Handbook of Heraldry;= with instructions for Tracing Pedigrees and Deciphering Ancient MSS.
But after a minute or two, he recovered his composure sufficiently to begin deciphering the crabbed writing, which constant practice and familiarity with the system enabled him to do immediately, without even referring to the key.
Then, more tranquillised, he continues deciphering the chirography of his companion to the end; when a second shout terminates the effort.
If found to be justified by the facts, they will furnish some additional aid in the work of deciphering these manuscripts.
The direction in which it is to be read must of course be determined before any progress can be made in deciphering it.
But all this can only be cleared up after further progress has been made in deciphering the manuscript.
The lack of any satisfactory key to assist us in deciphering them makes it exceedingly difficult to decide how far this change had progressed.
He was a very successful excavator, and described his work brilliantly, but he was no great linguist, and most of the deciphering of the inscriptions was done by Sir H.
The squire could not read it all at once, and was enough put out to decline any assistance in deciphering it.
She had no great facility for understanding sarcasm; it is true it disturbed her, but as she was not quick atdeciphering any depth of meaning, and felt it to be unpleasant to think about it, she forgot it as soon as possible.
But imagine the Bible silent on the subject, and that the fact was first brought to light in deciphering Egyptian hieroglyphics in the nineteenth century; who could hesitate to admit its truth because omitted in the Pentateuch?
He acted as private secretary to several of the royalist leaders, and was afterwards engaged as private secretary to the Queen, in ciphering and deciphering the correspondence which passed between her and Charles I.
Let us mount guard over Zouche until he has got through his task of deciphering the documents.
In deciphering the stone it would, therefore, be as correct in principle to take one of its oval and one of its round figures, call them egg and apple, and make them the symbols of eternity.
Before any advance can be made in thedeciphering of the hieroglyphic inscriptions, it is necessary to know in what directions, along what lines or columns, the verbal sense proceeds.
It is to be noticed how checks on the accuracy of anydeciphering of hieroglyphs occur at every point, if we will only use them.
Though the question was addressed very pointedly, the boy never heard it, but sat deeply engaged indeciphering a very jagged handwriting in a letter before him.
This made the problem of deciphering Persian inscriptions a relatively easy one.
It is said that the deciphering of the American hieroglyphics is a rather desperate enterprise, because we have no Rosetta stone with a bilingual inscription.
No traveller or writer has ever indicated the place where it lay buried, and it is by deciphering the meaning of some hieroglyphics and mural paintings, that we came to a knowledge of the place.
And in that slab we have a clue to the deciphering of the Maya inscriptions,--an American Rosetta stone.
While the dirty customhouse officer is deciphering our passports, in a hole a dog would live in unwillingly, I take out my pencil to mark once more the pleasure I have received from the exquisite scenery of this place.
It consists of a combination of lines and signs, by the aid of which the organist was supposed to be capable of deciphering the intentions of the composer.
Doctor Phyfe was strangely quiet in spite of their quick success in deciphering the language of the Stroids.
What remains to be performed afterward is merely deciphering our own notes.
Now that it has been legally left to you by our friend, and that you have succeeded in deciphering it, I may as well tell you something more concerning it.
Rock's rules for deciphering these three dates may, however, be easily learned, as they are broad and simple.
These letters were removed at a very early date, but the marks they left served for deciphering the words originally placed on the archway.
The inscription on one of the long sides of the stone appears to be the name of the proprietor of the stamp; but the published copy of it presents such irregular lettering, as to defy any certain deciphering of what the name is.
The designation of the collyrium on this fourth side of the Kenchester stone is so very much destroyed as to render the deciphering of it extremely difficult and problematical.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "deciphering" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
