"Cryptically" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... have left it cryptically at that if she had not seen that Ellen would have disliked her as a mystificator. She drew her hand across her brow, and immediately perceived that the gesture had so evidently expressed dislike of this obligation to confide that the girl was again alienated, and in desperation ...
— The Judge • Rebecca West
... by the meaning of the word, which he had seen all his life, inscribed on a brass plate in the Bludston High Street: "E. Thomson, Architect & Surveyor." It had seemed to him odd, cryptically fascinating. ...
— The Fortunate Youth • William J. Locke
... the telephone clicked in his ear, turned again to the sheriff. "That unties my hands," he said cryptically. "One more ...
— Two Thousand Miles Below • Charles Willard Diffin
... into it some of the syrup from the condemned preserves; and a quantity of extinct hair oil; next the remaining contents of a dozen small vials cryptically labelled with physicians' prescriptions; then some remnants of catsup and essence of beef and what was left in several bottles of mouthwash; after that a quantity of rejected flavouring extract—topping off by shaking into the mouth of the bottle various powders from small pink papers, relics ...
— Penrod • Booth Tarkington |
