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Kasta had at last had yielded its dead, but not the answers to its riddles.

Dickinson did this as a game and a test—she loved riddles and turned herself into a riddle wrapped in her own lines.

This unbearable realization riddles us with a paralyzing existential anxiety that we need to do something with, and quickly.

They had to be accessorized with riddles and pretentions in order to make them worthy of a runway presentation.

And thou didst multiply riddles in parables: thy name went abroad to the islands far off, and thou wast beloved in thy peace.

From every tree hung three or four kings' sons who had wooed the princess, but had been unable to guess her riddles.

I think you might do something better with the time,' she said, 'than waste it in asking riddles that have no answers.'

Boy, I tell you, I've written nothing—I know nothing; you speak in riddles.

It is up there that they invent the legends for the crackers, and the wonderful riddles and remarks on the bonbons.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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