1 Leave me alone to cipher out a way so we can run in the daytime if we want to.
2 So the duke said it was kind of hard to have to lay roped all day, and he'd cipher out some way to get around it.
3 Benedetto could read, write, and cipher perfectly, for when the fit seized him, he learned more in a day than others in a week.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 44. The Vendetta. 4 Connie, who understood nothing at all of the technicalities of motors, and who had had experience of breakdowns, sat patiently on the bank as if she were a cipher.
5 Lady Bertram seems more of a cipher now than when he is at home; and nobody else can keep Mrs. Norris in order.
6 Afterwards he had, to fulfill the prearranged cipher, to fill in any two words in each space.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In V. The Adventure of The "Gloria Scott" 7 He went to school at the age of forty, and learned to read, to write, to cipher.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII—THE INTERIOR OF DESPAIR 8 Anne of Austria re-entered her apartment, and came out again almost immediately, holding a rosewood casket in her hand, with her cipher encrusted with gold.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In 12 GEORGE VILLIERS, DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM 9 But three of the number can read: none write or cipher.
10 But, at last I began, in a purblind groping way, to read, write, and cipher, on the very smallest scale.
11 The word came by long-distance telephone in a cipher code, just a little while before each race; and any man who could get the secret had as good as a fortune.
12 'I thought they were written in cipher,' I said.
13 They must first have the common school to teach them to read, write, and cipher; and they must have higher schools to teach teachers for the common schools.
14 By and by he said he had ciphered out two or three ways, but there warn't no need to decide on any of them yet.
15 Knitting, sewing, reading, writing, ciphering, will be all you will have to teach.