obscurity

• The dim chairs and shadowy tables were discernible, but, as if they yielded precedence to death, the most solid object in the obscurity was the coffin in which Mrs. Drainger's body lay. —  The Best Short Stories of 1919 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story
• For then she is among trees whose trunks stand close, the spaces between buried in deep obscurity--deeper from the night being a dark one. —  The Death Shot A Story Retold
• In their eyes obscurity is the height of ignominy: so they do their best to keep their names in every mouth. —  The Simple Life
• In the obscurity were gathered little groups of townsmen. —  The Nebuly Coat
• But between these widely distant epochs there is an interval of obscurity, and we can only guess at the causes which permitted the Patria Potestas to last as long as it did by rendering it more tolerable than it appears. —  Ancient Law Its Connection to the History of Early Society

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