Sielto's cryptic words didn't rise quite to the level of a warning.

There was an impersonality, however, about Merton's cryptic words that annoyed me.

For all his cryptic words, Welstiel was right about one thing.

This she handed to Poirot, murmuring as she did so the cryptic words:

Only then did the demon child's cryptic words come back to haunt her.

As the final result of their strenuous enterprise, these cryptic words seemed pitifully inadequate.

During the next day I tried to figure out what the cryptic words referred to.

They sat together, silent, considering these cryptic words.

Or was this punishment to the tree related to those cryptic words before he'd left the cottage?

If you're going back into the halls, there are many, many doors with cryptic words on them.

In a few moments it crackles with voices and Theo speaks cryptic words and numbers into it.

But such cryptic words were of little comfort and did more to frustrate Belck than anything else.

For a moment Joan was silent, worrying out the meaning of Martin's abrupt and rather cryptic words.

From Sara came these cryptic words: "For each year of famine there will come seven years of plenty."

And any of several cryptic words, relating to hypothetical rats, and so forth, were quite enough to send up his ears.

With these cryptic words he slid off the bed, taking with him the large old-fashioned Bible which always lay by Nanna's bedside.