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I can only guess, and as tracking conundrums is not my purpose in these chapters, I will leave others to unravel the riddle if they can. It is, however, a matter of local business history that some thirty years or more ago the Cambridge Street concern shewed signs of tottering to its fall, and when Mr.
Matthew's, absolutely unbent, and gloried in showing that even more conundrums were known there than by the house of Harewood.
What an opportunity it would have been for you! a certain seat. But I care for no boroughs now. My lord will want you to dine with him to-day; I hope you can come. Perhaps he will not be able to see you this morning, as his agent will be with him about these elections. Adieu!" If Lady Montfort did not like conundrums, she had succeeded, however, in sending one sufficiently perplexing to Endymion.
Even if the mess were well cooked, it is too salty for eating. And why should this be so? Why should any sensible man spend years in acquiring an education that shall fit him for the struggle of life, yet refuse to spend a single day in learning how to cook the food that must sustain the life? It is one of the conundrums no one will ever find out.
What's that to me? you may ask, and why am I gone Soft Tommy on this Museum of Crooks? They've smashed up you and Mr. Pinkerton; they've turned my hair grey with conundrums; they've been up to larks, no doubt; and that's all I know of them you say. Well, and that's just where it is.
An absurd prejudice prevails among many people against the skate. If this fish is hung up and dried for a day or two, then cut in slices, done on the gridiron, and eaten with butter, it is most delicious. N.B. The female skate is more delicate than the male. Persons who indulge in conundrums, charades &c. are invariably poor creatures; as are those who have a knack at finding out such trifles.
"That's true, of course, and it's exactly what the kaiser and his war machine tried to do. Now, the machine had to be smashed, of course, and it has been smashed. But how long will it take the world to recover? How long will it take to rebuild what has been destroyed in these four years of war?" Frank shrugged his shoulders. "I'm not good at conundrums," he replied.
Now do tell me what the difference is between geometry and conchology?" Here you come again with your arithmetical conundrums, when I am suffering death with a cold in the head.
Clara gave the most frigid bow to both Iris and Lala Roy. "Really, Arnold, you are talking in enigmas this morning. What am I to understand? What has this gentleman to do with my appointment with Dr. Washington?" "My dear cousin, I am so happy this morning that I wonder I do not talk in conundrums, or rondeaux, or terza rima. It is a mere chance, I assure you.
The N.E.D. quotes this passage, cf. Jonson's Volpone, Act v, sc. II: 'I must ha' my crotchets! And my conundrums! Dic. Cant. Crew has: 'Conundrums. Whimms, Maggots and such like. p. 222 jiggiting. To jigget = to jig, hop or skip; to jump about, and to fidget, cf.
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