The obscurity of many passages in the emperor's manuscript seems to have, in a great measure, retarded the completion of the work.
When daylight broke, so thick was the obscurity caused by the deluge of rain, that we could hardly make out the familiar outlines of things ashore, even at that short distance.
The captain never seemed to notice my existence at all, at which I used to wonder much; but feeling that obscurity was not a bad thing for me, I kept out of his way as much as possible.
Often too the cold tardiness of decision is only the strict balancing of scepticism or candour, while obscurity as frequently may arise from the deficiency of previous knowledge in the listener.
To publish one's own life has sometimes been a poor artifice to bring obscurity into notice; it is the ebriety of vanity, and the delirium of egotism.
This was the feeling which rendered the thoughts of obscurity painful and insupportable to their young minds.
Often in the still obscurity of the night, the ideas, the studies, the whole history of the day, is acted over again.
Very likely," returned the Stranger; "but I am not a learned man myself, and what is celebrity in one set is obscurity in another.
Their obscurity has sheltered them from opprobrium.
I will tell you what I am, a silly goose, who, far from wishing to stand forward to assert myself in any way, now that I am alone in the world have but the desire to wrap night and the obscurity of insignificance around me.
Not until the history of the individual development of all the different groups has become more accurately known than it is at present, can this obscurity be removed.
Now let us disprove the Scotch libeller's statements as to "the extreme obscurity in which Giordano Bruno lived and died.
Such was "the obscurity in which Giordano Bruno lived and died.
Should the worst come to the worst, you can defy obscurity by committing a judiciously villainous murder.
Obscurity is no trial to me; neither success nor failure can make me different from what I am.
Yet, as I still by intervals heard the dismal cries of the enemy, and saw their fires at a distance, I lay close till night in the obscurity of my thicket.
Sophron knew the nature of man, always prone to sudden impressions of fear and terror, more particularly amid the obscurity of the night, and promised himself the amplest success from his stratagem.
He called the young man to him, and endeavoured to inflame him with a military ardour, by setting before him the glory which might be acquired by arms, and ridiculing the obscurity of a country life.
In vain did I think myself safe in the humble obscurity of my cottage, and the reputed favour of the great Arsaces.
He proceeded toward the house, when he heard footfalls on the pavement; in the obscurity he barely made out a man and woman, walking so closely as to be hardly distinguishably separate.
The engine swung about a curve, disappearing into the obscurity of a wood.
Public opinion in England must turn in its favour before it can rise from obscurity into importance; but public opinion is never in favour of the poor and deserted.
Strong prejudice, and the interest of parties connected with the timber-trade in other countries, have served to keep the inexhaustible forests of Western Australia in the obscurity which has hung over them from primeval times.
His youthful days and mental development are shrouded in darkness, as is often the case with characters who leave their mark in history; but legends have cast sufficient light to show the obscurity of his descent.
It is not until the second century that a Resh-Galutha, by name Achiya, is visible through the deep obscurity of antiquity.
I only seek in it that light which will clear up the obscurityof the following ages.
The lights on the ship shone through the obscurity like big, dim eyes, and the constant booming and shrieking of the siren grew nerve-racking.
A boat was moving about in the dark obscurity between the ship and the dock.
Dismounting, he stood by his horse's side, while the man quietly glided through a door, hardly perceivable in the obscurity of one dark corner in the court-yard.
He could not describe his apparel, the obscurity having prevented his remarking the color; but he declared that it looked like the costume of a priest or a monk, and was certainly furnished with a hood, much in the shape of a cowl.
The door opened almost without a sound, and a tall, gray figure entered, which could hardly have been seen from the bed, in the twilight obscurity of that side of the room, even had any eyes been open there.
Throughout the colony the blame was openly and bluntly laid upon the Committee of Safety, who, on account of envy, it was said, had tried "to bury in obscurity his martial talents.
These reasons therefore, as they make nothing against his being an atheist, so they prove nothing of his believing one God; but only leave him as they found him, and leave us in as great an obscurity concerning his religion as before.
He was about ten yards from me, and in theobscurity I could not well distinguish his figure.
Mr. Macfadyen has well said, "Much of the apparent obscurity of Browning is due to his habit of climbing up a precipice of thought, and then kicking away the ladder by which he climbed.
A bygone world, hidden beneath the present and upper world in the profundities of life or the obscurity of time!
So different in nature, we have nevertheless arrived together from our necessitous toil and cold obscurityat this sweet banquet of light.
Their liveliness even rose, on occasion, to the charity of beautifying the narrow chambers of those whom business or fixed habit retained in the obscurity of London itself.
He died in obscurity in 1758, at the age of fifty-five, at Bickleigh, where he is buried.
