Another reason which Sag-Harbor (he went by that name) urged for his want of faith in this matter of the prophet, was something
obscurely in reference to his incarcerated body and the whale's gastric juices.
Beneath his painful shyness something was growing up within him, and
obscurely he realised his personality.
Military science, seeing in history innumerable instances of the fact that the size of any army does not coincide with its strength and that small detachments defeat larger ones,
obscurely admits the existence of this unknown factor and tries to discover it- now in a geometric formation, now in the equipment employed, now, and most usually, in the genius of the commanders.
Ere long, however, there rose
obscurely on her mind a doubt which perplexed and distressed her.
Charles Strickland lived
obscurely. He made enemies rather than friends.
Sir Edmund Andros looked at the old man; then he cast his hard and cruel eye over the multitude, and beheld them burning with that lurid wrath, so difficult to kindle or to quench; and again he fixed his gaze on the aged form, which stood
obscurely in an open space, where neither friend nor foe had thrust himself.
If she had only pressed them a little further--if she had not unconsciously led me astray again by the very next question that fell from her lips--she must have communicated to my mind the idea
obscurely germinating in hers--the idea of a possible identity between the Mary of my first love and Mrs.
He must be retained, or rather he must be left quite alone; and Milady but
obscurely perceived the means which could lead to this result.
Yearning desire had been transformed to hope; and hope, long cherished, had become like certainty, that,
obscurely as he journeyed now, a glory was to beam on all his pathway- though not, perhaps, while he was treading it.
For 1) if the quarrel between the brothers were a fiction, we should expect it to be detailed at length and not noticed allusively and rather
obscurely -- as we find it; 2) as MM.
It varies in width from thirty to sixty yards, and its surface is level and smooth; it is composed of
obscurely stratified hard sandstone.
Obscurely wounded in his pride, he tried to wound them in return.