"Enigma" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... left the prison, considering one day with myself the different kinds of liberty and confinement, freedom and bondage, I took my pen, and wrote the following enigma ...
— The History of Thomas Ellwood Written by Himself • Thomas Ellwood
... fell over the little party. After the first few moments of dismay, conjecture, and exclamation, there did not seem to be much that any one could say. Each girl was busy with her own thoughts and private interpretation of a most sorrowful enigma. What were they to do? How were they to live without separation, and without taking a solitary plunge into an unknown and most ...
— Not Like Other Girls • Rosa N. Carey
... notion of the primitive family group unless we suppose that its members brought their earnings of all kinds into the common stock while they were unable to bind it by improvident individual engagements. The true enigma of the Patria Potestas does not reside here, but in the slowness with which these proprietary privileges of the parent were curtailed, and in the circumstance that, before they were seriously diminished, the whole civilised world was brought within their sphere. No innovation of ...
— Ancient Law - Its Connection to the History of Early Society • Sir Henry James Sumner Maine
... a piece of paper the solution of the enigma, as interpreted by his father, though not the symbol words of the cablegram. He continued to write for a little longer time, amplifying and filling in the wanting parts of the message. Then he read what he had written, as follows: ...
— On The Blockade - SERIES: The Blue and the Gray Afloat • Oliver Optic
... presented an enigma almost impossible to solve. Perhaps it is not the part of a wise man ever to try to understand a woman. Her motives must always be mysterious, even to herself. It is sufficient if one can learn to forecast her actions, and even that ...
— The International Spy - Being the Secret History of the Russo-Japanese War • Allen Upward
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