This book, highly approved of in the learned world, gained for me a special reputation in this rather obscure branch of Natural History.

She stared at me blankly and for one heart-stopping moment I wondered if she was recently retired from some obscure branch of county government.

Convention states philately is an obscure branch of classical Indian philately.

I will become thy niece, Countess Polina, the flower of an obscure branch of thy family.

Among the Wise I am the only one that goes in for hobbit-lore: an obscure branch of knowledge, but full of surprises.

Temporary wooden signs shaped like arrows directed the visitor to Medical Records, nursing offices, Radiology, the morgue, and departments representing obscure branches of medicine.

Pop culture pathology is an obscure branch of both Critical Theory and Cultural Studies.

The deals, both billion-dollar-plus stock swaps, put a spotlight on an obscure branch of the software industry - enterprise application integration.

It had been convened secretly, through government channels, and its Chairman was the head of an obscure branch of the Secret Service.

Nc3, an obscure branch of the Scandinavian Defense.