The non-arrival of those two letters has made the third something of a riddle to me," said the Chief.
My son, in riddles he will speak to thee, And see that thou dost read his riddle right.
Too well I can thyriddle guess; By treason as we slew, we shall be slain.
Black Harry again, cocking one of the captain's revolvers which he had ready in his hand, `you said you would riddle us just now if we didn't go aloft after treating us like dogs ever since we came on board your cursed ship!
Wake up there and on deck; or, I'll riddle every mother's son of you before I count ten.
Chillingworth; "you are a completeriddle to-night, Jack; what is the matter with you?
This is a riddle I cannot unravel; tell me the solution.
If only I knew What she meant, could somehow the riddle unravel!
This put the Sphynx into a great rage, who, finding her riddle solved, threw herself down and broke her neck.
When I came to America I lightly dropped the religious forms that I had half mocked before, and contented myself with a few novel phrases employed by my father in his attempt to explain the riddle of existence.
In books, in a slowly ripening experience, she might have found a better answer to the riddle of a girl's life than a premature marriage.
But the earth occasionally finds the task too difficult and buries the riddleunread in her bosom.
At the same time the riddle of his power was hard to solve.
Why any woman who could afford to live where she chose should choose to live here was a riddle past my solving.
There's a riddle here to which I should like to know the answer.
From his grave he supplied the solution to the riddle and explained the reason why the crimes had been committed: Marie Fauville and Gaston Sauverand were lovers.
Another riddleon the candle, which also stands in MS.
A workman in Berkshire in 1905 repeated this riddle to H.
At different times in the history of man, various methods of solving or evading the riddle have been proposed.
Only in our own time have men ceased seeking a golden key to all riddles, and sat themselves down to solve one riddle at a time.
Accordingly he checked the advance of the Guard until the riddle could be solved.
Due to the combinations already mentioned and to the incorporation, in this case, of magical and mystical elements, these cults acquired a secret nature in proportion as they concerned themselves with the riddle of the beyond.
The solution of thisriddle can lie only in the origin of the two forms of marriage.
It is not necessary to think meanly of life in order to suspect a riddle behind this question.
The meaning of this necessity is the riddlewhich Wagner answers.
In writing "The Riddle of the Universe," he took no exercise save to go up on the roof, breathing deeply and pounding his chest, varying the pounding by reaching his arms above his head and stretching.
Only when we have abandoned this untenable illusion, and taken up the correct cosmological perspective, can we hope to reach the solution of the Riddle of the Universe.
Dave Riddle was assigned a station on the slope of El Viejo near the town of Redondo on the north end of the island.
David Riddle and Brad Connel walked in as he finished.
There is one other possibility," Riddle added, "and it's staggering to think of it.
Maybe Rick has something there," David Riddle said.
Finding one with only a cupful of sugar left in it, she tore off the top and wrote the riddle on that with a stub of a pencil which she found on the table.
They will rather mistrust their powers of judgment, or suspect that the key to the riddle has been lost.
Thereafter he passed on to Thebes, and solved that riddle of the Sphinx, and the Thebans made him their king, and gave him the lady Jocasta to be his wife.
Let's see, I know a riddle about a clam, if I can think of it.
Well, here's a riddle about it," went on the captain.
I've got another good riddle for you, youngsters," called Captain Ross, as he made his way along the deck.
Nay, marching visibly into our lives, it awakes in us a faith which enables us to read the riddle of our Being.
The stranger paused; but the two friends begged him to solve this riddle for them as he had done that of the Lion of the Adriatic.
And he began to repeat Truandot's riddle concerning the Lion of the Adriatic.
During her life-time already, her proud, taciturn, reserved nature had been a riddleto the good homely townfolk; now her death was a still greater riddle to them.
In vain both of them strove to solve the riddle of my behaviour, and Martha, who fretted because none of her happiness was to fall to my share, often came at nights to my bedside and wept upon my neck.
Ye have learnt the riddle of seas and sand, Of leaves in the spring uncurled; There is no room left for my wonderland In the whole of the great wide world.
When the Sphinx found her riddlesolved she destroyed herself.
In solving the riddle Oedipus unwittingly killed his father, and, discovering the fact, he destroyed his own eyesight, and wandered away from Thebes, attended by his daughter Antigone.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "riddle" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
