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A Century of Charades - 100 riddles from 1895
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Trillian
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 		I have still no idea how to solve this one. There are too many possibilities for part two and the few ideas I have for the first part don't fit with any of them. So yes, I could use some help, but I don't think that the number of letters would bring me any closer to the solution. Bang Head

Does anyone of you know website where I can look up out-of-date/obsolete words?

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booba
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 		Best i've got is salt/mine, which is not good.

Going back to what drizjr posted, if "my second" and "my first" stand alone as printed, then "my perfect whole" could stand alone also, meaning a word of any number of syllables not tied to anything.
What is (was) taught to make a (perfect) whole?

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GreenWindmill
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 		Ok, so it's been a week now with no activity or ideas, I realise it has been a holiday weekend in the US but I'm guessing everyone's pretty much stumped on this one. Much as I don't want to be the first to buckle I think I'm at the point where a hint would be useful...
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Mmm... Sacrilicious.

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GreenWindmill
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 		Two and a half weeks with no comments from anybody else, are you guys ok?!
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Mmm... Sacrilicious.

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catherwood
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 		ok, i'll toss out another random guess
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being stuck on MATE for the 2nd half, and having already failed with HELPMATE and SOULMATE, i'll add LIFEMATE.

I'd take a hint, if it were possible to see if i'm at least half right.

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Trillian
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 		Here's my guess, although the first part doesn't make too much sense:
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vitamine

catherwood wrote:
I'd take a hint, if it were possible to see if i'm at least half right.

I second that.

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rose
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 		Hi lovelies!!! * rose * waves madly. I missed you guys but didn't have a way to get online. (I don't have an iphone, though maybe I should get an itouch? The data plan plus taxes for the iphone coupled with spotty service around here is too expensive.)

Sorry sorry sorry. I dropped my laptop, cracked the screen and then had to go to Ohio unexpectedly. Anyway, I was just --yesterday-- able to pick up my repaired (and working great) laptop.

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So, I guess I can tell you that it doesn't look like mate pr any word with m--e is part of the answer.


I'm not sure what kind of hint will move this forward.
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catherwood
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 		Re: LX
The widower's wooing
catherwood-offline wrote:

   I asked her : Would she be my second ?
...
  I Behaved unseemly to my first.

Time to get out the thesaurus, i suppose. I wonder if they had other words a century ago for one's dead first wife. Maybe 'second' isn't a noun, but a verb, as in, "Would she be wed?" (just brainstorming, not a guess, not worth putting a spoiler tag around)

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Trillian
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 		No new ideas here, I just wanted to wave back at Rose! Very Happy I'm glad that you're back, I was beginning to worry about you.

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rose
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 		allons??
So I am willing to skip to the next one and revisit LX after we get to 100??...since a long time has gone by...should I post the next riddle?

Everyone is stuck on this one. And, the point of these riddles is to have some timewasting fun. So I am ready to move on to the next, but only if other people are as well.
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rose
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 		LXI
let's make up the rules as we go along
what the heck, I'm feeling impatient and impetuous so here's the next one:

LXI

Without me women would become my first ;
(Won without wooing how could they be dear ?)
My second, if the storm in fury burst,
Makes each red flash a redder flash appear,
The wind's sad moan a sadder moan to hear.
My whole, presented oft to childhood's view,
Less frequent seen as each succeeding year
Illusions vanished make emotions few,
Is still to Youth or Age a wonder ever new.
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booba
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 		He's back to word games again...

Don't read until you pick his words apart!

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With out me ...wo(me)n - won
makes red into redder, sad into sadder- der (duh!)
Has to be wonder, even though it's also in the description...


Glad to move on from LX.

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rose
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 		LXII
booba is right!
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wonder is correct
Smart booba, very smart!

Sorry I didn't see your post, I thought everyone had abandoned our thread here because I was gone so long. And then I got depressed about watching the thread. Glad you agree about putting LX in the rear view mirror!

Let's keep this rolling! I do so enjoy watching you guys solve these!
PS "hight" is the correct word from the poem-not a misspelling.

LXII

With all his imperfections on his head,
My second to my first untimely fled ;
My whole a lady hight who scorned to wed ;
Of both in Shakespeare you have surely read.
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Trillian
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 		LXII
untimely end / demise / grave / visit / fate / passing ... What else can be untimely?
I've been looking at several lists with female Shakespeare characters, but can't find a lady whose name includes one of those words.

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catherwood
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 		Re: LXII
Time for my not-yet-patented technique:
Quote:
With all his imperfections on his head,
BBBBB to AAAAA untimely fled;
AAABBB [is] a lady [named] who scorned to wed ;
Of both in Shakespeare you have surely read.

my first thoughts, on the beginning part:
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Cain had his mark, an external imperfection which announced to the world his internal imperfections; Cain fled to Nod to start a new life.
I've had no luck turning those syllables into a lady's name or moniker, and know nothing about a particular Shakespeare character who refused to wed. (also, my spoiler character wasn't in shakespeare's works, afaik)

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