Cryptogram from Pride and Prejudice, chapter 19
The first of four cryptograms from chapter 19 of Pride and Prejudice. Every letter below stands for a different one, the same way all the way through, and no letter ever stands for itself.
ErkxbaebbxxtebDwtawswgajwjxibwDbdthrwgoxixiaebajwnxkuetdxtxckociaiswrdcw.
- Written byJane Austen
- Taken fromPride and Prejudice
- Difficultyeasy
- Length72 letters, 18 of them different
Where it comes from
Jane Austen wrote it in chapter 19 of Pride and Prejudice. Here is the prose either side of it, with the sentence you are solving left out.
Elizabeth would not oppose such an injunction; and a moment's consideration making her also sensible that it would be wisest to get it over as soon and as quietly as possible, she sat down again, and tried to conceal, by incessant employment, the feelings which were divided between distress and diversion. Mrs. Bennet and Kitty walked off, and as soon as they were gone, Mr. Collins began, -
The sentence you are solving goes here.
The idea of Mr. Collins, with all his solemn composure, being run away with by his feelings, made Elizabeth so near laughing that she could not use the short pause he allowed in any attempt to stop him farther, and he continued, -
Text from the Project Gutenberg edition, which is in the public domain in the United States.
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Nearby in the book
The puzzles either side of this one in the novel.
- Chapter 18medium, 64 letters
- Chapter 18easy, 97 letters
- Chapter 19easy, 83 letters
- Chapter 19medium, 74 letters
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Scored closest to it by the model behind our guide to solving cryptograms.
- Chapter 11easy, 82 letters
- Chapter 54easy, 57 letters
- Chapter 21easy, 96 letters
- Chapter 54easy, 89 letters
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