1 She saw only that he was quiet and unobtrusive, and she liked him for it.
2 Colonel Brandon's delicate, unobtrusive enquiries were never unwelcome to Miss Dashwood.
3 This unobtrusive tenant was Jean Valjean, the young girl was Cosette.
Les Misérables (V4) By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I—THE HOUSE WITH A SECRET 4 Her chamber was narrow, neat, unobtrusive, with a long sash-window, facing the East on the back court-yard of the house.
5 Some unobtrusive touch had been added to Mademoiselle Bourienne's toilet which rendered her fresh and pretty face yet more attractive.
6 The two footmen and Matvey, in white cravats, did their duty with the dishes and wines unobtrusively, quietly, and swiftly.
7 So he stayed and, gradually, unobtrusively, a large part of the burden of Tara shifted from Scarlett's shoulders to the bony shoulders of Will Benteen.
8 Only then will our order have the power unobtrusively to bind the hands of the protectors of disorder and to control them without their being aware of it.