Cipher in example sentence

So saying, he pulled out his own handkerchief, likewise a very elegant handkerchief, and of fine cambric--though cambric was dear at the period--but a handkerchief without embroidery and without arms, only ornamented with a single cipher, that of its proprietor.

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The cipher, Brad Pitt, trying to play the charismatic Paul Maclean, a genius outdoors, proves either risible or depressing, depending on what the original story meant to you.

Vanessa Redgrave is shockingly off in her role as the dying Ann and Claire Danes is a cipher.

I kept waiting for him to respond to his tormentors with some biting comment, or have some insight into death, but he is a cipher.

Basically it's about a group of teens driving on a dark highway, their car breaks down, they try to cipher gas from an old farmhouse and they are being killed, one by one, by a killer who lives in that house.

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