Obscurity

Examples

• Diving into the dense obscurity in a line headed by Sam the turf-cutter, they pursued their trackless way home. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Troubled as the future was, it was the unknown future, and in its obscurity there was ignorant hope. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• He resumed-- And since I am myself poor and obscure, I can offer you but a service of poverty and obscurity. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• In the complete obscurity, Birkin found a comparatively sheltered nook, where a great rope was coiled up. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• It promised me peace; it promised me obscurity, as I thought. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• But as soon as he comes into a great city, he is sunk in obscurity and darkness. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Young women have committed similar follies often before, and have repented them in poverty and obscurity often before. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• And so the obscurity in the air and the obscurity in the land closed together in a black fraternization towards which each advanced halfway. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• I will here allude to only two causes of obscurity. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• There was a certain obscurity in Eustacia's beauty, and Venn's eye was not trained. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• All was obscurity. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• A fog narrowed our horizon to about a quarter of a mile, and the misty veil, cold and dense, enveloped sky and sea in equal obscurity. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Circumstances are sometimes too strong for the greatest soul, and that genius which should have created empires dies in obscurity. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• From entire obscurity the Mongols came very suddenly into history towards the close of the twelfth century. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• When she spoke, his eye searched the obscurity of her retreat. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The obscurities of early Greek poets arose necessarily out of the state of language and logic which existed in their age. Plato. The Republic.
• The two brothers were before their Father; far beyond the twilight judgment of this world; high above its mists and obscurities. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Where are the doubts that should have honored these investigations, the frank statement of all the gaps in knowledge, and the obscurities in morals? Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• I will try to make my explanation briefly and plainly, and to keep it free from professional obscurities and technicalities. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.

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