Meanings of vague figures in English

Morrison lay resting on the bed there, vague figures holding shape in the background.

I saw the vague figures of the watch grouped in the waist, gazing in awed silence.

She was just able to catch a glimpse of two vague figures underneath in the darkness.

The vague figures make abrupt movements and gestures.

His brain registered these vague figures with the instantaneity of a snapshot camera at full noon.

He thought he could distinguish some vague figures on the sands, so he fired at them.

Far away, miles, it seems to Billie, there are clouds of vapor and vague figures moving through them.

Then a second sweep revealed several vague figures under the canopied entrance of a store far to the left.

He left the darkened room without even noticing the vague figures who were waiting their turn for an audience.

He could see the vague figures of the Koreans-KimJae-sooand Go Mi-sun-andWilcovan Rooijen and Hugues d'Aubarède.

Some vague figures approached through the gloom, swinging an old-fashioned tin lantern that freckled the ground with innumerable little spangles of light.

The words and the soft dusk, and the vague figures in the English summer garden, seemed to typify the terror of all partings.

Vague figures had become the enemy.

But gradually, as the days went by, other figures than Lane's were limned upon her fancy-vaguefigures of heroes, knights, soldiers.

'Studying me?' Behind Asman's head he could see vague figures, in front of a long panel covered with intricate patterns of coloured lines.

"But what," she said, stooping and peering at the edge of the drawing, where, despite much knife-scraping, vague figures appeared, "what's that?"