obscureness

Example Sentences

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And while his aesthetic seems like ingratiating wholesome Americana, there’s an avant-garde obscureness underneath it.

From New York Times • Nov. 8, 2021

The place so offensive for its cloudiness, is,   —The obscureness of her birth   Cannot eclipse the lustre of her eyes,   Which make her all one light.

From The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume V. by Cibber, Theophilus

Thou mayst in after ages live esteemed, Unburied in these lines, reserved in pureness; These shall entomb those eyes, that have redeemed Me from the vulgar, thee from all obscureness.

From Elizabethan Sonnet-Cycles Delia - Diana by Crow, Martha Foote

Whether a natural obscureness, hiding That region in perpetual cloud, Or our own want of effort, be the bar. ant.

From Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold by Arnold, Matthew

Then it was rain, wind, obscureness of gloom, and lightning. 

From The Mutiny of the Elsinore by London, Jack