After reading two or three pages from the manuscript before him, he seemed to be unable readily to decipher it-it having been reduced to writing by his clerk.
"Memoirs of Orange Jacobs"
Orange Jacobs
Ten chiefs were present; I wrote down their names, but it is difficult to decipher them now.
"From Edinburgh to India & Burmah"
William G. Burn Murdoch
So it is difficult to describe them, or to give any idea of what goes on in their minds, for they belong to another world than the world of peace that we knew, and there is no code which can decipher their secret, nor any means of self-expression on their lips.
"From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917"
Philip Gibbs