All 7 Uses of
obscure
in
Bleak House
- Eighteen of Mr. Tangle's learned friends, each armed with a little summary of eighteen hundred sheets, bob up like eighteen hammers in a pianoforte, make eighteen bows, and drop into their eighteen places of obscurity.†
Chpt 1-3
- Because you are in a state of darkness, because you are in a state of obscurity, because you are in a state of sinfulness, because you are in a state of bondage.†
Chpt 19-21
- "Now, your ladyship"— Mr. Guppy refers to a little slip of paper on which he has made small notes of his line of argument and which seems to involve him in the densest obscurity whenever he looks at it—"I—Oh, yes!†
Chpt 28-30
- The other woman came hurriedly in as she spoke, and the boy got up with a half-obscured sense that he was expected to be going.†
Chpt 31-33 *
- Thus privileged, they come in and find Mr. Smallweed with his feet in the drawer of his chair as if it were a paper foot-bath and Mrs. Smallweed obscured with the cushion like a bird that is not to sing.†
Chpt 34-36
- If he were groping in the dark, he could not do better than do his utmost to clear away those clouds in which so much was confused and obscured.†
Chpt 43-45
- But all is changed at the rag and bottle shop; Miss Flite no longer lodges there; it is shut up; and a hard-featured female, much obscured by dust, whose age is a problem, but who is indeed no other than the interesting Judy, is tart and spare in her replies.†
Chpt 46-48