Subdued splits and splutters whispered from out the obscureness, and a gentle grinding could be heard.
2
The coarse jest, the impure expression, the subtle inuendo,-poisoningthe more surely and deeply, by its very obscureness,-whereare these tolerated?
3
Something quick and subtle ran through my veins; something that for a few moments seemed to burn away the obscureness which blurs our thought.
4
And some time after that young Bansted Downs moved into the room of the Master Genius to learn the higher attributes of genius-eccentricity and obscureness.
1
Readily; I have solved others of an abstruseness ten thousand times greater.
2
The same person cannot be expected to excel in the abstruseness of metaphysical science, and in the ravishing effusions of poetical genius.
3
They have none of the abstruseness of idea or obscurity of expression which mark the written communications of a solitary mind with itself.
4
But he rendered his style obscure by excessive affectation and abstruseness, so that he was thought to speak better extempore, than in a premeditated discourse.