Then again, familiarity made it possible to sit near a group of children gathered in the evening for talk and laughter, and there to overhear the conundrums they propounded, and the stories they related to one another.
They roused him with muffins, they roused him with ice, They roused him with mustard and cress, They roused him with jam and judicious advice, They set him conundrumsto guess.
He delighted in those anatomical conundrums to answer which keeps the student's eyes open and his wits awake.
The Secretary of the Treasury said: "This is the meddlesome ass that came to recommend me to put poetry and conundrums in my report, as if it were an almanac.
My employer sent for me one morning tolerably early, and, as soon as I had finished inserting some conundrums clandestinely into his last great speech upon finance, I entered the presence.
I am not provided with answers to such conundrums at any moment of the day.
But I do not think you should ask me conundrums until you have talked politics with my aunt; I feel sure she would consider it premature.
The guests are requested to think up some conundrums about some person in the present company.
The conundrums may be written if preferred, mixed up in a hat or basket and each player takes one to answer.
These conundrums I would have my client answer and swear to every time, although I could see that he was failing mentally and physically.
Then they opened a package of petrified jokes and antique conundrums that had been exhumed from the ruins of Pompeii.
Every little while I would get a printed circular boiling over with mirth and filled with the most delightful conundrums relative to the late unpleasantness.
Dear Sir:--Your esteemed favor of the 25th instant, is at hand, asking me to throw some light upon a few Indian conundrums propounded by you.
The more absurd the conundrums the better the children liked them, and those that Ben made up as they went along pleased them best of all.
Ben whiled away the time by asking them ridiculous conundrums which made them so hilarious that more than one fellow traveller smiled in sympathy with their merry laughs.
There are upwards of a thousand conundrums in the book.
I thought that these conundrums would be not only a pleasant amusement, but also a valuable intellectual exercise to Eliza and myself during the winter evenings.
I looked at two or three of the conundrums on the way home.
Illustration: A page from a Catalogue of Children's Books printed by Isaiah Thomas] Conundrums played their part in the eighteenth century juvenile life, much as they do to-day.
Food for the Mind" was the solemn title of another riddle-book, whoseconundrums are very serious matters.
All that can happen is that the student who is asked to answer A|sthetic conundrums will reproduce, in form more or less distorted according to the parrot-like fidelity of his memory, views he has heard without understanding them.
Some of the conundrums are perhaps superficial, and disappear with a deeper insight into his life; others are wrought into his being.
In common with all other travelers and those who have lived with this man, and who have made his nature a serious study, apart from racial bias, I am perplexed with conundrumswhich cannot be solved.
And they did, while ghost stories were told, songs were sung and conundrumsgiven and guessed.
Have the following nut conundrums guessed, after which serve all kinds of mixed nuts.
Then followed at different times a score or more of conundrums in the true Hoodian vein under the title of "Whys and Whens," fair specimens of which are these: "Why is killing bees like a confession?
Fancy Parties described, Parlor Magic, Tricks, Forfeits, Conundrums and many valuable hints on How to entertain Friends.
One after another the Jokes andConundrums heard their cues, went on, and returned to the dressing-room, for they all had to go on again in the after-piece.
Sobbing Conundrums bore him to a couch in the dressing-room.
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