"Puzzler" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... puzzler, old man," said Dickey. "Why was not Ugo here to help Courant if he knew anything about the fellow's actions? By cracky, I don't believe Ugo knows anything about the ...
— Castle Craneycrow • George Barr McCutcheon
... Sergeant who gave the order 'Prepare to fire!'... At this point the officer stepped forward and, addressing me personally, said: 'Do you know of any reason why you should not be shot for participating in the abduction of the Imperial family?'... This was a puzzler.... I was innocent enough of such an accusation, BUT the officer before me looked about as much like a Royalist as I in my present disheveled condition looked like a member of the French Cabinet.... If I denied my guilt I felt certain of a bullet in my heart from such an ugly, unkempt ...
— Rescuing the Czar - Two authentic Diaries arranged and translated • James P. Smythe
... "The girl's a puzzler," he said, "but the stranger may be my man. He knows his life is forfeit, and he's ripe for any sort of crime. I guess I'll move on after him when I've ...
— A Mating in the Wilds • Ottwell Binns
... a puzzler. After a pause, Alice began, 'Well! They were BOTH very unpleasant characters—' Here she checked herself in some alarm, at hearing something that sounded to her like the puffing of a large steam-engine in the wood near them, though she feared it was more likely to be a wild beast. 'Are there any ...
— Through the Looking-Glass • Charles Dodgson, AKA Lewis Carroll
... Sydney, "it's been a puzzler. After I'd seen the second playing tackle-back I about gave up hopes of ever ...
— Behind the Line • Ralph Henry Barbour
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