As the voice spoke he made a few cryptic signs with a pencil on the corner of the blotter in front of him.

Hidden in recordings, went this conspiratorial notion, were cryptic signs of Paul's demise.

The Shadow spread it and studied the cryptic sign.

The Shadow copied the cryptic sign upon a blank sheet of paper.

He even destroyed the ashes, as though piqued at his own folly in considering those cryptic signs.

We had to communicate with cryptic signs.

Other analysts have noted that the cryptic sign held up by the men appears to have been photocopied and pasted on the picture.

Stythys advanced to where the Gnome stood waiting, bent over the ugly little man, and made a few cryptic signs with his fingers.

A strange, cryptic sign appeared at the bottom of the note.

One of the masked people came and stood in the doorway and made a cryptic sign to Graves, who announced that he was called away.