Hieroglyphics
[,haɪərə'ɡlɪfɪks]
Examples
- I tried the morning-room, and found him at laSt. There he was at the window, drawing hieroglyphics with his finger in the damp on the glass. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- I looked with amazement at the absurd hieroglyphics upon the paper. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Here is a copy of the hieroglyphics: GRAPHIC Excellent! Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- He took a pen upon the instant, and wrote the following note (in appropriate hieroglyphics) to his brother: Dear Jack,—All up at Coketown. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- But near the instep there is a small circular wafer of paper with the shopman's hieroglyphics upon it. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- These hieroglyphics have evidently a meaning. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- The American civilizations had picture-writing of a primitive sort, but it never developed even to the pitch of the earliest Egyptian hieroglyphics. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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