Thou please! torment me not with Riddles.

I cried, feverish and eager; for though I despised him, yet it made me wonder to think that he should speak riddles which I could not understand.

" I could not repress a look of surprise, for it was much as if the general was speaking in riddles, and, seeing the question on my face, he continued: "It is only natural that you from Cherry Valley should be searching for Peter Sitz, and the Indians, in case you were captured, would perforce believe such a story" "Is my father in their camp, sir?"

Even as a child I hated riddles.

You've been talking in riddles, so far," he protested, shifting uneasily in his chair.

Circumstances, and a certain bias of mind, have led me to take interest in such riddles, and it may well be doubted whether human ingenuity can construct an enigma of the kind which human ingenuity may not, by proper application, resolve.

The awful rites of initiation, the tricks of magicians, the pretended virtues of amulets and charms, the riddles of emblematical idolatry with which the superstition of the East abounded, amused the languid voluptuaries who had neither the energy for a moral belief nor the boldness requisite for logical scepticism.

He says that playful fictions, after the manner of riddles to be guessed out, are clearly allowable.

The magnificent palace of the Cretan kings at Cnossus has been found, by Mr. Evans, with its friezes, its spiral ornaments, its flounce-petticoated women, its treasuries, and its tablets written in a script so old that it cannot yet be read, but which will be read as surely as scholarship leaves none of its riddles unsolved.

His World-riddles (1899) enjoys the same popularity.

Wouldst thou read riddles and their explanation?

There be "dark jests" abroad, Master Cornwall; and some riddles may live to be clear'd up.

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)

" "You speak riddles.

He never tried to make a fine Kew of himself; he never propounded riddles to his Creator, which is the way most of us make our reputations.

That he may understand a proverb and parable, The words of the wise and their riddles.

Riddles of the Gobi Desert.

Pneumatosophy; the riddles of the inner human being.

Riddles in mathematics; a book of paradoxes.

NORTHROP, MARION L. Riddles in mathematics.

RIDDLES, AGNES RUTH.

Agnes Ruth Riddles (A); 2Jun72; R530896. RIDER, FREMONT.

He is also a chemist of considerable eminence, and I suppose in the subtle and complex jungle of riddles that centres about the ganglion cell and the axis fibre there are little cleared places of his making, little glades of illumination, that, until he sees fit to publish his results, are still inaccessible to every other living man.

It will always remain one of the strangest riddles of the nineteenth century why the statesman who so often expressed his righteous indignation over the "Bulgarian atrocities" of his time should not only have pardoned, but with insidious and glaring sophistry apologized for the similar atrocities of the heroes whom Homer fancies he is complimenting when he calls them professional "spoilers of towns."

Honoré would gladly have solved one or two riddles by effecting their honorable union in marriage.