conundrum

She looked the picture of cheerful, rustic innocence and started propounding to me a conundrum which began with the words:

This serious query was at first received with suspicion because it sounded like a conundrum. I was at last assured that its double form of construction was designed to make lighter the burden of woman, who makes up beds.

You know that when I became enough of a man to find myself an embodied conundrum, I bored myself to the last degree by trying to find out what I meant.

Brass stood smirking for a little while, as if he had propounded some choice conundrum; and then said:

I believe the theme of this incomprehensible conundrum was the moon.

I 'll give you a conundrum to lighten your labor: Why are bad boys like cake?" asked Polly, anxious to cheer him up.

This little conundrum came by the first post, and he was to follow by the next train.

"How did you?" I asked, declining to spoil my digestion with a conundrum, as it was his evident intention that I should.

They roused him with muffins--they roused him with ice-- They roused him with mustard and cress-- They roused him with jam and judicious advice-- They set him conundrums to guess.

There is not an excess of delicacy or chivalry in the ordinary country school, and several choice conundrums and bits of verse dealing with the Simpson affair were bandied about among the scholars, uttered always, be it said to their credit, in undertones, and when the Simpson children were not in the group.

"Don't bother my head by asking conundrums, I beg of you.

And to add confusion to confusion, there was the servant, an unceasing menace, that appeared noiselessly at his shoulder, a dire Sphinx that propounded puzzles and conundrums demanding instantaneous solution.