"Cryptogram" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... a place near Hyderabad, India, noted for its diamonds. CRYPTOGRAPHS: from two Greek words meaning hidden and write. The commoner term is "cryptogram." ...
— The Short-story • William Patterson Atkinson
... classic ciphers were sufficiently simple to be solved without very much trouble. Drusus knew that in all Caesar's correspondence a cipher had been used which consisted merely of substituting for each letter the fourth letter beyond it, as D for A; and a little examination showed that the present cryptogram was made on the same rude method. After a few guesses he struck the proper substitutions, and was ...
— A Friend of Caesar - A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C. • William Stearns Davis
... meaning to it," said Ela, "and it is not a cryptogram either. You see how he has forgotten to put the 'e' in 'save'? And ...
— The Secret House • Edgar Wallace |
