63 collocations for decipher

He has spent long years of labor in deciphering the inscriptions found upon ancient pillars, Egyptian and Arabic, dating five thousand years before Christ.

" Betty broke the seal of her letter and between sobs and laughter deciphered the queer pot-hooks and printed letters with which Miss Moppet had covered the pages.

He put the book into the hands of Zadig, who, thoroughly versed as he was in several languages, could not decipher a single character of it.

Ramond would never be able to decipher my diabolical writing.

She stared, with the factitious interest of one who is very nervously awaiting an encounter, at the titles, and presently deciphered the words, 'Victor Hugo,' on each of the thin volumes.

XIII ATHENAIS In London, about noon of that day, a gentleman whom Lanyard most often thought of by the name of Wertheimer deciphered a code message whose contempt for customary telegraphic brevity was quite characteristic of the sender, indeed a better voucher for his bona fides than the initials appended in place of a signature.

When the mortal mists were gathering fast upon you two, Bishop and Shepherd girlwhen the pavilions of life were closing up their shadowy curtains about youlet us try, through the gigantic glooms, to decipher the flying features of your separate visions.

We have had some difficulty in deciphering your manuscript.

It has not the regular termination of the noun in win, and seems rather verbal in its aspect, and so far as we can decipher its meaning, mon is a syllable having a bad meaning generally, as in monaudud, &c. Edo may possibly be a derivation from ekedo, he speaks. 28th.

He varied this employment in a passing endeavor to decipher sundry signs that obtruded incidentally within range of vision.

At least, I have turned over for you a few grand and strange pages in the book of nature, and taught you, I hope, a key by which to decipher their hieroglyphics.

"He who has deciphered the secret of life and found the answer," says the disenchanted, but harmonious voice of Amiel, "is no longer bound on the great wheel of existence, he has quitted the world of the living.

Because his aim was much less to tell a story than, as he says, "to decipher the man and his nature"; and in deciphering the man, to strike out pregnant and fruitful thoughts on all men.

Interest in the subjects treated of may not be wanting; but the abundant energy is wanting which to the fatigue of consecutive thinking will add the labour of deciphering the language.

He stood behind and to one side of the Director, who was laboriously deciphering some papers through his big horn spectacles.

I have not deciphered all the more difficult passages of the manuscript from which I took this example; but I have ascertained the meaning of all its simple characters, and your inference is certainly correct.

If now we could have deciphered the hieroglyphs of the shadows, we might have avoided this misfortune.

Near by, on other flags, they deciphered other names of honour.

Having had no small experience in deciphering hopeless scribblings, I think I may pronounce this to be better left alone than given in its present confused state.

Mr. Barretier, finding his invention already in the possession of two men eminent for mathematical knowledge, desisted from all inquiries after the longitude, and engaged in an examination of the Egyptian antiquities, which he proposed to free from their present obscurity, by deciphering the hieroglyphicks, and explaining their astronomy; but this design was interrupted by his death.

In this expedition he rendered no services to his country or to civilization, except in the employment of scientific men to decipher the history of Egypt,which showed that he had an enlightened mind.

Many of the coins are old and purseworn, so that it is impossible to decipher either the image or the superscription (Matt.

Every man who has written a book, even the diligent Mr. Whitaker, is in one sense an author; "a book's a book although there's nothing in't;" and every man who can decipher a penny journal is in one sense a reader.

With knitted brows she bent over the manuscript of the "Diagnosis of Sympathy," and having deciphered a line or two, she wrote the words in a fair hand on a broad sheet before her.

Taking one of them up, he examined it attentively, turning it from side to side to endeavour to decipher the half-effaced post-mark.

63 collocations for  decipher