Kirk glanced at the beautiful and unfamiliar alien script, of which he could not read a word.
The actors sometimes give the impression of haltingly working their way through an unfamiliar script, though Ms. Thelen, as the rabbi's wife, provides a performance with welcome comic bite.
In his chilly room in Unseen University Trymon pored over the book, his lips moving as his finger traced the unfamiliar, ancient script.
Any sudden sound, any unexplained footstep, any unfamiliar script on an envelope, made them startle; and for months they never felt secure enough to let themselves go, in complete sleep.
Not on the older tablets-they're done in a completely unfamiliar script, very likely a syllabic one, too many different characters for it to be alphabetic.
For one thing, many of the words were written in an unfamiliar script, either Hindustani or more likely Arabic.
There was a sign above the keyboard, but it was printed in the unfamiliar Hegemonic script.
Texts might be in foreign languages or written in unfamiliar scripts that had become illegible over time.
They searched through the unfamiliar script, so different from what CoNStaNce As??
He flipped through the pages, frowning at the unfamiliar script.