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...editation, she counted without a mistake the threads of her napkins or the meshes of her socks. Sitting thus, she presented the most complete image, t... ...nd the Infinite of the divine spheres, just as the Unit stands between the Cipher of the fractions you have lately named Decimals, and the Infinite of...

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...f this story. When Cesar at four- teen years of age could read, write, and cipher, he left his na- 20 Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau tive place and... ...girl. When he first came to Paris, Cesar had known how to read, write, and cipher, but his education stopped there; his laborious life had kept him fr... ... retained the black mantilla trimmed with black lace woven in large square meshes; her caps, old-fashioned in shape, had the quaint charm which we see... ...awake many a night. I wish they didn’t. I have put my eyes out reading and ciphering.” “To go back to the ministers,” said Pillerault, hoping for reve...

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...r he had got a couple down from London, and the man had stu- pidly put his cipher on both, so he would be glad if I would take one off his hands. I di... ...ings of the stock, the steel mountings, the eagle crest, and twisted H. E. cipher! and in sickness of heart the Doctor could not hide from himself the... ...im; it was the property of Leonard Ward. He recognized it by the crest and cipher H. E. It had belonged to his son-in-law, Hector Ernescliffe, by whom... ...ess. From the moment when at the inquest he found himself entangled in the meshes of circumstance, his mind had braced itself to endure rather than ho... ...lly examined it, recognizing Leonard’s description in each particular, the cipher F. A. on the tarnished silver clasp, the shagreen cover, and the rec... ...ittle delicately-illuminated book with the pointed writing and the twisted cipher, Meta’s hand in every touch. Presently he looked up, and said: ‘Aunt...

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...d her hand) that the reason was urgent, inasmuch as she fled to escape the meshes of the terrific net of the marital law brutally whirled to cap- ture... ... impassioned moods as well as in his cold. His head was a long division of ciphers. He had statistics for spec- tacles, and beheld the world through t... ...he handsomer. He throve to the light of day, and she spun a silly web that meshed her in her intricacies. Her intuition of Emma’s wishes led to this; ...

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...ne of her other lineaments I think the eye—cowardice had also its distinct cipher. Mdlle. T rista thought fit to trouble my first lessons with a coars... ...other, had fallen into a snare of her own laying—was herself caught in the meshes of the very passion with which she wished to en- tangle me. Consciou...

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...e had really been no truce, his former steward had just completed the last meshes of the net-work in which he now held the whole arrondissement of Vil... ...first place, he had reduced his wife, who could nei- ther read, write, nor cipher, to absolute obedience. After hav- ing ruled her deceased master, th...

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...is lack of education, and his absolute nullity was a recommendation, for a cipher was needed. The government was afraid of displeasing both parties in... ...torturer. To gain some power of self-defence, to be- come something less a cipher in the household, supported, unknown to herself, by her own means, t... ...coming; but he was anxious not to raise difficulties, and he knew that the meshes of a contract are never so close that a determined and clever man ca...

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...lady dare not lift her veil For fear it be dispelled. But peers beyond her mesh, And wishes, and denies,— Lest interview annul a want That image satis... ... majesty concedes And easy sweeps of sky. So I must baffle at the hint And cipher at the sign, And make much blunder, if at last I take the clew divin... ...r than mine, serener, Involving statelier sums; I check my busy pencil, My ciphers slip away, Wherefore, my baffled fingers, Time Eternity? LXX...

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...ns; and it may be mentioned, for the curios- ity of the incident, that the cipher which he used in his cor- respondence, was the following very simple... ...st an unimaginative people like the Romans, that the characters of men are ciphers and enig- mas to their own age, and are first read and interpreted ... ...ing of network com- posed of lilies, delicately fabricated into the proper meshes, &c., and the couches composed wholly of rose-leaves; and even of th... ...ldiery at any price, and to regard the rest of their sub- jects as so many ciphers.” But, as a critical historian remarks, this was a shortsighted and...

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...r as the flame within a Davy lamp feeds upon the poison- ous gas up to the meshes that surround it, but there sud- denly is arrested by barriers that ... ...despised my pretensions too entirely to waste a thought or a menace upon a cipher so abject. This change, therefore, being so sudden and so total, oug... ...articulate or brutal sounds of the globe must be all so many languages and ciphers that somewhere have their cor- responding keys—have their own gramm...

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...fe? was he to have no will, no thought of his own? must he consent to be a cipher in his own house? If his harshness was to be received in patient sil... ...r worth. To use an image which I think will strike your poetic mind, let a cipher be what it may, im- measurable in size, written in gold, or written ... ...m- measurable in size, written in gold, or written in pencil, it is only a cipher after all. A man of our times has said, “No zeal, above all, no zeal... ...be those first six months when I was lost in enervating enjoyments, in the meshes of a love fertile in pleasures and knowing how to vary them with a c...

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...s later Pierrette had a writing-master. She was taught to read, write, and cipher. Enormous injury was thus supposed to be done to the Rogrons’ house.... ...ed her skin of yel- low ivory; her forehead, half hidden by the straggling meshes of her gray hair, expressed a solemn anger. She read, with a power o...

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... in construing Latin, I think also an elemen- tary knowledge of Greek; add ciphering to a small extent, Euclid perhaps in a rather imaginary condition... ...nright showers of plaster comfits, from which people guard their eyes with meshes of wire. As sure as a carriage passes under a window or balcony wher... ...efficient measures for teaching Roman Catholic children to read, write and cipher, merely because they believe in the Pope, and the Pope is an imposto...

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... limited by the regulations of honour—our most indifferent actions are but meshes of the web of destiny by which we are all surrounded.’ He paced the ... ...egal means, as you term them, for your friend’s release.’ ‘There are a few ciphers added to this letter,’ said Fairford, when he had perused the paper...

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...enter. I try to concentrate my attention on those netting- needles, on the meshes of the purse I am forming—I wish to think only of the work I have in... ...ren—at the best, farmers’ daughters. Knitting, sewing, reading, writ- ing, ciphering, will be all you will have to teach. What will you do with your a... ...ed. I had twenty scholars. But three of the number can read: none write or cipher. Several knit, and a few sew a little. They speak with the broadest ...

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...eppino and may be very glad to have some little nibbling mouse to gnaw the meshes of my net, and so help me out of prison.” “Briefly, what did you gle... ... the future. My mind was already made up. Benedetto could read, write, and cipher perfectly, for when the fit seized him, he learned more in a day tha...

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.............................................. 63 CHAPTER VIII THE KEY OF THE CIPHER ....................................................................... ...in child’s play, and since she could read fluently, write pretty well, and cipher a little, the good mother had decided to put a stop to this free ass... ...took the whistle and unrolled the long narrow strip of paper. “This is the cipher,” said he, “the cipher used in corresponding with her French kin; Ph... ...ain of the trustworthiness of his cousin Richard, went on puzzling out the ciphered letters, making Richard set each letter down as he picked it out, ... ...esty in smuggling forth a letter thus hidden. Deny it not. The treasonable cipher hath been read!” “I knew nought of what was in it,” said the boy. “I... ...heart that they would fight with open foes, instead of struggling with the meshes of perplexity, which beset all concerned with Queen Mary, and then h... ...ct all the rest. On the other hand, Cavendish had spoken of having all the meshes of the web m the hands of the Council; and Langston or Maude seemed ... ...laid their own crimes on her in Scotland, or who plotted to involve her in meshes partly woven by herself in England. The evil done to her was frightf...

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...nd he went on talking to himself. “This is what is called a cryptogram, or cipher,” he said, “in which letters are purposely thrown in confusion, whic... ...hem together. “These two writings are not by the same hand,” he said; “the cipher is of later date than the book, an undoubted proof of which I see in... ... eaten two dinners to-day!” “First of all we must find out the key to this cipher; that cannot be difficult.” At these words I quickly raised my head;... ... by a law which we have yet to discover. Whoever possesses the key of this cipher will read it with fluency. What is that key? Axel, have you got it?”... ...ne gave me the first glimpse of the truth; I had discovered the key to the cipher. T o read the document, it would not even be nec- essary to read it ... ... Long hair, which would have been called red even in England, fell in long meshes upon his broad shoulders. The movements of this native were lithe an...

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...onsciously, and I came to no conclusions. Boys are always putting down the ciphers of their observations of people beloved by them, but do not add up ... ... entangled us all. He said that he had. He treated me now confessedly as a cipher. The prince, the princess, my grandfather, and me— he had gathered u... ...er’s marriage as the solu- tion of the difficulty, the sole way out of the meshes. ‘Is not that her wish?’ said T emple; perhaps with a wish of his ow...

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... much as the wisest if he simply let himself live and die. After 1799, the cipherers of Issoudun put, at the very least, thirty thousand francs’ incom... ...urage her studies, and she had a master who taught her to read, write, and cipher. But the almost animal life of the true peasant had instilled into F... ...ral eccentricities. When the two are united in one man, that man will be a cipher all his life; such double-sided ti- midity makes him what we call “a... ... Heron says, it would look too much like theft.” This lion, tangled in the meshes Philippe Bridau was weav- ing for him, muttered between his teeth as...

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... fictitious battalions, they can overcome. He shrank from the results of a ciphering match having him for object, and was ashamed of feeling to Statis... ...avelling force which mathemati- cians put to paper, in a row of astounding ciphers, for the motion of earth through space; to the generating of heat, ... ...to see Captain Dartrey. She dwelt on that prospect, for an escape from the meshes of a painful hour— the most woeful of the hours she had yet known-pa...

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...t every hour. Already he was entangled, already his foot was caught in the mesh that was being spun. Sharply he recoiled. Again all his instincts of h... ... believed to be righteous as truth itself. He was hopelessly caught in the mesh. Wrong seemed indissolubly knitted into the tex- ture of Right. He was... ...that movement, the drowsy brain had not been quick enough to interpret the cipher message of the eye. Now it was gone. But something had been there. H... ...lf, seeing no visitors, avoiding even his family. How to break through the mesh of the net, how to regain the old position, how to prevent discovery? ...

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... Basil, a T ragedy. NO SPIDER EVER TOOK more pains to repair the shattered meshes of his web, than did Waldemar Fitzurse to reunite and com- bine the ... ... myself, even as the pulse and water was blessed to the children Shadrach, Meshech, and Abednego, who drank the same rather than defile themselves wit... ...ke up a balanced account with Heaven, as our old cellarer used to call his ciphering, as fair as Isaac the Jew keeps with his debtors, and, like him, ... ...ble loans.” “Give me an example of your meaning, Wamba, —I know nothing of ciphers or rates of usage,” answered the Knight. “Why,” said Wamba, “an you...

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...one, and rather full,’ said Ralph. ‘Take care that it chokes nobody in the meshes.’ ‘You would sell your flesh and blood for money; yourself, if you h... ... certain dim recol- lections of two or three very long sums entered into a cipher- ing-book at school, and relieved for parental inspection by the eff...

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...e latter are mostly to be found in the Political Police, or acting as mere ciphers whose existence is a purely hope- less, airy, trivial one. Again, s... ...nd dragging behind them, with wooden handles, a ragged fishing-net, in the meshes of which two crawfish and a roach with glistening scales were entang... ...even declared the letters of Napoleon’s name to constitute the Apocalyptic cipher! As a last resort, the tchinovniks decided to question Nozdrev, sinc... ...Every- where in the ascendant is the desolation of space. But suddenly the ciphers on a verst stone leap to the eye! Morning is rising, and on the chi... ...elations with the association, for the reason that he had then been a mere cipher, and would have come in for nothing large in the way of takings; but...

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...ntry); with the superior order of tradesmen (who, in Germany, are absolute ciphers, for political weight, or social consideration, but, with us, const... ...ead of the false? No; that was too much for his conscience.” But the fatal meshes of pre- scription, of superstitions ancient and gloomy, gathered aro... ...thers. The orders of the Grand Arch 213 Thomas de Quincey were written in cipher, and bore a seal having in sixteen com- partments the same number of... ...her Papers London was one of the secret watchwords in their impen- etrable cipher; Moscow was a countersign; Bavaria and Aus- tria bore mysterious par...

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...which he recog- 8 Henry Esmond – Book Two nized his mistress’s well-known cipher and viscountess’s crown. “The lady had bound it round his arm when h... ...le Prince 31 Thackeray of Orange burst magnanimously through those feeble meshes of conspiracy in which his enemies tried to envelop him: it seemed a...

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...chief with- out embroidery and without arms, only ornamented with a single cipher, that of its proprietor. This time D’Artagnan was not hasty. He perc... ...ed up, as was his habit, and at the corner of which he recognized the same cipher he had seen on the handkerchief which had nearly caused him and Aram... ... again almost immediately, holding a rosewood casket in her hand, with her cipher encrusted with gold. “Her, my Lord, here,” said she, “keep this in m... ...terward return?” “Yes; but only to take a little rosewood casket, with her cipher upon it, and went out again immediately.” “And when she finally retu... ...to ascertain its strength, she enveloped Felton beforehand in the thousand meshes of her inventive imagination. 524 The Three Musketeers Time, howeve... ...ing belonged to the queen. “Now the scent bag of white satin, on which her cipher is embroidered in pearls.” Patrick again obeyed. 557 Alexandre Duma...

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...he psychol- ogy of memory, and parts of what may be either calculations or ciphers in symbols absolutely strange to me. In some pas- sages there are i... ...? Did a man near to death begin instinctively to withdraw himself from the meshes of matter and sense, even before 112 The Country of the Blind the c...

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...re passing and repassing between Metz and the Tuileries; and Letters go in cipher,—one of them, a most impor- tant one, hard to decipher; Fersen havin... ...pher,—one of them, a most impor- tant one, hard to decipher; Fersen having ciphered it in haste. (Choiseul, Relation du Depart de Louis XVI. (Paris, 1... ...t of that too, the Queen, shrouded in deepest mystery, ‘writes all day, in cipher, day after day, to Coblentz;’ Engineer Goguelat, he of the Night of ... ...oyens. King’s-Friend, Royou, Ami du Roi, can name, in exact arith- metical ciphers, the contingents of the various Invading Po- tentates; in all, Four... ..., still more terrible in his invisibility, Engineer Goguelat, with Queen’s cipher, riding and running! The excommunicatory Priests give new trouble in... ...onary Law. The Galleries already murmur. If this Danton were to burst your mesh- work!—Very curious indeed to consider. It turns on a hair: and what a...

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... field of practice. The King’s pri- vate cabinet of papers, all written in cipher, and captured in the royal coach on the decisive day of Naseby (June... ...ng into Greek and from Hebrew, that is, transferring out of a myste- rious cipher as little accessible as Sanscrit, and which never would be more acce... ...he expres- sion of a base mercenary selfishness, caught and baffled in the meshes of its own chicanery? The life, if it could be ap- preciated in its ...

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... a mattress to lie on, or any one to speak a word for him—a perfect social cipher, useless to a State which gave itself no trouble about him. A death ... ...about the players with the quickness of an eel es- caping through a broken mesh in a net. My nerves thrilled with joy instead of anguish. I felt like ...

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...d he’ll ask you a dozen directly. Hulks are prison-ships, right ‘cross th’ meshes.” We always used that name for marshes, in our country. “I wonder wh... ...said he. “It’s bad about here,” I told him. “Y ou’ve been lying out on the meshes, and they’re dreadful aguish. Rheumatic too.” “I’ll eat my breakfast... ...tion. But, at last I began, in a purblind groping way, to read, write, and cipher, on the very smallest scale. One night, I was sitting in the chimney... ...rong in these clothes. I’m wrong out of the forge, the kitchen, or off th’ meshes. You won’t find half so much fault in me if you think of me in my fo... ... Old Orlick had picked up, filed asunder, on 392 Great Expectations these meshes ever so many year ago, and wot he kep by him till he dropped your si...

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... on which the rays of the sun fell, shone in the looking-glass between the meshes of the coral. Rodolphe remained standing, and Emma hardly answered h... ...ittle by little all pity from her heart. He seemed to her paltry , weak, a cipher—in a word, a poor thing in every way. How to get rid of him? What an...

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...e not been concerning yourself in guessing out his just dues, but only in cipher ing out what would content him. And I think you have a self deludi... ...is is a humor which flows softly all around about and over and through the mesh of the page, perva sive, refreshing, health giving, and makes no more... ...o be an error. No mat ter, you cannot get a habit sodden Shakespearite to cipher up his materials upon any other basis. With the Baconian it is diff... ...then open the cell, introduce a Shakespearite and a Baconian, and let them cipher and assume. The mouse is missing: the question to be decided is, whe...

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... concern nobody—at least not them.” And to this day, whether the papers in cipher related to politics, or to the af- fairs of that mysterious society ... ...oned, and at the corner of which he recog- nized his mistress’s well-known cipher and viscountess’s crown. “The lady had bound it round his arm when h... ...urder. The noble Prince of Orange burst magnanimously through those feeble meshes of conspiracy in which his enemies tried to envelop him: it seemed a...

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...s foreign com- munications and breaks codes.The NSA also creates codes and ciphers to pro- tect government information. Another is the recently rename... ...he analyst’s jigsaw puzzle. NSA engineers build technical systems to break ciphers and to make sense of today’s complex signals environ- ment. Its ana... ...loped slowly so that diplo- macy and financial and military measures could mesh with one another. 187 202 THE 9/11 COMMISSION REPORT Final 5-7.5pp 7/...