Obvious

Examples

• The most obvious conclusion from this is, that human nature is in general pusillanimous; since upon the sudden appearance of any object. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• The conclusion from this is obvious in favour of the foregoing system. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• It was an average body of American citizens aroused to action by an obvious evil. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The county police ought to make something of that, said he; why, it is surely obvious that-- But I held up a warning finger. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• But one obvious course was left. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• I think that it is fairly obvious. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• That Golz should be in such obvious communication with the fascists. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• I was in my own room as usual--just myself, without obvious change: nothing had smitten me, or scathed me, or maimed me. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Whence then this obvious DISQUALITY? D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• History can deal with the small beginnings in the past of the great things of the present, but in the present only with what is plain and obvious. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• That was the obvious reason. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Hence it will be obvious that these toys produced merely an ILLUSION of THEORETICAL motion. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• By compressing or exhausting air through this tube it is obvious that the lever, N, will be raised or depressed, and the clockwork set going accordingly. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• In an instant it was obvious that we had at last come upon the true place, and that we had not been the only people to visit the spot recently. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• The obvious novelties of machinery and locomotion, phonographs and yellow journalism slake the American thirst for creation pretty thoroughly. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• It seemed to me to be obvious that this Greek girl had been carried off by the young Englishman named Harold Latimer. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• But the reason is very obvious. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• A large wing of the Socialist Party is the slave of obvious success. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• It is now so bulky that the impossibility of any one man's coming into possession of it all is obvious. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• He listened to himself with obvious satisfaction and sometimes gently beat time to his own music with his head or rounded a sentence with his hand. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• It should be obvious that this philosophic movement misconceived the significance of the practical movement. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• It was but the inquiry of his first confusion and astonishment, the answer being obvious. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• The friendly movers made such an obvious effort not to look at one another, that they might as well have stared at one another with all their might. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Which is an obvious injustice to the memory of King Lud, and a dishonest exaltation of the virtues of King Cole. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• The man who will follow precedent, but never create one, is merely an obvious example of the routineer. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• It will be obvious that any details which would help the reader exactly to identify the college or the criminal would be injudicious and offensive. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• If we could get the rest of that sheet it is obvious that we should have gone a long way towards solving the mystery. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• It is obvious that unless the lower eye did thus travel round, it could not be used by the fish while lying in its habitual position on one side. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• I was marvelling in my own mind how I could possibly have overlooked so obvious a clue. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• If I am Mr. Neville St. Clair, then it is obvious that no crime has been committed, and that, therefore, I am illegally detained. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.

Typed by Hester