The Opposition were caught unawares by the government's sudden election call.

awful lacera), so inconspicuous we often overlook it unawares.

Grand as the whole seemed to the travellers, it was not an exceptional banquet; indeed, the Duchess apologised for its simplicity, since she had been taken at unawares, evidently considering it as the ordinary family meal.

or when the worm was taken unawares by hanging it over a probe, and lowering both upon the plate at the same instant; a sudden and involuntary motion seemed to dart through a great part of the worm’s length from the part touched towards the head; a direction contrary to that in which I shall feel myself shudder, suddenly and unawares.


Weeks, it is true, would sometimes elapse, during which Pearl's gaze might never once be fixed upon the scarlet letter; but then, again, it would come at unawares, like the stroke of sudden death, and always with that peculiar smile and odd expression of the eyes.

more,-let us call it intuition; if he show no intrusive egotism, nor disagreeable prominent characteristics of his own; if he have the power, which must be born with him, to bring his mind into such affinity with his patient's, that this last shall unawares have spoken what he imagines himself only to have thought; if such revelations be received without tumult, and acknowledged not so often by an uttered sympathy as by silence, an inarticulate breath, and here and there a word to indicate that all is Dimmesdale, noon-day, and entirely unawares, fell into a deep, deep slumber, sitting in his chair, with a large black-letter volume open before him on the table.

These laws are uncoordinated and often inconsistent.

In the spiritual world, the old physician and the minister-mutual victims as they have been-may, unawares, have found their earthly stock of hatred and antipathy transmuted into golden love.

When a man has finished building his house, he finds that he has learnt unawares something which he OUGHT absolutely to have known before he-began to build.

And he had been indeed caught unawares, and at the first moment when she spoke to him of her position, his heart had prompted him to beg her to leave her husband.

But whether each evermore watches and suspects the other, evermore mistrustful of some great reservation; whether each is evermore prepared at all points for the other, and never to be taken unawares; what each would give to know how much the other knows-all this is hidden, for the time, in their own hearts.

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