Have fair and dainty features;
But she I stake my hopes upon
Excels those lovely creatures.
From Keats she takes her name so dear,
She lives on steaks and honey:
She cannot skate, but she can steer,
And Madeline has money.
The words in italics have the same letters.
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The two long words used recently by a politician which can be recast by anagram to form the sentence, “Axiomatic intelligence, or dust” are—
TERMINOLOGICAL INEXACTITUDES.
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Whom you can trust, secure and unafraid.
My second, sounded double, tells of fate,
Or sounded single puts an end to hate.
My whole a hall’s arched roof, or soft or hard,
That lies beyond the gate with ivory barr’d.
is solved by Palate (Até, goddess of fate).
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The sentence “Woman without her man would be helpless” takes on a distinct meaning if the words “without her” are read together, and a comma is placed after “woman.” Thus—“Woman, without her man would be helpless.”
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The short sentences are recast into single words thus—
A moment’s cure. The old rocks.
Commensurate. Stockholder.
Cod is nice. It lures a cat.
Coincides. Articulates.
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The enigma—
With speed and inclination.
Without my bait, at anyrate,
I still have inclination.
Transpose three letters, in unbroken state
I then receive the ashes of the great.
is solved by Hearth, earth, heart (transpose eat to ate).
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Here is a metrical account of the anagram which, with some exaggeration, proclaims that Sims Reeves was often prevented from singing by his delicate throat—
Comes an excuse, and disappointment hisses,
Strange that Sims Reeves, whose singing ever hits,
By a mere shift of letters ever misses!
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Like cruel ulcer mars both love and life.
The words in italics have the same letters.
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This is the completed palindrome—
I maniac lived, a devil Cain am I.
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The lines—
A long aim I’d say, a libel O!
contain in anagram and in proper order the fruits tamarinds, gooseberries, and the flowers magnolia, daisy, lobelia.
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These are the anagrams—
Now one old fort
Tower of London.
Rabid owl
Wild Boar.
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When chivalry was nourish’d,
When none but friars learn’d to pray,
And beef and beauty flourish’d;
And fraud in kings was held accursed,
And falsehood sin was reckon’d,
And mighty chargers bore my first,
And fat monks wore my second!
And casque with flaunting feather,
And earn’d my spurs in battle-field,
In winter and rough weather;
And polish’d many a sonnet up
To ladies’ eyes and tresses;
And learn’d to drain my father’s cup,
And loose my falcon’s jesses!
The mongrel mob grows prouder;
And everything is done by steam,
And men are kill’d by powder;
And now I feel my swift decay,
And give unheeded orders;
And rot in paltry state away
With sheriffs and recorders.
is solved by Knighthood.
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My next harbours nonsense, and wisdom, and dust;
But, oh! what disaster might chance to accrue,
Should my whole, from my second, step into my first!
is solved by Earwig.
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Decapitation makes an organ play.
Behead again, it sounds o’er hill and vale;
Again, it tells of what we do not pay.
Take nothing off, it is an eagle’s sail.
Again behead, and half a string denote;
Again, and lo! a horse’s head and tail;
And last of all on music’s notes I float.
is solved by A’blowing (n-a-g).
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The proverb buried in the sentence—
Society—how her enthusiasts worship at her Juggernaut car. Cases exist here, proving how illogical are these eagle-sighted, place-hunting beings, scoffing at hereditary position, yet striving to get her smile.
is “Where the carcase is there will the eagles be gathered together.”
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The answer by anagram to—What should we put on a bird’s tail to catch it without a steel-trap? is Saltpetre.
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The charade—
The stately vessel glides alone.
And mournful on the crowded shore
There stands an aged crone,
Watching my second’s parting smile,
As he bids farewell to his native isle.
My whole comes back to other eyes,
With beauteous change of fruit and flowers,
But dim to her are those bright skies,
And sad those joyous hours;
For, alas! my first is dark and deep,
And my second cannot hear her weep.
is solved by Season.
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The sequel to the Arab and his ass runs thus—
The pair crossed over ’neath Allah’s protection,
And the Arab was happy beyond a doubt,
For he had the best donkey in all that section.
Though the donkey was bravest of all his race;
He luxuriates now in perpetual clover,
And his master has gone to the prophet’s embrace.
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Caught Pat’s heart in her meshes;
He left the reins in Cupid’s hands,
And watched her rinse her tresses;
Tresses of resin coloured gold,
Veiling, like any frock,
A tail which, as it did unfold,
Gave to poor Pat a shock.
The words in italics are spelt with the same letters.
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The answer by anagram to “Where can you be ‘in a stone-pine garden’?” is Pontresina, Engadine.
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The words in italics are spelt with the same letters—
Than when weird news, from Kingston wired, was known.
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According to its anagram, the bodily discomfort which follows an ague-fit is fatigue.
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This is the adjustment of the tangled square—
| I | S | I | S |
| S | I | D | E |
| I | D | E | A |
| S | E | A | T |
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The European rivers concealed in the eight anagrams: Set in red robe Henri Le Roi O sell me red pine nerves biter, are Dniester, Ebro, Rhine, Loire, Moselle, Dnieper, Severn, Tiber.
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The palindrome runs thus—
STOP ROSE, I PREFER PIES OR POTS.
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“Your food will cost you more!”
is the political parrot cry which can be evolved by anagram from—
O fool! O musty cry! O lurid woe!
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Sir Robert Peel was the statesman from whose name a “terrible poser” is formed by anagram.
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The letters of the sentence, “Yea, a glad sun rose red” can be recast into the well-known proverb Delays are dangerous.
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The question, “Has there been a poet of unusual solemnity?” is answered by “Yes, Milton.”
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The anagram enigma—
The thing which many love so much,
It has a place within these lines,
But is taboo where Delia dines.
is solved by Onion (no, no, I).
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When young Biceps, who had been plucked in Euclid declared that he could teach the examiners how to square a circle, this was his tricky method:—A circle may be aptly described as a “copper” or “Brown.” Having at hand your “copper” (P. C. Brown), when he has caught you on his rounds, proceed to square him in the customary way.
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As Biceps could not tell how to extract a circle from a square, his friend gave him the following solution: “Let the given square be Sloane Square; find the Inner Circle, and take its lines to any point, at any distance from that square, paying the proper fare. That’s the ticket!”
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And steeds that canter pant.
The gods drank nectar, old and dry,
And all men may recant.
Finally this key extend
Take from en(trance)d the end.
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The charade—
Might surlily bemoan his fate accurst;
Bemoan, or as alternative you find
My whole the word that fits his state of mind.
For meet enclosure, you can take a score
Of captive seconds, first deducting four.
is solved by Denounce (16 ozs. = 1 Pound).
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The cipher—
MNFTNRDRNRGTNNTHSPT.
becomes by the addition of E and O alternately—
Men often order one, or get one on the spot.
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When his brother put “Tim in a pet,” the explanation by anagram is that he was impatient.
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Famed for its teas, and long age
A seat of sage and seer.
The native there, so full of tricks,
To sate his hunger eats with sticks,
Nor knows his ways are queer.
The missing words are in italics.
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The charade—
Let third and second be reversed.
But if my last you would behold
Increase my first a hundredfold.
Combine them all, and you can trace
The four within an empty space.
is solved by Void.
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In the words spoken in the hay-field to a thirsty toiler, “Mower, I will tap the cask!” are concealed by anagram the poet and his poem—William Cowper, The task.
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The charade—
My next not large enough to heed or prize;
My whole is altogether consequential;
My third though small is counted very wise—
is solved by Important.
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To be
aaaaaaaaaa
tCrIiOfUlSes
standing
is the mark of a mean
is solved by To be tenacious in the midst of trifles is the mark of a mean understanding.
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The letters which spell RED NUTS AND GIN can be recast to form the one word UNDERSTANDING.
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The novel by Charles Dickens hidden in the pied letters—
CDEHHIILOOOPRSSTTUY
is The Old Curiosity Shop.
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Fresh layers to the heaps of slain;
And still, with lust of slaughter mad,
The slayer plies his hand amain!
The words in italics have the same six letters.
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The charade—
My second still more small,
My whole shows such a lack of fame
It has no name at all.
is solved by Nameless.
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When one of the children said, “If father gives us a new dog it will wake the lazy ones”—the words pointed to Susan and Ethel, whose names are buried in the sentence.
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The cipher—
NGOTRDSREAOHR
ETNSVEENUDOEO
is solved by starting with last letter of the second line, followed by the first letter of the first line, and so on throughout, taking always the last and first unused letters alternately, and forming thus the proverb “One good turn deserves another!”
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The enigma—
I died a death unknown before,
Nor ever to corruption came;
My shroud the waves cast on the shore.
is solved by Lot’s wife.
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The question—
How might an oyster, if it could speak and knew that unda is Latin for wave or water, complain in similar phonetic iteration when disturbed by thunder under unda?
is answered thus—
He could exclaim, “a noise annoys an oyster!”
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The words in italics have the same five letters—
Over acres he races, all frolic and fun.
For no whistle cares he, in his desperate hurry,
The slow sheep to scare, and the old cow to worry.
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The girls’ names shown by anagram in the sentence—“Bad hero set by thy door hurt me ma. Army may get ruder daily,” are Deborah, Betsy, Dorothy, Ruth, Emma, Mary, Amy, Gertrude, Lydia.
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The anagram is completed thus—
“Lord Beaconsfield’s statue.”
True as old Ben’s stolid face!
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The Shakespeare anagrams—
The tub sold has old rough shelves.
And e’en this fisherman caught best white smelts.
A living lord’s black dress, worn high, I vow!
are formed, letter for letter and line for line, from this passage in “Romeo and Juliet”—
“Love’s heralds should be thoughts,
Which ten times faster glide than the sun’s beams,
Driving black shadows over low’ring hills.”
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Who buries the rubies in Orient soil;
Yet busier mortals will ever abound,
Who bruise all the soil till the treasure is found.
The words in italics are spelt with the same six letters.
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The Puzzle acrostic—
Unfledged my second swings its wings;
My third on blackest pinions flies,
My fourth can float beneath the skies.
The letters to my first that fall
Are the initials of them all.
is solved thus—
| ◯ | ◯ | ◯ | ◯ |
| ◯ | ● | ● | ● |
| ◯ | ● | ● | ● |
| ◯ | ● | ● | ● |
| L | A | R | K |
| A | R | M | Y |
| R | O | O | K |
| K | I | T | E |
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Their irate captain, hot and riled,
To rate his men found vain indeed,
They only ate and smoked, and smiled!
One letter is dropped each time.
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In the doublets puzzle HARE is made into SOUP by the following six links, changing one letter each time, and preserving their order—
HARE, hark, hack, sack, sock, soak, soap, SOUP.
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The enigma—
To the beginning of an end,
A pointed weapon you will make
To wound a foe or praise a friend.
is solved by Epigram.
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If a “newspaper” could speak, it might say by anagram of the general work of its staff, We pen pars.
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The positive quantity 1011 is turned into a negative thus:—
NO.
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The one word formed by anagram from “O, I’m man’s trial” is Matrimonials.
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The rebus—
EEE and xxx URXXI XXX and eee.
is solved by “Great ease and small crosses before you are twenty-one, great crosses and little ease after that.”
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The answer to the riddle “Why may not the owner of a pine forest fell his timber?” is—Because no one is allowed to cut when it is his own deal.
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