These residents send off fresh milk by a boat to the passing steamer, though how the cows can find sustenance here is an unsolved riddle.
"Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia"
Maturin M. Ballou
But deep in their pondering eyes lay unsolved questions-questions they did not consciously put to themselves; questions as to the happy road they so blindly sought-whether it ran through new places or through old; whether, if through new, it could be reached, seeing that temperament, which had at least as much moulded circumstance as circumstance had forced temperament, was probably in the end master of all the roads, insisting that every one remained, as Betty had said, pretty much the same sort of person as he began.
"The Furnace"
Rose Macaulay
The factory problem was still unsolved; the building which my father had anticipated would be humming with prosperous activity stood silent.
"I Walked in Arden"
Jack Crawford