There, surrounded by nature, submitted to necessity, he rises obscurely through the successive degrees of inorganic matter, and then through the organic.
Hesiod had before this obscurely said: "The abyss is surrounded by a brazen barrier; above it rest the roots of the earth.
This period is not obscurely hinted at by their great Confucius in the second chapter of his Mundane Mutations, where he designates a kind of golden age by the term Cho-fang, literally the Cooks' holiday.
He has himself not obscurely hinted that his employment lay in a public office.
For if we are too far away, the parts to be apprehended (the stones lying one over the other) are only obscurely represented, and the representation of them produces no effect upon the aesthetical judgement of the subject.
The zooecia are cylindrical and as a ruleobscurely emarginate and furrowed.
Nor did the Aegean objects which were lying obscurely in museums in 1870, or thereabouts, provide a sufficient test of the real basis underlying the Hellenic myths of the Argolid, the Troad and Crete, to cause these to he taken seriously.
An account of his change of laith is given in an obscurely worded sonnet contained in a MS.
At a less distance, some of the beds of clay-slate are of a homogeneous texture, and obscurely striped with different zones of colour, whilst others are obscurely spotted.
This settlement is situated at the south-western angle of the Australian continent: the whole country is granitic, with the constituent minerals sometimes obscurely arranged in straight or curved laminae.
On much that is obscurely indicated in scarcely decipherable scrawls, light is thrown by the French memoirs of that age.
A nearly complete individual, cleaned from the ventral side and showing obscurely the hypostoma and fragments of numerous appendages.
In the Branchiopoda, the antennules are either not segmented or only obscurely so.
On no endopodite can more than three segments be definitely distinguished, but the longest ones are the most obscurely segmented.
In some individuals faint bars and caudal rings are discernible, and the chest is obscurely banded.
Under-parts variable, but always dusky, never bright, from grey to dusky brown washed with rufous; tail concolorous with the upper part of the body and obscurely annulated.
Far down the slope a cage of light moving obscurely between the glittering avenue of lamps indicated the steam-tram as it lifted towards the further hill into the heart of the town.
At the same moment somebody emerged obscurely from the kitchen.
Unchpin, with gloomy fatalism, shivered obscurely in the dark porch, waiting to drive the dog-cart down to the stable.
And Thesiger, though her admiration of Tarbuck was obscurely hateful to him, owned that, fine as she was, she was at her finest as she praised him.
He accomplished this maneuver in silence, and with an air so withdrawn, so obscurely predestined, that he seemed innocent of all offense.
Though He has spoken obscurely to them in this last discourse, the time is at hand when He will speak plainly--a time when they will ask the Father in His name.
It irritated her obscurely that the girl should have been so much surer of her power to carry out her purpose.
Behind him he heard Effie's call, and at the child's voice he saw Sophy turn her head with the alertness of one who is obscurely on the watch.
Darrow, whose healthy enjoyment of life made him in general a good traveller, tolerant of agglutinated humanity, felt himself obscurely outraged by these promiscuous contacts.
Yes, Sophy Viner had their look--almost theobscurely menacing look of Kitty Mayne.
For nine innings I watched it with interest unabated, until a vast purple shadow, creeping gradually eastward, had obscurely veiled the sublime legend of the 3-dollar hat with the 5-dollar look.
I always felt that there was something obscurely symbolic in the New York cornice--symbolic of the necessary qualities of a renaissance, half cruel and half humane.
But if, as I have suggested, much of his mind appears fitfully and obscurely in his letters, this side is fully irradiated from first to last.
It was now all but twenty years since Henry had last seen America, and the desire once more to visit his country began to stir obscurely in his mind.
A few peaches are distinctly striped; some plums and cherriesobscurely so.
Misson has noticed a Dance of Death in St. Mary's church at Berlin, and obscurely referred to another in some church at Nuremberg.
Whittington was obscurely born, and that being almost starved in the country he came up to London.
Obscurely his nature had spoken, saying, "Put her to the test and make the test drastic.
Perhaps instinct had obscurely warned her of that, had taught her where to look for a mate.
This not obscurely indicates the preparing of a place for man, and the removal out of his way of obstacles and hindrances.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "obscurely" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: broadly; generally; indefinitely; vaguely
