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1. He dictated a cryptic message to the florist, signed himself as The Telephone Man, and even remembered to put his own mobile number on the bottom of the card
2. He dictated a cryptic
3. The communications center, Com Central, orbiting above Aura received a cryptic message from deep space and word was immediately sent word to the Queen’s Hold
4. The book, Zen in the Art of Archery,[174] describes one student’s long years of trying to learn Zen archery, with only the most cryptic guidance from his teacher
5. She’d simply gaze at me with the cryptic look that only a cat can give
6. Gareth was paying attention; trying to understand the cryptic messages buried within this amusing bird tale
7. It was obvious from his notebook entries, however brief and cryptic, that it was this very material that put the wheels into motion leading to Michael’s airport arrest for receiving ill-gotten money in tuna cans – as Beth had witnessed earlier
8. He was somehow circumnavigating the point in question, never directly touching it, uttering generalities and giving cryptic hints, as if his annotations alone sufficed to make himself understood
9. He used a pencil that he found in the desk drawer to check off items in his inventory and make cryptic notes in the margins of Zabiewski’s list
10. “She is mine and yet she is not mine,” he answered, beaming proudly at his cryptic response
11. Hilderich was frowning heavily, finally showing his exasperation at the cryptic commentary and the alternating, almost maddening, mood swings of the machine, and actually shouted at it angrily, spitting as he did so:
12. “Look ahead! Look ahead to where you are going!” He tried to make it sound like cryptic advice, but it had been an order, he could tell by the instant obedience
13. His cryptic warnings, hissed between his teeth
14. He quickly paged his troops with cryptic messages and pulled
15. He did left a cryptic message in his biography the day he left
16. aprons that are embroidered with cryptic symbols and embellished with jewels (or maybe
17. Why be so cryptic on such an
18. Calvin wondered if that was some cryptic way of asking for a password
19. At work, Brandi sparkled with high spirits, full of cryptic hints as to her social life, deliberately inducing questions to which she refused to give a straight answer
20. He waited here all night answering calls and making cryptic entries in a little notebook ducking out to pick up cash or check clients for the girls
21. They were dressed in flowing, black robes similar to those worn by Leif but without the cryptic runes indicating his training as a Sentinel
22. As if to compensate for his drop in status, Alwyn delved ever deeper into the Bard’s texts, arriving at obscure interpretations and cryptic intentions
23. Worst of all was the cryptic instructions written on it
24. “What the hell are you talking about?” As usual he was confused by Angela and her cryptic statements
25. 3 In response to the questions of his disciples John continued to expand his teachings, from day to day adding more that was helpful and comforting compared with his early and cryptic message: "Repent and be baptized
26. While carnage and slaughter bellowed through the red smoke that choked the streets, the grimmest act of that grim drama was played in the cryptic dome behind the great daised chamber with its copper throne and its walls mottled like the skin of serpents
27. Only the cryptic dome resisted the rot of time, until a chance thunderbolt and the curiosity of a fisherman lifted from the breast of the god the magic knife and broke the spell
28. The man on the ledge gazed after him with a cryptic smile
29. He had not moved; his cryptic smile was unchanged
30. In a ghostly gray light she saw again the dais and the cryptic robed figure seated upon it
31. Yet the fact was indisputable; the secret of the dwarfish figures was revealed, though behind that secret lay the darker and more cryptic secret of their being
32. His speculations recurrently revolved about the oracle chamber and its cryptic occupant
33. What cryptic secret was locked in that marvelously molded form?
34. She hesitated, as if loth to return to that cryptic chamber; then, as he grasped Gwarunga's girdle and dragged him into the alcove, she turned and entered the oracle room
35. Inside the chamber was tense silence, and the wavering of the shadows, while four pairs of eyes, burning with intensity, were fixed on the long green case across which cryptic hieroglyphics writhed, as if lent life and movement by the unsteady light
36. He glanced back at the cryptic, gold-bound door, shuddering at what it hid
37. In the ancient iron-bound volumes which speak of the Heart in their cryptic symbolism, it is also told of a creature of darkness left by the ancient priest to guard it
38. Set the Old Serpent, men said, banished long ago from the Hyborian races, yet lurked in the shadows of the cryptic temples, and awful and mysterious were the deeds done in the nighted shrines
39. Amalric's head jerked up and he stared into the cryptic dark eyes
40. "Cute" said Liz, who was not a fan of cryptic crosswords
41. ” There was a long pause, and David waited but the cryptic monologue had ended
42. “You’re the one who was able to identify that someone is using black magic,” Vaughn said, obviously acting as interpreter for cryptic speak
43. “Not overtly,” came another of Ling Mai’s cryptic responses
44. José Arcadio Segundo had managed, furthermore, to classify the cryptic letters of the parchments
45. Too shaken still to figure out what her cryptic message meant, Xitak nonetheless led her to the module
46. "In that case, I'll try and listen more closely next time to your cryptic sentences
47. While he considered the last part of the remark rather cryptic, he
48. decipher the cryptic messages, but he was in a world where nothing
49. “Section B, of the same Herald also has a crossword, the cryptic, but this time no quote
50. On the seat beside him were the photocopies of two crosswords, daily and cryptic
