Crossword-Solution: CIPHERING 9 letters, 4 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 17

However, it was a position that involved a certain amount of ciphering, and McTeague had been obliged to throw it up in two days.

There, purple magistrates relaxed themselves from the pursuit of municipal ambition; cocked hats paraded soberly about the garden and in and out among the hollies; authoritative canes drew ciphering upon the path; and at night, from high upon the hills, a shepherd saw lighted windows through the foliage and heard the voice of city dignitaries raised in song.

Pickwick’s manservant, I implore you, ma’am.’ ‘He must be respectable--he keeps a manservant,’ said Miss Tomkins to the writing and ciphering governess.

Hans there is as happy over a page of big words as a rabbit in a cabbage patch; as for ciphering--” “Here, lad, help a bit,” interrupted Raff Brinker.

Numbers and sizes and distances are so great, here, that we have to be made so we can _feel_ them—our old ways of counting and measuring and ciphering wouldn’t ever give us an idea of them, but would only confuse us and oppress us and make our heads ache.” After some more talk about this, I says: “Sandy, I notice that I hardly ever see a white angel; where I run across one white angel, I strike as many as a hundred million copper-colored ones—people that can’t speak English.