The author admits his inability to solve the riddle, but during the years 1902-1914 he has heard members of all non-Socialist German parties assert that the German Socialists do not recognize any religious oath, and sections of the Socialists admit this position.

I do but read the riddle thus: wherefore should she flee but for love, and if for love, then with a man, and if with a man" "Enough of her!"

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

I'm too tired to guess riddles, Jerry.

She heard him listlessly; all that was not much to the point on which her thoughts were set, and did not answer the riddle which the scene in the Tower put to her.

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.

The wisest mind of wise antiquity told the riddle of the Sphinx, if having ears to hear we would hear.

Being at last convinced within himself that he had now explained this seeming riddle, he took no farther trouble about whose, or what these children were, but resolved to take care of them during their infancy, and afterwards to put them into such a way as he should find their genius's rendered them most fit for, in order to provide for themselves.

In the evening the queen and the Princess Elizabeth read aloud, the books chosen being chiefly works of history, or the masterpieces of Corneille and Racine, as being most suitable to form the minds and tastes of the children; and sometimes Louis himself would seek to divert them from their sorrows by asking the children riddles, and finding some amusement in their attempts to solve them.

I can only guess, and as tracking conundrums is not my purpose in these chapters, I will leave others to unravel the riddle if they can.

One day the student met a young lady to whom he gave the riddle.

And by this action was resolved for me a riddle with regard to the properties and uses of a prematurely stout man of fabulous girth, who had been dimly revealed to me, once or twice in the course of the voyage, through some long vista of the 'tween-decks, but seemed always to melt into air,or, more probably, oil,upon any advance being made to a closer inspection.

The mystery of the Macquarie was now, to a certain extent, cleared away, but the course and final outlet of the Darling now presented another riddle, which Sturt too was destined to solve.

On the whole he would have preferred not to have discovered the riddle at all; but having found it, he could not rest without an answer.

"To me the vision of the night relate; Speak, and reveal the riddle to thy mate.

Even as a child I hated riddles.

There was one in the house, however, who did set himself these riddles, and was at a loss for an answer.

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.

In 1902, however, his brother Modeste began the publication of a very elaborate and complete biography, which partially clears the riddle.

A propos, when I first opened upon the just-mentioned poem, in a careless tone I said to Mary, as if putting a riddle, "What is good for a bootless bene?" To which, with infinite presence of mind (as the jest-book has it)

Granted that shame and dishonour of some kind were involved in the existence of that strange old man, he, Lord Hartfield, must endure his portion in that shamemust be content to leave the dark riddle unsolved.

Mary watched her tussling and tumbling about with Rush, pondering the riddle but making no great effort to find an answer to it.

Another day she said that her father was preparing a riddle, and that when it was ready it would be put in the papers, and anyone who guessed it would have half his fortune and his daughter.

he said, like one proposing an insoluble riddle.

The Novices at Saïs, a mystical contemplation of nature reminding us of the discourses of Jakob Böhme, has some suggestion of the symbolistic lore of parts of Goethe's Wilhelm Meister, and proves a most racking riddle to the uninitiated.