Which preposition to use with puzzles
The Chicago team always was a puzzle to all parties to the race, including itself.
He was mooning about and didn't seem best pleased to see me, but he was quite duly apologetic, said he was puzzling over the tragedy and hoped I didn't mind his trespassing on my property.
So far she was to him something of a puzzle, but a puzzle of the most fascinating kind.
The ardor with which our Milesian element embraces the cause of France furnishes a puzzle for many thoughtful minds; and yet its solution is simple.
"I cannot tell you until I hear your wishes," I said, smiling, and yet puzzled at her attitude.
Each one would have been a puzzle to the other, if the elder of the two had not been Mrs. Kinzer, and the widow had never been very much puzzled in all her life.
I can see that my sister is much puzzled as to what is the matter with the animal; yet it would be madness, even to hint the truth to her.
The words of these learned men and the writings of the learned Bollandist mentioned above are worthy of consideration, as sometimes priests are puzzled about the truth and accuracy of the incidents recorded in those lessons of the second nocturn.
The puzzle with six pictures on the sides of cubes is much more difficult than a simple jigsaw.
DRYFOOS, NANCY P. Puzzles for everyone.
And in the end she said in a tone which she managed to make full of challenge: "Which of you is the better man?" They stared at her, all of them puzzled by her change of attitude as by her words.
Scores of experts in jig-saw puzzles on both sides seize every scrap of information and piece them together.
Can it be that, after all, space and circumstance are but pieces in a puzzle to which the key is lost, so that, playing blindly, we are startled by the click which announces the falling of some corner of the puzzle into place?
The manager in the ring below stood like one petrified, puzzled beyond all comprehension.
It can never have been a greater puzzle than now, when we are all busily engaged in killing each other.
"A big, registered, sealed Chinese puzzle like that is just crying out to be opened.
My dear Amy,How are you getting on, I wonder, with guessing those puzzles from "Wonderland"?
It was then that a mediaeval Lord de Genneville, more endowed with muscle than common sense, became during his turbulent existence much embarrassed and hopelessly puzzled through the presentation made to him by his lady of twin-born sons.
SEE Buck, R. O. Puzzles in wood.
The figure had taken a compact rigidity, an unfaltering inflexibility, all the world away from the elasticity of matronhood; and her eyes were clear and fixed like her figure, neither falling, nor rising, nor puzzling under other eyes.
His perplexed letter to Anebo, with the reply attributed to Iamblichus, reveal Porphyry wandering puzzled among mediums, floating lights, odd noises, queer dubious 'physical phenomena.'
"Then Nick got Landis back before Donnegan returned?" "No." Like any other girl, Nelly Lebrun hated a puzzle above all things in the world, at least a puzzle which affected her new friends.
In December, seven "Puzzles from Wonderland" appeared in Mrs. Gatty's paper, Aunt Judy's Magazine.
" (8) A collection of Games and Puzzles of my devising, with fairy pictures by Miss E.G. Thomson.
To our great joy, they could give valuable information regarding the strange behavior of St. Leger's army, and by putting together this and that bit of news we had a fairly good solution to the puzzle before the arrival of General Arnold, who came with a small force twenty hours behind the main body.