En esta conformidad se encontraban las cosas en la población donde tuvo lugar el suceso que voy á referir, cuando, una noche, ya á hora bastante avanzada, envueltos en sus obscures capotes

" As pioneers, then, the author of "Betsy Thoughtless" and her obscurer contemporaries did much to prepare the way for the notable women novelists who succeeded them.

So in politics, now that knowledge of the obscurer impulses of mankind is being spread (if only by the currency of new words), the relation both of the politician and the voter to those impulses is changing.

And you would explain with ease The obscurer passages, Find me out the prettiest places The poetic turns, and graces, Which alas!

Others, feeling a similar horror, and some of them conscious of the enmities they should leave behind them, have themselves written the obscurer portions of their own lives, like Hume, Gibbon, Gifford, Scott, Moore, Southey.

The beam-repelling mists arise, And evening spreads obscurer skies; The twilight will the night forerun, And night itself be soon begun.

Then presently the observer would have noted a peculiar increasing handiness about the obscurer type, an unwonted intelligence growing behind its eyes.