Mabel became the first real decipherer of Emily's poems, almost by accident.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lyndall Gordon's "Lives Like Loaded Guns: Emily Dickinson & Her Family's Feuds"] Reference

The two parties being confronted before him, each produced a book of accounts written in a language and character that would have puzzled any but a High Dutch commentator or a learned decipherer of Egyptian obelisks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8] Reference

Because he finds himself radically inscrutable, Ashbery is, more thoroughly than any other poet of our era, a reader of his own poems, a decipherer, often (like his readers) suspended in a state of anxious partial knowledge.    From Wordnik.com.  [Papa] Reference

According to the law of probabilities, in a well-constructed cipher there would be two, three, or even four hundred chances against one, that in each mark the decipherer would not discover the syllable of which it was the representative.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Philosophical Dictionary] Reference

With the celebrated Williams murders, on the contrary, he was entirely taken up, since these proceeded in accordance with designs not traceable to the cursory glance, but which tasked the skill of a decipherer to interpret and reduce to harmony.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 71, September, 1863] Reference

Elizabeth's decipherer Thomas Phellips, and was copied by him.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy] Reference

Dutch commentator, or a learned decipherer of Egyptian obelisks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Knickerbocker's History of New York, Complete] Reference

For suppose that ciphers were well managed, there be multitudes of them which exclude the decipherer.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Advancement of Learning] Reference

Sometimes I have thought, that, obscure and chaotic as they are, they owe their present form to me, their decipherer.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Last Man] Reference

Phillipps was the decipherer who had, he knew, been employed to interpret Queen Mary's letters after the Norfolk plot.    From Wordnik.com.  [Unknown to History: a story of the captivity of Mary of Scotland] Reference

Greyfriars 'churchyard early yielded up to my knowledge as a decipherer what little they could tell of the forgotten dead.    From Wordnik.com.  [Redgauntlet] Reference

While the system might occasionally get them mixed up, a human decipherer could easily tell from context which was intended.    From Wordnik.com.  [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference

Willes, Dean of Lincoln and decipherer to the King; and, in the following year, translated to the bishopric of Bath and Wells.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1] Reference

Lord Oldborough immediately comprehended how important the papers might be to him, and how necessary it was to secure the decipherer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tales and Novels — Volume 07] Reference

To multiply their gains they broke up the largest tablets into three or four separate pieces, often to the grievous hindrance of the future decipherer.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tell El Amarna Period] Reference

Heinrich Brugsch, my second teacher, was far superior to Lepsius as a decipherer and investigator of the various stages of the ancient Egyptian languages.    From Wordnik.com.  [Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works] Reference

Even while the sheets of his work are passing through the press, the excavator, the explorer, and the decipherer are adding to our previous stores of knowledge.    From Wordnik.com.  [History Of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 1 (of 12)] Reference

They are to the student of American antiquities what Manetho is to the student of Egyptian hieroglyphics, or Berosus to the decipherer of the cuneiform inscriptions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chips From A German Workshop - Volume I Essays on the Science of Religion] Reference

The cuneiform system of writing allows a large number of words to be compressed into a small space, and the writing is generally so minute as to try the eyes of the modern decipherer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Babylonians and Assyrians, Life and Customs] Reference

The decipherer of the coat of arms had ventured up the lowest step, and shrinking back immediately, pale and tremulous, affirmed that the torch was held by the very image of old Caesar.    From Wordnik.com.  [The White Old Maid (From "Twice Told Tales")] Reference

The decipherer of the coat-of-arms had ventured up the lower step, and, shrinking back immediately, pale and tremulous, affirmed that the torch was held by the very image of old Cæsar.    From Wordnik.com.  [Twice Told Tales] Reference

The two parties being confronted before him, each produced a book of accounts, written in a language and character that would have puzzled any but a High-Dutch commentator or a learned decipherer of Egyptian obelisks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor Volume I] Reference

The two parties being confronted before him, each produced a book of accounts, written in a language and character that would have puzzled any but a High-Dutch commentator, or a learned decipherer of Egyptian obelisks.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner] Reference

While criticism, so-called, has been busy in demolishing the records of the Pentateuch, archaeology, by the spade of the excavator and the patient skill of the decipherer, has been equally busy in restoring their credit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Patriarchal Palestine] Reference

Many of the monograms thus constructed would prove a puzzle even to the most accomplished decipherer, especially those in which the whole of the letters are not given, but only the most striking of them, and these, as very frequently occurs, not in their natural order.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 434 Volume 17, New Series, April 24, 1852] Reference

So for example if I should say in a letter to a friend, Our brother Tom has just got the piles, a skillful decipherer would discover that the same letters which compose that sentence may be analyzed into the following words: Resist -- a plot is brought home -- the tour.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gulliver's Travels] Reference

We likewise owe to M. Aubin the first accurate knowledge of the real nature of the ancient M.xican writing; and we look forward with confident hope to his still achieving in his own field as great a triumph as that of Champollion, the decipherer of the hieroglyphics of Egypt.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chips From A German Workshop - Volume I Essays on the Science of Religion] Reference

To the ancient Egyptians events were so important that the most trivial incidents of daily life were written on stone and the imperishable records of the land, covering the tombs and obelisks, have patiently waited during long centuries, till their decipherer should come to read them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ten Great Religions An Essay in Comparative Theology] Reference

The idea towards the creation of a museum of antiquities goes back to the days of Mohamed Ali Pasha, when the ruler agreed to the request addressed to him in 1830 by the French decipherer of hieroglyphs, Jean-François Champollion, soliciting him to safeguard and preserve the Egyptian heritage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Al-Ahram Weekly Online] Reference

A decipherer and investigator of the various stages of the ancient.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of My Life — Complete] Reference

"Sir, I am only a lowly decipherer, not actually an intelligence agent.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles]

Greyfriars’ churchyard early yielded up to my knowledge as a decipherer what little they could tell of the forgotten dead.    From Wordnik.com.  [Redgauntlet] Reference

For instance, if you were to write in such a character to the Secretary’s office, your letter would immediately be sent to the decipherer, as containing matters of the utmost secrecy, not fit to be trusted to the common character.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman] Reference

Dr. Clarke, the Dean, Dr. Willes, the decipherer, and Dr. Gilbert of Llandaff, are candidates to succeed him. (.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1] Reference

"This is the cipher," said he, "the cipher used in corresponding with her French kin; Phillipps the decipherer showed me the trick of it when he was at Tutbury in the time of the Duke of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Unknown to History: a story of the captivity of Mary of Scotland] Reference

A learned decipherer of Egyptian obelisks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Washington Irving] Reference