Nor can I help thinking that the American people, in electing General Taylor to the Presidency, thereby showing their high appreciation of his sterling, but Inobtrusive qualities, did their country a service, and themselves an imperishable honor.
"The Life and Public Service of General Zachary Taylor: An Address"
Abraham Lincoln
Turning quickly on his heel, he approached the still trembling Gertrude and her governess, who had both been, throughout the whole of those long and tedious hours, Inobtrusive but deeply interested, observers of his smallest movements.
"The Red Rover"
James Fenimore Cooper
Note the Inobtrusive and yet fully adequate mode of introducing the main character, 'young Hamlet,' upon whom is transferred all the interest excited for the acts and concerns of the king his father.
"Literary Remains, Vol. 2"
Coleridge