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  • Obscurity, thy name is obnubilated, by the mists of life's registrar.

    A Portraiture of Circling Back (or Why I Hate Fashist Assholes Like Mohandes Gandhi) 2010

  • “He obnubilated,” McCurry said coolly, “just the way I did yesterday.”

    No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003

  • “He obnubilated,” McCurry said coolly, “just the way I did yesterday.”

    No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003

  • “He obnubilated,” McCurry said coolly, “just the way I did yesterday.”

    No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003

  • “He obnubilated,” McCurry said coolly, “just the way I did yesterday.”

    No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003

  • MR. MCCURRY: He obnubilated just the way I did yesterday.

    Press Briefing By Mike Mccurry ITY National Archives 1998

  • Many of its signs, obnubilated by countless generations, were misleading.

    HOTHOUSE Aldiss, Brian 1962

  • “Now, by my knighthood,” answered Sir Piercie, “your lovely faculties either of mind or body are, O my most fair Discretion, obnubilated by some strange hallucination.

    The Monastery 2008

  • He durst not talk with the Queen any more, with that Freedom which was too engaging on both Sides; his Eyes were obnubilated; his Discourse was forc'd and unconnected; he turn'd his Eyes another Way; and when, against his Inclination, they met with those of the Queen, he found, that tho 'drown'd in Tears, they darted Flames of Fire: They seem'd in Silence to intimate, that they were afraid of being in love with each other; and that both burn'd with a Fire which both condemn'd.

    Zadig Or, The Book of Fate 1694-1778 Voltaire 1736

  • "I called that you may lend us your help to laugh: since your rufflers are dispersed, your smokers obnubilated in their own clouds, your tipplers strewed upon the benches, and nothing more left for you to do in the tap-room, we would have your worshipful and witty company here in the parlor.

    Rob of the bowl : a legend of St. Inigoe's, 1872

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