1 They became sodden, stupid, ugly or obscene.
2 She thought of smoking a cigarette, to shock them, and dismissed the obscene thought before it was quite formed.
3 She crouched in her chair as she imagined men talking of her, thick-voiced, obscene, in barber shops and the tobacco-stinking pool parlor.
4 Before they got her story she had five more minutes of obscene wallowing.
5 There are some things that the Southern white man will not tolerate, and the obscene intimations of the foregoing have brought the writer to the very outermost limit of public patience.
6 It came from Myrtle who had overheard the question and it was violent and obscene.
7 On the white steps an obscene word, scrawled by some boy with a piece of brick, stood out clearly in the moonlight and I erased it, drawing my shoe raspingly along the stone.
8 Ravished by dead words become obscene, and dead ideas become obsessions.
9 In the meantime, the drinkers had begun to sing an obscene song, and to laugh at it until the ceiling shook.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S H... 10 He took her to plays and annoyed her by whispering that God probably didn't approve of such amusements, and to churches and, sotto voce, retailed funny obscenities and then reproved her for laughing.
11 He was fond of using soldiers' obscenities: usually he came home in the small hours.
12 He uttered coarse speeches, obscenities, and filth with a certain tranquillity and lack of astonishment which was elegant.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—LUC-ESPRIT 13 Supreme misery an occasion for obscenity.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XIII—THE SOLUTION OF SOME QUESTIONS CONNECTED WIT...