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  • And sometimes I will write them out now, again, though for myself, those old strokes, unofficial versions of any newcomer I see in the street or on the bus or in the demi-shops of the city, the need in me still to undo the cipherlike faces scrawled with hard work, and no work, and all trouble.†   (source)
  • I learned some ciphers and wrote some letters, but that was all—†   (source)
  • But ciphers all have weakness that they are patterns.†   (source)
  • Black curtains hang at their windows, Jimmy: black quilts cover their body at night: a black veil cover their eyes, Jimmy; and the buzzing, buzzing, buzzing in their ears keep them from 'ciphering what you got to say.†   (source)
  • From that angle I could plainly see the grim blue-black tattoo, the row of numbers remarkably neat, a little barbwire fence of orderly ciphers in which one "seven" was bisected with the meticulous European slash.†   (source)
  • Fancy a man lugging with him a book of that description into this nowhere and studying it-- and making notes--in cipher at that   (source)
  • But what is the use of a cipher message without the cipher?   (source)
  • Communications, ciphers, frequency traffic.†   (source)
  • You relics of outmoded ciphers can't use the English language.†   (source)
  • Modern cryptologists used segmented ciphers all the time, although the security scheme had been invented in ancient Greece.†   (source)
  • I had two hours of each day in the Medica, running or standing, an average of two hours of lecture and ciphering each day in Matheinatics, and three hours of studying under Manet in the Fishery, learning the tricks of the trade.†   (source)
  • Langdon had once worked on a series of Baconian manuscripts that contained epigraphical ciphers in which certain lines of code were clues as to how to decipher the other lines.†   (source)
  • The simplest of ciphers.†   (source)
  • At the age of twelve, Sophie could finish the Le Monde crossword without any help, and her grandfather graduated her to crosswords in English, mathematical puzzles, and substitution ciphers.†   (source)
  • Also used ciphers and did not work them through Mike; instead he had a moronic little machine in residence office.†   (source)
  • Conklin gave the remaining specifics and the two men worked out basic ciphers for their initial contact in Paris.†   (source)
  • Aside from last, Mike could read any of this including commercial codes and ciphers—breaking ciphers was a crossword puzzle to him and nobody mistrusted this machine.†   (source)
  • It was clear and pale and it came to us in a bottle free from grime and Napoleonic ciphers.†   (source)
  • He was adept at ciphering.†   (source)
  • There was no ciphering her out by the rules that worked with other children.†   (source)
  • Knitting, sewing, reading, writing, ciphering, will be all you will have to teach.†   (source)
  • But now this accomplished young man does it all by ciphering and mensuration.†   (source)
  • Such and such a pick-axe with the idea, such a pick with ciphers.†   (source)
  • Above all things he despised obvious Christians and ciphers with the chrysanthemums of aristocracy in their button-holes.†   (source)
  • Thus while I tell the truth about loobies, my reader's imagination need not be entirely excluded from an occupation with lords; and the petty sums which any bankrupt of high standing would be sorry to retire upon, may be lifted to the level of high commercial transactions by the inexpensive addition of proportional ciphers.†   (source)
  • So there was splendour and wealth, but no great happiness perchance, behind the tall caned portals of Gaunt House with its smoky coronets and ciphers.†   (source)
  • He makes dreadful mouths as he rules the ciphering-book; and now he throws his eye sideways down our lane, and we all droop over our books and tremble.†   (source)
  • He has been picking up a bit of reading for her, here — and a bit of writing for her, there — and a bit of ciphering for her, somewhere else — these seven years.'†   (source)
  • As to Tom, Charley's brother, I am really afraid to say what he did at school in ciphering, but I think it was decimals.†   (source)
  • I fell to ciphering.†   (source)
  • "Give me an example of your meaning, Wamba,—I know nothing of ciphers or rates of usage," answered the Knight.†   (source)
  • The devices engraved on it are the ciphers or names of its long line of possessors—I had Luigi's name added in Roman letters myself with our coat of arms, as you see.†   (source)
  • To these, he applied himself with such steadiness and perseverance that, although he brought no greater amount of previous knowledge to the subject than certain dim recollections of two or three very long sums entered into a ciphering-book at school, and relieved for parental inspection by the effigy of a fat swan tastefully flourished by the writing-master's own hand, he found himself, at the end of a fortnight, in a condition to report his proficiency to Mr Linkinwater, and to claim…†   (source)
  • …that, while we are plowing, planting, and reaping, using all kinds of mechanical tools, erecting houses, constructing bridges, building ships, working in metals of brass, iron, copper, silver, and gold; that while we are reading, writing, and ciphering, acting as clerks, merchants, and secretaries, having among us lawyers, doctors, ministers, poets, authors, editors, orators, and teachers; that we are engaged in all the enterprises common to other men -- digging gold in California,…†   (source)
  • …much pleasanter to let her imagination range and work at Harriet's fortune, than to be labouring to enlarge her comprehension or exercise it on sober facts; and the only literary pursuit which engaged Harriet at present, the only mental provision she was making for the evening of life, was the collecting and transcribing all the riddles of every sort that she could meet with, into a thin quarto of hot-pressed paper, made up by her friend, and ornamented with ciphers and trophies.†   (source)
  • True, there was another life,—a life which, once believed in, stands as a solemn, significant figure before the otherwise unmeaning ciphers of time, changing them to orders of mysterious, untold value.†   (source)
  • I have said enough to convince you that ciphers of this nature are readily soluble, and to give you some insight into the rationale of their development.†   (source)
  • They make up a balanced account with Heaven, as our old cellarer used to call his ciphering, as fair as Isaac the Jew keeps with his debtors, and, like him, give out a very little, and take large credit for doing so; reckoning, doubtless, on their own behalf the seven-fold usury which the blessed text hath promised to charitable loans.†   (source)
  • In his epistolary communication, as in his dialogues and discourses on the great question to which it related, Mr Dorrit surrounded the subject with flourishes, as writing-masters embellish copy-books and ciphering-books: where the titles of the elementary rules of arithmetic diverge into swans, eagles, griffins, and other calligraphic recreations, and where the capital letters go out of their minds and bodies into ecstasies of pen and ink.†   (source)
  • In the present case—indeed in all cases of secret writing—the first question regards the language of the cipher; for the principles of solution, so far, especially, as the more simple ciphers are concerned, depend upon, and are varied by, the genius of the particular idiom.†   (source)
  • From the glimpse I had of them, I should say that I never saw such sums out of a school ciphering-book.†   (source)
  • It hailed facts all day long so very hard, and life in general was opened to her as such a closely ruled ciphering-book, that assuredly she would have run away, but for only one restraint.†   (source)
  • [40] Diplomatic ciphers are slang; the pontifical chancellery by using 26 for Rome, grkztntgzyal for despatch, and abfxustgrnogrkzu tu XI. for the Due de Modena, speaks slang.†   (source)
  • When Lydgate was taking part in the conversation, she never looked towards him any more than if she had been a sculptured Psyche modelled to look another way: and when, after being called out for an hour or two, he re-entered the room, she seemed unconscious of the fact, which eighteen months before would have had the effect of a numeral before ciphers.†   (source)
  • I sit with my eye on Mr. Creakle, blinking at him like a young owl; when sleep overpowers me for a minute, he still looms through my slumber, ruling those ciphering-books, until he softly comes behind me and wakes me to plainer perception of him, with a red ridge across my back.†   (source)
  • They lived nameless, designated only by numbers, and converted, after a manner, into ciphers themselves, with downcast eyes, with lowered voices, with shorn heads, beneath the cudgel and in disgrace.†   (source)
  • Here I sit at the desk again, watching his eye — humbly watching his eye, as he rules a ciphering-book for another victim whose hands have just been flattened by that identical ruler, and who is trying to wipe the sting out with a pocket-handkerchief.†   (source)
  • Napoleon was accustomed to gaze steadily at war; he never added up the heart-rending details, cipher by cipher; ciphers mattered little to him, provided that they furnished the total, victory; he was not alarmed if the beginnings did go astray, since he thought himself the master and the possessor at the end; he knew how to wait, supposing himself to be out of the question, and he treated destiny as his equal: he seemed to say to fate, Thou wilt not dare.†   (source)
  • When I leave Jamaica I can read write and cypher a little.†   (source)
    unconventional spelling: This is a British spelling option. The British also use cipher which is used by Americans.
  • I said, eyeing the snowy cuff of his shirt, which was embroidered with a tiny cypher in Chinese red, block letters so small and stylized they were nearly invisible.†   (source)
  • They make fine work of me—fanatic, bigot, perfect cypher, not one word of the language, awkward figure, uncouth dress, no address, no character, cunning hardheaded attorney.†   (source)
  • For example, it recommends the use of /jail/ and /jailer/ in place [Pg257] of the English /gaol/ and /gaoler/, says that /ax/ is better than /axe/, drops the final /e/ from /asphalte/ and /forme/, changes the /y/ to /i/ in /cyder/, /cypher/ and /syren/ and advocates the same change in /tyre/, drops the redundant /t/ from /nett/, changes /burthen/ to /burden/, spells /wagon/ with one /g/, prefers /fuse/ to /fuze/, and takes the /e/ out of /storey/.†   (source)
  • cypher.†   (source)
  • For the most part, saving certain gaps I chose to remember, they are written in cypher in those books that tramp has hidden.†   (source)
  • It's all cypher, Bunting."†   (source)
  • These are hieroglyphical; that is, if you call those mysterious cyphers on the walls of pyramids hieroglyphics, then that is the proper word to use in the present connexion.†   (source)
    unconventional spelling: This is a British spelling option. The British also use ciphers which is used by Americans.
  • He regarded the red berries between them over and over again, to such an extent, that holly seemed in his after life to be a cypher signifying a proposal of marriage.†   (source)
  • 'Extraordinary how they used to complicate these cyphers!' remarked Mr Blandois, glancing up with his own smile again.†   (source)
  • First: I have personally known three instances where a whale, after receiving a harpoon, has effected a complete escape; and, after an interval (in one instance of three years), has been again struck by the same hand, and slain; when the two irons, both marked by the same private cypher, have been taken from the body.†   (source)
  • The worst class of sum worked in the every-day world is cyphered by the diseased arithmeticians who are always in the rule of Subtraction as to the merits and successes of others, and never in Addition as to their own.†   (source)
    unconventional spelling: This is a British spelling option. The British also use ciphered which is used by Americans.
  • Down in Bleeding Heart Yard there was scarcely an inhabitant of note to whom Mr Pancks had not imparted his demonstration, and, as figures are catching, a kind of cyphering measles broke out in that locality, under the influence of which the whole Yard was light-headed.†   (source)
    unconventional spelling: This is a British spelling option. The British also use ciphering which is used by Americans.
  • These are beings of the great neuter species: impotent men, parasites, cyphers, who have a little land, a little folly, a little wit; who would be rustics in a drawing-room, and who think themselves gentlemen in the dram-shop; who say, "My fields, my peasants, my woods"; who hiss actresses at the theatre to prove that they are persons of taste; quarrel with the officers of the garrison to prove that they are men of war; hunt, smoke, yawn, drink, smell of tobacco, play billiards, stare…†   (source)
  • Only the tiresome spelling, writing, ciphering classes?†   (source)
  • One was called "The Book of Liveries," in which he described seven hundred and three liveries, with their colours, mottoes, and ciphers, from which gentlemen of the court might pick and choose any they fancied for festivals and revels, without having to go a-begging for them from anyone, or puzzling their brains, as the saying is, to have them appropriate to their objects and purposes; "for," said he, "I give the jealous, the rejected, the forgotten, the absent, what will suit them,…†   (source)
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  • Part of it looks like a numeric cipher.†   (source)
  • In the center, a white oval enamel medallion bore the cipher of Nicholas II in diamonds and gold.†   (source)
  • The official records of the Sons of Jacob meetings were destroyed after the middle-period Great Purge, which discredited and liquidated a number of the original architects of Gilead; but we have access to some information through the diary kept in cipher by Wilfred Limpkin, one of the sociobiologists present.†   (source)
  • In moments like this she thought of all the little girls who grew into adulthood and old age as a sort of cipher alphabet for all of those who didn't.†   (source)
  • Can you cipher too—along with your reading and writing?†   (source)
  • 'twas certain he could write, and cipher too.†   (source)
  • Much of the dialogue that transpired between Harris and me was eerily similar to the dialogue between Adams and the cipher.†   (source)
  • Johnny-his real name was a code of digits, letters, and cipher bands longer than my arm-was a cybrid.†   (source)
  • But something was wrong with the order of the words and he couldn't describe or cipher it to save his life.†   (source)
  • "I can't cipher it.†   (source)
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  • They were written in a strange cipher which no one had been able to break: it had taken him less than an hour to crack the code no one had realized that Leonardo had written his diaries not only in code, but in mirror image.†   (source)
  • At this point the announcer read out a list of figures and letters of the alphabet in military cipher that fell on civilian ears like a mysterious cabbalistic threat.†   (source)
  • She is not a cipher.†   (source)
  • He looked down at the page of his cipher in Kvothe's neat handwriting.†   (source)
  • Perhaps I might take him on as an apprentice in a year or two, once he's learned to cipher."†   (source)
  • To us, Mr. de Klerk was a cipher.†   (source)
  • A cipher of some kind.†   (source)
  • Why in the world you'll pike out and go to work in a cotton mill is more than I can cipher.†   (source)
  • There was so much he didn't know about her—in many ways she remained a cipher to him.†   (source)
  • He had written it in Sanskrit, which was his mother tongue, and he had encoded the even lines in the private cipher of the Emperor Augustus and the odd ones in a Lacedemonian military code.†   (source)
  • The first items taken off were her cipher books and machines.†   (source)
  • He used to come home and get undressed, Jimmy, and pieces of paper would fall out of his clothes, scraps of paper, bets in code, his own scrawled cipher of people's names, horses' names, teams and odds and sums of money.†   (source)
  • Brunet was skeptical—Luis rarely spoke and was a bit of a cipher—but when he whipped together a ham-and-cheese omelet, Brunet was impressed.†   (source)
  • What the oblique reference could possibly mean was beyond him, but then so was every cipher at first glance.†   (source)
  • Yet the whole time he had been secretly corresponding with the British in cipher, and was in their pay.†   (source)
  • You play cipher with me, I'll deep-six you still breathing a hundred miles off Hatteras in a torpedo casing.†   (source)
  • Even Bram's most mundane ledgers and notes were treasured documents, meticulously preserved and jealously guarded by scholars who spent lifetimes scrutinizing them in the hope of some veiled cipher or insight.†   (source)
  • I mean, you're a blank, a cipher.†   (source)
  • As for ignorance, well, I have seen black servants in America and the Indies who have been taught to read and cipher and speak English, Spanish, and French as well as any whiteman.†   (source)
  • Civil War Times, which originally published his findings about the cipher messages, later denounced him.†   (source)
  • You'll read and write and cipher.†   (source)
  • Cipher and all.†   (source)
  • Mike broke his cipher patterns and deduced time-change program just to try legs.†   (source)
  • Almost as quickly as Napoleon's original letter reached the King, Robespierre would have this ciphered letter in his hands.†   (source)
  • Under the indifferent eye of the Nazi Moloch he was another doomed cipher.†   (source)
  • And only that one is left alive who should have been killed, whom I tried to kill and missed, that stranger who had nothing, in common with me, that complete cipher who turned my life into a chain of crimes beyond my knowing.†   (source)
  • Apart from that he was a cipher in the house, and knew it.†   (source)
  • "Fumbled my cipher," Wilem said sullenly.†   (source)
  • This time, although he couldn't cipher but one word, he believed he knew who spoke them.†   (source)
  • "You're wrong," Langdon fired back, picturing the simplistic cipher.†   (source)
  • The Atbash Cipher had indeed been part of Sophie's early cryptology training.†   (source)
  • You think of her when you should be trying to memorize your cipher?'†   (source)
  • His eyes moved again to the Masonic cipher.†   (source)
  • The cipher revealed that Sheshach was in fact a code word for another very well-known city.†   (source)
  • Bellamy ran a finger across the Masonic cipher on the stone.†   (source)
  • My dear, this is where the Atbash Cipher comes into play†   (source)
  • The engraving is indeed the Masonic cipher.†   (source)
  • The Atbash Cipher is one of the oldest codes known to man.†   (source)
  • "The only problem," Langdon said, "is that we don't have anything on which to apply the cipher."†   (source)
  • "Your keyword document," Rick said, "is some cipher-punks rambling about Kryptos."†   (source)
  • His decryption of the Masonic cipher had rendered a seemingly meaningless grid of letters.†   (source)
  • The Priory certainly would include the Atbash Cipher as part of their teachings.†   (source)
  • Langdon accepted the pencil from Bellamy and tapped it on his chin as he studied the cipher.†   (source)
  • Finally, a scholar applied the Atbash Cipher to the word, and his results were mind-numbing.†   (source)
  • Four of the dispatches were in cipher and it would be several days before they were decoded.†   (source)
  • And who gave her the authority to teach blacks, male or female, to read, write, and cipher?†   (source)
  • A cipher can be incredibly subtle, especially with help of a computer.†   (source)
  • The signal was actually not a code but a "one-time-pad" cipher.†   (source)
  • Inside was a manila envelope plus four books of cipher keys and missile-targeting coordinates.†   (source)
  • The language was one he had recognized immediately—an encrypted cipher language from the seventeenth century.†   (source)
  • But then I told him about my encounter with Andy Harris and the chilling series of coincidences: I had bumped into Harris about the same time Adams had encountered the cipher, and in about the same place.†   (source)
  • Chronicler nodded solemnly, trying to imagine the mind that could break apart his cipher in a piece of an hour.†   (source)
  • Some sort of cipher?†   (source)
  • Katherine ran her fingers over the engraved Masonic cipher, and Langdon sensed deep emotion churning within her.†   (source)
  • Each block was carved with a symbol, seemingly at random, creating a cipher of unfathomable proportion.†   (source)
  • Then he created a new grid, placing the Masonic cipher's letters in the new order as defined by the sequence in Dürer's magic square.†   (source)
  • A common form of Jewish cryptogram, the Atbash Cipher was a simple substitution code based on the twenty-two-letter Hebrew alphabet.†   (source)
  • He reached in his pocket and pulled out the grid of letters he had written earlier from the Masonic cipher.†   (source)
  • The cipher dated back to 500 B.C. and was now used as a classroom example of a basic rotational substitution scheme.†   (source)
  • And the Atbash Cipher reveals…†   (source)
  • Known as the Freemason's Cipher, this encoded language had been used for private communication among early Masonic brothers.†   (source)
  • Looking at Sophie's substitution matrix, Langdon felt a rising thrill that he imagined must have rivaled the thrill felt by early scholars when they first used the Atbash Cipher to decrypt the now famous Mystery of Sheshach.†   (source)
  • From what Bellamy had said, Langdon now understood that the capstone and pyramid were a "segmented cipher"—a code broken into pieces.†   (source)
  • Many great minds in history had invented cryptologic solutions to the challenge of data protection: Julius Caesar devised a code-writing scheme called the Caesar Box; Mary, Queen of Scots created a transposition cipher and sent secret communiqués from prison; and the brilliant Arab scientist Abu Yusuf Ismail al-Kindi protected his secrets with an ingeniously conceived polyalphabetic substitution cipher.†   (source)
  • Even so, he wanted to ensure he made no mistakes, and so he dutifully put pencil to paper and wrote down the most common decryption key for a Masonic cipher.†   (source)
  • She told the dean about the golden capstone, Albrecht Dürer's magic square, and how it decrypted the sixteen-letter Masonic cipher into the phrase Jeova Sanctus Unus.†   (source)
  • C#50 CHAPTER 50 In a basement office deep inside CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, the same sixteen-character Masonic cipher glowed brightly on a high-definition computer monitor.†   (source)
  • Second, for Sato to suggest that a Masonic cipher was an issue of national security was like her suggesting our nuclear launch codes were encrypted with a Cracker Jack decoder ring.†   (source)
  • Langdon had to admit that after his experiences in Rome and Paris, he'd received a steady flow of requests asking for his help deciphering some of history's great unsolved codes—the Phaistos Disk, the Dorabella Cipher, the mysterious Voynich Manuscript.†   (source)
  • He told her about the stone pyramid, its Masonic cipher, the sealed capstone, and, of course, about Bellamy's claims that this pyramid was in fact the Masonic Pyramid of legend …. a map that revealed the hiding place of a long spiral staircase that led deep into the earth …. down hundreds of feet to a mystical ancient treasure that had been buried in Washington long ago.†   (source)
  • There had been many nights when Max awoke from a dream to find his roommate standing upon the central table, studying the dome's wheeling contents as though they were a puzzle, a cipher containing secrets great and terrible.†   (source)
  • If the role of Vice President made him a political cipher—as it would anyone—he could at least serve faithfully.†   (source)
  • He tried to adjust his dull wits to the new position of affairs; tried to cipher the problem with this amazing new element introduced.†   (source)
  • I'm no code and cipher expert except that a computerman learns principles during study of information theory.†   (source)
  • Atlantic Fleet Communications In Norfolk the first line of the dispatch revealed the page and line of the one-time-pad cipher sequence, which was recorded on computer tape in the maximum security section of the communications complex.†   (source)
  • Or anything, as cipher signals were buried in it to permit anything to be said that had not been anticipated.†   (source)
  • A cipher is a mathematical pattern under which one letter substitutes for another, simplest being one in which alphabet is merely scrambled.†   (source)
  • …SHIPS" BROADCAST WAS MADE BY REDFLEET HEADQUARTERS CENTRAL COMMO STATION TULA AND SATELLITES THREE AND FIVE XX BANDS USED: HF VHF UHF XX MESSAGE DURATION 39 SECONDS WITH 2 REPEATS IDENTICAL CONTENT MADE AT 091000Z AND 092000Z XX 475 5-ELEMENT CIPHER GROUPS XX SIGNAL COVERAGE AS FOLLOWS: NORTHERN FLEET AREA BALTIC FLEET AREA AND MED SQUADRON AREA XX NOTE FAR EAST FLEET NOT REPEAT NOT AFFECTED BY THIS BROADCAST XX NUMEROUS ACKNOWLEDGMENT SIGNALS EMANATED FROM ADDRESSES IN AREAS CITED…†   (source)
  • Later it was logic: a delay in recall of a week might be a power failure, a few weeks could be a technical difficulty— but months on months was cosmic disaster; each day added a cipher to the infinitesimal probability that they would ever be in touch again.†   (source)
  • He's a cipher.†   (source)
  • The duke says: "Leave me alone to cipher out a way so we can run in the daytime if we want to.†   (source)
  • 'I thought they were written in cipher,' I said.†   (source)
  • ] Tell him to have this sent off in cipher at once.†   (source)
  • But three of the number can read: none write or cipher.†   (source)
  • He seemed to her paltry, weak, a cipher—in a word, a poor thing in every way.†   (source)
  • It is the highest emblem in the cipher of the world.†   (source)
  • He went to school at the age of forty, and learned to read, to write, to cipher.†   (source)
  • First of all we must find out the key to this cipher; that cannot be difficult.†   (source)
  • But, with the cipher now before us, all difficulty was removed by the signature.†   (source)
  • Whoever possesses the key of this cipher will read it with fluency.†   (source)
  • Now the scent bag of white satin, on which her cipher is embroidered in pearls.†   (source)
  • [1] In the cipher, AUDAX is written AVDAS, and QUOD and QUEM, HOD and KEN.†   (source)
  • Life had always seemed a peculiarly sacred thing, but here it counted for nothing, was a cipher in the arithmetic of commerce.†   (source)
  • Yes, it looked like cipher.†   (source)
  • ] Well, I shall send a cipher telegram to the Embassy at Vienna, to inquire if there is anything known against her.†   (source)
  • He concluded that a grammar of the required tongue would contain, primarily, a rule, prescription, or clue of the nature of a secret cipher, which, once known, would enable him, by merely applying it, to change at will all words of his own speech into those of the foreign one.†   (source)
  • Anyway, it lays there a long time and gets rusty; and by and by somebody finds an old yellow paper that tells how to find the marks—a paper that's got to be ciphered over about a week because it's mostly signs and hy'roglyphics."†   (source)
  • Had anyone subjected Mme. de Gallardon's conversation to that form of analysis which by noting the relative frequency of its several terms would furnish him with the key to a ciphered message, he would at once have remarked that no expression, not even the commonest forms of speech, occurred in it nearly so often as "at my cousins the Guermantes's,"†   (source)
  • The word came by long-distance telephone in a cipher code, just a little while before each race; and any man who could get the secret had as good as a fortune.†   (source)
  • He had to have his jaunts to Paris; he had to send expensive cables in cipher to Florence about twice a week.†   (source)
  • So the duke said it WAS kind of hard to have to lay roped all day, and he'd cipher out some way to get around it.†   (source)
  • If ever Leonora so much as mentioned in a letter that they had had a woman staying with them—or, if she so much as mentioned a woman's name in a letter to me—off would go a desperate cable in cipher to that poor wretch at Branshaw, commanding him on pain of an instant and horrible disclosure to come over and assure her of his fidelity.†   (source)
  • Fancy a man lugging with him a book of that description into this nowhere and studying it—and making notes—in cipher at that!†   (source)
  • By and by he said he had ciphered out two or three ways, but there warn't no need to decide on any of them yet.†   (source)
  • There was a little one-horse town about three mile down the bend, and after dinner the duke said he had ciphered out his idea about how to run in daylight without it being dangersome for Jim; so he allowed he would go down to the town and fix that thing.†   (source)
  • They were in cipher!†   (source)
  • When he had ciphered it out he told me how we was to do; then we went and waited around the spoon-basket till we see Aunt Sally coming, and then Tom went to counting the spoons and laying them out to one side, and I slid one of them up my sleeve, and Tom says: "Why, Aunt Sally, there ain't but nine spoons YET."†   (source)
  • Benedetto could read, write, and cipher perfectly, for when the fit seized him, he learned more in a day than others in a week.†   (source)
  • My dear boy knows, and will give you to know, that though he come of humble parents, he come of parents that loved him as dear as the best could, and never thought it hardship on themselves to pinch a bit that he might write and cipher beautiful, and I've his books at home to show it!†   (source)
  • Lady Bertram seems more of a cipher now than when he is at home; and nobody else can keep Mrs. Norris in order.†   (source)
  • And some certain significance lurks in all things, else all things are little worth, and the round world itself but an empty cipher, except to sell by the cartload, as they do hills about Boston, to fill up some morass in the Milky Way.†   (source)
  • It had a large black seal, bearing the D— cipher very conspicuously, and was addressed, in a diminutive female hand, to D—, the minister, himself.†   (source)
  • It was a very angular and very lively little mass, imprisoned in its linen sack, stamped with the cipher of Messire Guillaume Chartier, then bishop of Paris, with a head projecting.†   (source)
  • I guess you'll report what you hear and see to the cipher at the Grange; and this thing won't be settled while you linger about it.'†   (source)
  • The other member of his pet organization was allowed the like liberty because he was a cipher in the estimation of the public, and nobody attached any importance to what he thought or did.†   (source)
  • But, at last I began, in a purblind groping way, to read, write, and cipher, on the very smallest scale.†   (source)
  • Most men have learned to read to serve a paltry convenience, as they have learned to cipher in order to keep accounts and not be cheated in trade; but of reading as a noble intellectual exercise they know little or nothing; yet this only is reading, in a high sense, not that which lulls us as a luxury and suffers the nobler faculties to sleep the while, but what we have to stand on tip-toe to read and devote our most alert and wakeful hours to.†   (source)
  • If it had been booked for only a month away, I could have sold it short; but, as matters stood, I couldn't seem to cipher out any way to make it do me any good, so I gave up trying.†   (source)
  • Anne of Austria re-entered her apartment, and came out again almost immediately, holding a rosewood casket in her hand, with her cipher encrusted with gold.†   (source)
  • They must first have the common school to teach them to read, write, and cipher; and they must have higher schools to teach teachers for the common schools.†   (source)
  • Here the seal was large and black, with the D— cipher; there it was small and red, with the ducal arms of the S— family.†   (source)
  • I wondered where they got the word, but there was no time to cipher on philological matters, because the whole knight-errantry hive was just humming now, and my prospect for trade couldn't have been better.†   (source)
  • The general use which may be made of the table is obvious—but, in this particular cipher, we shall only very partially require its aid.†   (source)
  • Napoleon was accustomed to gaze steadily at war; he never added up the heart-rending details, cipher by cipher; ciphers mattered little to him, provided that they furnished the total, victory; he was not alarmed if the beginnings did go astray, since he thought himself the master and the possessor at the end; he knew how to wait, supposing himself to be out of the question, and he treated destiny as his equal: he seemed to say to fate, Thou wilt not dare.†   (source)
  • In the meantime, I stepped to the card-rack took the letter, put it in my pocket, and replaced it by a fac-simile, (so far as regards externals,) which I had carefully prepared at my lodgings—imitating the D— cipher, very readily, by means of a seal formed of bread.†   (source)
  • Yes; but only to take a little rosewood casket, with her cipher upon it, and went out again immediately.†   (source)
  • But I know all about both; and so far as I am concerned, there isn't money enough in the universe to hire me to swing a pickaxe thirty days, but I will do the hardest kind of intellectual work for just as near nothing as you can cipher it down—and I will be satisfied, too.†   (source)
  • Let us refer, for example, to the last instance but one, in which the combination;48 occurs—not far from the end of the cipher.†   (source)
  • He made codes like Justinian, he dictated like Caesar, his conversation was mingled with the lightning-flash of Pascal, with the thunderclap of Tacitus, he made history and he wrote it, his bulletins are Iliads, he combined the cipher of Newton with the metaphor of Mahomet, he left behind him in the East words as great as the pyramids, at Tilsit he taught Emperors majesty, at the Academy of Sciences he replied to Laplace, in the Council of State be held his own against Merlin, he gave…†   (source)
  • A sudden light burst in upon me; these hints alone gave me the first glimpse of the truth; I had discovered the key to the cipher.†   (source)
  • In the present case—indeed in all cases of secret writing—the first question regards the language of the cipher; for the principles of solution, so far, especially, as the more simple ciphers are concerned, depend upon, and are varied by, the genius of the particular idiom.†   (source)
  • So saying, he pulled out his own handkerchief, likewise a very elegant handkerchief, and of fine cambric—though cambric was dear at the period—but a handkerchief without embroidery and without arms, only ornamented with a single cipher, that of its proprietor.†   (source)
  • I used a cipher.†   (source)
  • While d'Artagnan was examining Mme. Bonacieux, and was, as we have said, close to her, he saw on the ground a fine cambric handkerchief, which he picked up, as was his habit, and at the corner of which he recognized the same cipher he had seen on the handkerchief which had nearly caused him and Aramis to cut each other's throat.†   (source)
  • "These two writings are not by the same hand," he said; "the cipher is of later date than the book, an undoubted proof of which I see in a moment.†   (source)
  • These characters, as any one might readily guess, form a cipher—that is to say, they convey a meaning; but then, from what is known of Kidd, I could not suppose him capable of constructing any of the more abstruse cryptographs.†   (source)
  • "Looking now, narrowly, through the cipher for combinations of known characters, we find, not very far from the beginning, this arrangement, 83(88, or egree, which, plainly, is the conclusion of the word 'degree,' and gives us another letter, d, represented by †.†   (source)
  • "This is what is called a cryptogram, or cipher," he said, "in which letters are purposely thrown in confusion, which if properly arranged would reveal their sense.†   (source)
  • I began to say to myself that I was exaggerating the importance of the document; that my uncle would surely not believe in it, that he would set it down as a mere puzzle; that if it came to the worst, we should lay violent hands on him and keep him at home if he thought on venturing on the expedition that, after all, he might himself discover the key of the cipher, and that then I should be clear at the mere expense of my involuntary abstinence.†   (source)
  • The lock was silver, though tarnished from age; at each end were the imperfect remains of handles also of silver, broken perhaps prematurely by some strange violence; and, on the centre of the lid, was a mysterious cipher, in the same metal.†   (source)
  • So into Lykia ' he sent him, charged to bear a deadly cipher, magical marks Proitos engraved and hid in folded tablets.†   (source)
  • When he had read the deadly cipher, changing, he gave his first command: his guest should fight and quell a foaming monster, the Khimaira, of ghastly and inhuman origin, her forepart lionish, her tail a snake s, a she-goat in between.†   (source)
  • [16] It gives its imprimatur to /bark/ (a ship), /cipher/, /siren/, /jail/, /story/, /tire/ and /wagon/, and even advocates /kilogram/ and /omelet/.†   (source)
  • I open my scuttle at night and see the far-sprinkled systems, And all I see multiplied as high as I can cipher edge but the rim of the farther systems.†   (source)
  • I doubt it not——then more, far more; In each old song bequeath'd——in every noble page or text, (Different——something unreck'd before——some unsuspected author,) In every object, mountain, tree, and star——in every birth and life, As part of each——evolv'd from each——meaning, behind the ostent, A mystic cipher waits infolded.†   (source)
  • …see, dance, laugh, sing; As the hugging and loving bed-fellow sleeps at my side through the night, and withdraws at the peep of the day with stealthy tread, Leaving me baskets cover'd with white towels swelling the house with their plenty, Shall I postpone my acceptation and realization and scream at my eyes, That they turn from gazing after and down the road, And forthwith cipher and show me to a cent, Exactly the value of one and exactly the value of two, and which is ahead?†   (source)
  • Shakspere-Bacon's Cipher I doubt it not—then more, far more; In each old song bequeath'd—in every noble page or text, (Different—something unreck'd before—some unsuspected author,) In every object, mountain, tree, and star—in every birth and life, As part of each—evolv'd from each—meaning, behind the ostent, A mystic cipher waits infolded.†   (source)
  • Which I take to be either a fool or a cipher.†   (source)
  • SIR P: Why, the meat was cut So like his character, and so laid, as he Must easily read the cipher.†   (source)
  • My henchmen, lead me hence, away, away, A cipher, less than nothing; no delay!†   (source)
  • [Aside] To prove you a cipher.†   (source)
  • Why, every fault's condemn'd ere it be done; Mine were the very cipher of a function, To find the faults whose fine stands in record, And let go by the actor.†   (source)
  • Nine changes of the watery star hath been The shepherd's note since we have left our throne Without a burden: time as long again Would be fill'd up, my brother, with our thanks; And yet we should, for perpetuity, Go hence in debt: and therefore, like a cipher, Yet standing in rich place, I multiply With one we-thank-you many thousands more That go before it.†   (source)
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