He was known to his organization as 'CD', a tiny symbol to embrace so vast a man.
On the side someone had painted tiny symbols that the army had not yet noticed - a Star of David next to a swastika.
They were smooth, round yellow tablets, etched with a tiny red corporate symbol that was as delicate as a Chinese ideograph.
Not all the tiny symbols can be confidently identified.
When Nanri nodded, the boy read regret in his fade covered in tiny symbols and pictograms.
Even if a Greek had thought of it he would have been re- peucd by the necessity of writing those tiny symbols.
Note that we have no reading organs: our eyes and brains were made for watching, not for decoding tiny symbols on mulch sheets.
He pointed at one of the tiny symbols on the rim, which at this distance, appeared to be no more than a flyspeck to me.
He might have used the page number as the code, but I suspect he could no longer see the tiny symbols on the newspaper page.
Stern's ironic and humane gaze can stand as a tiny but glowing symbol of everything that Britain gained from his generation of migrants.