A house watchman had to monitor the bells and decipher the message on paper.
Each face is turned toward only one of them; he alone can see it and decipher it.
With dictionary to hand, I would assiduously look up the unfamiliar words and decipher all the specialist concepts and terms.
The pull of this work (if it pulls you) is the invitation to keep trying to connect and decipher.
After college I got a job at Bank of America in San Francisco to try and decipher federal banking policy.
"I'm going to listen and decipher and ask questions, but basically, I want to hear what he has to say".
The consequence of all this was that Clare's manuscripts, so crowded with words, were notoriously difficult to read and decipher.
It asks the audience to imagine, intuit and decipher what is really happening in front of them, and often that is most vivid in the moments of silence.
I would say that many of the civilisations are much more advanced and would detect something like that and simply go in and decipher it," he says.
The place is unmarked, and you have to walk through the foyer of an apartment building and decipher a sign in Mandarin to find it.
I'd take binoculars and decipher the stained glass in the cathedral - a Sainte Chapelle in miniature, but without the crowds or the entry fee.
