The great enigma which it propounds to us, and which, like the riddle of the Sphinx, we will solve or be destroyed, is this: Has the increase in the potential of human power, through thermodynamics, been accompanied by a corresponding increase in the potential of human character?

"You" If words could slay, Maudie would have dropped dead, riddled with a dozen mortal wounds.

What a mockery of right enjoyment our endless prying and sifting, our hunting of riddles in metaphors, innuendoes in tropes, ciphers in Shakspeare!

We will be on the alert if these hotheads can be restrained," the general replied, and his words were a riddle to me until half an hour later.

nowand there be more riddles for thee, boy, and so, until we meet, fare thee well, messire Beltane!"

The riddle at Live Oaks.

"We mustn't talk in riddles like this," she said, "before Doctor Berkeley, or he will turn us both into pillars of salt.

It may be that Science will solve the riddle by casting aside the works and improvements of a thousand years,the "wave line," the spar, the sail, and all,and with them the men of the sea.

NORTHROP, MARION L. Riddles in mathematics.

The Literary riddle before 1600.

It is the very opposite of dissertation and declamation; its distinction is not so much ingenuity, as good sense brought to a point; it ought to be neither enigmatical nor flat, neither a truism on the one hand, nor a riddle on the other.

Why any woman who could afford to live where she chose should choose to live here was a riddle past my solving.

That is the profound mathematical mystery, that is the riddle beyond the wit of Westminster, which overpowers these fine intelligences and sets them babbling of "senior wranglers."

"Should there be riddles between you and me?" asked the sheikh.

No, Manuel, I am afraid that your queer theory, about your being stuffed inside with permanent material and so on, does not very plausibly account for either your existence or mine, and that we both stay riddles without answers.

But about Black SultanMiss Montagu used to rest 'im, 'alf-way in his turn, while the clown they called Bimbobut his real name was Ernest Stanleyas't a riddle about a policeman and a red 'errin' in a newspaper.

And in such a world, a being feeling ever towards or somewhat beyond what he can weigh and measure, and looking up to find above himself that which is too high for him to understand, would be an anomaly as lawless and incredible as the wildest fabled monster, the Minotaur or the Chimera, the Titanthe Sphynx itselfnay a more delirious riddle than any that in dreams it proposes to us.

But most of all there is revealed in the Ciris an epic poet's first timid probing into the depths of human emotions, a striving to understand the riddles behind the impulsive body.

The doctor indeed tried to make us think, and he used to say that the textbook was a matter of entire indifference, and that he would as soon have a book of riddles as Kames's "Elements of Criticism," so long as he could make us think out our conclusions.

If a system gives classical expression to the thought of an epoch, a nation, or a great personality; if it seeks to attack the world-riddle from a new direction, or brings us nearer its solution by important original conceptions, by a subtler or a simpler comprehension of the problem, by a wider outlook or a deeper insight; it has accomplished more than it could have done by bringing forward a number of indisputably correct principles.

"You young people read riddles into life.