| 单词 | undecipherable |
| 例句 | The actual headstone was covered in green and yellow lichen, and so worn and faded as to almost be undecipherable, but the rubbing was clear. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z The medals on his chest caught the light from the spring sun, sending undecipherable signals across the market to them. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The young women in her circle comported themselves in a foreign ritual, undecipherable. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z In the papyrology collection of the Sackler Library at the University of Oxford is the world’s oldest surviving Christian hymn, featuring a form of now undecipherable notation. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z And the godfathers of weird, undecipherable lyrics are Pixies. Pixies and the Surrealist continuum 2017-07-16T04:00:00Z To boot, she did use the phrase “loud and proud” — that’s not exactly an undecipherable code. Civil Behavior: Was Jodie Foster’s ‘Coming Out’ a Step Backward for Gays and Lesbians? 2013-01-22T14:00:00Z In other crucial ways, though, the meaning of Pasolini remains undecipherable, ambiguous, suspended. Pasolini’s Legacy: A Sprawl of Brutality 2012-12-26T23:04:57Z Oramo's mission is to ring the changes so that "the unusual becomes understandable, the difficult becomes easy, and the undecipherable becomes totally clear sunlight." Sakari Oramo's First Night at the Proms 2013-07-10T17:59:00Z Instead, the actor contorts his body and speaks in an almost undecipherable style. Bradley Cooper earns plaudits for 'The Elephant Man' on Broadway 2014-12-08T05:00:00Z Pasolini’s Legacy: A Sprawl of Brutality “It is only at our moment of death that our life, to that point undecipherable, ambiguous, suspended, acquires a meaning.” Pasolini’s Legacy: A Sprawl of Brutality 2012-12-26T23:04:57Z The amplification level means that many of the lyrics are undecipherable to the previously uninitiated. Review: A High School Meltdown Heats Up ‘Be More Chill’ 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z After passing Diaz with a cheesy grin, Badu stopped alongside the Pix 11 reporter and opened up her coat, showed off her colorful shirt, and mouthed an undecipherable phrase. Erykah Badu pranks reporter on live broadcast 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z But the sound system often made those recorded texts undecipherable, lost in the sonic murk. The struggle, the hopeless fury and the joy of life, all captured by Alvin Ailey Dance 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z For those who did, moreover, Mason's European Yiddish accent was undecipherable to Middle Eastern ears. Jackie Mason's thorny career: Once a beacon for Jewish pride, the comedian later turned to bigotry 2021-07-27T04:00:00Z But they are largely undecipherable to people not educated in the West African Islamic tradition. Your Wednesday Briefing: Extreme Heat Grips China 2022-07-12T04:00:00Z For the most part they are undecipherable to people not educated in the West African Islamic tradition — those unable to read Arabic as well as African languages written in modified Arabic script, known as Ajami. In West Africa and Beyond, Mali’s Famed Manuscripts Are Put to Use 2022-07-12T04:00:00Z When you find an item, the usual text box identifying it may include a series of undecipherable characters. Tunic is a Zelda-style adventure that rekindled my love of strategy guides 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z This sentence reads smoothly enough today, but back before March 2020, it would have been mostly undecipherable. Opinion | The pandemic has scarred our language 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z The president attempted to answer a question about immigration, but the White House aides talked over his answer, rendering it undecipherable. Skirmishes between White House, reporters contradict Biden’s pledge to respect the press 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z White House aides late Tuesday shouted down reporters’ questions to President Biden and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson during an Oval Office meeting, leaving the president’s answer to an immigration question undecipherable. White House aides shout down questions during Biden-Johnson meeting 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z It is more artful than helpful, and in some places, completely undecipherable, according to a report that will be released Thursday by the FDR Memorial Legacy Committee. Perspective | A disabled president’s memorial still isn’t fully accessible to disabled visitors, a new report finds 2021-05-19T04:00:00Z New technology necessitated an expansion of the rule book, to the point that trying to define a simple act such as a catch is rendered undecipherable. Analysis | Game 5 umpire controversy raises a question: Should MLB use an electronic system to make calls? 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z Guterson refuses “to intimate clarity where none indeed exists ….” Either way, this poem alludes to our fear of the undecipherable. With a new Northwest-set book, David Guterson meditates on uncertainty, time, primal fears 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z Election security advocates raised concerns about the equipment marketed by Omaha, Nebraska-based Election Systems & Software because while it prints a paper ballot for voters to check, what tabulating machines actually read are undecipherable bar codes. North Carolina hearing set to consider voting machines 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z Somewhere along the line you probably clicked “accept” to 25m undecipherable terms and conditions the company knew full well you weren’t going to read, let alone understand. Is 2019 the year you should finally quit Facebook? | Arwa Mahdawi 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z From stadiums across Russia, pitchside advertising displays, beamed worldwide on television, carry many messages in Mandarin, undecipherable to most viewers, and unfamiliar Chinese logos leavening a diet of German sportswear and American soft drinks. China's World Cup one day? It's already here 2018-07-04T04:00:00Z Others display undecipherable legends of icons signifying their sustainable attributes. Analysis | One way to make sure workers weren’t abused while making your clothes 2017-08-24T04:00:00Z Other "undecipherable graffiti" was found written in silver paint on a nearby sign directing tourists to the Smithsonian Institution on Washington's National Mall public park. Lincoln Memorial vandalised with profanity in Washington DC - BBC News 2017-08-15T04:00:00Z Why tolerate aiding and abetting their operations with undecipherable communications? Apple Is Said to Be Trying to Make It Harder to Hack iPhones 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z And when they speak, the conversation can be heavy in jargon undecipherable to most people over the age of 40. Marketing to millennials, Los Angeles Football Club looking to stand apart 2015-09-14T04:00:00Z That band, formed in El Paso, Texas, played on the smaller Constellation Room stage wearing what appeared to be black burkas and bellowing undecipherable lines amid grunting and frenzied distortion. Sonic chaos rules at Berserktown II experimental festival in Santa Ana 2015-08-18T04:00:00Z “I’m the biological mother. She’s the surrogate. They took him away from me,” she shouted, before saying something undecipherable. Colorado theater shooting judge holds woman in contempt 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z “Upon their return last December, the once undecipherable Chinese characters are legible again.” Deadwood archivists work to understand Chinese artifacts 2015-03-01T05:00:00Z And yet Alan Turing, a math professor and puzzle enthusiast, assembled a ragtag group of British wonks to decipher the undecipherable. Graham Moore, ‘Imitation Game’ screenwriter, on codebreaker Alan Turing 2014-12-14T05:00:00Z One newspaper editor remembered that one of his stories sent by telegram ran into "22 sheets of paper with many undecipherable words and took three hours to retype" on the editorial desk. In pictures: India's dying telegram service 2013-06-17T02:34:39Z The family, from Hockley, said they were only given an "undecipherable" piece of paper with details of what the injection contained. Parents' plea over death of girl, 8 2013-05-14T18:21:41Z I looked down at the leaves and discovered a cavernous intricacy of the most delicate green lights and shadows, pulsing with undecipherable mystery.” This Is Your Brain on Drugs 2012-05-15T11:45:00.207Z The early registers still exist in Stationers' Hall, near Paternoster Row, London, in quaint and almost undecipherable chirography, and some of them have been reissued in facsimile. Copyright: Its History and Its Law 2012-04-23T02:00:25.937Z He looked at her sharply, but the fire was not yet kindled; and in the gloaming her face was a pale blot undecipherable. Historical Romances: Under the Red Robe, Count Hannibal, A Gentleman of France 2012-03-15T02:00:24.837Z Thus473 far, the inscriptions have been ascertained to be in threefold characters, of which two are as yet undecipherable. Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume I (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. 2012-01-02T03:00:25.873Z And if you've learned to touch type, the chances are that your first efforts were slow and undecipherable. Celebrate Your Mistakes; You'll Learn 2011-12-29T20:00:00Z Accordingly, four signatures were generously appended to the mass of undecipherable hieroglyphics, without any attempt on our part to examine the accounts, which by this act we formally accepted. The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First 2011-12-12T03:00:27.507Z There was a tiny shop on the right near the top of the long street, which bore the magic name on its front in letters so faded as to be almost undecipherable. The Sailor 2011-12-03T03:00:11.697Z She lifted the little decorated programme hanging from her fan and studied it, wrinkling her pretty brows over the undecipherable initials which defaced its page. Coelebs The Love Story of a Bachelor 2011-08-31T02:01:28.960Z A subtle, undecipherable telegraphy was in that clinging gaze. Masterman and Son 2011-08-23T02:00:35.033Z We get a monthly, sometimes undecipherable, bill, and that’s the extent of our communications with the power provider or even our understanding of our own power usage. The eBay of Electricity 2011-08-09T12:53:24Z At the end is a memorandum giving the dates when the book was read "in Cornwall at," and then follow two words, the second of which is "Lake," but the first is undecipherable. The Mystery of Francis Bacon 2011-07-09T02:00:14.663Z There are other conductors who do not even try to solve the problem confronting them, and simply transcribe such music into undecipherable nonsense, which they try to conceal under violent gesticulations. An Autobiography 2011-05-21T02:00:10.850Z Many others were scattered about, almost undecipherable, with marginal notes and corrections in his father’s handwriting. Mysterious Mr. Sabin 2011-03-24T02:00:10.087Z Its hundreds of pages are closely covered with a minute handwriting, and the ink with which they were traced has faded to a yellowish brown, indistinct in places, but never quite undecipherable. The Letters of the Duke of Wellington to Miss J. 1834-1851 Edited by Extracts from the Diary of the Latter 2011-03-10T03:00:53.010Z She tried to read in his face how much he knew, but Waldemar's features were undecipherable as ever. Under a Charm, Vol. II. (of III) A Novel 2011-02-14T03:00:34.173Z Their coach, Mike Tomlin, meanwhile, has crafted himself an almost undecipherable reputation by staying as low-key as humanly possible, writes Elizabeth Merrill on ESPN.com. The Fifth Down: Leading Off: How Is the N.F.L. in Dire Straits? 2011-02-04T15:51:35Z She uttered in her movements a language that she read, but a language for the majority at present undecipherable. The Promise of Air 2011-02-02T03:00:23.997Z He drew from his pocket the crumpled, damp piece of paper on which the ink had run into patches and blotches, and which had become almost undecipherable now. Lord Tony's Wife An Adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel 2011-01-31T03:00:13.650Z Kindness or meanness, brightness or dullness, pluck or timidity, were absolutely undecipherable in that physically perfect countenance. The Sick-a-Bed Lady And Also Hickory Dock, The Very Tired Girl, The Happy-Day, Something That Happened in October, The Amateur Lover, Heart of The City, The Pink Sash, Woman's Only Business 2011-01-04T03:01:00.723Z He remarks that what precedes is “incomplete and undecipherable.” Notice of Runic Inscriptions Discovered during Recent Excavations in the Orkneys 2011-01-03T03:01:08.433Z Coach Raymond Domenech, never interested in being popular, was controversially left in charge after that flop and has kept annoying people with his trademark mix of undecipherable comments and dry remarks. Country of love close hearts to dull France side 2010-06-07T14:07:00Z They consist of letters without addresses, letters addressed in undecipherable caligraphy, letters for people dead, gone away, and not known; parcels of poultry and game without name of sender or addressee. The Bristol Royal Mail Post, Telegraph, and Telephone But my clerks are well paid to do nothing else but copy; and really at times, either from hurry or carelessness, their stuff is almost undecipherable. By Birth a Lady He pointed excitedly to a vessel lying near us—a ship with an undecipherable name in the Greek character. The Ship Dwellers A Story of a Happy Cruise That muffled, drum-like thud, coming nearer and nearer towards him out of the quiet distance, had some connection—undecipherable as yet—with the curious, dry, rattling sound belonging to the Wave. The Wave An Egyptian Aftermath The main branch climbed the hill diagonally to the right and conveyed a sense of adventure with a milestone which said fifty miles to an undecipherable town. Sinister Street, vol. 2 The inscription above her head, seems to be confused and undecipherable. The Strife of the Roses and Days of the Tudors in the West At many of the places the main things to be seen were the totem poles stuck up in front of the Indian huts—poles of wood, curiously carved with hideous-looking images and undecipherable hieroglyphics. To Alaska for Gold The Fortune Hunters of the Yukon And the woman, clasping in her bosom a tiny satin bag containing a common yellow telegraph blank on which are written a few now undecipherable words, looks dry-eyed into the night and wonders. The Song of the Wolf The house was a gloomy one, without adornment of any kind except an arched porch, over which was chiselled some motto, or emblem, that had become undecipherable from age. Marguerite De Roberval A Romance of the Days of Jacques Cartier The paper with the blanks filled in was so smeared from long moisture that the written parts were undecipherable. Roy Blakeley in the Haunted Camp On a part of our life’s map there lies a roseate, undecipherable haze, and that is all. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 13 (of 25) Then one, directed in another hand, a man's, but with the same postmarks, both of 1808, with the months undecipherable. When Ghost Meets Ghost Otto paused on the margin, looking about him with delight; then his glance returned to Seraphina, as she stood framed in that silvan pleasantness and looking at her husband with undecipherable eyes. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 7 (of 25) A colloquial ephemeralism in a city may be undecipherable in the country districts twenty-five miles away. News Writing The Gathering , Handling and Writing of News Stories This has been very interesting, but is grievously defaced, four of its figures being entirely broken away, and the character of two others quite undecipherable. The Stones of Venice, Volume II (of 3), On one stamp I made out an initial C; upon a second I got as far as CH; beyond which point the postmark used was in every instance undecipherable. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 13 (of 25) I had taken up a bowl, and was in the act of throwing it, when, suddenly, on the empty space in front of me I saw a shadow, a nodding, waving, impenetrable, undecipherable shadow. Byways of Ghost-Land To most of us the Bible has long been a work of profound mystery, cryptical, undecipherable. Carmen Ariza They hopped from Xbox to Xbox until they found one that was connected to the Internet, then they injected their material as undecipherable, encrypted data. Little Brother The technical discussion the old 270 man skipped; it was undecipherable to him and enough that Young Denny was hailed as a certain winner. Once to Every Man A decaying door was marked, in faded, almost undecipherable letters, "Emergency Stairs." When the Sleepers Woke He found that the writing had been preserved wonderfully well although, as he learned later, many of the words were so misspelled or poorly written as to be undecipherable. The Web of the Golden Spider He would approach the Gospels, not as books of almost undecipherable mystery, not as the biography of the blessed Virgin, but as containing the highest human interpretation of truth and its relation to mankind. Carmen Ariza He tried to scrawl a few lines on a piece of paper, but the writing was quite undecipherable. The Manor House School So he worked hard at his tasks, relocated boundaries, marked them with a peculiar blaze in convenient trees which looked something like this: 160 and set up monuments with odd and undecipherable hieroglyphics upon them. Tharon of Lost Valley I wonder if others observe that all infants have the same scent—pure, simple, undecipherable as their dormant personality. The World I Live In It was a piece torn evidently from a paper bag and on it was scrawled in big, almost undecipherable characters. The Boy Chums in the Forest or Hunting for Plume Birds in the Florida Everglades My knowledge of your movements up to the time that I left France was based upon those two or three brief communications, partially undecipherable, with which you have favoured me during the past six months. The Orchard of Tears The words broke off: the rest was undecipherable. Jewish Fairy Tales and Legends A few weeks would make no difference, but only prolong those delightful and undecipherable sensations to which he now yielded luxuriously. The Rapids The howling was as undecipherable as the cries of a forlorn child. An Apostate: Nawin of Thais From my derivation, therefore, I am a pretty fair illustration of the mix-up of bloods which seems destined to bring forth some new and yet undecipherable combination on the North American continent. From Sail to Steam, Recollections of Naval Life Just above the inscription by Prince there is a line or two of writing, marked over in ink so carefully as to be wholly undecipherable. Bradford's History of 'Plimoth Plantation' From the Original Manuscript. With a Report of the Proceedings Incident to the Return of the Manuscript to Massachusetts Incredible as it may seem, his general chart of the North and South Pacific was thirty years old, and was so torn, stained and greasy as to be all but undecipherable. The Call Of The South 1908 Leaf by leaf the pile grew; pointing to this mass of undecipherable scrawls, he would say: "Ah! when I appear before my judges, I will inundate them with light." The Gods are Athirst Weren't those first images, he asked himself, undecipherable, waxy smudges on discarded paper that had been wrapped over meat? An Apostate: Nawin of Thais To think of finding a piece of old yellow parchment with a quite undecipherable cryptogram written on it in invisible ink telling us just where we ought to dig! Our Pirate Hoard 1891 Its text being undecipherable, the precious pages of the manuscript were cut up, to serve as amulets. Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery With resources such as these, the future did not present itself in dark colours to Anastasia; nor did its riddle appear to her nearly so undecipherable as Mr Westray had supposed. The Nebuly Coat I suggest to some of our disciples that they look into the matter of messages upon pigeons, of course attributed to earthly owners, but said to be undecipherable. The Book of the Damned He picked up some of the bits and saw they had been written on in pencil, but the words or parts of words were undecipherable. The Rover Boys on the Farm or Last Days at Putnam Hall I am sorry, for Susan's sake, that it is neither invisible nor undecipherable; but I think that for practical purposes visible ink and readable English are more useful. Our Pirate Hoard 1891 Meanwhile his companion, apparently wholly oblivious of the frigidity of his companion's manner, sat with his hat pulled over his eyes, and his face as undecipherable as the riddle of the Sphinx. Flint His Faults, His Friendships and His Fortunes One great town after another appeared, and was left behind as they roared through the stations, seeing nothing but a blur of white faces and undecipherable letters upon a board. Pixie O'Shaughnessy There was no mark or initials, save an undecipherable monogram. A Little Girl in Old Detroit Imagine me hawking around a wretched manuscript from publisher to publisher, until it was tattered, yellow, and undecipherable. My New Curate These tragic or pathetic notes all went out of the window and mingled with the undecipherable concert of Paris, so that no neighbour was disturbed by them. The Tragic Muse The heart of a woman is no undecipherable palimpsest for the successive register of fleeting impressions. The Ordeal A Mountain Romance of Tennessee The sign had become dingy, was almost undecipherable, as if it had anticipated the end of its usefulness. One Woman's Life The effect produced on her by his question, though undecipherable, was extraordinary. The Fruit of the Tree Perhaps some of those undecipherable hieroglyphs of the East are not so unintelligible to you now as they would be if translated. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 1, January 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy He remembered, too, how seven months after that first meeting Stimson of the Central Office had brought her to Headquarters, fresh from Paris, involved in some undecipherable way in an Aix-les-Bains diamond robbery. Never-Fail Blake There is a very pretty Invitation to Youth, the refrain of which, though partly undecipherable, seems to indicate an Italian origin. Wine, Women, and Song Mediaeval Latin Students' songs; Now first translated into English verse Hamilton's object from the beginning, was to throw them into forms which should be utterly undecipherable. Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 3 The Wisdom of that old spiritual system has vanished from the world, only a degraded literalism left of its undecipherable language. Four Weird Tales Mammals and birds, reptiles, amphibians, fishes, die out successively in the past; and barren sediments ultimately succeed, leaving the first beginnings of life undecipherable. The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays "Rachel," he began almost helplessly, "I am beyond extrication in debt to thee—thou golden, thou undecipherable mystery!" The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt It was at first undecipherable, and then, the text conquered, not easy for her to comprehend. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 84, October, 1864 He looked at her sharply, but the fire was not yet kindled; and in the gloaming her face was a pale blot undecipherable. Count Hannibal A Romance of the Court of France It was in the days of my apprenticeship, and I had been exceedingly foolish in taking a few notes, which, although undecipherable, perhaps would none the less be used as evidence against me. My Adventures as a Spy He was so careless with his handwriting that some of his letters are undecipherable in part, to this day. Beethoven A pair of decoy birds, tame and unfettered, stood near her, craning their small heads, puzzled at the movement of the boat which was undecipherable since they were motionless. The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt I had walked on some distance from the post-office as I read this, for Mr. ——'s chirography was almost undecipherable, even to one accustomed to it. A Village Ophelia and Other Stories The Oriental words and phrases are, in several instances, very incorrectly printed; but whether the fault rests with the colonel's "undecipherable" MS., or the correctors of the press, it is not for us to decide. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 341, March, 1844 It was old and battered and covered with the undecipherable carvings of his predecessors, but at once he loved it. The Dark House The signs of those times which brought forth Emerson are not wholly undecipherable. Emerson and Other Essays G.J. waited, powerfully impressed, incapable of any direct action, gazing blankly now at the women and now at the huge undecipherable heaven and earth, and receiving the chill zephyr on his face. The Pretty Lady From a political point of view, his writing about gold, not very intelligible in itself, and now become undecipherable, was but a smear, and gave no handle to the enemy. The Man Who Laughs For dye, he says they would boil wild indigo, poke berries, walnuts and some tree for which he has an undecipherable name. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Florida Narratives And the FORM, meanwhile, limned in the wonder of an undecipherable or at least untranslatable geometry, silently roaring, enthroned in the undiscoverable colors beyond the spectrum, swept towards them as he spoke. The Human Chord The Swede glanced up sharply at me, an undecipherable expression on his face, and began clambering down the bank. The Willows The church has few interesting details, but the magnificent lectern with its undecipherable inscription and a couple of brasses will be noticed. Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter "My shorthand is, I think, quite undecipherable; it has been so made intentionally with a view to secrecy." The Red Thumb Mark In this event the opponent endeavours to render the communications undecipherable to one and all by what is known as "jambing." Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War Faint streamers from the dark, inscrutable house of fear reached him even then and left their vague, undecipherable signatures upon the surface of his soul. The Human Chord To some people the world of men is a confused and undecipherable puzzle. Appreciations of Richard Harding Davis Otto paused on the margin, looking about him with delight; then his glance returned to Seraphina, as she stood framed in that silvan pleasantness and looking at her husband with undecipherable eyes. Prince Otto, a Romance In its midst was a bronze escutcheon, bearing an undecipherable monogram and a Latin motto. The Octopus : A story of California The result is that messages become blurred and undecipherable. Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War The priest looked at him very earnestly, but with a baffling and undecipherable face. The Wisdom of Father Brown It renders a conventional code absolutely undecipherable as long as it is skilfully worded, as it is in this case. The Yellow Streak In the end a dog walks about as startling and undecipherable as Leviathan or Croquemitaine. Alarms and Discursions The poem concludes by leaving as an answer to the awful question, "can there be final salvation for the poor wretch?" a reply undecipherable by man, and dawn breaking in angry splendour. The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson It is undecipherable to you, yet it possesses in its sheer charm of color and line, something of beauty, and the freedom and vigor of the strokes are expressive of vitality. A Study of Poetry "And a priest, too, I suppose," said Dalroy in an undecipherable manner. The Wisdom of Father Brown Slowly they puzzled out parts of it, halting long over some of the undecipherable words, but a few words here and there were all they could recognize. Georgina of the Rainbows Formerly she had always been able to read his face, but now there was much inscribed on it that was undecipherable for her. The Precipice I came across a little pamphlet of the period, yellow and almost undecipherable, which, on examination, I found to be a rather amusing skit or satirical take-off on the profit system. Equality Somewhere in a wood there is a stone, supposed to be a tombstone of the prophetess Mother Shipton, and bearing an undecipherable inscription. Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies Both tracks, he saw, had undergone a change, and this change, so far as it concerned the footsteps of the man, was in some undecipherable manner—appalling. The Wendigo There was no mark of identification upon him except a cigarette case graven with an undecipherable monogram in Tiffany's most illegible style of arrow-headed inscription. The Mystery And this she did while Blake and her mother and her Aunt Elinor were in the library, going over the troublesome papers with their imposing seals and undecipherable writing. A Fool There Was They serve their undecipherable race, not knowing who will obtain gains through their toils. The Nature of Goodness Out of the great silences at rare intervals come faint flickers of radio calls, jumbled, indistinct, undecipherable,—but, for all that, definite pulse beats of a far-off life. West Wind Drift They prove their breeding by their perfect taste in dress, the well-bred ever being inconspicuous; and their simplicity conceals enormous, undecipherable wonder. The Extra Day There were some lines scrawled upon it, in lead-pencil, in the large hand of a schoolboy--almost undecipherable. Caesar's Column A thousand subtle shades, mingling, crossing, contradicting and disguising each other, rendered it almost undecipherable at a first view. Life of Chopin The scrawl was so undecipherable that he rose from the table and walked up and down the room in acute distress, holding his right hand at the wrist and limbering it. Five Thousand an Hour : how Johnny Gamble won the heiress Life, in childhood, is a picture-book of which the text is undecipherable; and the youth now revisiting the unchanged setting of his boyhood was spelling out for the first time the legend beneath the picture. The Valley of Decision His zeal, however, sometimes led him to make guesses at words which are quite undecipherable. The Journal to Stella She satisfied herself that the jailers could not see her, broke the seals, appeared surprised at the sight of those undecipherable lines and then, all at once, seemed to understand. The Hollow Needle; Further adventures of Arsene Lupin A poet is a sensitive creature, and Raggles soon shrivelled in the bleak embrace of the undecipherable. The Trimmed Lamp, and other Stories of the Four Million Warned by a special sense, an undecipherable riddle to ourselves, it knows that the object of its search lies hidden under this unfamiliar casing. The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography She was only very long, like an undecipherable letter. Greville Fane The page containing the sensational announcement of the engagement in high life was quite undecipherable. The Woman-Haters: a yarn of Eastboro twin-lights Indeed, certain parts of the manuscript are almost undecipherable. Poor Folk Henceforth all plunges into Lawsuit, into chaos of conflicting lies,—undecipherable, not worth deciphering. History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 16 The largest and most interesting of the new fragments has evidently been employed as a door-sill, with the result that its surface is much rubbed and parts of its text are unfortunately almost undecipherable. Legends of Babylon and Egypt in relation to Hebrew tradition Of a queer volcanic colour, and wrinkled all over with what looks undecipherable writing, it hung there like a Babylonian pillar or needle. Manalive These pictographs are still in the main undecipherable, and opinions differ as to the exact stage of development which they represent. A History of Science — Volume 1 Did Uri sing when merry and sigh when sad, he could have understood; but as it was, the cryptic features were undecipherable; he could not measure the soul they concealed. The God of His Fathers: Tales of the Klondyke The title will be in splendid, undecipherable German text, ornamented with classic Teutonic designs—very likely Ceres or Pomona leaning against the initial letters with cornucopias venting grapes and wieners. Whirligigs I was walking with Lady Fincoss, and Francesca with Miss Clondalkin, a very learned personage who has deciphered more undecipherable inscriptions than any lady in Ireland, when our eyes fell upon an unexpected tableau. Penelope's Irish Experiences They were labelled, but the labels were yellow with age and the writing was nearly undecipherable. A Voyage to Arcturus Their main region was Cappadocia, where, at least as far back as 1500 B.C., they developed so characteristic a civilisation, that its documents or inscriptions are almost undecipherable. The Story of Evolution On a part of our life's map there lies a roseate, undecipherable haze, and that is all. The Wrecker On one stamp I made out an initial C; upon a second I got as far as CH; beyond which point, the postmark used was in every instance undecipherable. The Wrecker These things were written in the Speckled Book of Salemina, but in druidical ink, undecipherable to all eyes but those of the Scribe herself. Penelope's Irish Experiences |
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