" The Triple Alliance had for some hours ceased to puzzle their brains over either Virgil or cipher notes, and the whole of Ronleigh College was apparently wrapped in slumber, when three shadowy figures assembled on the landing at the top of staircase B, and proceeded noiselessly along the corridor, and down the side passage at the end of which Mr. Grice's room was situated.

Yet, I puzzled my head to account for the generally shaken appearance of the placethese streamlets, and that huge cleft, further up the ravine!

How it got there; how so strange a type of creature should have died out over the rest of the world, and yet have lasted on in that remote island for long ages, ever since the days of the New Red sandstone, is one of those questionsquite awful questions I consider themwith which I will not puzzle my readers.

Ebers, a fellow of evident acute perception, used to tell Schmall of things which his calling as valet at various hotels gave him knowledgeit strikes me that from what we now know we shall be able to trace to Schmall and Ebers several robberies at hotels which have puzzled us a good deal.

Because he was in the dark the significant looks and unnatural gravity of his nieces in the succeeding days puzzled the poor man greatly.

The mystery of it puzzled the minds of the earliest Sumerian thinkers.

" This is one of the texts which is apt to puzzle people who do not read their Bibles carefully enough.

The instant women are carried into a new industry, they bring with them puzzling problems.

And will such puzzling questions and calculations as these, settle them how we may, make us BETTER men?

The words by which it is commonly expresseddemocracy, parliamentarism, individual liberty, diversity, free developmentare puzzling theoretic words, which make no instinctive appeal to the heart.

Yet, as has been hinted, the very simplicity of it puzzles the ordinary man, and not only puzzles the philosopher but exasperates him.

Some years ago the following inscription, engraved on the fragment of a stone, was discovered amongst the relics of an antiquarian, and was considered by him as a great curiosity, and enhanced in value by its translation having puzzled the best scholars of the age: BENE. A.T.H. T.H. I.S.S.T. ONERE.

This reply seemed to puzzle him a little, and he continued: "Do you ride or do the trapeze?" It was my turn now to look dazed, and it might easily have been gathered, from my expression, that I was not flattered at being taken for a saw-dust artist.

It puzzled the doctor, because the threshold west of the mosaic floor was not square with the east wall of the "main buildings," but the reason is now clear.

An Irishman at our side, who had been puzzling some time to comprehend the problem thus submitted to him, finally broke out: "An' may I ax ye, misther, to be koind enough to exshplain phat in the wurruld that owld roosther's doin'?" pointing to the figure of the kneeling monarch.

" A friendship sprang up between the two men which puzzled the remainder of the crew not a little.

I have been reading over and over again your long letter, trying hard to puzzle out its meanings, but I fear I am very ignorant.

She was the same frank, affectionate, merry, puzzling woman-child that she had been at first; yet as he saw more and more how much she knew of books which he did not know, of people, and of affairs of which he had never heardhow fluently, graciously, and even wisely she could talk, he felt himself cut off from her.

For underneath Billie's lightness they knew that she was still puzzling her wits for some way to pay for that broken statue.

And, notwithstanding Patsy's loyal defense of Old Hucks, he was evidently tangled up in the affair to a large extent, and could explain if he chose much that was now puzzling the girl detectives.

He puzzled her, wholly serious one minute, a whimsical smile twisting up the corners of his mouth the next.

Miss Payne is careful to give the children full opportunity for suggestionsone dull little boy puzzled his mother by telling her "I made a very good 'gestion' to-day"so though she had not contemplated the renewed appearance of Mr. Bird she said, "What do you want him to do?" "Let him go out and shoot bears," cried an embryo sportsman.

How she Dobrizhoffered it all out, it puzzles my slender Latinity to conjecture.

Nature's method was that of bit-by-bit progress, and to puzzle out her ways was a noble and fascinating employment.

But now she was merely vaguely conscious of familiar sounds, which brought before her that last merry day in her father's house, when Rosabella laughed so much to hear her puzzle the birds with her musical vagaries.