It soon issued from the obscurity cast by the shadows of the houses, and proved to be a large gondola pulled, like the one which had just disappeared, by six masked gondoliers.

Yes, even disadvantages never overcome have not sufficed to hold in obscurity men who were at once able and fortunate.

It may therefore be necessary to consider, how they whom publication lays open to the insults of such as their obscurity secures against reprisals, may extricate themselves from unexpected encounters.

Both the girls were plain, and they have gone back to their native obscurity spinsters still.

* * * But let us once divide the voice into its rising and falling inflections, the obscurity vanishes, and accent becomes as intelligible as any other part of language.