All 3 Uses of
oblique
in
Far from the Madding Crowd
- …his two hands, overweighting it on the ground till it reached nearly a semicircle; or perhaps it was hastily tucked under the arm whilst the sample-bag was pulled forth and a handful of corn poured into the palm, which, after criticism, was flung upon the floor, an issue of events perfectly well known to half-a-dozen acute town-bred fowls which had as usual crept into the building unobserved, and waited the fulfilment of their anticipations with a high-stretched neck and oblique eye.†
Chpt 10-12
- But she had obliquely noticed that he was young and slim, and that he wore three chevrons upon his sleeve.†
Chpt 22-24 *
- The rain stretched obliquely through the dull atmosphere in liquid spines, unbroken in continuity between their beginnings in the clouds and their points in him.†
Chpt 37-39
Definition:
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(oblique as in: an oblique reference) indirect; i.e., not straightforward