I was going on; when interrupting me, You see, Mr. Lovelace, said she, how you have embarrassed yourself by your Obliquities!
"Clarissa, Volume 5 (of 9)"
Samuel Richardson
Well, it hasn't been a bed of roses since we discovered Northwick's Obliquities-excuse me!
"The Quality of Mercy"
W. D. Howells
This was true but hardly significant; seeing Jean had one shoulder and one eye twice the size of the others, to say nothing of various Obliquities and their compensations.
"Alec Forbes of Howglen"
George MacDonald