"Puzzler" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... testimonial expressing one's approval of his services. An old servitor who has mingled much among Europeans must have whole reams of these useless articles stowed away. What in the world they want with them is something of a puzzler; though the idea is, probably, that they might come in useful to obtain a situation some time ...
— Around the World on a Bicycle Volume II. - From Teheran To Yokohama • Thomas Stevens
... a gentle clew to his late movements by asking John which arm it was upon which he was recently vaccinated, which is a puzzler to the young fellow until the name of Malta is ...
— Miss Caprice • St. George Rathborne
... do," he said. "I can easily descend with the cavalry, but how to get the wagons down is a puzzler." ...
— An Autobiography of Buffalo Bill (Colonel W. F. Cody) • Buffalo Bill (William Frederick Cody)
... 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 ...
— Through the Looking-Glass • Charles Dodgson, AKA Lewis Carroll |
