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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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First, as with many civilizations, came hieroglyphics .
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He studied it until its hieroglyphics yielded their true meaning: scratches.
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I learned to read the galley proofs and familiarised myself with printers' hieroglyphics .
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Paper poured out in a long road, paved with hieroglyphics .
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The language was foreign, the writing a cloud of indecipherable hieroglyphics .
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The rest were a jumble of hieroglyphics and strange signs.
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They wore helmets suggestive of the heads of flies, and their black silks were embroidered with arcane silver hieroglyphics .