| 1. | I never could guess a riddle in my life.. - from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte |
| 2. | Haply God's riddle it, so vague and yet so certain. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 3. | He put this riddle into two or three different ways. - from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy |
| 4. | 'It's exactly like a riddle with no answer' she thought. - from Through the Looking-Glass by Charles Dodgson, AKA Lewis Carroll |
| 5. | They had to do, I think, with the riddle of his existence. - from Peter Pan by James M. Barrie |
| 6. | To me they have always been matters of riddle and admiration. - from The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving |
| 7. | _Riddle me, riddle me, randy ro. - from Ulysses by James Joyce |
| 8. | Hoyday, a riddle neither good nor ba. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 9. | If they are not the riddle and the untying of the riddle they are nothing. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 10. | In riddles and affairs of death. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 11. | Our vessel riddled and slowly sinking, preparations to pass to th. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 12. | 'What tremendously easy riddles you ask' Humpty Dumpty growled out. - from Through the Looking-Glass by Charles Dodgson, AKA Lewis Carroll |
| 13. | Here is our poor street all riddled with balls. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 14. | Ponsonby had fallen, riddled by seven lance-thrusts. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 15. | 'I think you might do something better with the time,' she said, 'than waste it in asking riddles that have no answers.. - from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll |
| 16. | For he had an expectation that the conduct of his future self would give him the clue he missed, and would render the solution of these riddles easy. - from A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens |
| 17. | Then three or four western bad men aspired to clean out the town, were riddled like pepper-boxes for their pains, and public interest turned to other idols. - from The Call of the Wild by Jack London |
| 18. | "So many clever riddles as there used to be when he was young--he wondered he could not remember them but he hoped he should in time." And it always ended in "Kitty, a fair but frozen maid.. - from Emma by Jane Austen |