A POSER A new sentry was on guard outside the residence of a general; a small green was in front of the house and the strict orders were that no one was to cross it, human or otherwise, save the General's cow.
Here there was a brief lull in the conversation, and, even as I was trying to think of a poser for Mr. Jellicoe, that gentleman took the opportunity to change the subject.
This was a poser for Miss Oman, whose admiration and loyalty, I knew, were only equalled by my own.
Cet argument me ferma la bouche = That argument was a poser for me; I could not reply to that.
Meanwhile, however, the Frau Generalin and the Herr vonPoser passed to and fro, and teased us poor lovers with polite jests.
In the mean time the table was spread, and the Frau Generalin with her maiden daughter, and Herr von Poser with his spouse, made their appearance, followed by good Mistress Mercer, who received me most courteously.
We are living in a sterner age than that in which Hotspur is supposed to have put this poser to the Welshman.
Then he always manages to introduce to the company some new poser that he has secreted up his sleeve for the occasion.
If they had been prepared for their difficulty they could have easily worked out a solution to the little poser at any other time.
The following little poser will probably prove a rather tough nut for a great many readers, simply on account of the restricted conditions:-- Show how to find exactly the middle of any straight line by means of the compasses only.
Here is a new poser in measuring liquids that will be found interesting.
I propose to consider the oldposer of the table-top and stools that most of my readers have probably seen in some form or another in books compiled for the recreation of childhood.
The way the author of the old poser proposed to solve the difficulty was as follows: From the Jew's abode let the Christian and the Turk set out on a tour round the globe, the Christian going due east and the Turk due west.
I have come across the following little poser in an old book.
So I will give a simple poser dealing with this branch of commerce.
I will present a little poser based on these lines.
Here is a little poser that will perhaps interest the reader for a short period.
Now let each one of us think awhile, and let us see who can present to our little company the stiffest poser in golf law.
It is an excellent thing to know that a poser of sorts is going to be put to that autocratic assembly in Fifeshire.
But it is open to the poser that if Voltaire really accepted the noble savage business he was rather silly, and that if he did not, the piece is a stale and not very biting satire.
They had stopped a minute to speak with York Macpherson as they were on their way to that up-country Poser funeral.
As York paused and looked at Jerry, all that Stellar Bahrr had said of him and the Poser girl swept through her mind.
All the more reason why the Big Dipper should come over to copy my new hat for one of the Poser girls up the Sage Brush, and then fall to questions and conclusions," Laura insisted.
Old Poser has refused to care for Nell's baby and intended to put it in an orphan asylum.
To this mathematical poser Mat made no reply, only sang the tune with redoubled loudness and strength, whilst little Dicky pounded the old crazy door with all his skill and alacrity.
He was an egotist, a poser for effect, a condemner of what he could not himself attain to.
He was not a poser for effect, for it is impossible for one to pose throughout 6,811 printed pages wrought for no eyes save his own and the gods.
The little relationship poseris readily understood when we are told that the parental command came from the father (who was also in the room) and not from the mother.
I gather that the monks got nearer to a great quarrel over this little poser than had ever happened before.
Here's a quaint little poser for you all," said Baynes.
They were accustomed to call every poser a "riddle," no matter whether it took the form of "Where was Moses when the light went out?
