unriddle
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As I drank, I became aware that I was perched on the edge of my seat, fully at attention as I attempted to unriddle its intriguing, distantly familiar contents.
From Salon ● Feb. 15, 2024
In Marsala, I went back for seconds then thirds of Ristorante I Bucanieri's eggplant parm, trying to unriddle its confoundingly luxe texture.
From Salon ● Jul. 31, 2023
She told me that Wallace's crush was "a mystery I haven't been able to unriddle."
From New York Times ● Sep. 12, 2012
A Yankee boarder at a down-at-heel Alabama plantation helps a slow but sure Southern sheriff unriddle two murders that disrupt the peace of a poor, proud family.
From Time Magazine Archive
Ah! easier were it to unriddle the mystery in the murmurs of the ocean and the secrets of the breeze than the vague thoughts hidden behind a maiden's brow!
From The Marquis of Pe?alta (Marta y Mar?a) A Realistic Social Novel by Armando Palacio Vald?s
Jackie Gervercer tended bar and oversaw the cocktail menu, meaning she likely contrived the sugared rim and the addition of egg whites, which writer Chuck Sudo unriddled back in 2012 for the Chicagoist.
From Salon ● Nov. 3, 2021
Over time, I've unriddled a few secrets to a better French press brew.
From Salon ● Jul. 21, 2021
Ginsberg’s system handled the grid, and the colder mathematical side of things, searching and placing answers, while the Berkeley team’s system unriddled the hazier, “human” side of the language of the clues, crosswords’ music.
From Slate ● Apr. 27, 2021
There is mystery about Zita's male parentage which, when unriddled, restores society to good standing in the woods and Zita to her rich lover.
From Time Magazine Archive
A difficulty is solved, a mystery unriddled, when it can be shown to resemble something else; to be an example of a fact already known.
From The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James
Modern art may be a riddle to most people, but there are always experts indefatigably willing to try unriddling it.
From Time Magazine Archive
The outcome of this exhaustive and unprofitable labor was the fascinating story of "The Gold Bug," a story in which the discovery of hidden treasure is brought about by the unriddling of an intricate cipher.
From Edgar Allan Poe's Complete Poetical Works by Edgar Allan Poe
Rose Love stood up unriddling this, Till shadows in my eyes grew old; Then warmed the lock with sudden kiss; Now flames it gold.
From Path Flower and Other Verses by Olive Tilford Dargan
Now give me my tea—I’m famishing—and after that we’ll talk of this new riddle that needs unriddling for the honour of the Yard.
From Cleek of Scotland Yard Detective Stories by Thomas W. Hanshew
There were regular interpreters in attendance, who made considerable sums out of the recipients by expounding and unriddling these oracles.
From Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 02 by F. G. (Francis George) Fowler
