| 1. | The subject is not so abstruse as I thought it was. - from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde |
| 2. | But I had no inclination for the law, even in this less abstruse study of it, which my family approved. - from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen |
| 3. | There are scholars among them, who had spent more years in acquiring abstruse lore, connected with the divine profession, than Mr. - from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| 4. | In a thousand ways he smoothed for me the path of knowledge and made the most abstruse inquiries clear and facile to my apprehension. - from Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley |
| 5. | "Well, it would be absurd to deny that the case is a very abstruse and complicated one, but I can promise you that I will look into the matter and let you know any points which may strike me.. - from Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 6. | The idea that certain mathematical proportions or relationships underlie the phenomena we call beauty is very ancient, and too abstruse to trouble us here. - from The Practice and Science Of Drawing by Harold Speed |
| 7. | Now, it is with the view of giving a little additional help to all those who find themselves in this position that I proceed to put forth my own personal interpretation of the more abstruse passages in this work. - from Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche |