10 Results for: (Concept:06828818-n)
SidSentence
11219 For two hours I watched him as he covered sheet after sheet of paper with figures and letters , so completely absorbed in his task that he had evidently forgotten my presence .
11440 " Having once recognized , however , that the symbols stood for letters , and having applied the rules which guide us in all forms of secret writings , the solution was easy enough .
11442 As you are aware , E is the most common letter in the English alphabet , and it predominates to so marked an extent that even in a short sentence one would expect to find it most often .
11447 The order of the English letters after E is by no means well marked , and any preponderance which may be shown in an average of a printed sheet may be reversed in a single short sentence .
11448 Speaking roughly , T , A , O , I , N , S , H , R , D , and L are the numerical order in which letters occur , but T , A , O , and I are very nearly abreast of each other , and it would be an endless task to try each combination until a meaning was arrived at .
11452 Now , in the single word I have already got the two E 's coming second and fourth in a word of five letters .
11456 " Even now I was in considerable difficulty , but a happy thought put me in possession of several other letters .
11457 It occurred to me that if these appeals came , as I expected , from someone who had been intimate with the lady in her early life , a combination which contained two E 's with three letters between might very well stand for the name ' ELSIE . '
11462 There were only four letters in the word which preceded ' Elsie , ' and it ended in E.
11464 I tried all other four letters ending in E , but could find none to fit the case .

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