All 10 Uses of
obscure
in
Far from the Madding Crowd
- Turning down an obscure street and entering an obscurer lane, he went up to a smith's shop.
Chpt 4-6 (definition 1) *obscure = not known to many people; or undistinguished
- Turning down an obscure street and entering an obscurer lane, he went up to a smith's shop.
Chpt 4-6 (definition 1)obscurer = less known, visible, or understandable
- In this meditative walk his foot met the floor with heel and toe simultaneously, and his fine reddish-fleshed face was bent downwards just enough to render obscure the still mouth and the well-rounded though rather prominent and broad chin.
Chpt 16-18 (definition 2)obscure = not clearly seen, understood, or expressed
- That he was not beloved had hitherto been his great sorrow; that Bathsheba was getting into the toils was now a sorrow greater than the first, and one which nearly obscured it.
Chpt 28-30 (definition 3) *obscured = hid
- Gabriel now put forth his unobscured opinion, for the moment had come.†
Chpt 28-30 (definition 3)
- The confused beginnings of many birds' songs spread into the healthy air, and the wan blue of the heaven was here and there coated with thin webs of incorporeal cloud which were of no effect in obscuring day.
Chpt 34-36 (definition 3)obscuring = making less visible or understandable
- It was on the obscure side of the tower, screened to a great extent from the view of passers along the road—a spot which until lately had been abandoned to heaps of stones and bushes of alder, but now it was cleared and made orderly for interments, by reason of the rapid filling of the ground elsewhere.
Chpt 43-45 (definition 2) *obscure = not typically seen
- Sometimes this obscure corner received no inhabitant for the space of two or three years, and then it was usually but a pauper, a poacher, or other sinner of undignified sins.
Chpt 46-48 (definition 2)obscure = not clearly seen, understood, or expressed
- This, however, could not be helped; she would not, on any consideration, treat Boldwood harshly, having once already ill-used him, and the moon having risen, and the gig being ready, she drove across the hilltop in the wending way's which led downwards—to oblivious obscurity, as it seemed, for the moon and the hill it flooded with light were in appearance on a level, the rest of the world lying as a vast shady concave between them.†
Chpt 49-51 (definition 3)
- She was in a state of mental gutta serena; her mind was for the minute totally deprived of light at the same time no obscuration was apparent from without.†
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