The incident seems cut from a French novel; but so does the whole strange storyone apparently insoluble enigma in an otherwise only too transparent life.

And then when I reflected further, recollecting that the body I had discovered was that of a woman and not a man, I stood staggered and bewildered by the utterly inexplicable enigma.

Philip Freneau and the cosmic enigma: the religious and philosophical speculations of an American poet.

The problem is, not to cut short the spectator's interest, or to leave it fluttering at a loose end, but to provide it either with a clearly-foreseen point in the next act towards which it can reach onwards, or with a definite enigma, the solution of which is impatiently awaited.

It did not occur to Jack to question a word of the narrative that had reduced a dismal enigma to luminous, connected facts.

Women are capable of putting love aside, like a rich dress, and donning the peignoir of matter-of-fact dailiness, in a way which is an eternal enigma to men....

So she remained there in patience, seeking some natural solution of the extraordinary enigma.

The blunder however came originally from Lowth, and out of the following admirable enigma: "Prepositions, standing by themselves in construction, are put before nouns and pronouns; and sometimes after verbs; but in this sort of composition they are chiefly prefixed to verbs: as, to outgo, to overcome.

The moment he set foot on this vast unknown land, its chief geographical enigma at once occupied his attention.

George Cannon lifted his head with a gesture signifying enigma.

I was now confronted with the task of solvingand of solving quickly, without the loss of an hourthis enigma; and I confess that it was only by the most violent and extraordinary concentration of what I may call the dissecting faculty, that I was able to do so in good time.

He is an enigma, as impenetrable as the rocks on his native shore.

" The dear little girls were not long in guessing this ingenious enigma and while they were rejoicing over their success, Mr. P. was suddenly addressed by a man who had been standing behind him.

The human heart is an insolvable enigma.

Intellectual enigmas frustrate our scientific systems, and the ultimate cruelty of the universe upsets our religious attitudes and outlooks.

He went to ethnographic sources, to the origins of myths, and he compared and elucidated their intricate enigmas.

But let the difficulty arise from mere imperfections of language, and the consciousness of having solved an involuntary enigma is scarcely sufficient to reward our pains.

This such a knotty enigma?

I only hope that he may live until the mighty and sublime enigma that lies in his soul may have reached its highest and ripest perfection.

How many races had preceded them remains an enigma of history not profitable to examine here, but whoever they were, or in what succession they arrived, they must, like all migrating people, have been prepared to establish themselves at the point of the spear and the edge of the sword.

She only laughed at him and her heart of hearts had come to be the most profound enigma that it had ever been his fortune to study.

In his Judas, a scriptural romance from which he has drawn a drama, he attempts to solve the darkest psychological enigma that has puzzled humanity, viz., to analyze the motives which led Judas to betray his Master and become the typical traitor.

Yet by betraying any undue anxiety I should certainly negative all my efforts to solve the puzzling enigma, therefore I was compelled to remain content with asking ingeniously disguised questions and drawing my own conclusions from her answers.

A silence fell between us, and as my eyes fixed themselves upon her, I saw that from her handsome mobile countenance all the light and life had suddenly gone out, and I knew that she was in secret possession of the key to that remarkable enigma that so puzzled me.

The baffling, sad enigma of death confronted me in all its terrifying crudity.