Sorry you’ve had this trip out here for nothing, but you’ll have to go back again if you want to send a cipher message to any ship.
The several Kings who have contributed to this vast structure have never failed to leave their cipher on the work in some form of monogram.
And this is so true, that the samecipher is still to be seen on the corn-market in Paris which Catherine herself had built.
But it is not the less certain that the royal cipher was officially constructed of the initials of the King and the Queen.
Yes, the police have certain knowledge of the fact that you keep up a cipher correspondence with somebody in Brussels.
Still, somehow, I could read, write, and cipher to the rule of three, but that was all.
The latter only consisted of two lines of a meaningless jumble of letters and numerals, but taking a pencil I commenced to write down the equivalent of the cipher in plain English.
The cipher they had given to me in order that I could communicate with them in secret if occasion demanded.
I said nothing, but stood watching her as she took out half a sheet of notepaper and commenced to print three lines of jumbled capitals and numerals--an advertisement apparently in the cipher which I had taken from the dead unknown.
When I did so I found within a scribbled note in cipher written on the paper of the Bear Hotel, at Devizes.
Probably she sent him cipher messages from time to time.
Miss O'Hara, it appeared, had accidentally discovered the cipher hidden behind a heavy wardrobe in one of the bedrooms, and by its means had read my messages and gone to Baker Street and to Dean's Yard out of sheer curiosity.
My curiosity aroused, my eye chanced to fall upon the morning's paper and I took it up and turned to the "agony column," where I saw several cipher advertisements.
Yet I could not admit knowledge of the cipher without also admitting that I was in possession of the key.
In the pockets of the unknown man in Charlton Wood I had found the key to a cipher which he had evidently used to correspond with his friends.
You addressed in cipher a message in an advertisement to someone whom you called `Nello,'" I said.
To me, it seemed plain that he was a member of the gang, for had he not their secret cipher upon him, and did not both Winsloe and Parham possess his photograph?
Fortunately, however, Tibbie had not seen mycipher advertisements.
Therefore I sat at the table, and after half an hour had reduced to the cipher the following announcement,-- "To White Feather.
To the forest the scholars turned for the ever plentiful birch bark, which formed a delightful substitute to cipher on instead of paper.
That she should read and write was certainly satisfactory, and cipher a little; but many girls got on very well without the ciphering, and many, alas!
As a last hope, I dashed off that cipher on the spur of the moment and tucked it into old van U's invoice.
We have found nothing, so far, in that cipher letter to encourage us in applying for any such warrant," he said cruelly.
You see," she continued, opening the portfolio, "here is my copy of this wretched cipher letter.
Was it possible that the Great Secret, of which the Lauffer cipher letter spoke, was locked within the breast of this young fellow who now lay unconscious in the Samaritan Hospital?
Then she began to turn the pages according to the numbers written in her copy of the cipher letter.
The entire cipher is, as we guessed, arbitrary and stupidly capricious.
I read the history of your case in an intercepted cipher letter.
Reference to the dictionary makes the cipher perfectly clear.
He then journeyed through New Hampshire, and, at length arriving at Boston, wrote many letters in cipher to Sir James.
Among such cheerless surroundings many a Vermonter of the old time began his education, which was completed when he had learned to read and write and could cipher to the "rule o' three.
Now write this telegram to our agent at Port Said; send it in cipher and clear the line: Charter at once fast despatch-boat and go personally to meet Admiral de Mello, who with fleet left Laurania midnight 8th instant for Port Said.
Where's that translation of the cipher telegram, Miguel?
Kent-Lauriston to the Secretary, as they were returning to the house about an hour later from a trip to the telegraph office, whither Stanley had gone to send a long message in cipher to his Chief.
Now first (among the documents seized) is the cipher dated Sept.
I am vexed at not getting at the pith of his cipher telegram, all I can see is that 7775 (Zubair’s name) is not in it.
Nubar and Baring; but I never shall have that pleasure, for I do not expect either this journal will ever be given back, or if it is, that I shall be lent the cipher books to decipher them.
The three messengers from Dongola came in with two cipher telegrams from Egerton of same import, not legible, for want of cipher, which Stewart carried off.
The one question of education was, "Can you cipher to the rule of three?
They say he can cipher to the rule of three, whatever that may be.
Mark: the cipher of Carl Eugen of Württemberg under a ducal crown.
The mark on the bottom is the cipher of Duke Carl Eugen, a double “C” under a ducal crown.
It is marked with the royal cipher enclosing the date-letter I, for 1761, and with a branch of foliage, the mark of the painter Jean René Dubois.
But, with the cipher now before us, all difficulty was removed by the signature.
The unexplained corpse lies weltering in its gore in the first paragraph; the inexplicable cipher presents its enigma at the turning of the opening page.
Until I reached my eleventh birthday I did not go to school, being taught to read and write and cipher by my father himself.
A cipher and character so contrived, that one line, without returns and circumflexes, stands for each and every one of the twenty-four letters; and as ready to be made for the one letter as the other.
By noticing the number of lines passed over by this instrument, and comparing the index-hand with the dots, a sufficiently intelligible though certainly complex cipher may be formed.
A particular part of the arms or cipher being used as an index hand, it would then show the precise hour the letter was sent, without the trouble of dating, &c.
By the aid of a cipher (or secret alphabet) placed before him he was copying certain passages from a long sheet full of writing, in a manner quite unintelligible to those who did not possess the key to the system.
On the first sheet he traced some alphabetic signs, part of a cipher known to himself alone.
But, with the ciphernow before us, all difficulty is removed by the signature.
He tore it open and slowly studied the cipher in which the message was written.
We worked out a cipher in order to attempt to communicate secretly with either Sir Ralph Fairfield or Lady Eileen Meredith.
We paid a surprise visit to Grave Street, and, although we were unable to lay our hands on any one of much importance to the investigation, we hit on the cipher with which it was intended to communicate with your friends.
He has given you the key to the cipher which will appear, and then, I suppose, he will tell you how to get it to him.
The police had been able to read the cipher message from Grell, and she assumed correctly enough that they had been more successful than herself in obtaining an early glimpse of the advertisement.
It is a cipher that cannot be unravelled without the key number.
You know how our attempt to communicate bycipher failed.
In the pocket of one of the men we arrested, we discovered two advertisements, worded so as to convey a cipher key without exciting suspicion.
It was simple to get the manager's permission to place one man within, and to get him to direct the clerks to pass through his hands all cipher advertisements for the personal column.
She realised that the cipher was known, and went to the newspaper office to try and stop the insertion of the advertisement that might enable us to find Grell.
I handed over the cipher that we found at Grave Street to Jones, to see if he could make anything out of it.
She had merely delivered a cipheradvertisement over the counter.
He recalled the cipher that had been found at Grave Street, and decided that there was at least room for hope in that direction.
She was followed yesterday to the advertisement offices of the Daily Wire, where she made inquiries respecting a certain cipher advertisement which was to appear in that paper.
If I had a cipher to unravel, I should go to a man who had specialised in them, exactly as I should go to a doctor on a medical question.
That was a weak point with my brother Barbérie, and, after all, it did not add a cipher to the sum-total of the assets.
That truth cannot be denied, and good company we are, though the opinion comes from one who is not a cipher in the party.
A cipher has a double meaning, one clear, and one in which it is said that the meaning is hidden.
From his knowledge of these he was enabled to invent a cipher of his own, or rather to adopt one which he altered somewhat to serve his uses.
He consults Boyle as to spectacles, but fears that he will have to leave off his Diary, since thecipher begins to hurt his eyes.
A man who goes about the world making remarks of that kind, would need a cipher in which to write them down.
Mr. Jefferson showed him the cipher letters of that mysterious and ill-starred adventurer, which convinced Mr. Clay that Burr was certainly a liar, if he was not a traitor.
