How To Use Obscurely In A Sentence
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There had been, in very ancient times, a native religion called Shinto, and it had lingered on obscurely.
The Problem of China
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The _spikelets_ are arranged in groups of two, facing each other and appearing like a single spikelet with two equal echinate glumes, sessile, or obscurely pedicelled on very short, tumid, pubescent branches.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
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Your typical correspondent carps about a mistranslation, a geographical inaccuracy, an obscure word obscurely misused.
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These last threats, uttered more obscurely than the others, obviously concerned the person of the King, and at one time the Duke expressed his determination to send for the Duke of Normandy, the brother of the King, and with whom Louis was on the worst terms, in order to compel the captive monarch to surrender either the Crown itself, or some of its most valuable rights and appanages.
Quentin Durward
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Moore, 543 (40 Eliz.); an obscurely reported case, seems to have been assumpsit against an agistor, for a horse stolen while in his charge, and asserts obiter that "without such special assumpsit the action does not lie.
The Common Law
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They were making her feel obscurely worried .
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I want them to be obscurely, freezingly, impossibly Belgian.
Excerpt: I Was Told There'd Be Cake by Sloane Crosley
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Most exonyms are obscurely complimentary, even if that is not the intention.
Times, Sunday Times
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‘More obscurely, and more defiant against attempts to debunk, is the case of Ninel Kulagina.
The Bizarre Case Of Ninel Kulagina | Disinformation
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The material body deposits, however obscurely, its trace in the voice - the vibration of air, the stretched muscle etc, are all opaquely present.
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things obscurely felt surged up from unknown depths
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One epigram speaks obscurely of the destruction of the idols of Alexandria by the Christian populace in the archiepiscopate of
Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology
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Branches are effuse, fine, capillary (more so than in S. coromandelianus), obliquely ascending, never stiff and horizontal, verticillate or irregularly subverticillate, the lowest whorl of five to twelve and the others three to seven branches; the rachis of the branches is obscurely scaberulous, slightly swollen at the point of insertion; branchlets are never appressed to the branch, always drooping and spreading on all sides, and bearing two to four spikelets.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
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Shuttlecock and battledore, "he said obscurely," ....
“It was the Golden Fleece ready for the shearing.”
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It was only as he stood in the courtyard, with the Porta della Carta before him and Venice beyond, that he roused himself and balked, obscurely but decisively, at walking through the public entrance like an uncumbered man.
Asimov's Science Fiction
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_agrypnia_ we are unable to discover any pathological condition that would account for this symptom; but the probability is that here there is a sluggishness of some one or more of the functions, mental or physical, too obscurely manifested to be discovered by our present means of diagnosis, yet reached and rectified by a mode of electrization that traverses and permeates _every_ portion of the body.
The Electric Bath
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The occurrence may be briefly stated as a series of obscurely paralled seams of slate, with quarzose ore bodies two to six feet in thickness between them.
North Carolina and its Resources.
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Grain is nearly globose, compressed on one side, obscurely rugulose.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
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We are to understand by the truly honourable that which, setting aside all consideration of utility, may be rightly praised in itself, exclusive of any prospect of reward or compensation.] [Footnote 15: This passage is very obscurely expressed, but the general meaning is clear: "Until endurance grow sinewed with action, and the full-grown will, circled through all experiences grow or become law, be identified with law, and commeasure perfect freedom".
The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Miner, "who advises me to" do the right thing by M'liss, "or intimates somewhat obscurely that he will" bust my crust for me, "which, though complimentary in its abstract expression of interest, and implying a taste for euphonism, evinces an innate coarseness which I fear may blunt his perceptions of delicate shades and Greek outlines.
The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers
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The rocks and soil continued to shift until they had achieved an obscurely manlike semblance.
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A bloody affray, which is obscurely related, had occurred in St. Louis between the Secessionists and Federalists.
The Civil War in America
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We're both obscurely addicted to odd sports (cricket, sumo), both had empires, are bellicose, mistrustful of foreigners, and are passionate gardeners.
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Most exonyms are obscurely complimentary, even if that is not the intention.
Times, Sunday Times
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You are a magician, and your book is a marvel, a real wonder in the history of philosophy, making, if I mistake not, an entirely new era in respect of matter, but unlike the works of genius of the 'transcendentalist' movement (which are so obscurely and abominably and inaccessibly written), a pure classic in point of form.
Familiar Letters of William James III
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Thorax: the apical margin of the prothorax, the margins of the scutellum, and the sides of the metathorax covered with a dense short ochraceous pubescence; the disk of the thorax thinly sprinkled with short black hairs; the posterior tibiæ obscurely ferruginous; the tarsi ferruginous; the legs covered with bright golden-yellow pubescence; wings subhyaline, the nervures ferruginous; the tegulæ yellow with a fuscous stain in the middle.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
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The _first glume_ is very small, membranous, glabrous, broader than long, cordate or triangular, broadly but shallowly emarginate, nerveless or very obscurely 1 - to
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
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Liberalism and Communism both regarded egalitarianism as an ideal and both were godless; Communism openly so, liberalism more obscurely.
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A painting exhibition titled "Gradation" and the obscurely organized "Points of View" are less inspiring, and the delicate, thoughtful, though somewhat anachronistic works in the Cuban exhibition "Serendipity" was gobbled up by the sensory overload of its neighboring exhibitions, especially the roaring techno music spewing over from next door's addendum to "California Dreamin '," a coma-inducing cavernous video room that could enwrap a viewer for hours.
Marina Cashdan: The Promised Land? Will Portugal Arte 10 Become a Fixture on the Art World Calendar?
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The spikelets are one-to two-flowered, subsessile and subsecund on the branches which are produced as awn-like bristles beyond the ultimate spikelet, obscurely jointed and persistent on their obconic short pedicels, narrowly lanceolate and terete.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
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Things obscurely felt surged up from unknown depths.
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this work is obscurely written
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The _fourth glume_ is ellipsoidal, obtuse, chartaceous, minutely and obscurely rugulose, faintly 3-nerved, with the base somewhat thickened.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
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As his bibliomania grew, his worst fears became confirmed; he wrote less and less, and more crabbedly and obscurely.
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+Cap+ brownish yellow, 1½ to 3 inches broad, convex or nearly plane, viscid or glutinous when moist, often obscurely streaked (virgate).
Among the Mushrooms A Guide For Beginners