So there was splendour and wealth, but no great happiness perchance, behind the tall caned portals of Gaunt House with its smoky coronets and ciphers. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷.名利场.
It looks like an exaggeration or as if the typesetter had slipped in several extra ciphers by mistake, does it not? 佚名.神奇的知识之书.
From that hour Fanny and Eliza became ciphers in the sick-room. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.雪莉.
Give me an example of your meaning, Wamba,--I know nothing of ciphers or rates of usage, answered the Knight. 沃尔特·司各特.艾凡赫.