They were in two trunks (made exactly fit for them) that had the first letters of my christian and sirname decyphered upon them with nails; and on the first page of every book was my ordinary motto and name written at length in my own hand. ❋ William Younger Fletcher (1871)
Ably assisted by my mother, whose memory is good, I have decyphered the highly abbreviated key on the reverse, which consists only of surnames. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Hazlitt/Sidgewick: if majoritarianism is your thing (and, if I have decyphered your polemic correctly, it is), what is your view on the "legitimacy" of the states of Syria and Saudi Arabia, for example? ❋ Unknown (2009)
Gone are his earlier claims that specific government actors built an eviction and internment program on specific top-secret decyphered cables. ❋ Unknown (2003)
The light step of Ianthe often accompanied Aubrey in his search after antiquities, and often would the unconscious girl, engaged in the pursuit of a Kashmere butterfly, show the whole beauty of her form, floating as it were upon the wind, to the eager gaze of him, who forgot the letters he had just decyphered upon an almost effaced tablet, in tho contemplation of her sylph-like figure. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Parliament, under the name of ‘The Senate of Lilliput,’ sometimes with feigned denominations of the several speakers, sometimes with denominations formed of the letters of their real names, in the manner of what is called anagram, so that they might easily be decyphered. ❋ Unknown (2004)
As to the first, the book quotes extensively from a handful of decyphered messages the “MAGIC” cables about Japanese efforts to develop some Issei and Nisei as spies for Japan. ❋ Unknown (2004)
The second signal, ordering a boat and specifying the rdv, couldn't have gone in any other way but cypher: it was fully urgent and strictly hush and if the opposition had intercepted and decyphered it they'd have just sent someone down here to the twelve-pile breakwater half a mile north of the Golden Sands Hotel in Telegraph Bay with orders to tread all over my face. ❋ Hall, Adam (1975)
These had been passed on to the B-Dienst code experts to see if they could be decyphered. ❋ Pope, Dudley (1956)
CONC, the c being a well-known ancient form of s, there is a difference of only one letter between the inscription as decyphered and the proposed motto. ❋ Various (N/A)
The Arabic manuscript decyphered and transcribed by me, is inserted in Mr. Bowdich's work, page 480. ❋ Abd Salam Shabeeny (N/A)
There are also, in the same work on Ashantee, several papers decyphered by me, of certain routes in Africa. ❋ Abd Salam Shabeeny (N/A)
MR. THOMPSON COOPER for his decyphered rendering of Sir Ralph Verney's note of a speech or proceeding in parliament. ❋ Various (N/A)
If it be read, there is at least a chance, that the words may be all decyphered, and audibly pronounced, while the ideas contained in them have not yet reached the mind. ❋ James Gall (N/A)
The first lesson, of course, is composed altogether of words new to the child, each of which he must be taught to _read_ by combining the powers of the letters composing it; -- and he must never be allowed to pass on to the following word, till all the previous ones can be correctly and readily decyphered. ❋ James Gall (N/A)
-- This motto is known to be French, and as far as it can be decyphered is -- ❋ Various (N/A)
Strictly speaking this sentence is unnecessary, for we have already seen the anagram decyphered, but the mock-solemn repetition, in which one seems to hear Swifts own voice uttering the words, drives home the idiocy of the activities described, like the final tap to a nail. ❋ Unknown (1946)
What we certainly know to have been done by him in this way, was the Debates in both houses of Parliament, under the name of 'The Senate of Lilliput,' sometimes with feigned denominations of the several speakers, sometimes with denominations formed of the letters of their real names, in the manner of what is called anagram, so that they might easily be decyphered. ❋ Boswell, James, 1740-1795 (1887)
What that book has declared as if with authority, so long ago, she has at last decyphered on the page of nature. ❋ Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd (1862)
By this time (February 5) the intercepted letter of Noailles had been decyphered. ❋ James Anthony Froude (1856)
