There was a nice nightcap for a puzzled head! I had made rather an evening of it, what with increase of funds and decrease of anxiety, but this cryptic admonition spoiled the remainder of my night. It had arrived by a late post, and I only wished that I had left it all night in my letter-box. What exactly did it mean? And what exactly must I do? These were questions that confronted me with fresh force in the morning.英文原著 · 《A Thief in the Night》
"How and when, Bunny, you know as well as I do," said he, cryptically. "And at last you shall hear the honest why and wherefore. I had more reasons for going to Scotland Yard, my dear fellow, than I had the face to tell you at the time."英文原著 · 《A Thief in the Night》
A cryptic smile started playing over his mouth. Faull looked at his hand; a feeling of intense pleasure passed through his body. Maskull caught Mrs. Jameson in his arms; she was attacked by another spell of faintness. Trent ran forward, and led her out of the room. Neither of them returned. The phantom body now stood upright, looking about him, still with his peculiar smile. Prior suddenly felt sick, and went out.英文原著 · 《A Voyage to Arcturus》
[1] For an attempted explanation of this cryptogram, and evidence that BACON was the discoverer of gunpowder, see Lieut.-Col. HIME'S _Gunpowder and Ammunition: their Origin and Progress_ (1904).英文原著 · 《Bygone Beliefs》
Our attention will be concentrated on the following questions, all relating to the phylogeny of main groups of plants: i. The Origin of the Angiosperms. The Origin of the Seed-plants. The Origin of the different classes of the Higher Cryptogamia.英文原著 · 《Darwin and Modern Science》
None of the early Ferns show any clear approach to other classes of Vascular Cryptogams; so far as the fossil record affords any evidence, Ferns have always been plants with relatively large and usually compound leaves. There is no indication of their derivation from a microphyllous ancestry, though, as we shall see, there is some slight evidence for the converse hypothesis. Whatever the origin of the Ferns may have been it is hidden in the older rocks.英文原著 · 《Darwin and Modern Science》