Sphinxlike offerings

Usage examples of riddles.

This new world was too hard to understand, too full of riddles and threats that always came too fast.

With an effort to pull himself away from the tantalizing riddles of the robe, Benn followed it through the fog to another motionless Hydran, lying almost beyond pickup range and barely visible.

Gibbon back on Heart of Hydra waiting for anything to solve the riddles of Starsearch.

Waiting, Benn stared at the robe until the shifting riddles of its cryptic patterns began to hurt his eyes.

These riddles were made upon the King Shaddai himself, and upon Emmanuel his Son, and upon his wars and doings with Mansoul.

Harriet at present, the only mental provision she was making for the evening of life, was the collecting and transcribing all the riddles of every sort that she could meet with, into a thin quarto of hot-pressed paper, made up by her friend, and ornamented with ciphers and trophies.

These three areas of expertise are the three riddles sorcerers encounter in their search for knowledge.

They were nothing more than riddles as far as he was concerned, and he hated riddles.