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Juno looked around and saw that Riddle was right, for the two horses were pawing at the ground in agitation.
After protracted verbal sparring followed by hand-to-hand combat, Harry defeats Riddle by stabbing the diary.
With the interview over, Riddle announces he will be off on holiday with his family.
Riddle was famous for the work he did with Frank Sinatra, but was wary of getting too close to him.
As Margalit Fox says at the outset of The Riddle of the labyrinth, the story of Linear B is well known.
In the Oct 26 crash, a dozen cars derailed, rupturing a fuel tank and spilling 4,300 gallons of diesel onto the bank and into Cow Creek about 17 miles west of Riddle.
The German part of the Wadden Sea was the setting for the 1903 Erskine Childers novel The Riddle of the Sands.
Why can't Jerry and I be together forever like a real couple? Riddle me that, Batman? Society? No. Idiots.
Last night, proud new mum and former Catatonia star Cerys also revealed she has christened her son Johnny Natchez Jones Riddle.
He pulled Riddle into Hogwarts from the orphanarium where he was abusing the other kids and stealing their stuff.
Cynthia Wester, the mother of Kimberly Riddle, said her daughter had two master's degrees and was preparing to take the test to make her a certified teacher.
Every few yards there is a surreal spectacle, a puzzling riddle or a mysterious door.
The stanza is written like the formulaic examples of wit and allusion in old-fashioned riddle books.
Rob's words echoed through my brain, and they sounded like some cryptic riddle.
Her echo bounced from wall to wall, penetrating his ears like an unsolvable riddle.
His experiments on the lift and drag of an aircraft helped answer the riddle of how birds fly and led to new wing designs.
A set of hypotheses has been suggested to explain this exceptional riddle of fish reproduction, but as yet they remain untested.
Earlier this year, it had sat for weeks to unravel the riddle of the sinking.
Perhaps, to answer the riddle posed by the Palace substitution script, we should take a similar path.
The grieving friends of a York man who drowned in mysterious circumstances have launched a campaign to solve the riddle of his death.
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They were words she could not understand, but still she searched among them for some clue, some answer to the riddle of her life.
The first answer to the riddle of existence, therefore, is that substance exists, and exists necessarily.
Cold comfort for the grieving Parks, who is now trying to solve the riddle of his granddaughter's death.
Whatever helps understand this riddle is significant, I am pleased that I, in a small way, did something with it.
Understanding exactly what capital is unlocks the riddle of the market system.
She then has to solve the riddle of the tape before she too falls victim to its curse.
Violet, however, was genuinely deep in thought, her lips shaping the words as she puzzled out the riddle.
The refugees first sheltered in the caves that riddle the steep limestone hill, later building houses around them.
This afternoon I set out to solve the riddle, though so far I have only succeeded in uncovering more questions.
Her routine was uninspired writhing and undulating but her pole slide was something that Plato would have written a riddle about.
But two archaeologists who have pored over the patterns for the past five years say they may have unravelled the riddle.
It is an unsolved riddle which has inspired explorers and writers for nearly 80 years.
You'll start to get hung up on little dumb things like the physical impossibilities that riddle most of the activities the characters do.
They worked with picks, breaking up the soil which was then passed through a riddle to recover artefacts.
But the riddle of what became of the prized bird during his epic flight is slowly being unravelled.
This is too frequently a riddle which drives us into paroxysms of post-feminist uncertainty.
When popular folk memory was matched with the images, some historians ecstatically claimed they had cracked the riddle of the revered river.
The president is a riddle wrapped in an enigma inside a Chinese fortune cookie.
He was attracted by the riddle of Celtic, which developed on the continent as Gaulish in ancient France and northern Italy.
She would ask visitors entering the city of Thebes to answer a riddle and if they could not answer they would be put to death.
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When Scott Kleinberg wrote about the riddle for The Chicago Tribune, he changed the answer.
Able-bodied people rarely notice the barriers that riddle the world which keep the disabled from participating in society.
He had a jolly laugh and his belly shook when he was really amused by something, and his wise old eyes lit up with mischief right before he'd ask you a riddle.
We could riddle our last ancient forests with logging roads and clearcuts, setting the stage for tomorrow's conflagrations, or we can restore natural fires to natural forests.
The answerless riddle of modern broadcasting crackled through dusty loudspeakers and across the jam-packed midway of the 33rd annual Fringe Festival.
He regarded Haley with a critical eye, as if figuring out a riddle.
Midnight had arrived, but Leander still hadn't figured out the riddle.
A prize that I will get if, and only if, I solve the secret riddle.
She was pleased at herself as if she had just figured out a riddle.
The question, almost akin to a riddle, is certainly a relevant one to anybody in a creative field.
Each of us is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.
I then re-sieve it through a maggot riddle to remove the lumps.
Police have been brought in to help solve the riddle of who put bloodworms in swimming pools, as authorities conclude the caper may have been an inside job.
The barber laughs so hard at the simple answer to the riddle that Logan fears for his chances of a steady-handed shave.
Oh, thou foundling fire, thou hermit immemorial, thou too hast thy incommunicable riddle, thy unparticipated grief.
The rhyme does not explicitly state that the subject is an egg, possibly because it may have been originally posed as a riddle.
The riddle may depend upon the assumption that a clumsy person falling off a wall might not be irreparably damaged, whereas an egg would be.
The newly discovered Smilodon fossils could help provide answers to the riddle of the saber-toothed cat's teeth, among other questions.
Do ye know that riddle about the nott cows, Jonathan? Why do nott cows give less milk in a year than horned?
The same riddle is also known from the Faroe Islands, Norway, Iceland, and a variation also occurs in England.
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The Roman concrete has remained a riddle, and even after more than 2,000 years some Roman structures still stand magnificently.
The rhyme is no longer posed as a riddle, since the answer is now so well known.
Persisting still in the same career of imbecility and assertion, Mr. Stone proceeds to enunciate the following sciolistical riddle.
Odin may also be referenced in the riddle Solomon and Saturn.
Like the eternal riddle of which came first, the chicken or the egg, some scientists have pondered the source of the first case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy.
Earlier this week the Mean Girls actress sparked an engagement riddle by wearing an enormous solitaire diamond on her ring finger at the premiere of her new film, Bobby.
You have to riddle the gravel before you lay it on the road.
Unlike the answer to the Uraon riddle, her book comes with open hands, linking a wealth of references and ideas without trying to reduce them to a Procrustean bed of argument.

Examples from Classical Literature

I have dealt with the physiology of parthenogenesis in the seventeenth chapter of the Riddle.
Riddle adaptable also to exhausted manipulator in Turkish bath after a hard day's work.
Characters from Riddle of Regicide are now available in minifigure scale on BrickWarriors' website.
The answer to the riddle of the definition of nationhood is to be found in the conception of the group mind.
Hicketeir thinks that it does not belong with that riddle, but that it is itself a riddle.
This latter material is composed of annealing pots broken and ground fine enough to pass readily through a fine riddle.
He was big-boned, loose-jointed, and so sandy that it was a riddle to guess his age.
How even such a banquet of bosh was got ready in the time remained a riddle.
I was daemonic in giving myself this reply it seemed to me that I had solved the riddle of my nature.
Faust does not claim to be a universal Gospel, nor to offer a Final Solution of the riddle of existence.
It bore the name of this marvel, this solver of the sentimental riddle, and beneath it three interrogation marks.
While the hydrolytic action of enzymes is thus clear the synthesis in the cell is still a riddle.
In that query was the riddle which impotently Verplank was trying to solve.
You have solved a riddle, and made me the happiest man in the Lone Star State.
Percy Roden was gratified, and read the riddle by the light of his own vanity.
I had enough of it, and went out, firmly resolved to find the key to the riddle.
He said he would sleep himself fresh, and then see what he could do with this riddle.
All that Silver said was a riddle to him, but you would never have guessed it from his tone.
He told them how the Dragon had been outwitted by his grandmother, and how he had heard from his own lips the answer to the riddle.
But how to reach them, now that I had found the only vulnerable spot in their mighty prison, was still a baffling riddle.
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On the other hand, Pathfinder was a riddle to Captain sanglier.
After having read it, she assured me that this script was a riddle to her.
David Small's fun drawings enhance the story of a boy who believes in eating cookies and the riddle of vanishing gingerbread men.
He flared up at that, and demanded of me that I should read him my riddle.
Nowhere was the tsunami felt more dramatically than in the narrow inlets that riddle Japan's Sanriku coast, north of the city of Sendal.
The sphinx did not slay herself until her riddle had been guessed.
Another riddle on the candle, which also stands in MS. harl.
The power of music, the power of poetry, to unfix and as it were clap wings to solid nature, interprets the riddle of Orpheus.
Juve now knew the answer to the riddle of the bandit's disappearance.
The meaning of this councillorship query remained, of course, a riddle to her, yet she handed him the paper without replying.
He was driven by a desperate idea of solving for himself the riddle that had clouded his reputation and already even threatened his liberty.
It was as if a sudden illumination had been flashed upon the ambiguity of Daisy's behavior, and the riddle had become easy to read.
It was no riddle to her, as it had been to her niece earlier in the evening, why the same hard work had dealt so benignly with Martin and so uncharitably with herself.
It is well for thee, then, that thou hast read my riddle aright.
To me they have always been matters of riddle and admiration.
Granting that to be the right reading of the riddle, it accounted, perhaps, for her flighty, self-conceited manner when she passed me in the hall.

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