Only the cryptic dome resisted the rot of time, until a chance thunderbolt and the curiosity of a fisherman lifted from the breast of the god the magic knife and broke the spell.
But her cryptic smiles and glances had fired his blood, and with all the lawless violence which was his heritage he desired that white-skinned golden-haired woman of civilization.
A page of Chinese print gives one the impression that one has lighted upon a series of cryptic puzzles that the inventor has made as intricate and involved as the complex and oblique mind of the Chinese could make them.
Now in China there is nothing done to ease the sorrows of the lads in their grappling with this huge language of cryptic pictures that refuse to have their meanings explored excepting after years of most painful study.
He was perplexed at these cryptic signs and tried to get an explanation.
He now adds after his rank the crypticinitial (G).
The cryptic quotations did not appear to add joy to the outlook.
George returned no answer, but "smoled" a cryptic smile.
They were children of the sun, and this new and cryptic experience in the cold, dark, vaulted chamber quickened their pulses and shortened their breaths.
As my somewhat cryptic rhetoric may not be clear, and appreciating your fondness for words of one syllable, permit me to state that this means you.
That brought the conversation to the subject of slang; and Montague, in a sudden burst of confidence, asked for an interpretation of Miss Price's cryptic utterance.
The doctor murmured something cryptic about her having "no doubt been too busy," and seemed to have nothing further to say.
The two boys, aged about ten and eight, immediately uttered cryptic remarks which Stockton judged were addressed to him.
It turned out that he was calculating its exact height by some cryptic mathematical process which he proceeded to explain.
And in his ear the click and whir and thump of shifting wards and tumblers murmured articulate response in the terms of their cryptic code.
The extreme advocates of the theory of cryptic colouring have greatly exaggerated the degree in which animals are assimilated to their natural environment.
Of the creatures set forth in the middle column of the above tables all are whiter in winter than in summer with the exception of the snow bunting, who sets at naught the theory of cryptic colouring by turning darker in winter!
An animal otherwise able to take care of itself can afford to dispense with cryptic colouration.
In such cases we often witness a combination of cryptic and Aposematic methods, the animal being concealed until disturbed, when it instantly assumes a warning attitude.
We have still to deal with the hypothesis of special cryptic colouring.
Pelagic Organisms The transparency of pelagic organisms is frequently cited as exemplifying cryptic colouring.
We have up to the present considered the theory of general cryptic colouration, which declares that the majority of creatures are so coloured as to be inconspicuous.
Ray read the copy of those cryptic figures upon the scrap of paper found in the railway carriage.
From her pocket she produced a small note book filled with cryptic characters and from it she read solemnly like a recording angel.
She made a quick copy of the letter in the cryptic characters taught her by her father, carefully noting the address and date.
Kerth opened his mouth, as if to speak; shut it; shot Trent a cryptic glance.
Which, Trent reflected later, was a rather cryptic compliment.
A fourth time his eyes traveled over the cryptic lines before he mined their meaning.
A cryptic smile slid across the Grand Lama's eyes; the lids dropped to hide it.
They dragged thecryptic object behind them without particular formation or apparent discipline, but somehow they looked capable.
He had hardly uttered these cryptic words when a pretty young woman opened the door which gave on to the stable-yard from the house: "Dinner-time!
With these cryptic words he slid off the bed, taking with him the large old-fashioned Bible which always lay by Nanna's bedside.
The teacher must here as in all instruction keep constantly in mind that language that is clear and familiar to him may be nothing less than cryptic to the class.
Maps are good; but how much better are charts, especially when you cannot read them except by guessing at their cryptic lettering!
TAM HTAB--what could be the meaning of these cryptic words, and how on earth had they got there?
His speculations recurrently revolved about the oracle chamber and its cryptic occupant.
She hesitated, as if loth to return to that cryptic chamber; then, as he grasped Gwarunga's girdle and dragged him into the alcove, she turned and entered the oracle room.
What cryptic secret was locked in that marvelously molded form?
Without a moment's hesitation, Wu made his way toward the rock in which they had found the slot with its cryptic inscription.
There, alone, he paused for a few minutes to gaze in wonder at the crypticring which had been the net result so far of his efforts to find the millions which Bennett, as the Clutching Hand, had hidden.
He tried half a dozen well-known systems on it and was about to give up in despair when he recalled the "Letter" method of reading cryptic numeral ciphers.
He resolved to go back to the dead cypress and follow the directions of the cryptic message of the captain of the Good Hope.
But the fame of the temple continues as regards the Karanika, which is a cryptic sentence uttered by the priest, containing a prophecy of the prospects of the agricultural season.
The shivering Kuruba utters a cryptic sentence, such as 'Thunder struck the sky.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cryptic" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
