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    1. Just as I started to get the image into some sort of focus, at the critical moment when I started to remember details about the garden, their clothes and the house, right then the truck would bounce or shake over rough English roads, and these carefully assembled pieces of the picture puzzle would break and scatter


    2. ’ I said, frowning again over the puzzle which is Agna


    3. and the string theory puzzle


    4. the puzzle if it were absent


    5. How he came to choose medicine as his vocation in life is a mystery to Alex, a puzzle that he’s spent too many hours trying to unravel


    6. mystifying, and he continued to puzzle over it as he wound


    7. He didn't say anything more, just looked at her awhile till his breathing slowed and then went back to the book trying to puzzle out the sentence under the next picture


    8. Mike was still a puzzle to her


    9. Labyrinth – a very complicated puzzle that is life size and you walk through


    10. It was all as if a jigsaw puzzle had been

    11. puzzle, and the many choices that may present themselves


    12. You need all the pieces of the puzzle before you


    13. “Oh, is that how it works?” was all Helez said as she completed the puzzle about the start of a new life


    14. And try to let all of the pieces of the enduring puzzle arrange themselves of their own accord


    15. By the end of that first week, the population of the town had swollen greatly, and Barrin inherently understood what was happening, though little understanding of the ways of the world was needed to decipher this particular puzzle


    16. He just watched Aspen as she slept, trying to figure out the puzzle


    17. length of the name in letters; number of vowels; number of consonants and many other properties used in this genealogy that stretches from Abraham all the way to Jesus Christ; the language and numbering system that would be employed - would finally fit like small pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, that would only reveal a masterly constructed design, once the final piece was fitted


    18. If this had been a mystery story, the clues and foreshadowing were being laid out like pieces of a puzzle that I was too distracted to see


    19. At the time he had the same struggle of trying to puzzle out whether they were signs or hallucinations


    20. so; and Imbrahim was presented with yet another piece to the complex puzzle of this woman

    21. Every sequential step of the Maximize Your Muscle program, every new phase, is one piece in a carefully designed jigsaw puzzle


    22. Why were his thoughts so fuzzy? It seemed like a child’s puzzle was before him, but someone had blown out the lamps, and he had to assemble it in the dark


    23. * It will always be a puzzle to me why Winnie Mandela was not killed / executed by the Security Police for she was intensely disliked by all ranks and all units


    24. Beside her, Reese was absolutely silent, and she almost held her breath, hoping he might use his own senses to add to the puzzle solving


    25. "Just one more piece of the puzzle to find and I'll have all the power that I'll need


    26. "And the last piece of the puzzle?" he asked in a husky voice


    27. Akili's books include two series of Bible/Christian Word Search puzzle books, fatherhood books such as: Fatherhood Principles of Joseph the Carpenter, On the Outside Looking In: Hope for Separated Fathers Who Want to Be Good Fathers and Fun Meals for Fathers and Sons, written with his two sons


    28. Engineers can’t resist a mechanical puzzle


    29. The next word that stood for the constantans was the next bit of the puzzle to work out


    30. He was seized with a chill, as another piece of the most thrilling puzzle he had ever pieced together fell perfectly into place

    31. He was so close to solving the ultimate puzzle


    32. One key fact, one key piece of a puzzle, and suddenly everything is abundantly clear, self-evident in its totality


    33. Had Hilkea’s sympathetic gesture caused it? But why? There would always be some ways of females that would continue to puzzle Zoran


    34. Sometimes a speculative guess as to what that point of reality might be is the first step in putting the rest of the puzzle pieces together


    35. The brain was another puzzle


    36. to see a greater piece of the puzzle


    37. of the puzzle that would make sense with this excursion


    38. That there is a way to be searched out, a latent talent that might be brought to expression, a puzzle beyond the capacity of Man’s intellect alone to solve, which can provide for this grandiloquent transposition, has forever consumed the consciousness of his very uncertain and limited existence


    39. Case closed! I had solved the whole puzzle though it wasn’t gonna get me any promotion or fame because it could have put someone’s live at risk but I did it for my sake


    40. The lands scattered across the ocean as if into a giant jigsaw puzzle

    41. All night I puzzle over needles and serums and simulations, trying to inhabit the minds of my enemies


    42. Each should be a puzzle piece, constantly building towards a picture


    43. That expedition should be aimed at solving a puzzle first, but it had potential for much more


    44. Artie’s silence was the tip-off to the puzzle


    45. He left the library and Theodore clapped me on the back, congratulating me for figuring out his father’s puzzle


    46. She concentrated on her pressing trouble, letting the puzzle churn


    47. We both lapsed into silence and I concentrated on looking at the scenery and trying to struggle with the last few clues of the crossword puzzle in the newspaper


    48. As we rode, we asked a few questions about those little details that escape one at the moment, but then return to puzzle


    49. Sierra had shaken out the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle onto the table


    50. Sierra had taken one of their vacation pictures and had it turned into a puzzle





































    1. Puzzled, Leonora went over and opened it to see a puffy, pasty, pink-haired, nose- and ear- and lip-pierced woman standing on the landing


    2. He didn't expect something like that to come from such an exquisite creature, "What kind of name is that?" She notices his confusion and returns it with a puzzled look of her own, like the answer should be obvious


    3. The windows of the bus, set higher than in a car, had offered excellent views of both the land and the houses and Kara had taken advantage of having a companion, whispering puzzled queries to Angie as they passed things she didn’t immediately understand


    4. ‘For me?’ Iain said, puzzled but taking the proffered envelope all the same


    5. The two folk in the stalls were still looking at each other puzzled


    6. He was completely puzzled as to how I had got hold of this old ‘gipsy’ secret, so it seems that way back in time, gipsy or Yogi, they had respect for the humble potato as a powerful cure for arthritis


    7. A glare of sunlight catches my attention and I watch puzzled as we draw nearer to the cause of this brightness … astonished, I see a vast greenhouse complex


    8. "So she tried to advance your studies?" Glayet was clearly puzzled by that


    9. 'Renting? But we already have a shop,' Ish said, puzzled and irritated at the


    10. Ali looked puzzled at the

    11. ‘Simon, have you given any thought to how?’ he looks puzzled, ‘I mean, Church or registry office, Peter presiding or what?’


    12. “I’m the one who filed,” she said, looking as puzzled as she could


    13. Jo sits for a moment puzzled, then a look of glee comes over her face


    14. ” This verse puzzled the women,


    15. The receptionist, ostensibly busying herself with some papers, is obviously earwigging for all she is worth but she looks puzzled so probably doesn’t have a clue what we are talking about


    16. The two young men both looked puzzled for a moment, but


    17. When she got back to the site of the two graves she slowed, puzzled that she couldn’t hear him behind her


    18. spotted the puzzled look on Ged’s face, “He’s signed up with the


    19. Julia was happiest when she was doing her own thing without anyone telling her what to do, so Jack being happy following orders puzzled her greatly


    20. "For what" Jim asked, rather puzzled by her statement

    21. "Why's it still on?" she puzzled as he swung past her, After all it had been three years, since anyone had been there, at least that was what she thought he’d said


    22. He stopped and looked at her with a puzzled look


    23. She was a bit puzzled with the statement


    24. "Then why’d you pull away?" he asked taking the cup she offered, with a puzzled look upon his face "I don't understand, what have I done to make you fear me, if you don't blame me for the marks?"


    25. The puzzled look never seemed to leave her face, no matter what he uttered


    26. "Where were you?" she puzzled turning to look up at him


    27. "Exactly, I guess Jimmy –” she paused with a puzzled look on her face


    28. "What's wrong with him?" she puzzled


    29. "No," Jim corrected him "But we wish we did–" looking to his puzzled friend, "It helps when no one says anything


    30. "The guest's" She puzzled

    31. "What do you mean ALL of the land?" She puzzled


    32. “Four way what?” he asked, puzzled, worrying more about his pants than her question


    33. The old hermit just looked at it with a puzzled


    34. considered her reply for a moment, and seemed puzzled


    35. of his acquaintance, but he still look puzzled


    36. was rewarded with a group of puzzled faces turned in his


    37. Jean was puzzled and felt awkward


    38. at us with a puzzled frown, she pushed the appropriate


    39. The agents in the van looked at each other, puzzled


    40. The group exchanging puzzled glances, then, after a brief nod from the one-armed man, they swiveled their necks in the direction of Whimly's finger, though they still kept him in the corner of their eyes

    41. He had chosen to step away from the group and was now sitting at the side of the road, a puzzled look on his face as he rubbed his head


    42. “I am Galimoto," the imp replied as though puzzled by Alec's question


    43. "What?" Nathalia asked, both her and the girl were gazing at Alec with puzzled looks


    44. Meanwhile, Brice appeared worried and puzzled all at once, his eyebrows appearing unable to decide whether they should rise up in arcs, or scrunch together


    45. "Should we knock?" Theodorous asked, looking puzzled as he tugged his mustache


    46. Flitter was puzzled by the girls attitude but he was willing to give this novel method of learning a try


    47. wanted with this?’ he asked, puzzled


    48. Marguerite was momentarily puzzled, absorbed as she


    49. They looked puzzled, as if they


    50. “Why, you only told me lat month?” she answered puzzled














































    1. That sort of need is best placed into puzzles


    2. Libby Barrett had no interest in playing Rugby, much preferring the calmer activity of assembling jigsaw puzzles


    3. Octopuses are usually quiet and genial creatures, who are at their happiest when left alone to do word puzzles


    4. Many a times, answers to inventors’ questions or missing pieces of scientific puzzles are obtained from their dreams


    5. Dad, eighty-four, spent time on the computer and napping, while Mom, nine years younger, watched television, read, and challenged herself with crossword puzzles


    6. He loved puzzles and numbers


    7. He’s quite good at puzzlin’ out puzzles, y’know


    8. So it puzzles us beyond belief when you start giving sophisticated weapons to countries against the wishes of your oldest friends


    9. When he was young, he used to try to impress friends with his ability to crack puzzles quickly


    10. It puzzled them and it puzzles me

    11. - There are a lot of things that puzzles me, Enilia, but most of all it puzzles me that there is ainatunari in a town like Tinby


    12. It went on to indicate an exercise and dietary regimen that would lay a foundation toward accomplishing that goal, adding that “stress management techniques and brain stimulation exercises like cross-word puzzles should be part of a mental exercise component


    13. But something puzzles me: These are supposed to be Four’s worst fears


    14. Aside from the Founders every one of you who often puzzles, ―But that does not make common sense!‖, is probably a Conservative


    15. Collecting puzzles of the Luck,


    16. “No, it more puzzles than troubles


    17. “Well, a life with puzzles is an interesting one


    18. Andrew loved to solve puzzles so he decided to become a private investigator


    19. What puzzles me is that we derive pleasure from things and


    20. “Sorry, I'm good at solving puzzles but I cannot know what I haven't been taught

    21. She took to crossword puzzles, the kind that came


    22. She quickly figured out that all of the puzzles had


    23. orders, and so she could fly through one of the puzzles


    24. puzzles within a day or two, and was always hungry for


    25. She had no interest in the more difficult puzzles,


    26. As his men and his captives turn at his command and begin the journey home, Ralph puzzles over the sudden sense of whiteness in his mind


    27. He was much better with puzzles than interrogations


    28. not colouring with the boys, or doing puzzles with them, or chasing them around the house


    29. "Hey there's nothing wrong with puzzles," he said, throwing his hands up


    30. 1 While brain machines and drugs may be used in sophisticated ways more often in the future to shift reality modes, Eastern mystical traditions have resorted to various techniques, including viewing diagrams (or yantras), confronting puzzles over phrases that have no rational meaning (or koans), and mental and physical exercises which aim to produce a state of ‘no conceptualising while remaining fully awake

    31. to share humor, so it could be a cartoon, puzzles, or any of those types of things related to your


    32. The puzzles are original and the solutions are applaud-able, Echochrome and its many challenges certainly deserve all the praise it gets


    33. Thus starts the plot for Trace Memory, a deeply moving mystery solving game that places players in the heart of a mysterious island, accompanied only by a ghost with no memories and faced with puzzles every step of the way


    34. The touch screen menu handles most of the dialogue selection and logic based puzzles that will progress players through the game


    35. Something puzzles me, though


    36. super clever individuals who can crack these most challenging and relevant of mathematical puzzles, dubbed the Millennium Prizes


    37. Waving patterns of pictures and puzzles House full of trippers


    38. Interpretation: The Page of Swords brings news and communication from a bright young person with an excellent mind, quick to learn, good at puzzles, diplomatic, enjoys gossiping and skilled with the ability to work out the true nature of things


    39. “She’s better at puzzles than I am


    40. The materials include games and puzzles, holiday exercises and readings with comprehension activities

    41. Here you’ll find a collection of ready-to-print flashcards, worksheets and puzzles: a great resource for kids


    42. Do you see? You're good at that, Harry, at those crossword puzzles


    43. Being scared is not a feeling he is used to and he puzzles over it


    44. I was doing a lot of these puzzles


    45. administering it told us that all of the puzzles


    46. puzzles and yet follow the instructions as to


    47. By that time he had dissected every dissectible insect in the region, he spoke Spanish like a native, and he had solved all of the crossword puzzles in the maga-zines that he received in the mail


    48. mysteries, and the more puzzles you seem to solve the


    49. puzzles to problems in life (yours or others) can help to keep your


    50. There are many ways to stimulate the brain, including crossword puzzles, playing video games










































    1. ” The doctor seemed relieved at this bid of news; a reaction Daniel found puzzling


    2. They took a wide stairway up a flight where the old woman was greeted by three younger women who were puzzling over a decorated board with some piles of nested chips on it


    3. It's puzzling me


    4. ‘Ann, one thing is puzzling me


    5. It was all very puzzling


    6. He put down the magazine he was puzzling thru


    7. " she uttered to herself, and then went back to puzzling out the problem in the past


    8. in the slightest - it was just puzzling


    9. question he’d been puzzling over for most of his journey


    10. What was most puzzling was that he only sensed it, but couldn’t see it

    11. Most puzzling of all was of course Penelope’s apparent business with Dragon Bridge, and possibly the Penitus Oculatus


    12. Awake, he often had a quizzical look, constantly puzzling his surroundings, his condition


    13. puzzling situation but not a terrible one


    14. He had been puzzling over the TWO trees which had come, and at last had


    15. Painful thoughts and questions puzzling his mind


    16. in ways that aren’t appropriate, are unusual for them, or are puzzling or odd – like all


    17. A puzzling look came over his face


    18. What would have happened if she had succeeded instead of being rubbed out like she was?� Steve conjectured as he had a puzzling look on his face


    19. I was still puzzling through the reason anyone would want to hurt Mia so badly


    20. Aside from the fact that the number of individuals they were expected to help escape to the West had tripled, the reference to Oldenberg was puzzling

    21. He could see her puzzling away at it, and not getting it yet


    22. Some of the group were puzzling it out, piecing it all together


    23. He was unaware that he had closed his eyes in the intensity of effort to picture the wealth of puzzling information before him


    24. The latter of the two, the spirit, appears to attempt to define a certain essential, non-physical element, an essence that seems to be common to all life, and apparently disappears at its end, or dissociates from it as some would describe an otherwise puzzling process


    25. But to stand in the twenty-first century and carry that same pessimism is a puzzling thing


    26. The puzzling thing was that Bruce never trained as a trainer


    27. That two presidents show no interest in an obvious connection of the Oklahoma City bombing with Mid Eastern terrorists is more than puzzling, since the connection makes even more sense in view of Saddam’s recently translated papers


    28. moment, reminded of his puzzling thoughts regarding the bizarre


    29. Puzzling over this helped distract me only slightly from my devastation at being separated from Carlotta only a year and half after finally finding her


    30. The Pansfalaya have always been gracious hosts, but I found this rather puzzling

    31. ” Harry looked at Becky in a puzzling way, “Precautions?”


    32. What is controlling the UFO is puzzling to him


    33. I saw some things that were very puzzling


    34. Quite puzzling to Roger was the fact that animals, particularly chickens, and human travel together


    35. It was puzzling as to how


    36. After these two boys arrived in their house, Roger saw some puzzling changes in Josie’s behavior


    37. If that was the case, then, Josie might have been thinking about that when she made the puzzling remark to Roger


    38. Still puzzling over how to broach the power of her country’s myth, Annyeke imagined that allowing her companion to sense the words bond with the mind-cane, open yourself to the raven and then we’re ready weren’t likely to be welcome


    39. “His motivations for both of those are understandable, but what is puzzling is that he then Read my experiences with Bezedil


    40. But then, after she’d finished speaking and he’d still been puzzling over the meaning of what he’d heard, the mind-fire had started and that was when the snow-raven assaulted him

    41. “Come on,” he says, slowly and still she senses him puzzling over information he should not be able to access


    42. The puzzling issue of whether Simon cared to know the answer to that was broken by the shaft of fire which sizzled across his arm, barely missing Carthen’s head


    43. He is just about to turn aside, and puzzling if he dares go near the castle to see if his parents are imprisoned there, when he hears a scuffling sound


    44. “Pulling lines” was puzzling


    45. In England, though not exactly puzzling, what heretofore may have been difficult to fathom is the underlying power of belief that supporters have had of the most alarming and extensive drive to undermine and nationalize the elements of British democracy


    46. found it as puzzling as I have


    47. Puzzling this out, Carl soon asked, "Why couldn't I ask her, then?"


    48. of these jets slicing through a puzzling region of intense star formation


    49. They noted the puzzling fact that


    50. noted the puzzling fact that 80% of Sprug power on









































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    Synonyms for "puzzle"

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    "puzzle" definitions

    a particularly baffling problem that is said to have a correct solution


    a game that tests your ingenuity


    be a mystery or bewildering to


    be uncertain about; think about without fully understanding or being able to decide