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The fiddler, who was a tin-peddler and a poet and the teacher of a "cipherin'-school," as well as a musician, played with great gusto, and was continually calling upon the dancers to "warm up 'n' shake their heels more lively."

Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885 Various

She must have done her "cipherin" during one of those tired, forgetful moments.

The popular vote debate 2008

Mathematics (what a conservative calls "cipherin") and Conservatives.

Center for American Progress Action Fund 2009

And by golly if my cipherin isnt goin on now about fourty yeers.

A Sorrowful Tale of High Velocity 2008

(But no bears kinda like bears) and I been cipherin, .. ya know.

A Sorrowful Tale of High Velocity 2008

There were some schools, so-called, but no qualification was ever required of a teacher beyond 'readin', writin ', and cipherin' to the rule of three. '

America First Patriotic Readings Jasper Leonidas McBrien

The branches taught were "readin ', writin', and cipherin 'to the rule of three."

The Life of Abraham Lincoln Henry Ketcham

There were some schools, so called, but no qualification was ever required of a teacher 5 beyond "readin ', writin', and cipherin '" to the rule of three.

Story Hour Readings: Seventh Year 1923

There were some schools, so-called, but no qualification was ever required of a teacher beyond 'readin', writin ', and cipherin', to the rule of three.

Our American Holidays: Lincoln's Birthday A Comprehensive View of Lincoln as Given in the Most Noteworthy Essays, Orations and Poems, in Fiction and in Lincoln's Own Writings Various 1921

There were some schools, so-called, but no qualification was ever required of a teacher beyond readin ', writin', and cipherin 'to the Rule of Three.

Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes Charles Madison Curry 1906