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Morse code
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  • In other news, I'm learning Morse code.†   (source)
  • She'd even taught him Morse code as a kind of game, so they could tap messages to each other when they were in different rooms: I love you.†   (source)
  • When the play finishes she lets me fiddle with the knob on the radio and I roam the dial for distant sounds on the shortwave band, strange whispering and hissing, the whoosh of the ocean coming and going and the Morse Code dit dit dit dot.†   (source)
  • Her pencil tapped against her notebook at Morse code—speed and her face was burning red.†   (source)
  • She taps me three times on the forehead with her fingers, like it's some kind of Morse code message.†   (source)
  • As if this were not enigmatic enough, positioned carefully in the area around the encrypted S-wall were numerous other sculptural elements—granite slabs at odd angles, a compass rose, a magnetic lodestone, and even a message in Morse code that referenced "lucid memory" and "shadow forces."†   (source)
  • Lotario Thugut taught him the Morse code and the workings of the telegraph system, and after only a few lessons on the violin Florentino Ariza could play by ear like a professional.†   (source)
  • She could read his heartbeat like it was Morse code.†   (source)
  • They'd play games with each other, waving the rear windshield wiper like a dog wags its tail, flashing headlights in Morse code.†   (source)
  • The sidewalk, uneven, was soon broken up by lawns on the edge of town, a stop-and-start pattern like some sort of Morse code, abandoned for intervals and then gone entirely.†   (source)
  • Marriage and Morse Code .†   (source)
  • I squeezed his fingers, a Morse code to convey what was in my heart.†   (source)
  • He walked briskly, in a Morse code pattern of short dashes and brief stops, with a manner of faint irritation, as if conscious of the number of people whom his displeasure might worry.†   (source)
  • And that voice too we could hear in our bedroom, transmitting from beyond and behind the voices of the adults in the kitchen; just as we could often hear, behind and beyond every voice, the frantic, piercing signalling of morse code.†   (source)
  • You'd think a guy who could start up an outfit of that size and run it—you'd think he'd know Morse code.†   (source)
  • Metal creaked, and Leo could almost imagine the tapping was Morse code: Not the end.†   (source)
  • I think she was trying to talk to me in Morse code.†   (source)
  • "But we leave tomorrow, and we don't even know Morse code!"†   (source)
  • As she read the Morse code, her eyes widened.†   (source)
  • Wang saw that the page was nothing more than a Morse code chart.†   (source)
  • I spelled out a Morse code message using rocks.†   (source)
  • After hanging up, Wang sat in front of his computer and printed out the simple Morse code chart.†   (source)
  • He found himself tapping out a Morse code message on his knee: Love you.†   (source)
  • Afterward Reynie and Kate went into the sitting room to practice their Morse code.†   (source)
  • Spell message in Morse code with rocks, include things attempted.†   (source)
  • If he did wander the shop, they could always keep in touch with Morse code taps.†   (source)
  • It would help if you had practiced your Morse code at all!†   (source)
  • Rusty was not exactly the word for Constance's Morse code, but the boys resisted comment.†   (source)
  • He was using Morse code—just like Leo's mom had taught him years ago.†   (source)
  • Oh, why hadn't she been studying her Morse code?†   (source)
  • The children could send their Morse code messages from this very window.†   (source)
  • Jillson, you don't know Morse code, do you?"†   (source)
  • Okay, fine, George Washington, you can teach me that stinky Morse code.†   (source)
  • It's probing, the fingertips starting to tap out a Morse code of urgency.†   (source)
  • Phoebe tapped on them with the butt of her knife—a complicated series of knocks like Morse code.†   (source)
  • The other thing about a fist is that it reveals itself in even the smallest sample of Morse code.†   (source)
  • Morse code is made up of dots and dashes, each of which has its own prescribed length.†   (source)
  • Festus clicked and clattered in Morse code.†   (source)
  • Predicting divorce, like tracking Morse Code operators, is pattern recognition.†   (source)
  • His teeth chattered like Morse code.†   (source)
  • He'd launch an investigation and end up sending me and Brian and Lori and Maureen off to live with different families, even though we all got good grades and knew Morse code.†   (source)
  • Thank God I don't know Morse code.†   (source)
  • A couple of captives sat on other benches across the compound, hiding their hands from the guards' view and gesturing to each other in Morse code—fists for dots and flat hands for dashes.†   (source)
  • Werner can receive the BBC from the north and propaganda stations from the south; sometimes he manages to snare random flits of Morse code.†   (source)
  • But, like, I don't know Morse code.†   (source)
  • I understood how he felt: I didn't believe in ghosts who used Morse code to communicate with people they'd never liked.†   (source)
  • Wang grabbed the first page as soon as it came out of the laser printer, and, with a pencil, began to match the distance between the peaks with the Morse code chart he took out of his pocket. short-long-long-long-long, short-long-long-long-long, long-long-long-long-long, long-long-long-short-short, long-long-long-short-short-short, short-short-long-long-long, short-long-long-long-long, long-long-long-short-short-short, short-short-short-long-long, long-long-short-short-short.†   (source)
  • To save time, Mindy had taught herself Morse code, so she wouldn't have to look each letter up every morning.†   (source)
  • This time, being very careful while lugging rocks around, I spelled out a Morse code message: "INJURED BACK.†   (source)
  • MINDY READ the Morse code aloud.†   (source)
  • On a normal day, I get up, fold up the bedroom, stack the solar cells, drive four hours, set up the solar cells, unfurl the bedroom, check all my equipment (especially the rover chassis and wheels), then make a Morse code status report for NASA, if I can find enough nearby rocks.†   (source)
  • Why Morse code?†   (source)
  • Kate handed him her flashlight, and in Morse code Sticky flashed their message: We see Mr. B when we see Mr. C. How can this be?†   (source)
  • When the children had studied Morse code until dots and dashes swam in their heads even with their eyes closed, Rhonda called them inside.†   (source)
  • Moments later the two of them were in Mr. Curtain's office, poring over a chart of Morse code, hastily scrawling a transcription of the distant honks.†   (source)
  • Constance was too short to copy over a shoulder, and note passing was much too risky, so at last Reynie had suggested Morse code.†   (source)
  • The others agreed, and Sticky was elected to send the message, he being the quickest with Morse code.†   (source)
  • "Morse code's a little rusty."†   (source)
  • For this we'll use Morse code."†   (source)
  • It was suggested the children study Morse code in the dining room, but the afternoon was so beautiful, and the shady courtyard so inviting, they begged to pack lunches and study outside.†   (source)
  • "Now that you understand your mission and have a good start on your Morse code, Mr. Benedict would like for you to understand better what we're up against."†   (source)
  • Nobody uses Morse code anymore.†   (source)
  • Nor did Sticky, who regretted his outburst, not least because it was imprudent to discuss cheating in the corridor, and even worse to mention Morse code.†   (source)
  • Morse code!†   (source)
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  • Morse code.†   (source)
  • He realized he was doing the Morse code for Hove you, the way he used to do with his mom, which would have been pretty embarrassing if his friends understood Morse code.†   (source)
  • He was using Morse code, just like Leo's mother used to do with him …. and the old man was tapping the same message: I love you.†   (source)
  • Annabeth, you know Morse code?†   (source)
  • One way to understand what Gottman is saying about marriages is to use the analogy of what people in the world of Morse code call a fist.†   (source)
  • They simply end up sounding distinctive, because some part of their personality appears to express itself automatically and unconsciously in the way they work the Morse code keys.†   (source)
  • That is why a marriage can be read and decoded so easily, because some key part of human activity—whether it is something as simple as pounding out a Morse code message or as complex as being married to someone—has an identifiable and stable pattern.†   (source)
  • Morse code is like speech.†   (source)
  • If you come again I shall teach you the Morse code.†   (source)
  • He still remembered the Morse code.†   (source)
  • He stood just inside the door trying to remember what the child had told him - the Morse code, her window: across the dead-white dusty yard the mosquito wire caught the sun.†   (source)
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