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Example sentences for "obscure corner"

  • Tired of her person, and profiting by her gentleness of temper, he sent her to an obscure corner of the country, to starve upon the miserable pittance which was all he allowed her from his superfluities.

  • Muse drew Mathilde into an obscure corner of the grotto to ask her this question:-- "Are you happy?

  • Sometimes he glided into an obscure corner, and murmured a portion of a prayer that he considered ridiculous to repeat aloud.

  • On June 19, he is 'vexed to think myself a coarse labourer in an obscure corner.

  • The puffy-faced young man rose, and drawing a chair close to Mr. Pickwick in an obscure corner of the room, listened attentively to his tale of woe.

  • Mr. Pickwick bowed to the three persons who were seated in it when he entered; and having despatched Sam for Perker, withdrew into an obscure corner, and looked thence with some curiosity upon his new companions.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    after passing; appreciate the; beating well; called upon; cattle station; comparatively speaking; consolidated government; curiously enough; get down; its proper; kind word; made alive; mile walk; more reasonable; much else; obscure corner; passed from; polite society; scientific method; six weeks; surrender themselves; the fat