Which preposition to use with obscurest

in Occurrences 46%

Clouds of a peculiar aspect with a slow, crawling gait gather and grow in the azure, throwing out satiny fringes, and becoming gradually darker until every lake-like rift and opening is closed and the whole bent firmament is obscured in equal structureless gloom.

to Occurrences 31%

"Style," says De Quincey, "has two separate functions-first, to brighten the INTELLIGIBILITY of a subject which is obscure to the understanding; secondly, to regenerate the normal POWER and impressiveness of a subject which has become dormant to the sensibilities. . .

with Occurrences 21%

By the time the prisoners were comfortably quartered the sun had set, and the sky was obscured with dark clouds from which constant flashes of lightning were emitted.

as Occurrences 17%

A huge complex of evidence, as various, complicated and obscure as human nature itself, supports that fundamental law.

from Occurrences 13%

The rear cars were obscured from the view of Skinny and Old Heck by freight sheds along the track.

than Occurrences 12%

Even in southeastern Alaska, where the most extensive glaciers on the continent are, the more evanescent of the traces of their former greater extension, though comparatively recent, are more obscure than those of the ancient California glaciers whore the climate is drier and the rocks more resisting.

for Occurrences 10%

Two sonnets of the prophetic group I have omitted, partly because they have no bearing on the world as it exists for us at present, and partly because they are too studiously obscure for profitable reproduction.

of Occurrences 9%

Sordello, published in 1840, is the most obscure of all Browning's poems, and for many years blinded critics to the poet's genius.

by Occurrences 6%

The beautiful planet which encourages loving thoughts made all the orient laugh, obscuring by its very radiance the stars in its train; and among those which were still lingering and sparkling in the southern horizon, Dante saw four in the shape of a cross, never beheld by man since they gladdened the eyes of our first parents.

through Occurrences 3%

But this attempt at compromise, this midway abortion of the natural growth of an idea, even were it justifiable as sometimes happens when legitimate issues are obscured through failure of evidence, repels the great multitude of religious thinkers who are not otherwise sufficiently drawn towards Catholicism to care to examine these claims.

at Occurrences 3%

It is a question whether any great thinker will be anything but obscure at times; simply because he is possessed by conceptions beyond his powers of expression.

among Occurrences 2%

We were once as obscure among the nations of the earth, as savage in our manners, as debased in our morals, as degraded in our understandings, as these unhappy Africans.

under Occurrences 2%

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

before Occurrences 2%

In the words, be, he, me, we, she, in which it has the open sound; and the article the, wherein it is open before a vowel, and obscure before a consonant.

behind Occurrences 2%

He felt round for his hat, his gaze obscured behind the shining glasses, tiptoed out round the archipelago of too much furniture, groped for the door-handle, turning it noiselessly, and stood for the instant looking back at her bathed in the rosy light and seated upright like a sleeping Ariadne; opened the door to a slit that closed silently after him.

on Occurrences 2%

But, while the mind of Mary Pratt was thus obscured on this simple, and, to such as choose to give it an hour of reflection, perfectly intelligible proposition, it was radiant as the day on another mystery, and one that has confounded thousands of the learned, as well as of the unlearned.

within Occurrences 1%

"Even of late was the light obscured within me, when the men of blood had banished me on pain of death, and the constables led me onward from village to village, toward the wilderness.

against Occurrences 1%

The shores passed, more and more obscure against a fading light.

along Occurrences 1%

There was one trench that was so obscured along its front by odd stumps of trees that I decided the only good spot for a machine gun was right at one end, on a road which led up to Messines.

beneath Occurrences 1%

The religious sentiment, which formerly sustained Selkirk in his trials, was not entirely extinct; but it was obscured beneath his darkened reason.

beyond Occurrences 1%

There are corpses in it and tombstones, and girls dying of tuberculosis, obscured beyond recognition in a mush of verbiage.

during Occurrences 1%

Unfortunately, the real meaning and message of the Bible has been in part obscured during past centuries by dogmatic interpretations.

about Occurrences 1%

The Constitution was obscure about it, and one easily became befogged if he sought to weigh the right and the wrong of it.

Which preposition to use with  obscurest