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Definition of Riddlers
1. riddler [n] - See also: riddler
Lexicographical Neighbors of Riddlers
Literary usage of Riddlers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Woodpeckers by Fannie Hardy Eckstorm (1900)
"THE WOODPECKERS FOREWORD: THE riddlers LONG ago in Greece, the legend runs, a
terrible monster called the Sphinx used to waylay travelers to ask them ..."
2. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1879)
"... riddlers "—Morris Hutchinson—Bessie and Her Cousin—Fannie Densmore—Rita S.
... i — " riddlers " o—CF Lipman, ..."
3. A Glossary of the Cleveland Dialect: Explanatory, Derivative, and Critical by John Christopher Atkinson (1868)
"... or presages of the approach of death to persons connected with the riddlers,
whether by family or vicinity, or possibly to the riddlers themselves. ..."
4. Old English Riddles by Alfred John Wyatt (1912)
"It will have been seen, in the section on Latin .iddles, that the date given
above accords perfectly with the roved borrowing of the riddlers in English ..."
5. Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Henry Mills Alden (1900)
"(Parnassus was a word often on the riddlers' pens.) My first was a lyric, and my
second a sonnet, and my whole was a charade quite easy to guess. ..."
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