1 An immediate interest kindled within me for the unknown Catherine, and I began forthwith to decipher her faded hieroglyphics.
2 First, they can decipher all initial letters into political meanings.
3 Trenor, a little heated by his unusual flow of words, and perhaps by prolonged propinquity with the decanters, was bending over the latter to decipher their silver labels.
4 But there is no Champollion to decipher the Egypt of every man's and every being's face.
5 At first I had neglected them, but now that I was able to decipher the characters in which they were written, I began to study them with diligence.
6 The most sagacious, the calmest, the most profound, decipher slowly, and when they arrive with their text, the task has long been completed; there are already twenty translations on the public place.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—CRACKS BENEATH THE FOUNDATION 7 "Yes, indeed, to you; I succeeded in deciphering your name under the blood with which the letter was stained," replied Monte Cristo, amid the general outburst of amazement.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 96. The Contract. 8 His sisters were gone to Morton in my stead: I sat reading Schiller; he, deciphering his crabbed Oriental scrolls.
9 Holmes and I sat together in silence all the evening, he engaged with a powerful lens deciphering the remains of the original inscription upon a palimpsest, I deep in a recent treatise upon surgery.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In X. THE ADVENTURE OF THE GOLDEN PINCE-NEZ 10 He examined without wrath, and with the eye of a linguist who is deciphering a palimpsest, that portion of chaos which still exists in nature.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIII—WHAT HE BELIEVED 11 While I deciphered it, Steerforth continued to eat and drink.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 28. Mr. MICAWBER'S GAUNTLET 12 Champollion deciphered the wrinkled granite hieroglyphics.
13 When deciphered it said: 'Wood for you.'
14 He deciphered the few lines written by Marius, and muttered: "Gillenormand, Rue des Filles-du Calvaire, No."
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IX—MARIUS PRODUCES ON SOME ONE WHO IS A JUDGE OF ...