picture-writing

It is what enables me to know the meaning of fine markings, whereas you boys know only rude picture-writing.

Page 4 2010

In them is great wisdom Also, with them, I have placed a key to the alphabet, so that one who knows picture-writing may also know print.

Page 4 2010

There were many comical missteps along the way, as I'd never used the timer before, and the manual is written in a kind of picture-writing so that stupid people who can't read English very well can understand it.

Cliquot or not Cliquot? Walter Jon Williams 2008

Some of these are written in hieroglyphics, a rebuslike system of picture-writing, but not in the famous Egyptian hieroglyphics: rather, they are written in a language called Luwian.

The Trojan War Barry Strauss 2006

Some of these are written in hieroglyphics, a rebuslike system of picture-writing, but not in the famous Egyptian hieroglyphics: rather, they are written in a language called Luwian.

The Trojan War Barry Strauss 2006

‘Which brings us back,’ went on Father Brown cheerfully, ‘to somebody’s taste for writing his private correspondence on trees, like Hiawatha and his picture-writing.

The Complete Father Brown 2003

Yoruba, but even these do not equal the picture-writing of the

Travels in West Africa 2003

My investigations do not support the theory that the blacks are capable of recording the simplest event by means of a system of so-called picture-writing, but rather that message-sticks have no meaning apart from verbal explanations.

The Confessions of a Beachcomber 2003

‘Which brings us back,’ went on Father Brown cheerfully, ‘to somebody’s taste for writing his private correspondence on trees, like Hiawatha and his picture-writing.

The Complete Father Brown 2003

A path, cut into jagged rock, led from the jungle to the citadel, to the large metal door formed in the shape of a hexagon and inscribed with the same picture-writing the books termed "runes."

Into the Labyrinth Hickman, Tracy 1993