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1. His gaze was returned from a face in obscure profile, ringed with a moist
2. His gaze was returned from a face in obscure profile, ringed with a moist halo of condensation
3. reveal all but the most obscure corners,
4. An obscure but historically rich family of age old standing first came to live in one of London’s green suburban idylls when those self same suburbs were nothing but virgin fields and meadows recently subsumed into William the Conqueror’s new realm
5. was one her husband's more obscure minions, at least that was how
6. An obscure but historically rich family of age old standing first
7. There was plenty of smoke inside, but not enough to obscure the college banners that decorated the walls
8. always been sited in out-of-the-way places, were so obscure that no
9. Tania knew where every obscure bangle, bobble, thingamagig and whatsit sat on shelves or under cabinets throughout the store and stockroom
10. whether he has been abducted or gone off for obscure reasons of his
11. crannies of the area, and the obscure ruins he’d run to
12. "You wouldn't say that unless you mean the Klarrain who prints a bunch of little obscure magazines
13. meaning, a meaning that used to remain obscure for
14. When we talk of any particular sum of money, we sometimes mean nothing but the metal pieces of which it is composed, and sometimes we include in our meaning some obscure reference to the goods which can be had in exchange for it, or to the power of purchasing which the possession of it conveys
15. of the metal pieces of which it is composed, but to include in its signification some obscure reference to the goods which can be had in exchange for them, the wealth or revenue which it in this case denotes, is equal only to one of the two values which are thus intimated somewhat ambiguously by the same word, and to the latter more properly than to the former, to the money's worth more properly than to the money
16. doubt, yours, his movements were all but obscure to my eyes,
17. an obscure cousin’s wedding, that we had found an opportunity to
18. arrived at such an obscure station?” I haven’t a clue
19. me your TV?” Then he laughed at his own obscure joke
20. The time and manner, however, in which so important a revolution was brought about, is one of the most obscure points in modern history
21. No vestige now remains of the great wealth said to have been possessed by the greater part of the Hanse Towns, except in the obscure histories of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries
22. A hooded robe the color of ebony did well to obscure most of him, but long amber locks persisted in falling forward
23. The old cuts that criss-crossed his skin were raised in deep red welts, but they did nothing to obscure the beauty of his strong, young body
24. We dealt in great detail with the security laws and other obscure laws which no one really cared about
25. Although the purpose of television is to entertain (and instruct) and to provide a meaningful outlet for a child‘s (incipient) imagination, it should do so in a manner that correctly distinguishes between what is real from implausible or uncertain (impressions) that that child normally receives; that is to say, that otherwise obscure what is real from what is not real (or make-believe) but only appears to be real whenever taken out of context
26. Observing an object up front and close or from too great a distance, for that matter, will oftentimes obscure or distort an individual‘s visual perception
27. This by-product of social leveling has precipitated prescriptive efforts by revisionists seeking to recreate or redefine history within retro/present time frames that not only obscure our collective understanding of the events that shaped our nation‘s history, but an understanding of its people, as well
28. Plastic had been put over the poles, then more poles, then the boughs laid on to hold it down, and possibly obscure it from view? All of this was way more work than pitching a simple tent, waterproof and bug-free
29. But without a decisive loss and harsh peace imposed by the Allies, the Nazis do not arise, and Hitler likely remains an obscure failed artist
30. Was it because he cared about me? Or was that, too, some obscure political point—or perhaps, even more sinisterly, that it would represent the first step on the road to losing control?
31. The world seemed so obscure and distant
32. Whoever built this thing would be indeed quite an eccentric if any door would be cryptically lying in an obscure, random position
33. Was this a joke? Whoever would come up with a name as obscure as ‘Noah Beerhouse’? He had become so absorbed in his task that he had eaten into first lecture time
34. The view through the control room’s invisible walls turned obscure and milky as veins and arteries within the shield soaked in and utilised the phenomenal magnitude of energy
35. She’s taller than I am by just a few inches, and though her baggy shirt and pants try to obscure it, I can tell that her body bends and curves like it’s supposed to
36. Another is that the definitions of the more obscure words are more specific, in interesting ways
37. I was dressed as a doctor, complete with a small black bag, and had a coat, hat and scarf on, to obscure my features
38. 12 For the bewitching of naughtiness does obscure things that are honest; and the wandering of concupiscence does undermine the
39. The hair which had been perfectly pinned back, slid out of place and fell to obscure her face
40. Ogg could see that even in an obscure and otherwise over-
41. assumption obscure reality without destroying it
42. appear, they obscure and distort and you see the false as real
43. only the correlation of those statements but also how obscure such information was; the objective
44. obscure, little could account for how the child might have acquired such information or
45. obscure, personal information, that would only have been known by immediate family members
46. fraud was involved and the information was indeed both obscure and accurate
47. obscure history book on Cuenca, published only in Spanish, which revealed the Inquisition had
48. Tarazi found a century-old reference, again only in Spanish, which quoted yet other obscure
49. emerge and obscure and complicate
50. proved to be both amazingly obscure and accurate
1. Over the years, my parents found that they could speak freely about this previously obscured time of my life
2. His flight helmet showed him spotty imagery obscured by the debris
3. It had a few glowing spots and bands in its atmosphere, often obscured by bands of clouds
4. It was partly obscured by a small stand of trees
5. the forgotten grave, his name obscured,
6. grit in his swollen throat, obscured vision,
7. the island and the castles were lost to view, obscured by the trees and
8. Leona has an innate ability to find the brightness even when the sun is obscured by clouds
9. Dark clouds obscured the Moon
10. completely obscured by foliage
11. affairs," Katrina said from the other side of the empty seat, the black symbols on her face partially obscured by her veil
12. Rollinthor thrashing in his hands, Drua'd trudged past the line of wolf helmed soldiers, the light of a thousand colors flashing on his face while the pair of Rock Dwarves walking beside him moved in darkness, obscured by the shadow of the Keeper's guard
13. Dawn the following morning was obscured by the
14. the path was often totally obscured by fallen debris
15. Late afternoon was slipping into early evening and he noted the slowly fading sun, partially obscured by gathering clouds
16. But a treacherous stone, one obscured by the gleaming white dust and DRAFTChapter 8 147
17. Though his hood was drawn up and obscured most of his face, she could make out what looked like a shadowed grin as he played the instrument
18. The bag completely obscured her vision, so she was working on memory and touch alone
19. ’ He then leapt off the edge without a sound, his fall obscured by a rocky outcrop
20. The two escort vessels have passed the station and are now obscured behind it
21. He was wearing a breathing mask, a full face mask with a small, integral oxygen supply, which obscured the lower half of his face
22. The base was separating from the moon, the shattering moon-rock mostly obscured in a cloud of dust, yet it was clear enough that the warheads had penetrated so deeply that part of the Moon had gone with the base
23. The room contained other rooms within, more privately obscured from view
24. All sounds, all sights obscured by the pure joy of simply being together again
25. The Banter Mountains were really just hills, but against the stark contrast of the desert, they seemed to loom up in homage to Illeander in the far distance, yet again obscured by heat haze
26. It obscured his features, but Amaranthe could read the reluctance in his sagging posture as he stepped back into the ring
27. The enemy also had smokeless powder, and neither battery nor trench could be located; while the United States Artillery and the Springfields of the National Guard made a continual smoke target, and obscured the view
28. Trees there obscured the view and would provide cover for her to run down to the lake
29. The activities of obscured cults, and alien entities, left
30. Faint noises issued from its mouth, obscured by an overgrown mustache and beard
31. We proceeded to the east, and after ten minutes or so the Western Front lay below, obscured by the fog of war
32. Thick clouds, unseen during his afternoon’s work obscured his vision
33. He approached slowly and found the entrance obscured in overgrowth, but exactly where the drunk had said it would be
34. It looked impossibly far, but I supposed it could have been another city, the one I had lately left obscured by the rocks about me
35. While the road obscured the view directly ahead, out to each side of the car, they could clearly see the rest of the world dropping away, brightly lit
36. He almost missed the symbol because it was painted on the lower corner of the shop’s window, and frost had obscured most of it
37. In the morning, Ethan could see they were carefully obscured behind brushes of reeds and thick mangroves
38. This obscured sight of the tail lights, so all you saw was a dust cloud against dark landscape
39. His view was partially obscured by several cars between
40. clearly, reverberating through the vat much less obscured than Ardara’s had been,
41. The dark moon, the time when no moon can be seen in the sky, was the phase of the moon which ruled this time, because it represents a time in which our mortal sight needs to be obscured in order for us to see into the other worlds
42. thoughts obscured his vision as he marched swiftly towards the
43. seem obscured by clouds and dust, but only from the point of
44. With the sense ‘I am’ emerging, ‘That’ is obscured, as with
45. The truth behind Obama’s intent is obscured, as it is calculated to be, by what is widely credited as his great oratory
46. flicker of imagination and interest the unknowable is obscured
47. Malicious bots are used to spread links to malware which are often disguised as shortened links so that the malicious link itself is obscured from view by the shortened link
48. Heavy gray clouds obscured the sun and even
49. I saw the Alps from my window seat, but clouds obscured Europe after we left the Mediterranean Sea behind
50. “They will be obscured by Illusions, or disguised as something else in that way
1. 2“Who is this that obscures my plans with words without knowledge?
2. in intensity and obscures all other relationships
3. In fact, it only obscures my view for a few seconds before evaporating completely
4. ‘I-am-so-and-so’ obscures the changeless state of pure aware-
5. are of the mind and the mind obscures and distorts
6. a cloud obscures the sun without in any way affecting it, so does
7. causes the self-concern, which obscures the universe
8. creates the world, the tamoguna obscures it and the rajoguna
9. gunas, the answer will be: what creates — what obscures —
10. Illusion obscures truth and keeps one lost
11. confuses, tires and obscures
12. It arises out of the observation of the imperfections which appear in the shadow cast by a finite universe of things and beings as such a cosmos obscures the living light of the universal expression of the eternal realities of the Infinite One
13. great consistency, but not to exaggerate it into stasis so that it obscures complexity
14. A dogged belief in consistency obscures one's vísion
15. SMOKEY VEIL THAT OBSCURES HIS TRUTH FROM YOU
16. Nevertheless, for those who seek the Truth, the shadow story seems shrouded in the mystery that obscures the truth from our conscious understanding
17. The harmless theory, as some people call it, of a real corporal presence of Christ's natural body and blood in the bread and wine, if pursued to its legitimate consequences, obscures every leading doctrine of the gospel, and damages and interferes with the whole system of Christ's truth
18. To judge yourself and to judge others is a preoccupation of the mind that dirties the heart and subsequently obscures the soul
19. Loki obscures most of the view, but Amy can see the thing is still there
20. There is an undefined phenomenon in the cosmos, never mentioned (in public) because it obscures the
21. �� As it says in the handout, there are three kinds of communication that interfere with compassionate communication:� demands, language that obscures choice, and diagnoses and interpretations
22. � Language that obscures choice happens in larger contexts to varying degrees
23. � Communication that obscures choice speaks in violation of the moral sphere and the ends principle
24. � Language that obscures choice obscures our search for the becoming self because it eliminates the possibility and power of our individuation as whole beings
25. � Language that obscures choice can deflect us from that "Yes" even when we deny its immediate power by saying and acting out our "No
26. � In saying "No" in that way, she and many others of us actually restrict our choices as much if not more than does the language that obscures choice
27. � "No" often obscures choice in and of itself
28. misrepresented in a way that completely obscures their most profound purposes and meaning
29. mourning while looking down at the “sacred volume” that obscures the broken pillar
30. on the Great Seal obscures the truth about what exists beyond it
31. pyramid, without the body of knowledge that obscures it
32. without the corpus-knowledge that obscures it within the pyramid, an idealized mountain
33. that lures with visions of wealth and then obscures the
34. at last to sink into depravity which obscures the mind and turns the heart to stone
35. In actual practice, the presence of additional noise and fluctuation obscures these simple tendencies, but this is the underlying truth of momentum divergence
36. “They cannot see our Joli Rouge!” cried Horatio, “for the Fog obscures all but the Ghosts of our Lights!”
37. Smoke is an ideal indicator, but do not place it so that it obscures the touchdown area
38. High-Q filters have high selectivity in the frequency domain, but their ringing obscures the cyclic information in the data input
39. In my opinion, this precision property of indicators gives traders a false sense of security and obscures the fact that indicators are basically displays of a statistical process
40. One key situation we find of interest is when we believe unrepresentative accounting obscures the true value of the business
41. And, in these cases, somewhat as a pilot, when about losing sight of a coast, whose general trending he well knows, and which he desires shortly to return to again, but at some further point; like as this pilot stands by his compass, and takes the precise bearing of the cape at present visible, in order the more certainly to hit aright the remote, unseen headland, eventually to be visited: so does the fisherman, at his compass, with the whale; for after being chased, and diligently marked, through several hours of daylight, then, when night obscures the fish, the creature's future wake through the darkness is almost as established to the sagacious mind of the hunter, as the pilot's coast is to him
42. ‘There are three ways before her,’ he thought, ‘the canal, the madhouse, or … at last to sink into depravity which obscures the mind and turns the heart to stone
43. It is the convulsive manifestation of his personality, an instinctive melancholia, an uncontrollable desire for self-assertion, all of which obscures his reason
44. Anxiety about the technique and the beauty of the picture for the most part obscures the feeling
1. Thoughts forever crowd together in your head, obscuring any clear view of the world
2. The darkness had closed in, cloud obscuring the stars and no sign of the sun as yet
3. The rain and oncoming night challenged Drau’d’s limited cave-vision, obscuring his father’s image
4. The road bent to the left, obscuring the city wall behind the thick forest
5. Light feathery clouds skittered across the sky obscuring the sun, then uncovering it rapidly
6. Smoke gathered in the rafters, obscuring Sicarius, who crouched on the beam closest to the door, ten feet away
7. It is dishonest, hypocritical, ultimately useless and obscuring of any attempt at honest judgment of the good or evil of presidents
8. It loomed over them, with a heavy mist obscuring tongues of glacier on its heights
9. Fact that one's non-virtuous karmic imprints are temporary pollutions obscuring the mind, and that they do not exist innately in the nature of the mind itself
10. eye, almost obscuring his vision, with the remaining few standing
11. Then I felt a rush of wind against my face, my hair thrust in front of my eyes, obscuring my vision
12. clouds obscuring the mind dissolve and the heart of being is
13. The sky continued to stoop ever lower, obscuring hints of
14. the container, which closed over, obscuring her from view
15. It was also obscuring our view of the hill
16. Tom began to rub his temples, trying to clear his head of the pounding that was obscuring
17. As Tim stood up quickly, ears ringing, the strobe painted a picture of Carl, his gun pointed at the floor, the smoke surrounding his feet almost obscuring the blood splatter
18. His hand rested lightly on her cheek obscuring her from view
19. Flecks of rubber deposits were plastered across the well that held the site glass obscuring the view
20. Simon leans forward and tries to peer under the tent; his hair falls across his face obscuring his vision and all he can make out is a pale face with a huge nose and wide eyes
21. The heat of the flames as they approach Dippa makes him scream in frustration and tears flood into his eyes obscuring his vision totally
22. As I reached the intersection, a hedge sprang up obscuring my vision and I did not see the other car
23. Stacy’s hair was short and brown, partially obscuring her eyes
24. and by nine a cloud of dust had been generated obscuring
25. There had been a fine grey mist in that direction, obscuring the landscape and sending a cold, harrowing feeling through her body and culminating in her active mind
26. A heavy fog could be seen obscuring the sky just about a mile offshore and threatened to envelop the area, preventing the search party from having a fruitful investigation, unless the sun could break through the blanket of clouds and burn it away before it reached shore
27. He stepped out, losing his foot to the obscuring grey
28. They drifted on the breeze and swarmed around her, completely obscuring the world from sight
29. obscuring his view of the Sheerness road, which he could tell from his guide book should have been
30. Jehan suddenly froze and looked up at the night sky, where a huge black mass floated silently above, obscuring the stars over a wide part of the sky
31. still air, obscuring my vision, temporarily
32. the boat obscuring the view behind them
33. his neck and obscuring his offensive tattoos then reaching
34. his hat obscuring his face
35. He spun his bike, stirring up a cloud of dirt, obscuring him from the laser fire
36. The SHADOW obscuring the real MOTIVATIONS and INTENTIONS of those who feed us His Story
37. “Your vanity is obscuring your head!” Replied Labarique in a firm tone
38. Their fire brands revealed a large woven matt obscuring the cave opening
39. " His eyes were dark and hooded now, obscuring any possibility of reading his thoughts
40. He dogpaddled across the short stretch, then stood up and sauntered casually to the path that led from the cave to the food area, and stopped between two trees up against the rock face, partly obscuring him
41. She stood over him, the shadow of her hair, her breasts, and long thin legs obscuring him in darkness
42. She felt as though a misty veil was obscuring her vision
43. After a time, the stormy winds and obscuring clouds dissipated
44. I turned around the tree as the pair came closer, obscuring myself from view with each turn
45. from the cavern ceiling temporarily obscuring my view
46. Tears rolled in her eyes obscuring her vision as she felt the emotions rushing through her
47. Imperfections-the obscuring pall of nature-are there until there is steady
48. The snow fell in large flakes, obscuring his vision as he ran
49. of the as psychological cataracts that might be obscuring their mental I-sight concerning
50. obscuring its view of it