Each book is full of the adventures and doings of these six youngsters, but as an added attraction each book is filled with a lot of the best riddles you ever heard.
Bethink yourself, my friend, That you are talking absolute riddles to me.
She went up hill and down dale and hardly thought at all, refusing to seek the solution of all the riddles that were put to her.
So many clever riddles as there used to be when he was young--he wondered he could not remember them!
Emmanuel also expounded unto them some of those riddles himself; but, oh!
I told you before, whom theseriddles did concern; and as they were opened, the people did evidently see it was so.
These riddles were made upon the King Shaddai himself, and upon Emmanuel his Son, and upon his wars and doings with Mansoul.
What is meant by the drum of Diabolus and other riddles mentioned in The Holy War?
These riddles that lie couch'd within thy breast, Freely propound, expound; and for the rest Of thy mysterious lines, let them remain For those whose nimble fancies shall them gain.
Bunyan's love of religious riddlesis seen in the second part of the Pilgrimage, when Christian is resting at the house of Gaius.
I told you before whom these riddles did concern; and as they were opened, the people did evidently see it was so.
Emmanuel also expounded unto them some of those riddles himself, but oh how they were lightened!
There are a few riddles or questions arising out of this narrative, the solving of which may afford instructive amusement to the reader.
Now after the feast was over, Emmanuel was for entertaining the town of Mansoul with some curious riddles of secrets drawn up by his Father's secretary, by the skill and wisdom of Shaddai; the like to these there is not in any kingdom.
Emmanuel also expounded unto them some of those riddles himself, but O how were they lightened!
There would be games and conundrums and riddles and enigmas.
The Riddles were formerly thought to be by Cynewulf, but recent scholars have, with one notable exception, abandoned that theory.
In the riddles we find particulars of Anglo-Saxon life that we cannot find elsewhere.
For translations of other riddles than those here given see Brooke, English Literature from the Beginning to the Norman Conquest, Pancoast and Spaeth, Early English Poems, and Cook and Tinker, Selections from Old English Poetry.
I wonder what a tring was, and when" says Gwendolen to herself, between those unsolved riddles and the bridge.
Lysander riddles very prettily; Now much beshrew my manners and my pride, If Hermia meant to say, Lysander lied.
Let Aesop fable in a Winters Night, His Currish Riddles sorts not with this place Rich.
The riddles have no meaning except to tell the audience what the nibelungs are, what the giants are, what the gods are, and what has happened before.
He does not tell it simply, but in the form of riddles which he orders himself to guess, staking his head (one does not know why) that he will guess right.
That we find relatively large parallaxes for some of the fainter stars, and almost no measurable parallax for some of the very bright stars is one of the riddles of the stellar universe.
Laddie, her twin brother, was as persistent in making up queer little riddles as Vi was with her questions, and between the two they kept their father and mother busy.
In no instance were they successful, and the question where the Cape York Eskimo had obtained their supply of iron became one of the riddles of the North.
Where it had come from, or how it had got so far from the shore, were riddles they could not solve.
Thus among these people it seems that the asking of riddles is for some reason regarded as a charm which may make or mar the crops.
To the same motive is perhaps to be ascribed the practice observed by the Tomori of asking each other riddles at harvest.
But all the time between harvest and the laying out of new fields the asking of riddles and the telling of stories is strictly forbidden.
When he ascended the platform he seemed to be wrapped in thought, but only because he had the habit of making riddles of every question that occurred to him.
In the evening he read again, or joined his aunts, solving riddles for them.
The youth visited her in the evening, and with the glitter of his large black eyes bent to her, and began talking incomprehensibly of leave-taking and farewell, until she cried aloud that she had riddles enough: one was too much.
But Wilhelm insisted, until at last the king called his court together and announced that the simple country lad had resolved to guess the riddles of the old witch.
How he thinks, when he finds time to make up his plots, to work out his characters, even to correct his proofs, areriddles unanswerable by all his friends.
Besides, modesty and mystery are not the same things; and there is a mean to be found between the secrecy of a sphinx making riddles of commonplace matters, and the cackle of a hen when she has laid an egg for the family breakfast.
The hedge riddles the moon's rays, like unto a sieve, but the flowers stop the holes.
In the Nuan Hsiang village, they compose, in beautiful style, riddles for the spring lanterns.
Even," they argued, "the very riddlesshe improvises are perverse and strange!
According to the Arabian tale, and those derived from it, tribute is to be paid by the king whose riddles are guessed, or by him who fails to guess.
Yes: you shall give me riddles which I cannot guess, and so purchase your peace.
Some of theriddles occur in nearly all the versions, some in only one or two, and there is now and then a variation also in the answers.
The riddles are announced as thirteen in number, but the ballad is slightly defective, and among others the last question, What were Odin's words to Balder?
By a happy idea, new riddles were introduced at the successive performances of Schiller's play.
These answers seem satisfactory, as riddles go, but the ballad concludes (with an injustice due to corruption?
I will answer, merchant's son, will answer, All the six wise riddles will I answer.
Half a dozen or more riddlesare now put by the seller, of which these are favorable specimens: Give me the sea, full to the brim, and with a bottom of silver.
Tourandocte's riddles are such as we should call legitimate, and are three in number.
The herdsman offers to teach her these riddles in return for her love, and she complying with these terms, gives her the answers: The evergreen tree is winter May, and sea-foam is summer snow.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "riddles" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
