When he returned Timéa's cold white face was still an unsolved riddle to her husband.

I have discovered and obeyed the will of God revealed in that pebble, it is to me a riddle more insoluble than the Sphinx's, a fortress more impregnable than Sevastopol.

The Literary riddle before 1600.

This world's...too many...honest man..." At last there was total stillness, and poor Tulliver's dimly lighted soul had ceased to be vexed with the painful riddle of this world.

Funny riddles and rhymes.

"If they content themselves, as CORNEILLE did, with some flat design, which (like an ill riddle) is found out ere it be half proposed; such Plots, we can make every way regular, as easily as they: but whene'er they endeavour to rise up to any quick Turns or Counter-turns of Plot, as some of them have attempted, since CORNEILLE's Plays have been less in vogue; you see they write as irregularly as we!

Dr. Horton may possibly loathe and detest Limericks just as I loathe and detest riddles; but I have no right to call them flippant and unprofitable; there are wild people in the world who like riddles.

not that alone, but of an expounder of that dark Italian Hierophant, an exposition little short of his who dared unfold the Apocalypse: divine riddles both and (without supernal grace vouchsafed)

but who is Peter?" Said Stephen,"'Tis a downright riddle!"

He was all shaken up by this talking about the dreadful riddle of his illness.

When, at length, we had concluded our examination, and the intense excitement of the time had in some measure subsided, Legrand, who saw that I was dying with impatience for a solution of this most extraordinary riddle, entered into a full detail of all the circumstances connected with it.

That closed door, the tiny railing which surrounded the bit of front garden, that little gate the latch of which he himself so oft had lifted, all seemed to hold the key to some terrible mystery, the answer to some fearful riddle which he felt would drive him mad if he could not hit upon it now at once.

After all, they were really without confidence of solving its ghostly riddle.

But the childish attempt, my God, to read the immense riddle of the world!

Still there are inexplicable riddles.

[Footnote 2: Miss Seward was the authoress of that most ingenious riddle on the letter H, and also of some volumes of poetry.]

We all remember an innocent riddle of our childhood"Why was the elephant the last animal to get into the Ark?"to which the answer was, "Because he had to pack his trunk."

Who, then, can deny that this intolerant creed is a malignant riddle?

" Now Beltane frowned at this, and shook his head, saying: "More riddles, messire?

Instead of trying to explain away the fundamental truth of Fatalism by superficial twaddle and foolish evasion, a man should attempt to get a clear knowledge and comprehension of it; for it is demonstrably true, and it helps us in a very important way to an understanding of the mysterious riddle of our life.

But the only meaning of the lectures is to point out more forcibly than ever that besides the obvious riddles of man's life there is one stranger and more appalling stillthat a religion which M. Renan can never speak of without admiration and enthusiasm is based on a self-contradiction and deluding falsehood, more dreadful in its moral inconsistencies than the grave.

She hath a toil, &c.]There is something true and pathetic about this curious blindness which prevents Hecuba from understanding "so plain a riddle."

You promisedyou rememberthat you would read the pretty riddle, when you came again.

In the hour when Christ died, those prophetical riddles were solved: those seeming contradictions were reconciled.

"It ought not to appear a very puzzling riddle to you," she answered quickly.