OBSCURITY in Classic Quotes

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1  Through the obscurity which hid their faces their thoughts seemed to dart at each other like serpents shooting venom.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In VII
2  Sometimes their way led them under the shade of an overhanging bank or through the thin obscurity of a clump of leafless trees.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In II
3  He bent down, feeling in the obscurity for the glassy slide worn by preceding coasters, and placed the runners carefully between its edges.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In IX
4  He opened the barn-door and craned his head into the obscurity, half-fearing to discover Denis Eady's roan colt in the stall beside the sorrel.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In IV
5  In another moment she would step forth into the night, and his eyes, accustomed to the obscurity, would discern her as clearly as though she stood in daylight.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In II
6  Ethan, consumed with the longing for a last moment alone with Mattie, hung about impatiently while Denis made an ineffectual search in the obscurer corners of the store.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In VI
7  The room was almost dark, but in the obscurity he saw her sitting by the window, bolt upright, and knew by the rigidity of the outline projected against the pane that she had not taken off her travelling dress.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In VII