"Problematical" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... may be guessed. The treasure was at hand and enormous, whereas the wrath of a Heavenly or an earthly king was problematical and far away. So greed, outstripping caution and superstitious fear, won the race, and Ramiro threw himself into the adventure with a resource and energy which in ...
— Lysbeth - A Tale Of The Dutch • H. Rider Haggard
... had, like the Fourierists, conjured up from our brains a new social order, chimerical and strange; a sort of phalanstery, without precedent in the annals of the human race, instead of merely talking plain meum and tuum It seems to us that if there is in all this anything utopian, anything problematical, it is not free trade, but protection; it is not the right to exchange, but tariff after tariff applied to overturning the natural order ...
— What Is Free Trade? - An Adaptation of Frederic Bastiat's "Sophismes Econimiques" - Designed for the American Reader • Frederic Bastiat
... she hopes it will. She wants to leave it here for me and my problematical children. The tribal sense ...
— Master of the Vineyard • Myrtle Reed
... the home. That the mother threatened corporal punishment, whereat the father tremblingly intervened. That David continuing to rejoice exceedingly in his word, the father spoke darkly of a cane, but the mother rushed between the combatants. That the problematical chastisement became to David an object of romantic interest. That this darkened the happy home. That casting from his path a weeping mother, the goaded father at last dashed from the house yelling that he ...
— The Little White Bird - or Adventures In Kensington Gardens • J. M. Barrie
... thought some of the excitement will be gone, and the struggle of the 'survival of the fittest' will become less problematical," ...
— A Journey in Other Worlds - A Romance of the Future • John Jacob Astor
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