I said no more about the ash-riddling to Mike, and I reckon he'd forgotten all about it.
Why, lass, wheer has thou been brought up if thou's niver heerd tell o' Ash-Riddling Day?
Aye, but ash-riddling on the hearthstone, the neet afore St Mark's Day?
If thou'd been bred and born in Wharfedale thou'd have no need to axe about Ash-Riddling Day.
My mind were so taen up wi' Owd Jerry and the ash-riddling that I'd forgotten that Amos was away on the other side o' Wharfe.
It will be Ash-Riddling Day come next Friday, and then we can find out for wersens if Owd Jerry's boun' to dee afore the year's out.
Be plain, good son, and homely in thy driftRiddling confession finds but riddling shrift.
But the Seer replied, 'Know ye not then the Riddling of the Bards?
It was with stone tools that these people worked the mines riddling the sides of the mountains, and it is still easy to make out traces of their operations.
In the more recent stations flint, which was in the earliest time the one material used, has disappeared and is replaced by the copper, of which a plentiful supply was found in the rich mines riddling the mountains.
When their mental confusion is at its height, relief comes in a prophecy of the greatest clearness, no longer couched in riddling terms.
This riddling quality is the daemonic element which he possessed in common with Plato; because of it these two are the masters of a refined and subtle irony, a source of the keenest pleasure.
A fresh burst of fire had greeted the Australian cruiser, which continued to pour salvo after salvo into her foe, sweeping the decks and riddling her sides until she crawled with a list.
His tired horse was standing quite still, simply moving his long tail from side to side to drive away the gnats and gadflies that were riddling his bleeding flanks with wounds, for, after the mistral, the gadflies dance!
It is astonishing what a riddling these aeroplanes will stand.
And now these riddling errors, which had so perplexed them all, were clearly made out.
Then turning to Banquo, they pronounced him, in a sort of riddling terms, to be lesser than Macbeth and greater!
Be plain, good son, and homely in thy drift; Riddling confession finds but riddling shrift.
Riddling embarked upon a descriptive sketch, and I got a minute or so to think.
Come straight to him," said Riddling virtuously, "as I have done.
Riddling stuck his chin out, tucked in the corners of his mouth, made round eyes at the breakfast things and, hands in pockets, rocked from heels to toes and from toes to heels.
This operation by the hand-sieve, is called riddling in the tub, or riddling by deposit.
Thus by beating, stamping, and riddling in water, the stony substances are in a great measure separated.
Inferior ores, containing a notable proportion of stony matters, are also broken with the beater, and the rich parts are separated by riddling and washing from the useless matters.
Riddling in the reek" was the common country-side expression for a rough-and-ready method of treating a fairy changeling so that it might be restored to its proper human constitution.
Her melancholy fastened on the king her father, and on all the palace, and soothsayers and augurs crowded round the doors with omens, charms, and riddling words, and prophesied all manner of evil.
But she looked at him sadly and longingly through her tears, and spoke in riddling words, "The gods, my child, sent thee to thy father and to me in answer to our prayers.
Men fought with one another blindly, cursing soldiers fired promiscuously among the mob, riddling the walls, stabbing at the air.
What were they doing, bunching together like a flock of sheep, when at any moment the enemy planes might come swooping in, riddling them with bullets?
The senator from Kentucky says he found me several years ago in this half-way house, which, after the thorough riddling the roof had received in the breaking up of the pet bank system, he had supposed I would have abandoned.
When two traders discuss the price of an article in the presence of a purchaser, they use a riddling sort of language.
As a matter of fact they are, but a clever person may discover a riddling answer to a riddling question.
Many old stories turn upon some such riddling series of questions, generally three in number, to which unexpected answers come from an unexpected quarter.
But for this fair-faced paper of reprieve, We'll have no riddling to make death shift sides: Look, here ends one of us.
You have a subtle riddlingskill at love Which is not like a lover.
Then he defeats him in a riddling contest in which the play turns upon the word rat.
This word riddling is further illustrated in the story of the debater, Kaipalaoa, already quoted.
He discards sports, but becomes expert in the use of the spear and the sling, in wrestling, and in the art of riddling disputation, the hoopapa.
It is to this chiefly art of riddlingthat we must ascribe the stories of riddling contests that are handed down in Polynesian tales.
In the story of Pikoiakaala, on the other hand; the hero puzzles his contestants by riddling with the word "rat.
The betting continues, concluded by a riddling match, in all of which Lonoikamakahike is successful.
He had applied himself to riddling out the significance of the different peals, and he had succeeded, so that this taciturn and enigmatical cloister possessed no secrets for him; the sphinx babbled all her secrets in his ear.
FOX [rising amid cheers] At this late hour, After the riddling fire the Act has drawn on't, My words shall hold the House the briefest while.
He is a living personality in the faith of the people; the priests only invent words to express the people's faith, and perhaps add to the old legends someriddling fancies of their own.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "riddling" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
