He was flattered by her unobtrusive but obviously sincere admiration for himself; she seemed to see him in a more favourable light, and to understand him better than anyone outside of this charming family had ever done.
If the hour of trial comes we shall be best prepared to meet it by having led a quiet unobtrusive life of self-denial and devotion to God's glory.
Her love finds expression only in one or two unobtrusive phrases, such as her cry of joy on seeing Endymion, after the forty years' sleep in which he has grown an old man, rejuvenated by a single kiss from Cynthia's lips.
She on her side has been very fond of him, has loved him with unobtrusive tenderness.
He did not like this, nor various other unobtrusive signs of danger which his practised eye detected.
No, I think not," said the President with a yawn like an unobtrusive earthquake.
Talk had been going on steadily as he took in the scene; and not the least of the contrasts of that bewildering breakfast-table was the contrast between the easy and unobtrusive tone of talk and its terrible purport.
She therefore required of her son the promise that their visit should be as unobtrusive as possible, and that he would return with her as soon as he had arranged matters to his mind.
He was dressed in the extreme of the prevailing mode, and evidently cultivated a metropolitan air, rather than the unobtrusive bearing of one who is so thoroughly a gentleman that he can afford to be himself.
If anything was to be accomplished it must be by methods so fine andunobtrusive as to be scarcely recognized.
This attention surprised me, not because I misdoubted my friend's courtesy, but because I had imagined that his courtesy would not stand in the way of an unobtrusiveattempt to withdraw himself and his daughter from my immediate companionship.
He did not appear to me to be in the way of making much money, and it occurred to me that it might be acceptable were I, in an unobtrusive way, to introduce him to some wealthy customers.
Nani himself had risen, full of covert respect for the unobtrusive but terrible man whose hand was everywhere, even in the most distant corners of the earth, although he had never left his office.
Lilly was quickly at the centre of the affair, unobtrusive like a shadow, different from the other people.
The large constable looked down on the bare-headed wispy, unobtrusive Lilly with good-humoured suspicion and incredulity.
Dimly he could recollect, in the genial years of long ago, just glancing casually now and then at some small and unobtrusive notice in his evening paper: "Execution at Sing Sing.
In less than a month John had made himself anunobtrusive and natural part of the life of Roger's sober old house.
He is a quiet, unobtrusive gentleman, greatly esteemed by those who know him.
Mr. Parker is a quiet, unobtrusive gentleman, well posted in general matters.
But one or two of the sayings that have floated down to us are singularly characteristic.
From that moment till the end of the voyage he was as quiet and Unobtrusive as anyone could wish him to be.
His gentleness and unobtrusive quietness entered into me, along with the putting on of his apparel.
Far more unobtrusive is the benevolence which goes into one's kitchen, sending thence to the sick-room those dainties which, after all, are so much too good to be eaten.
As for Eleanor's own individuality, any one in search of that very unobtrusive quality would have found it more in the expression of her eyes and in the childlike lines of her lips than in her toilets.
He arranged it with his unobtrusive deftness in getting what he wanted out of a group of his fellow-beings, and she admired his skill, and leaned on it confidently.
It bore in simpleunobtrusive letters the unknown name, "Mr. Bertram Ingledew.
A ranger had made a quiet, unobtrusive call upon these friends and left this message, "Tell Buck Duane to ride into Captain MacNelly's camp some time after night.
With the matchless nerve that characterized the great gunmen of the day there was a cool, unobtrusive manner, a speech brief, almost gentle, certainly courteous.
He declared the elegant suite at the Mission Inn at Riverside, which was tendered to him and his party in the most cordial, unobtrusive way, was too luxurious for a "Slabsider" like him.
Therefore, if Sir Robert Somerset will assist me to procure some unobtrusive way of acquiring my own support in the simplicity I wish, I shall thank him from my soul.
Under thatunobtrusive character, he hoped in time to accommodate his feelings to the change of fortune which Providence had allotted to him.
When the course of years had made the features of the unobtrusive mourner familiar in the settlement, she became a subject of not deep, but general interest; a being on whom the otherwise superfluous sympathies of all might be bestowed.
Shakspeare's morality is introduced in the same simple, unobtrusive manner.
She was unobtrusive and modest, and retired within herself.
Miss Evans led a quiet, studious, unobtrusive life with the man she loved, sympathetic in her intercourse with congenial friends, and devoted to domestic duties.
On no account, therefore, buy a hall stand, brass hooks or a row of pegs in someunobtrusive corner answering every purpose, as far as I can see.
The unobtrusive man drew a little nearer, glancing at Appleby, and then touched Harding's shoulder.
He also kept him in conversation during the Customs searching, and when a little unobtrusive man sauntered by said to the officer, "Can't you go through this gentleman's baggage next?
