How To Use Unlooked-for In A Sentence
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Where the words are singular, to make them plural is the mark of unlooked-for passion; and where they are plural, the rounding of a number of things into a fine-sounding singular is surprising owing to the converse change.
On the Sublime
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Where the words are singular, to make them plural is the mark of unlooked-for passion; and where they are plural, the rounding of a number of things into a fine-sounding singular is surprising owing to the converse change.
Archive 2010-03-01
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Once, after over a decade of uninterrupted victories which began in 1996 at the age of twenty-one, he was asked to explain an unlooked-for failure in a major championship.
'A Short History of Celebrity'
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They were voiceless, these poor unlucky ones, crawling away with sick white faces, to gather in groups and explain to each other, with stable jargon intermingled with oaths, how it ought not to have been, and never could have been, but for some unlooked-for and preposterous combination of events never before witnessed upon any mortal course.
Aurora Floyd. A Novel
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A challenge in which Darth's wife face functioned as his target naturally had given him an unlooked-for advantage.
Tallulah Morehead: Survivor: Heroes vs Villains : The Tin-Brained Woodman is Rusty.
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The combination met with no opposition; the government played jiujutsu, and foiled expectations by unlooked-for yielding.
Kokoro Japanese Inner Life Hints
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Phoebe herself brought the neatly arranged tea-tray; and the little covered dish of ham and eggs which had been prepared for this unlooked-for visitor.
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But, alas! in the very rush, and storm, and tempest of the unfinishing business, an unlooked-for interruption arose in the person of a great Senator whose power none could oppose, whose right to free and extended utterance at all times none could gainsay.
The Story of a Mine
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It is a story of the seamy underside of respectability and conformity, and of the discovery of unlooked-for courage.
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`Now there's an unlooked-for blessing," the captain said, his manners nonetheless courtly.
STONE THE CROWS, IT'S A VACUUM-CLEANER
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Could they have seen our merry graduates, when the door was locked for the night, and the venerable wig was thrown aside, jollifying over their supper! could they have heard the peals of laughter caused by the unlooked-for success of the frolic, how would their cheeks have been covered with blushes!
Holidays at the Grange or A Week's Delight Games and Stories for Parlor and Fireside
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(That this mighty maternal figure speaks a Yiddish patois is an unlooked-for bonus.)
Hobbes in the Himalayas
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Marjorie to call Millicent down to help; but the child came back with a grave face and the unlooked-for news that Millicent was so ill she could not rise.
Chatterbox, 1905.
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Sir Patrick said his knighthood – announced in the New Year Honours List – had been “an unlooked-for honour”.
Pink is the New Blog | Everybody's Business Is My Business » Blog Archive » Patrick Stewart Knighted By Queen Elizabeth II
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I have been waiting up here like Simeon Stylites on his pillar, and counting every day, and conjecturing each step taken by our friend towards the coast, wishing and praying that no sickness might lay him up, no accident befall him, and no unlooked-for combinations of circumstances render his kind intentions vain or fruitless.
How I Found Livingstone
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Those who accompanied the Southern army on this arduous march will recall the dismayed expression of the emaciated faces at this unlooked-for calamity; and no face wore a heavier shadow than that of General Lee.
A Life of Gen Robert E Lee
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His left hand moved feebly at his side, as if fending off the unexpected sorrow and unlooked-for guilt.
THE LAST RAVEN
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But the running, the running has stayed with me: The lovely, unlooked-for side effect of fear.
Runners
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a virtue unlooked-for in people so full of energy
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The cart is an unlooked-for chance—we ought to take it and go… but that would leave these two old fellows to raise the alarm.
The Mistaken Wife