Your speech to-day," continued she caustically, "in yon obscure meeting is the subject of the talk of the town.
His stubbornness still persisted in the opinion that Angela had her failings, which, if manifested, would obscure the external brilliancy of her appearance, but which remained hidden from view.
They entered an obscure alley where a fetid, sultry atmosphere assailed them.
I have only seen a very limited and narrow circle," I said to myself; "the field is wide, and I only know one obscure and unclean corner of it.
He was a good specimen of the ambitious American of obscure birth and clever but shallow brain, quick to seize every opportunity for advancement.
All the scholastics recognized this line; but they, like many others, used a language which, unless well understood, was of a character to obscure it.
The benevolence of Horace was of a general kind, and never descended to anything obscure or unappreciated.
English tongue, unless it be some obscure people who seldom confer with the better sort.
Stephens--vowed that if he survived Hoskin he would bury him in the most obscure corner of the graveyard on the north side of the church.
Heavy clouds hang over the future and obscure the paths of the nations.
Adopting various disguises, he would penetrate into the most obscure and dangerous quarters of the city, at all hours of the day and night.
When he had gone, she dressed herself in her plainest attire, and going into an obscure part of the city, entered an apothecary's shop and purchased some arsenic.
I found her in an obscure part of the city, subsisting upon the charity of neighbors, the occupant of a garret.
I must away, Above the terrible hill hang clouds and shadows; fringes of rain obscure the trail as it climbs persistently to heaven; but up that trail, into and through those clouds and shadows, I pursue my solitary pilgrimage.
Therefore behold days are coming, saith Iahvah, and it shall no more be called the Tophet (an obscure term, probably meaning something like Pyre or Burningplace: cf.
Had that work survived, many things in the prophets, which are now obscure and baffling, would have been clear and obvious.
Although prolix, unsystematic, and obscure in some points, the student will be able to understand the essential features of it.
We have not hesitated to omit phrases and clauses, often of a parenthetical nature, the presence of which in the translation would only render the passage obscure and obstruct the thought.
Whitley Stokes for notes and suggestions on many obscure words.
Any other omissions are marked where they occur; many obscure words in the long descriptive passages are of necessity left untranslated.
In spite of her distaste for the painting, however, she would not hear me decry van der Werf in favor of an obscure engineer, lately discovered as the true hero of the siege.
This, together with their obscure colours, and the warts on their bodies, render it often difficult to distinguish them from the twigs of the trees on which they feed.
And if a cloud obscure the sun, With faint and fluttering heart you run Into the pitfall you should shun, And only leave when dead.
Thus far the history of my life presents nothing whatever unusual--nothing but the common hopes, and loves, and labors of an obscurecolored man, making his humble progress in the world.
Notwithstanding Wiley seldom opened his mouth, and revolved in his obscure and unpretending orbit without a grumble, nevertheless the warm elements of sociality were strong in the bosom of that silent "nigger.
But thus employed, this obscure life and vacation from public cares which would disgust other minds is the medicine of mine.
Now it frequently happens that discords or artificial chords are not merely obscure in their intonation, whether ideally or practically, but as produced in practice they are capable of two sharply distinct interpretations.
It is at least probable that this is one of the several rather obscure reasons for the peculiar instability of the 4th in modern harmony, which is not yet satisfactorily explained.
All the indirect relationships from a minor tonic are distinctly strained and, except in the violently contrasted doubly indirect keys, obscure as being themselves minor.
Dundas, Pitt's favourite subordinate, had already committed himself by his earlier resolution of censure; and Pitt was induced by motives which are still obscure to incline the ministerial majority to the same side.
In that humble tenement Lady Washington entertained the most distinguished officers and their ladies, as well as the more obscure who sought her friendship.
It is probable these discoveries may cast some light upon the obscuresubject under consideration.
The fatigue and exposure brought on an inflammation of the lungs, which caused his death, at an obscure village near Cracow named Zarnowica, on the 2d of December, in the fifty-fourth year of his age.
Notwithstanding his comparatively obscure position, his aid and counsel were constantly sought, in both military and civil transactions, and he was considered by the enemy one of the prominent obstacles in the way of their success.
How much obscure sacrifice of this kind has been performed by those least able to afford it never will be known: indeed, the publication of the facts would only give pain.
Although Codes for the naming of cultivated plants have existed, in some shape or form, for nearly 100 years, they have been printed in obscure publications, quite inaccessible to ordinary mortals.
Twenty years from now and later, the number of hardy walnut trees producing nuts (Crath strain) should make a living monument to thisobscure missionary--Rev.
We have many obscure chestnut species and hybrids growing here.
He also is an adept in certain obscure arts and sciences which no university of to-day can teach.
If that treasury of obscure wisdom which he, perhaps alone of living men, had rifled, could but be thrown open to the sick and suffering, the name of Dr.
The visitor is continually coming in sight of this dome, standing out in the clearest outline when all lower objects are obscure or hidden.
But when he had done the work of carrying elections and creating popularity, he did not find the idols he had set up at all disposed to reward the obscure scribe to whom they owed their elevation.
The learning of an advocate may hide and obscure truth as well as illustrate it.
Like Guizot he sprang from the people, his father being an obscure locksmith in Marseilles.
An ordinary workingman standing in an obscure street is not a figure to arouse much interest, and Reuben's stolid face gave little index to the varied emotions which surged within his troubled heart.
