Both Uses of
oblique
in
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
- Lying, in January, in that thin, linen sack, lying on a granite floor, without fire, in the gloom of a cell whose oblique air-hole allowed only the cold breeze, but never the sun, to enter from without, she did not appear to suffer or even to think.†
Chpt 1.6.3 *
- The owl often assumes this oblique attitude.†
Chpt 2.11.2
Definition:
indirect; i.e., not straightforward