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  • Awake and having recovered the use of his legs, Bernard had chosen this moment to move as inconspicuously as he could towards the door.   (source)
    inconspicuously = in a manner that is not easily noticed
  • Jurgis had gone with the desire to get into an inconspicuous corner and see what was done; but this attitude of silent and open-eyed attention had marked him out for a victim.   (source)
    inconspicuous = not very noticeable
  • Ludus was an inconspicuous world in Sector One.†   (source)
  • He and Risa turn their backs to the police car, ready to stride off inconspicuously toward the bus stop, but Lev is not with the program.†   (source)
  • Even so, had she found an inconspicuous reason to go out, she might have tried anyway.†   (source)
  • I was hoping to be as inconspicuous as possible and had already decided to go alone.†   (source)
  • Josie slipped inconspicuously into the heart of them, because she looked like Courtney, too.†   (source)
  • She possessed the nonspecific clumsiness of someone who makes such a constant effort to be inconspicuous that she is creatively awkward—without meaning to, Germaine hoarded attention to herself; her almost electric nervousness disturbed the atmosphere surrounding her.†   (source)
  • Chaol only scowled at her— obviously, she hadn't been that inconspicuous—but Dorian smiled.†   (source)
  • She would just need to swim down the coastline and find a safe, inconspicuous place to sneak aground.†   (source)
  • I stand up and walk out into the hall, as inconspicuously as possible.†   (source)
  • And it gives me time to scan the cafeteria for a friendly face or an inconspicuous corner.†   (source)
  • Broad tolerance and the long view, an inconspicuously warm heart and cool judgment; his kind of doctor would be alive to the monstrous patterns of fate, and to the vain and comic denial of the inevitable; he would press the enfeebled pulse, hear the expiring breath, feel the fevered hand begin to cool and reflect, in the manner that only literature and religion teach, on the puniness and nobility of mankind ....His footsteps quickened in the still summer evening to the rhythm of his exultant thoughts.†   (source)
  • "Dying," he said, "but I'm trying to be inconspicuous."†   (source)
  • The information he had gathered had led him to choose the name "Ford Prefect" as being nicely inconspicuous.†   (source)
  • Better to stay inconspicuous and let the humans have their stereotypes.†   (source)
  • I hid in the back of the group, as I often did, trying to be inconspicuous, particularly since I had been pretending to be years older than I actually was.†   (source)
  • What I needed was something safe and inconspicuous.†   (source)
  • This crossroads has to be large enough so the Ra'zac will be inconspicuous.†   (source)
  • He was away for almost a year, hiding in hotel rooms, coming home once in a while to visit my mother and me, while guards stood around the house, inconspicuous, in the shadows.†   (source)
  • I could just follow you, inconspicuously.†   (source)
  • I inconspicuously reach for my schedule and fold it up tightly in my left hand.†   (source)
  • Inconspicuously, I sniffed my hair.†   (source)
  • Beyond the playground there was an inconspicuous chain link security fence, beyond that the wide, macadamized drive that led up to the hotel, and beyond that the valley itself, dropping away into the bright blue haze of afternoon.†   (source)
  • "Oh, yeah," Grover said, trying not to bust out laughing, "you look completely inconspicuous now."†   (source)
  • There were armed marines inconspicuously on guard inside the three entrances.†   (source)
  • By fifth period, word was out that Dale Thornton was looking for Eric Calhoune, and a high-stakes gambling pool had been set up in an inconspicuous corner of the student lounge.†   (source)
  • David got out of the car and stood at the bus stop, trying to look inconspicuous even as he gazed across the darkening lawn at the window.†   (source)
  • Unlike the abandoned and withered small towns we had driven through in western Virginia, the nearby cities and their populations were still holding on, which meant there would be more folks on the road, and Betty, with her bullet holes and cracked windows, was not exactly inconspicuous.†   (source)
  • "Come on, Elena," Jorge says, trying to cover his nose inconspicuously but doing a poor job of it.†   (source)
  • Ghosh sat trying to be inconspicuous at the bar, but watching the couple in the mirror.†   (source)
  • Scarlett looked up, saw us, and smiled in a way that made me think I'd been right on in assuming she'd been hoping to leave inconspicuously.†   (source)
  • He wasn't, quite yet, just another student passing through an Ivy League college But, with each passing month, he grows closer to feeling inconspicuous at Brown and at once-foreign ports of American life.†   (source)
  • When in enemy territory it's best to blend in and look inconspicuous and/or stupid.†   (source)
  • Had she been able to design her own body, she would have chosen inconspicuous nipples, the kind that scarcely protrude from the arch of the breast and all but blend in color with the rest of the skin.†   (source)
  • He runs at quarter speed craning to see the rows of seats, looking for an inconspicuous wedge behind a pillar.†   (source)
  • The object was hanging some twenty feet up the wall face, its dull appearance inconspicuous against the rich hues of Prusias's banner.†   (source)
  • He departed eight hours before Thomas Jefferson took the oath of office at the Capitol, and even more inconspicuously than he had arrived, rolling through empty streets past darkened houses, and again with Billy Shaw and John Briesler as his companions.†   (source)
  • A rabbit in fear of an enemy will sometimes crouch stock still, either fascinated or else trusting to its natural inconspicuousness to remain unnoticed.†   (source)
  • Is this part of the 'lie low and be inconspicuous' plan?†   (source)
  • The fireplace, attended to by an inconspicuous manservant, was at full roar and brightened their spirits considerably as they moved toward it, their clothes exchanging dampness for a light draping of steam.†   (source)
  • "Oh, how inconspicuous I will be when next I am in Attolia," he said out loud, "dressed in Eddisian formalwear with gold frogs on the front."†   (source)
  • The frozen bays and inlets, and snowed-over roads made a quick, inconspicuous escape improbable.†   (source)
  • I stayed in empty flats, in people's houses, wherever I could be alone and inconspicuous.†   (source)
  • I will move slowly, inconspicuously, around the area.†   (source)
  • Ryan drove the Camry to Lost Creek Clubhouse and parked it on one of the upper lots, where it would likely remain inconspicuous for some time.†   (source)
  • Trying to be as inconspicuous as possible, in my olive green air force fatigues, I stepped with Alice lightly yet quickly down the left side of the aisle before sliding into one of the front pews.†   (source)
  • I press my back to the wall of the stairwell, trying to make myself as inconspicuous as possible.†   (source)
  • He uses the money to buy a stagecoach ticket into Maryland, taking public transportation at a time when all common sense cries out for a more inconspicuous means of escape.†   (source)
  • I wanted to breed and raise Abyssinians and to drive an inconspicuous Toyota like everyone else in my class who had a car.†   (source)
  • He took his parcel back with him to Williamstown, and when he reached the carrier he went down into the submarine and laid it along the back of his berth, where it was inconspicuous.†   (source)
  • It was true that I wanted to be inconspicuous, but I felt uncomfortable at being so totally ignored.†   (source)
  • It was important to get out of the neighborhood and into the white sector as quickly and inconspicuously as possible.†   (source)
  • The Hangman can move underwater like a controlled torpedo, which makes me Mississippi its logical route for inconspicuous travel.†   (source)
  • He was a small-time professional thief who travelled from one Western New York town to another, knocked inconspicuously on people's doors and, if he got no answer, tried the door and, if it was unlocked, went in.†   (source)
  • She found a clear space at the far end of the room-length desk, boosted herself up, and attempted to appear inconspicuous.†   (source)
  • I realized my maids had inconspicuously dismissed themselves at some point as well.   (source)
    inconspicuously = in a manner that is not easily noticed
  • Inconspicuous as he was, however, he managed to take hold of the biggest potato of the lot—the very same one that several people in the line had been watching.   (source)
    inconspicuous = not easily noticed
  • He slipped into the nearest of them as inconspicuously as he could and prepared to frown at the yet later comers whenever they should arrive.   (source)
    inconspicuously = in a manner that is not easily noticed
  • When the Warden started booming, she had inconspicuously swallowed half a gramme of soma, with the result that she could now sit, serenely not listening, thinking of nothing at all, but with her large blue eyes fixed on the Warden's face in an expression of rapt attention.   (source)
  • I stood there alone, trying to be inconspicuous as I scanned the room.†   (source)
  • I asked, horrified, trying to think of an inconspicuous way to check my breath.†   (source)
  • He held his finger above an inconspicuous silver button.†   (source)
  • "Well —" There was no way I could inconspicuously do up my cuff again.†   (source)
  • We'll do our best to remain inconspicuous,he assured her.†   (source)
  • Positioned on the edges of the steps, trying to be inconspicuous, were several photographers.†   (source)
  • I gave myself a quick once-over while I spoke, trying to be inconspicuous about it.†   (source)
  • We have to stay inconspicuous, you understand," Carlisle explained.†   (source)
  • I tried to be inconspicuous as I studied Maxon's reaction to these words.†   (source)
  • Jasper managed to inconspicuously close the door behind them.†   (source)
  • Busy tavern lots were a good place to park a car inconspicuously.†   (source)
  • He stayed between Hazel and Frank and tried to look inconspicuous.†   (source)
  • Charlie watched me, trying to be inconspicuous about it, with pleased but cautious eyes.†   (source)
  • We shuffled into line, trying to be inconspicuous.†   (source)
  • Jean Louise was trying to behave inconspicuously.†   (source)
  • Jesper Rasmussen stood at the threshold of an inconspicuous opening next to the gargantuan doors.†   (source)
  • Not if they wanted to keep their city inconspicuous.†   (source)
  • The upshot is, we might as well glow in the dark in terms of staying inconspicuous.†   (source)
  • Jamie nudged me, trying to be inconspicuous about it-pointing out that people wanted me.†   (source)
  • I can sleep there now, and you can be inconspicuous beside me.†   (source)
  • Up to now, our main survival strategy had been to stay inconspicuous, to hide as much as possible.†   (source)
  • Jared waited a few careful minutes with the inconspicuous sedan's lights off.†   (source)
  • I'll be fine-I'll stay someplace inconspicuous.†   (source)
  • She was quite pretty in an inconspicuous way-her features very symmetrical on her oval face.†   (source)
  • All four entrances to the Rotunda were closed with as inconspicuous a method of crowd control as Security had at its disposal—a velvet swag, an apologetic guard, and a sign that read THIS ROOM TEMPORARILY CLOSED FOR CLEANING.†   (source)
  • Keeping the secret meant a lot of things—living inconspicuously like the Cullens, moving on before humans could suspect they weren't aging.†   (source)
  • Normally Glick would have made an effort to maintain an inconspicuous distance, but today he could barely keep up.†   (source)
  • It had taken Josie nearly six months to inconspicuously gather only fifteen pills, but she figured if she washed them down with a fifth of vodka, it would do the trick.†   (source)
  • For a few horrible moments Dustfinger thought Capricorn had decided instead to put an end to them in some quick and inconspicuous way, and when he felt solid ground under his feet again he didn't know which made him weaker at the knees — that fear or his night in the net.†   (source)
  • So much for being inconspicuous.†   (source)
  • I was trying to think of a way to inconspicuously pilfer the picture he drew of me, which was little more than a balloon-shaped head and some brown waves of hair coming off it.†   (source)
  • The baronial perspectives were infuriating, since they didn't seem to lead to the staircase or any of the main corridors but only to other stately baronial galleries exactly like them; and I was close to tears when suddenly I saw an inconspicuous door in the side of the gallery wall.†   (source)
  • The waitress had inconspicuously poured her more wine, refilled it to the top without Pippa even asking or seeming to notice: dear waitress, I thought, God bless you, I'm leaving you a tip to knock your socks off "If only I'd signed up to audition on Tuesday, or Thursday.†   (source)
  • Esme was already moving; her hand touched an inconspicuous keypad on the wall, and with a groan, huge metal shutters began sealing up the glass wall.†   (source)
  • do you like the aisle?" we'd gone to the movies just enough (five times) for me to make careful note of where she liked to sit, plus, I knew it well enough from Hobie after years of inconspicuously questioning him as much as I dared about her tastes, her likes and dislikes, her habits, slipping the questions in casually, one at a time, for almost a decade, does she like this, does she like that; and there she was, turning and smiling at me, at me!†   (source)
  • Jason wondered if Apollo had assumed this form to be inconspicuous, or to look pitiable to his father.†   (source)
  • I saw the whole journey now, saw her and Jared's and Jamie's careful trek across the country, always by night in their inconspicuous stolen vehicle.†   (source)
  • Jason was grateful that there were several others of nearly equal height in front of them; with luck and in the excitement he might remain inconspicuous.†   (source)
  • Just as there is a way to walk in a room in order to make yourself stand out, there is a way of walking and behaving that makes you inconspicuous.†   (source)
  • And they do, him holding open the double door as she passes inside the bland storefront, giving him a chance to look her over inconspicuously: all cute and casual in her tight blue faded jeans, black low-heel boots with a delicate, pointed-toe, and an oversized BROWN sweatshirt under a black leather jacket, collar up.†   (source)
  • It was that inconspicuous and seemingly insignificant little article that had brought home to her for the first time the sheer horror of her country's oversized neighbor.†   (source)
  • The crowd at the registration counter grew and Jason was eight people behind the killer in the second line, making himself as inconspicuous as possible, continually stooping to kick his bag ahead.†   (source)
  • Most of the immortals were dressed in inconspicuous pants and shirts—things that wouldn't stick out at all on the streets below.†   (source)
  • There was only one thing to do: as inconspicuously as possible, the four of us began digging in the area where the two smaller pieces of manuscript would be.†   (source)
  • We would not be inconspicuous.†   (source)
  • "In the interest of remaining inconspicuous," Edward said, still talking through his gritted teeth, but looking at Carlisle now, "I suggest that we put this conversation off, at the very least until Bella finishes high school, and moves out of Charlie's house."†   (source)
  • The first rule is, be inconspicuous.†   (source)
  • The stiffness of the Old Man's back—exaggerated in the faded photograph which hung, thoroughly inconspicuous, centered above faded, obsolete world maps and a 1937 chart of the kings and chief ministers of the sundry nations, behind Hodge's desk—was an effect merely of time and place: a matter of style†   (source)
  • He roamed about like a restless creature in a narrow cage, fussing with things, adjusting the blinds, studying the photographs beside the window (photographs in which he himself almost invariably appeared, inconspicuous in a second row, while men of more importance opened the racetrack, cut the tape at the western end of the New York State Thruway, or shook hands with one another, holding some solemn trophy on display).†   (source)
  • Major Pentland's military title was honestly if inconspicuously earned.†   (source)
  • How inconspicuous she felt herself by Paul's side!†   (source)
  • He was dressed respectably and inconspicuously, even though without particular care.†   (source)
  • In the village of Mukaihara, he tried to be as inconspicuous — as Japanese — as he could.†   (source)
  • I made myself inconspicuous and didn't remind him when he forgot my pay that week.†   (source)
  • He was a quiet inconspicuous young man with spectacles.†   (source)
  • Heretofore, even during his heyday in the house, his impulse had been always to glide from the road and into the shadow of the porch and into the house itself where he was expected, as swiftly and inconspicuously as possible.†   (source)
  • Comrades stood inconspicuously on guard about the meeting hall, at the doors, down the street, and along the hallways.†   (source)
  • Although it meant having to be near bis father, all day, David was grateful not to have to face Yus-sie or Annie or the boy he pushed or anyone in fact He clung to his mother or retreated to his bedroom, avoided the room his father was in, and in general, made himself as inconspicuous as possible.†   (source)
  • In an inconspicuous village the maid is born who will maintain herself undefiled of the fashionable errors of her generation: a miniature in the midst of men of the cosmic woman who was the bride of the wind.†   (source)
  • About two years after her return from Spain there took place a series of inconspicuous events that had a great deal to tell about the inner life of the Marquesa.†   (source)
  • The McLure girls' booth was inconspicuous, as Mrs. Merriwether had said, and there were long intervals when no one came to their corner and Scarlett had nothing to do but look enviously on the happy throng.†   (source)
  • For servants were already bringing in the shallow bowls of scented tea, and along with the agile, lithe-limbed Tibetans there had also entered, quite inconspicuously, a girl in Chinese dress.†   (source)
  • The inconspicuous Mr Simpson.†   (source)
  • Scarlett always sat well out of the light, hidden in the protecting shadows where she was not only inconspicuous but could, unobserved, watch Ashley's face to her heart's content.†   (source)
  • How gently and inconspicuously she cast the net I longed for around me, and how playfully and how like a pixie she gave the sweet poison to drink!†   (source)
  • Though he was so inconspicuous that he could come and go, not specially noticed around hotel lobbies and service passages, still when a matter came to a head he could act with authority and not be frightened by a situation he had created.†   (source)
  • He began to dislike and envy the inconspicuous mould of general nature—the multitudinous arms, legs, hands, feet, and figures that are comfortably shaped for ready-made garments.†   (source)
  • She faded, under Minta's glow; became more inconspicuous than ever, in her little grey dress with her little puckered face and her little Chinese eyes.†   (source)
  • She had remembered it only as a bleak inconspicuousness.†   (source)
  • Though wearied, she would be inconspicuous.†   (source)
  • ** FINANCIAL His father died quietly and inconspicuously at Thanksgiving.†   (source)
  • There were few signs to indicate the true state of affairs, and even those were inconspicuous.†   (source)
  • His cravat was shiny combination of nice threads, not loud, not inconspicuous.†   (source)
  • I feel so inconspicuous and so normal—so normal that there's nothing about me to discuss.†   (source)
  • She tried to be inconspicuous, but she was betrayed by her failure to glow over the boosting.†   (source)
  • They would have breakfast in some more inconspicuous place.†   (source)
  • That is inconspicuous dress of chela attached to service of lamaistic lama.†   (source)
  • Red Lamas are not inconspicuous persons.†   (source)
  • Behind them, inconspicuous as a cat, ambled a small fat person who looked like a lawyer's tout.†   (source)
  • Firmly narrowing upward from this wealthy but inconspicuous substratum was the compact and dominant group which the Mingotts, Newlands, Chiverses and Mansons so actively represented.†   (source)
  • Finding a comfortable seat among some rocks where she would be inconspicuous, she looked on at the building of Kells's cabin.†   (source)
  • Perhaps three hundred of them were quietly inconspicuous; perhaps three hundred vigorously exclaimed, "This is pretty slick, eh?" surreptitiously picked the late asters and concealed them in their pockets, and tried to get near enough to Mrs. Knowlton to shake her lovely hand.†   (source)
  • Though his popularity was of the quiet kind, felt rather than actively expressed among his friends, she had never mistaken his inconspicuousness for obscurity.†   (source)
  • It might be better, since he would have to get away from her to buy a hat in Utica, to spend this first night there at some inexpensive, inconspicuous hotel, and once there, suggest going up to Grass Lake.†   (source)
  • When he had practiced medicine in Wheatsylvania for one year, Martin was an inconspicuous but not discouraged country doctor.†   (source)
  • For, of course, it would be possible, and that quite inconspicuously, to supply Clyde with a capable and yet thoroughly conservative trial lawyer—some one residing and practising in Bridgeburg possibly—whose duty it would be to see that all blatant and unjustified reference to the family on the part of the newspapers was minimized.†   (source)
  • As he had blundered through crowds, an inconspicuous young husband trotting out to buy cold roast beef for dinner, his brain-pan had been wide as the domed sky.†   (source)
  • There were three or four inconspicuous and quite startled boys from Lawrenceville, two amateur wild men from a New York private school (Kerry Holiday christened them the "plebeian drunks"), a Jewish youth, also from New York, and, as compensation for Amory, the two Holidays, to whom he took an instant fancy.†   (source)
  • We have to be so correct about sex morals, and inconspicuous clothes, and doing our commercial trickery only in the traditional ways, that none of us can live up to it, and we become horribly hypocritical.†   (source)
  • Life had always seemed a precious thing, but now constant want and weakened vitality had made the charms of earth rather dull and inconspicuous.†   (source)
  • It was his wont to sit this way in every theatre—to make his personality as inconspicuous as possible where it would be no advantage to him to have it otherwise.†   (source)
  • Chapter XXX THE KINGDOM OF GREATNESS—THE PILGRIM A DREAM Whatever a man like Hurstwood could be in Chicago, it is very evident that he would be but an inconspicuous drop in an ocean like New York.†   (source)
  • But in the Oblonskys' household, as in all families indeed, there was one inconspicuous but most valuable and useful person, Marya Philimonovna.†   (source)
  • That, carnivorous," he continued, glancing his eye at the open page of his tablets; "this, granivorous; habits, fierce, dangerous; habits, patient, abstemious; ears, inconspicuous; ears, elongated; horns, diverging, &c.†   (source)
  • Toward eleven o'clock he approached the palace; and although a host of showy people were about him, moving in the same direction, he was not inconspicuous—his costume took care of that.†   (source)
  • His nickname through the wards was 'Little Friend of all the World'; and very often, being lithe and inconspicuous, he executed commissions by night on the crowded housetops for sleek and shiny young men of fashion.†   (source)
  • He was vaguely aware that its defects, inconspicuous at first, would be glaring if he were to go on with it.†   (source)
  • Dimensions (by estimation)—Greatest length, eleven feet; height, six feet; head, erect; nostrils, expansive; eyes, expressive and fierce; teeth, serrated and abundant; tail, horizontal, waving, and slightly feline; feet, large and hairy; talons, long, curvated, dangerous; ears, inconspicuous; horns, elongated, diverging, and formidable; colour, plumbeous-ashy, with fiery spots; voice, sonorous, martial, and appalling; habits, gregarious, carnivorous, fierce, and fearless.†   (source)
  • I was torn between wanting to follow Jamie outside, and staying inconspicuously where I was.†   (source)
  • I'm no precisely inconspicuous, ye ken.†   (source)
  • I found that I was gripping the rock with both hands, pressing my cheek hard against the granite, as though I could make myself still more inconspicuous.†   (source)
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