious and surreal figure sending a metaphoric message, like my favorite about the highway and the woods, I love those but I love in the middle of dreaming and waking up, it seems natural, like your alive and my best friend here again. a huge dream about you but all I can remember is a different graveyard where you were, and then you were alive again and we were just hanging out at this house about to go to sleep, you turned on the fan and it was like old times, how it felt to be together, and in the few seconds between sleep and waking up, when you cant diferentiate reality, you were alive again, and then I had to tell myself you werent. first day of classes today, I hope I get to go running up the xc trail today.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

In this case, the mysterious masked figure known as the Whispering Shadow is after a Macguffin and killing and / or attacking people in the process through radio waves.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

I’d say the most interesting bit was when we were out at the airfield to watch fireworks, and out of the darkness comes a mysterious figure, wreathed in a cloud of smoke and steadily approaching.
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In Wikipedia:

The events of the game are framed through the character of Tagami, a mysterious figure who travels to the world in which the game is set long after the main events conclude in order to investigate what caused the world’s destruction.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Unobserved, a mysterious black figure runs down the street at 6:40pm, and disappears into the darkness of the park Lauren Wilson used to play in.
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Queried on 2013-06-19.