Fforde's two previous books contain greater emotional depth, and it's disappointing to see his leading lady dwindling into a cypher. |
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Her Majesty's wishes were that it should be replaced with a Colour bearing the cypher of the Sovereign of the day. |
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He will never shed his image as a mere cypher of his father's wealthy friends and the interests of big business. |
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From nine years observations, at Cincinnati, it appears that the thermometer falls below cypher twice every winter. |
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Theirs took almost five minutes to cypher and decode, ours took one to two minutes. |
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The words: VALOUR VAILLANCE are below the cypher and extend along the upper edge of two lateral arms. |
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It may cover more than one cypher of the same product purchasing specification from the same plant. |
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The crown and cypher customarily change with each succeeding monarch and they represent service to the Sovereign. |
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As we said before, the brand is a phantom, a cypher, figments of the popular imagination that have somehow become the essential conduit for cultural information about objects. |
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The slatternly, drunken woman is a cypher for Mother's Ruin, contemporary slang for gin. |
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In 1945, Igor Gouzenko, a cypher clerk in the Soviet Union's Ottawa embassy, defected to Canada with documentary evidence of an extensive Soviet spy ring operating in Canada. |
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Polish cryptographers invent the Enigma machine in 1918, an electro-mechanical rotor cypher device which converts plain-text messages to an encrypted result. |
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The metal is embossed with images including triplanes, crocodiles, lions, elephants, and the EIIR royal cypher. |
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The Americans, who had stripped the country of its military power and made the emperor a cypher, also seemed to have drained away the national will. |
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It is this fascination with the surface beauty of Reeva Steenkamp, the silent cypher of the female body that feeds into a culture – and specifically a media culture – in which women are so easily, so silently erased. |
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On the right side of the stock, 4 or 5 cm from the last control: the King's cypher, name of the manufacturer, military inspector's initials, initials of the main controller and year of adoption of the gun. |
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The first pillar boxes had the distinctive Imperial cypher of Victoria Regina. |
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Home nevertheless arranged that in Scotland new pillar boxes were decorated with the royal crown instead of the full cypher. |
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He had created a kind of cypher, without any obvious hierarchy of order. |
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A large Victorian mansion in the centre of the park housed the Government Code and Cypher School and was the scene of many spectacular advances in modern cryptanalysis. |
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He replied in the affirmative and, beginning on 27 March, took an instructional course at the London HQ of the Government Code and Cypher School. |
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They are vying for the title of Lebanon's break dance champion in this year's Red Bull BC One Lebanon Cypher. |
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The level of the Omani B-Boys continues to increase yearly, and the 2015 Cypher was no exception. |
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