| A day and a half of digging and riddling had produced several piles of authentic clayish undersoil. |
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| Small touches in each of these short stories illustrate Edgeworth's use of codes and riddling. |
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| This was put to use every autumn to power the large and venerable threshing machine, with its elevator and shaking, riddling sieves. |
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| They were a very strange folk, with a riddling dialect that made even Levee, no stranger to the art of persuasion, feel intimidated. |
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| In the evening many families play collective riddling games, which involve men and women of all ages. |
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| Oates's books often open with a riddling exposition which implies a hidden trauma. |
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| Myshkin is a later, more riddling and more tragic figure of lost absolutes. |
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| Repetitive and riddling, his hypnotic writings were extremely popular in the Syriac Church. |
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| A riddling, relentlessly self-reflexive anti-play, this work delegates a huge amount of responsibility to the director. |
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| Ask him another and he begins to sing in obscure riddling rhymes. |
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| I regarded her as an archeologist might regard the riddling Sphinx. |
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| The bacterial onslaught changes the bone by riddling it with tiny holes. |
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| Equally charming and frustrating, the singer also tends to skip around answers to some of the harder questions with riddling, sermon-like replies. |
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| Brown observed to Poole that the miners could typically make the same or slightly more money and produce more coal per day, saved as they were the labor of riddling. |
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| The riddling talk between Smaug and the hobbit has its parallel in the dialogue between Fafnir and Sigurd, although that takes place after the death blow has been struck. |
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| Lacan's own riddling manner mimics the utterances of the unconscious. |
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| Microfossils have been unearthed from holes riddling the otherwise barren surface of the dolomite. |
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