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One Guide item that could stand unstreamlining is the hieroglyphically abbreviated "Tips on Highspots" thart.
From Time Magazine Archive
Dispatched round the island with divers bits of tappa, hieroglyphically stamped, he merely deposited one upon each altar; superadding a stone, to keep the missive in its place; and so went his rounds.
From Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II by Melville, Herman
These symbols are without doubt of very ancient origin, and Boerhæve in his Theory of Chemistry explains them hieroglyphically as follows:— The symbols are shown as images at the end of the file.
From On the Antiquity of the Chemical Art by Mactear, James
Fourthly, many writers, such as Ovid, only speak poetically, and others, as Paracelsus, only mystically, whilst the remainder speak rhetorically, emblematically, or hieroglyphically.
From Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) by Stephen, Leslie, Sir
They stake their necklaces, leggings, ornaments, and in fact, their all, on the play, which is done sometimes with blue wild plum-stones, hieroglyphically charactered, and sometimes with playing bones, but oftener with common cards.
