Philip has been, Sylvie, to give thee thy ciphering lesson; and he stayed awhile, thinking thou'd be coming back.
He then showed Mr. Carter the writing and ciphering lessons of one of the pupils, and asked for aid in procuring copy-books.
Before Aunt Mary had lived with us a month, I loved her beyond any body in the world; and a utilitarian would have been amused in ciphering out the amount of favors which produced this result.
He must be respectable--he keeps a man-servant," said Miss Tomkins to the writing andciphering governess.
The Sailor did not at present aspire to a liberal education, but he remembered that Klondyke had always set great store by ciphering and had taught him to count up to a hundred.
That's jist what I was ciphering at,' says he, 'when you came in.
Now this is what I call 'ciphering' arter human natur', while figures are ciphering arter the 'assistant.
He must be respectable--he keeps a manservant,' said Miss Tomkins to the writing and ciphering governess.
I particularly raged to hear) continually of his affairs, ciphering figures and holding disputation with the tenantry.
Accordingly I made a pretext, had the hour changed at which I taught Mr. Alexander the foundation of cipheringand the mathematic, and set myself instead to dog my master's footsteps.
Some of the scientists, ciphering out the evidence furnished by geology, have arrived at the conviction that the world is prodigiously old.
It hailed facts all day long, so very hard, and life in general was opened to her as such a closely ruled ciphering book, that assuredly she would have run away, but for only one restraint.
In other ships the passengers are always ciphering about when they are going to arrive; out in these seas it is rare, very rare, to hear that subject broached.
When Bays came home, Dic and Rita went into the front room and took their old places on the ciphering log.
After he had gone Sukey went to the ciphering log and sat gazing meditatively into the fire.
Sunday afternoon Dic saw Sukey at church and rode home with her, resting that evening upon her ciphering log.
I hope they have fireplaces andciphering logs, soft, magnetic hands, and eloquent silence in paradise, else the place will surely be a failure.
There was no glorious fireplace in the room, and consequently no cosey ciphering log.
Out of their slaughter grew friendship, and for many years Sir Thomas was a frequent guest upon the ciphering log of Sir Diccon, and Sir Diccon spent many winter evenings on the hearth at Castle Bays.
She would sit by him on the ciphering log during the long winter evenings, and the boy, the girl, and the fire were the best of friends, and had glorious times together on the heart of the cheery hearth.
Finally, he became mixed in the ciphering and grew tired.
Then he takes a fresh sheet of paper and resumes hisciphering and reckoning.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ciphering" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: arithmetic; calculation; casting; computation; estimation; footing; reckoning
