Ciphers
[saɪfəz]
Examples
- So there was splendour and wealth, but no great happiness perchance, behind the tall caned portals of Gaunt House with its smoky coronets and ciphers. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- It looks like an exaggeration or as if the typesetter had slipped in several extra ciphers by mistake, does it not? Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- From that hour Fanny and Eliza became ciphers in the sick-room. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Give me an example of your meaning, Wamba,--I know nothing of ciphers or rates of usage, answered the Knight. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
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