How a brilliant and beautiful girl could have committed this rashness, was the perplexing riddle: the knottier because the man was idle: and Diana had ambition; she despised and dreaded idleness in men.
"The Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith"
George Meredith
He is a grand philosopher, and I wot well could explain a much knottier riddle, which we will presently submit to his acumen.
"Rienzi"
Edward Bulwer Lytton