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• The old road map was dim and difficult to decipher, and Claude had warned Richard that the watershed of the Pliocene Danube was going to be greatly altered during the coming Ice Age by volumes of glacial till washing down from the Alps. —  The Many-Coloured Land -- Julian May
• I had been for some years an occasional contributor to Chambers's Journal , and had received more than one encouraging note written in a hand that it was difficult to decipher, and simply signed, “Editor, C.J. ” At last it occurred to me that a series of descriptive articles relating to the places and scenes with which I had become familiar as a Parliamentary reporter might be accepted by the editor. —  Memoirs of Sir Wemyss Reid 1842-1885
• There's no handwriting to decipher, and no misheard information to garble in the blurbs Working for a large publishing outfit was an exciting experience, but adapting to Penny Publications felt a lot like coming home. —  Asimov'sSF,April-May2007
• The only keys he could decipher were the row of numbers across the top. —  UglyAmericans
• In fact the 1st DCA goes out of its way to let the probate court know that it should NOT have taken parol evidence to "decipher" its meaning. —  Florida Probate & Trust Litigation Blog

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