All 9 Uses of
obscure
in
David Copperfield
- As I walked to and fro daily between Southwark and Blackfriars, and lounged about at meal-times in obscure streets, the stones of which may, for anything I know, be worn at this moment by my childish feet, I wonder how many of these people were wanting in the crowd that used to come filing before me in review again, to the echo of Captain Hopkins's voice!
Chpt 10-12 (definition 1)obscure = not known to many people; or undistinguished
- He was a sober, steady-looking young man of retiring manners, with a comic head of hair, and eyes that were rather wide open; and he got into an obscure corner so soon, that I had some difficulty in making him out.
Chpt 25-27 (definition 2) *obscure = dark
- Afterwards, when we were fairly at our work, I found Mr. Jack Maldon's efforts more troublesome to me than I had expected, as he had not confined himself to making numerous mistakes, but had sketched so many soldiers, and ladies' heads, over the Doctor's manuscript, that I often became involved in labyrinths of obscurity.
Chpt 34-36 (definition 3)obscurity = the quality of being difficult to understand or see
- I stopped short, among the thick foliage outside, for the moon was up now, though obscured; and I recognized the man whom I had once supposed to be a delusion of Mr. Dick's, and had once encountered with my aunt in the streets of the city.
Chpt 46-48 (definition 4)obscured = hid or made less visible or understandable
- The light in the passage was obscured for a moment, and my aunt came out.
Chpt 46-48 (definition 4) *obscured = blocked (so it was less visible)
- 'Hide yourself,' she pursued, 'if not at home, somewhere. Let it be somewhere beyond reach; in some obscure life...'
Chpt 49-51 (definition 1) *obscure = not known to many people and not attracting notice
- 'Hide yourself,' she pursued, 'if not at home, somewhere. Let it be somewhere beyond reach; in some obscure life - or, better still, in some obscure death.'
Chpt 49-51 (definition 1)obscure = not known to many people; or undistinguished
- Some future traveller, visiting, from motives of curiosity, not unmingled, let us hope, with sympathy, the place of confinement allotted to debtors in this city, may, and I trust will, Ponder, as he traces on its wall, inscribed with a rusty nail, "The obscure initials, 'W. M.'"
Chpt 52-54 (definition 3) *obscure = mysterious (not understanding what the initials stand for)
- I meekly ordered a bit of fish and a steak, and stood before the fire musing on his obscurity.†
Chpt 58-60 (definition 4)