We cannot believe that any American diplomatist could be a mere cipher.

You can not be a mere cipher in my estate books.

Baker, indeed, who was a military man, was a mere cipher in the matter.

He was a mere cipher, and there was no reason for asking his advice.

He cannot be a mere cipher, for he is dynamic.

Mr. Miller was a mere cipher about his premises.

I have myself a certain sense of being a mere cipher, a dread too of failure.

A breakaway European league, sufficient unto itself, would have reduced the Premier League to a mere cipher.

Such a person is a mere cipher.

He knew that Louis XIII was a mere cipher, fond of hunting and loth to appear in public.

Since Theophilus returned, I have been very little from home; and have become a mere cipher with my old friends.

General Simpson while he remained in command was in every respect feeble, and a mere cipher in the hands of the French general.

I am to violate the only sure compact remaining to me in order to become a mere cipher in the hands of Napoleon!

The Rajah owed everything to us, and was, I believe, really grateful; but he was a mere cipher in the hands of his minister.

Their influence was so supreme that the sovereign had practically become a mere cipher, dependent for his authority on the political support which he received.

Here, on the contrary, she was aware that her consent would stand as a mere cipher, and, once given, would never be more heard of.