He crammed his pockets with watches; he was owner of enough diamonds to set up shop in a fashionable quarter; of guineas he had as many as would support his magnificence for half a year; and at last he resolved to quit the road, and to live like the gentleman he was. To this prudence he was the more easily persuaded, because not only were the thief-takers eager for his capture, but he was a double-dyed deserter, whose sole chance of quietude was a decent obscurity.英文原著 · 《A Book of Scoundrels》
When the exercise of his trade compelled him to shoot a policeman at Whalley Range, another was sentenced for the crime; and had he not encountered Mrs. Dyson, who knows but he might have practised his art in prosperous obscurity until claimed by a coward's death? But a stormy love-passage with Mrs. Dyson led to the unworthy killing of the woman's husband--a crime unnecessary and in no sense consonant to the burglar's craft; and Charles Peace was an outlaw, with a reward set upon his head.英文原著 · 《A Book of Scoundrels》
Brantain sat in one of these shadows; it had overtaken him and he did not mind. The obscurity lent him courage to keep his eves fastened as ardently as he liked upon the girl who sat in the firelight.英文原著 · 《Awakening & Selected Short Stories》
The lightning flashed right into the britchka as, cleaving the obscurity for a second, it lit up the grey cloth and silk galloon of the lining and Woloda's figure pressed back into a corner.英文原著 · 《Boyhood》
It's for John Carroll Lynch, C.C.H. Pounder, and all the other character actors who live in lucrative obscurity.美剧 · 《Bojack Horseman》
I was plucked from obscurity after a particularly stirring karaoke performance.美剧 · 《Modern Family》
I lived for 13 years in Highland Park in complete obscurity.美剧 · 《The Good Wife》
I'm here with marisa rowen, A last-minute replacement plucked from obscurity.美剧 · 《Ugly Betty》