It was a scene of exhilaration, the sun, still partially obscured by misty clouds already well down in the western sky, with the tossing waves of the Bay foam-crested.

Describing her feelings in associating with persons of rank and wit, she says:"I had yesterday the pleasure of dining in Hill Street, Berkeley Square, at a certain Mrs. Montague's, a name not totally obscure.

Perhaps Shelley means that the weal or woe attaching to these Hours is obscure or uncertain; or perhaps that they are comparatively obscure, undistinguished, as not being marked by any such conspicuous event as the death of Adonais.

His strangely obscure life had left him a child in many important respects, and he had a child's instinctive knowledge of the mental processes of others.

Little more than a hundred years ago, it was observed that certain organs, like the thyroid body in the neck, and the adrenal capsules in the abdomen, hitherto neglected because their function was hopelessly obscure, had a glandular structure.

As the clouds were gradually obscuring the scene, we made our way at a smart pace through the pines back towards the inn at Payole.

But when it was given to me (this marvellous brochure furnished with strange illustrations and wonderful tassels), I thought it absurdly obscure.

It is confessedly obscure.

Between him and the window of the room I sat in were some shrubs that obscured the view considerably.

I have industriously obscured the whole by the Addition of one or two Circumstances of no Consequence, that the Person it is drawn from might still be concealed; and that the Writer of it might not be in the least suspected, and for [other ]

Why did gross superstition so speedily obscure the intellect, and infamous vices so soon undermine the moral health, if man can elevate himself by his unaided strength?

And nowadays Henry's omniscience is decently obscured under a capacious bushel.

The smoke obscured everything so effectually that one could only get a glimpse at intervals when a kindly wind blew a lane through the pall.

It came to be said of Julius Solon (an exceedingly obscure man) that he had been deprived of his property and banished to the senate.

By these three remarks together, the distinction between transitives and intransitives must needs be extensively obscured in the mind of the learner.

The whig party being the strongest, and he being the foremost man of that party, he might be looked upon as President-elect, if he could but conciliate the south, by wiping off the cloud of abolitionism that faintly obscured his reputation.

The modifying fact is that its voice is commonly obscure, and the language it shall use and the logic of its utterance prescribed by the accident of time, place, and other circumstances; so that it has the semblance of voices many and contradictory.

We have been told that we ought to admire this and desire that, until very often our own inspiration, our true life, has been clumsily obscured.

As for literature, he purchased some new poems by Balmont, some essays by Merejkowsky, and André Biely's St. Petersburg, but the first of these he found pretentious, the second dull, and the third quite impossibly obscure.

" "How could you expect to, when it is so utterly obscure to me?

On the eighth day I noticed, stretched right across the south-eastern horizon, a region of purple vapour which luridly obscured the face of the sun: and day after day I saw it steadily brooding there.

The swift, and, as it were, revengeful precipitancy of the last three years had driven me into a self-distrust and cowardice which had grown and grown until life had seemed veiled and distant and mysteriously obscure.

And nowadays Henry's omniscience is decently obscured under a capacious bushel.

It was long past three o'clock now, and the heavy snow clouds overhead obscured the scanty winter light, and precipitated the approach of evening.

For the moment, the memory of the sights we had seen, and the tax we had levied upon our bodies and souls, together with the picture of the countless sturdy lads whom we had left lying beneath the sinister shade of Fosse Eight, were beneficently obscured by the prospect of food, sleep, and comparative cleanliness.