As he spoke the bright, yellow light in the study was obscured by somebody passing to and fro before it.
Then suddenly he hauled something in as a fisherman lands a fish--some large, round object which obscured the light as it was dragged through the open casement.
The summit of the mountain was disappointing, as the haze occasioned by the heat in the low countryobscured the distant view.
When he came back to the carriage, his usually benign and smirking countenance wasobscured by some sorrow.
Read and commented upon with more admiration than intelligence in the Italian universities in the generation immediately succeeding his death, his name became obscured as the sun of the Renaissance rose higher towards its meridian.
Its direct application to arouse emotion or religious feeling tends to be obscured and finally dropped out.
This one damning sin obscuredall his good actions; and he felt if he died unconfessed, and with the weight of guilt upon his soul, he should perish everlastingly.
The vast range of Pendle was obscured by clouds, and ere long the vapours descended into the valleys, and rain began to fall; at first slightly, but afterwards in heavy continuous showers.
By this time the sky was comparatively clear, but small clouds were sailing across the heavens, and at one moment the moon would be obscured by them, and the next, burst forth with sudden effulgence.
The dim allegories of early art have accordingly been overlaid by crude inventions, orobscured by gross ignorance and enthusiastic mysticism.
Domenico and under the Piazzone of his native town, it is impossible to say more than that whatever of the family inspiration may have guided his pencil has been nearly obscured by cruel restorations.
Ladies unmask'd, says Boyet, are like angels vailing clouds, or letting those clouds whichobscured their brightness, sink from before them.
That is to say, the edition itself has been obscured or overshadowed by its preface, and the sustained effort of that essay has virtually monopolized scholarly attention--much of which should be directed to the commentary.
The bright sun of the morning was almost obscuredby hazy clouds as I started out that warm September afternoon.
The moon was up but was obscured by clouds except for a moment or two at a time.
Wherever they are obscured or neglected, there are monophysite tendencies.
My eyes, strained in the direction indicated, could just distinguish the point where one mountain rose higher than its neighbours, its summit apparently obscured by the vapours that hung about it.
The moon, while I stood watching long and earnestly, became obscuredby a dense black cloud shaped like a falcon's wing, which left only a patch of green sky half round its disc.
Then, for the first time, I realised that a strange darkness had fallen, that the morning sun had become utterly obscured by a dense, black cloud, and gigantic sand columns were whirling over the plain at furious speed.
For some minutes the sand whirled about me so thickly that Tiamo, only a leopard's leap away, became obscured in the sudden darkness.
Then, as I raised my hand and it came into contact with bandages about my shoulder, I added "The darkness of unconsciousness hath long obscured my mind, and I know not under whose roof I rest.
Behind me the shaft of white light still streamed from the summit of the Temple of the Seven Lights; before me were the half-obscured Mountains of the Mist.
It was nigh dawn when, by the light of a pale moon obscured by drifting storm-clouds, Morris Pugh turned the key in the chapel door with a trembling hand.
It was a solemn place, for the walls were so gigantic and the slit of blue sky so narrow and so obscured by a double fringe of verdure, that only a dim and shadowy light penetrated to the bottom.
I suppose they were ten miles off from me, yet even at that distance one could observe how, from time to time, they twinkled or were obscured as someone passed before them.
Now, the Romans say that the many good qualities of Crassus were obscured by one vice, avarice; but the fact appears to be that one vice, which was more predominant in his character than all the rest hid his other vices.
For 1700 years, (he says,) the Interpretation of Scripture has been obscured and encumbered by successive Schools of Interpretation.
A reddish, misshapen moon hung in the east, and when he had mounted to his deck it was suddenly obscured by a high, racing scud of cloud; the air had a damper, thicker feel.
There, in the double gloom of the clouds and a small dormer window obscuredby cobwebs, she sank on a broken box.
There was no immediate response, and he peered over the obscured deck in search of Halvard.
I had been calm during the day; but so soon as night obscured the shapes of objects, a thousand fears arose in my mind.
As the eye became accustomed to the darkness, we could distinguish tall and beautiful columns of marble and granite, with superb Corinthian capitals, perhaps thirty feet in height, receding as far as the limits of ourobscured sight.
We can see for the first time the fundamental things that matter in life, and that have been obscured from our vision by the tropical growth of prosperity.
The complexity of the modern economic world and the large individual gains which have been made in it have obscured the fact that the economic structure exists to serve the needs of the community.
We can see for the first time the fundamental things that matter in life and that have been obscured from our vision by the tropical growth of prosperity.
Furthermore, the bottom was still obscured by a heavy night mist.
This connection is somewhatobscured by the early date assigned to the Psalms by uncritical tradition, by the heterogeneous character of the collection, and by its continual redaction in the interest of the purpose to which they were adapted.
It is the facts that we have to face, and the facts are obscured not so much by the corrections of the history by the later historians, as by our forcing into them the still later conceptions of our own times.
The plain lay some hundred feet below, but the haze obscured it from the view.
His own drenched condition he did not consider--did not feel, while he climbed with careful footsteps up the rugged path to Dinas, lighted only by the moon, whose beams were continually obscured by the flying clouds.
The old parlour looked gloomy and dark, the bright afternoon sun, shining through the creepers which obscured the window, threw a green light over the table and the rigid, pale face of the Vicar.
Truth, however unpalatable, or however it may be obscured for a season, must eventually triumph.
After dinner, he crossed over to Goat Island, and beheld the cataract from the various points, and continued his explorations until all was obscured by darkness.
But also the sun I call not god, because his light is obscured when darkness cometh up.
The moon alone laughed, wherefore God grew wroth, and obscured her light.
His fins radiate brilliant light, the very sun is obscured by it,[123] and also his eyes shed such splendor that frequently the sea is illuminated suddenly by it.
His person was so handsome that the very sole of his foot obscured the splendor of the sun.
