Riddles
['rɪdl]
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream that you are trying to solve riddles, denotes you will engage in some enterprise which will try your patience and employ your money. The import of riddles is confusion and dissatisfaction.
Editor: Wilma
Examples
- They are the three riddles of the sphinx of fate, to which the human commonweal must find an answer or perish. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- That's a thing I shall never tell plainly; and perhaps if I try to tell you in riddles you will not care to guess them. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- You speak in riddles. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Well, I suppose I am, said Crispin smilingly; but one which will shortly be explained, and, like all riddles, turn out to be very disappointing. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- The bulk of these new Bible students took what their consciences approved from the Bible and ignored its riddles and contradictions. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- But like so many theoretical riddles, this one rested on a very simple piece of ignorance. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The New Order found itself confronted with three riddles which it was quite unprepared to solve: Property, Currency, and International Relationship. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- So many clever riddles as there used to be when he was younghe wondered he could not remember them! Jane Austen. Emma.
- The world's end will surely find us still engaged in answering riddles. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
Editor: Wilma