Now, this explanation, trite and meagre as it is, may do very well for the exoteric teaching of the order; but the question at this time is, not how it has been explained by modern lecturers and masonic system-makers, but what was the ancient interpretation of the symbol, and how should it be read as a sacred hieroglyphic in reference to the true philosophic system which constitutes the real essence and character of Freemasonry?

He had worry enough, however, to keep in view the white cross-barred hieroglyphic on his guide's jacket.

He had worry enough, however, to keep in view the white cross-barred hieroglyphic on his guide's jacket.

Yours, for instance, looks for all the world like a tablet of curious hieroglyphics in a gold frame.

p. 202.), has lighted upon a curious specimen of domestic hieroglyphics, the notice of which recalls to mind the quaint marginal symbols scattered over the inventories of the Exchequer Treasury, at a much earlier period.

Ahead, a black, disreputable little steamer lay anchored, her nametwo enormous hieroglyphics painted amidshipsstaring a bilious yellow in the morning sun.

So I can only show you the initial letter, and you may if you choose look upon it as an imaginary hieroglyphic.

"The Japanese, the Tonquinese, and the Corceans, speak different languages from one another, and from the inhabitants of China, but use, with these last people, the same written characters; a proof that the Chinese characters are like hieroglyphics, independent of language.

Some parts, both of this temple and of the larger building at Carnak (sometimes called a palace), have been constructed out of the materials of earlier buildings, as we see from blocks of stone being occasionally placed with inverted hieroglyphics.

He would trace little hieroglyphics with his finger, as if he were writing a word, sweep an argument aside, bring his hands together as though he were shaping something.

So far as she could see, it was covered with dots, dashes, lines, queerly drawn geometrical figuresa mass of meaningless hieroglyphics.

Now the soul understands the wail of the nightingale and the smile of the new-born babe; the significance of the flowers and the mysterious hieroglyphics of the starry sky; the holy import of life as well as the beautiful language of Nature.

Ahead, a black, disreputable little steamer lay anchored, her nametwo enormous hieroglyphics painted amidshipsstaring a bilious yellow in the morning sun.

She had translated its history in her own way, read its quaint nautical hieroglyphics after her own fashion, and possessed herself of its secrets.

When I imitate her gestures, she immediately copies my imitation; thus we have created a mimic language of our own and make each other understand by means of pantomime hieroglyphics.

Let him button it down the sleeve with four elbows, and so make it the pure hieroglyphic of a fool.

The region also abounds with archaeological curiosities and remarkable hieroglyphics.

These pencil-marks are sometimes very emphatic, underscoring or inclosing now a single word, now a phrase, anon a whole sentence or paragraph; and it requires but little skill to decipher, in these rude hieroglyphics, the secret history of her soul for a third of a century one side, at least, of this history.

He sat scribbling his reminiscences by the fire till the night drew on and the fire went out, and still he scribbled, more and more illegibly, until at last the paper was covered with hieroglyphics undecipherable even by M. Chuquet himself.

The Egyptians, who derived their astrological superstitions from the Chaldeans, becoming ignorant of the astronomical hieroglyphics, by degrees looked upon the names of the signs as expressing certain powers with which they were invested, and as indications of their several offices.

Curlydown and Bagwax occupied the same room at the office in St. Martin's-le-Grand; and there it was their fate in life to arrange, inspect, and generally attend to those apparently unintelligible hieroglyphics with which the outside coverings of our correspondence are generally bedaubed.