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While speaking, she prostrated herself and knocked her head, to the intense amusement of the company, who were quite doubled up with laughter. "What are you laughing at?" goody Liu inquired. "I can decipher the characters on this honorary gateway. Over at our place temples of this kind are exceedingly plentiful; and they've all got archways like this! These characters give the name of the temple."
It will be readily admitted that in order to deal with ancient Assyrian history it is necessary to have learnt to decipher cuneiform inscriptions. Similarly, whoever desires to do original work from the sources, in ancient or mediæval history, will, if he is prudent, learn to decipher inscriptions and manuscripts.
It was all couched in the choicest vocabulary of the ringside, and more than once Young Denny, whose literature had been confined chiefly to harvesters and sulky plows, had to stop and decipher phrases which he only half understood at first reading. But that last paragraph he did not fail to grasp.
"Here is a gold ring," said Henry presently, and held it up. Joseph Morris took the ring and examined it with care. There was an inscription inside, but it was so worn he could not decipher it. They also brought to light several pieces of clothing, torn to tatters as Barringford had said.
Their ignorance and presumption were speedily confounded. In taking Diderot's papers, they had forgotten, as Grimm says, to take his head and his genius: they had forgotten to ask him for a key to articles which, so far from understanding, they with some confusion vainly strove even to decipher.
He glanced about at me again, vainly endeavoring to decipher my expression in the gloom. "De Illinois ribber, boss; what yer hope fer ter find thar?" "A certain man I've heard about. Did you ever happen to hear a white man mentioned who lives near there? His name is Amos Shrunk?" I could scarcely distinguish his eyes, but I could feel them. I thought for a moment he would not answer.
There was no water power, no big timber, and, from the look of the country, no mineral. He put the thought out of his mind with luxurious deliberation and tried to decipher why a man like the bishop should waste his time here when, without doubt, he could be a shining light in a great city. After a little the reason became clear, and, smiling to himself, he reached up for Marcus Aurelius.
The original printed Gospel had been so interlined and scribbled upon by the author, in a hand so obscure and irregular, that, accustomed as I was to the perusal of the written Manchu, it was not without the greatest difficulty that I could decipher the new matter myself.
It was not that the rudiments of this story are so very hard to decipher though in truth they are hard enough but rather that the men who made the attempt had all along viewed the subject through an atmosphere of preconception, which gave a distorted image.
Into old carven chests I dived, opening package after package of mouldy papers. In the attic trunks and boxes were rifled, until at last, about to give up in despair, I found in an old desk a letter. It was in French with the Benneville crest and seal, brown with age, and by no means easy to decipher.
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