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  • But I was pathetic, a blundering liability to my own team, always in the way of an opportune pass or unwittingly blocking an open lane.†   (source)
  • Or come to resent that I'd unwittingly led him to the Copper Key's hiding place?†   (source)
  • Since the beginning of storytelling, he explained, Death has called on the unwitting.†   (source)
  • He will pay dearly if he unwittingly slips to beta.†   (source)
  • Sophie Neveu had unwittingly witnessed a two-thousand-year-old sacred ceremony.†   (source)
  • water-dwellers that looked like scaly monkeys, with webbed hands itching to strangle unwitting waders in their ponds.†   (source)
  • On the last day of February 1941, a dapper little Gestapo man comes to him with the news that the unwitting Dupont has tried to use the forged tickets.†   (source)
  • The girl, it turned out, was an unwitting intermediary between two communities, a human sacrifice who allowed the festivities to go forward with no uttered ill will.†   (source)
  • A woman a bit older than Mae, slurring and holding a Manhattan, expressed it best, though unwittingly: How, she asked, spilling her drink but with eyes sharp, How do we get the inevitable sooner?†   (source)
  • And like any unwitting animal that was well and truly caught, Josie could escape only by leaving a piece of herself behind.†   (source)
  • Am I unwittingly the face of the hoped-for rebellion?†   (source)
  • Mrs. Jarvis had turned out to be an unwitting ally.†   (source)
  • Not so deep beneath the earth were the warrens of the wild rabbits I loved, the bunnies that ate the vegetables and flowers in the neighborhood nearby and that sometimes, unwittingly, brought poison home to their dens.†   (source)
  • Borgenicht, in fact, unwittingly captures this poignancy in his memoir, which was published in 1942.†   (source)
  • Unwittingly, Lourdes sows it herself.†   (source)
  • "Be careful, Dana," he said, unwittingly echoing Rufus.†   (source)
  • Often in one's infancy, one answers unwittingly to dozens of pet names, until one eventually sticks.†   (source)
  • He creates events and people out of the novels, stories, histories he knows, his own included, all of which is quite unwitting on his part, the pieces just appearing out of his memory.†   (source)
  • But in telling Nathaniel's story, I have unwittingly taken on some responsibility for his welfare, a job I am clearly, demonstrably and undeniably unqualified for.†   (source)
  • Rather than cherish that medal, Madame, you should regard it as a symbol of your unwitting complicity with this despot who worked to death and brutalized and eventually exterminated thousands and thousands of African peoples.†   (source)
  • I learned these lessons in alchemy, but you will find them invaluable in this new world you've unwittingly wandered into.†   (source)
  • Later, in another note to John, he said, "Ulrich is unwittingly faithless to us.†   (source)
  • She is as devoid of morals as she is of scruples, and will use any unwitting tool that comes to hand.†   (source)
  • He felt that he had unwittingly stuck his hand into The Great Wasps' Nest of Life.†   (source)
  • Claudia and Lestat might hunt and seduce, stay long in the company of the doomed victim, enjoying the splendid humor in his unwitting friendship with death.†   (source)
  • For his unwitting mistake Marko was branded an informer.†   (source)
  • The driver didn't notice a thing and, unwitting, drove off up the exit ramp.†   (source)
  • The possibilities — had Rabban unwittingly given House Harkonnen its ultimate weapon?†   (source)
  • Unsure how to act in the company of a divine presence, this living reincarnation of an ancient and illustrious lama, I was terrified of unwittingly giving offense or committing some irredeemable faux pas.†   (source)
  • Kids who had unwittingly put themselves in the line of fire for me.†   (source)
  • Have I raised him, unwittingly, in the vicinity of a chemical dump site, in the path of air currents that carry industrial wastes cap able of producing scalp degeneration, glorious sunsets?†   (source)
  • He had been holding her hand and it lay palm up where he had unwittingly discarded it.†   (source)
  • Morris had unwittingly accepted the gift, believing it to be an act of friendship — and was disgusted to learn that his infant son had for months worn outfits supplied by McDonald's as part of its surveillance.†   (source)
  • These terrorists used innocent people as unwitting vehicles to destroy more innocent lives.†   (source)
  • He pulled her against him while she wept, a thin, tired girl, unwitting heiress of generations of bitterness.†   (source)
  • The 'old' conflict was reactivated and aggression swiftly mounted to murderous proportions...When such senseless murders occur, they are seen to be an end result of a period of increasing tension and disorganization in the murderer starting before the contact with the victim who, by fitting into the unconscious conflicts of the murderer, unwittingly serves to set into motion his homicidal potential.†   (source)
  • I duck behind a metro sign, but I've unwittingly positioned myself in hearing distance.†   (source)
  • By revealing to Tomas her dream about jabbing needles under her fingernails, Tereza unwittingly revealed that she had gone through his desk.†   (source)
  • What if the employer is racist, and if he unwittingly agreed to interview a black person who happened to have a white-sounding name—would he be any more likely to hire the black applicant after meeting face-to-face?†   (source)
  • Unwittingly, he had discovered deep within himself a fertile aptitude for smoking with a cigarette holder.†   (source)
  • There seemed to be no disrespect in invoking the holy name of Allah while unwittingly spitting bits of food all about.†   (source)
  • Marina has been Oswald's unwitting pawn these past few months, her Soviet citizenship vital to his goal of returning to the Soviet Union.†   (source)
  • What Adams talked about, his young guest was unable to recall in later years, though he remembered distinctly "a certain iron spoon which the old gentleman once fished up from the depths of a pudding in which it had been unwittingly cooked."†   (source)
  • Still, at least the smoke was sweet-scented, for the Gowdies always burned rosemary, which they said purified the air of any sickness that ailing villagers might unwittingly carry when coming there for help.†   (source)
  • Some unwittingly caused the deaths of their distant descendants.†   (source)
  • If Helene hadn't unwittingly broken the rules of the Trial, I'd have killed her too.†   (source)
  • What if the balloons that hunted us on the beach were based here, and we'd unwittingly stumbled into a nest of wights?†   (source)
  • Our discipline demands therefore that we talk to no one and that we avoid situations in which information might be given away unwittingly.†   (source)
  • And Villiers is the unwitting drone?†   (source)
  • Their purchase of Africans was not an unwitting act of ignorance as some have claimed.†   (source)
  • Eisenhower's chief of staff had sent Cesar a hand-delivered message in the fourth inning of the Little League World Series, which Cesar had unwittingly crumpled into his back pocket.†   (source)
  • He could unwittingly charge straight into a wreck.†   (source)
  • To summarize Uvin's argument: international aid, all unwittingly, fostered "structural violence," an essential element in the acute violence that overwhelmed Rwanda in 1994.†   (source)
  • In throwing myself to the wind, I saved myself, though unwittingly.†   (source)
  • For it seems less evil to counsel another man to break troth than to do so oneself, especially if one sees a friend bound unwitting to his own harm.†   (source)
  • I had accepted, unwittingly and by default, the tenet that ideas were of no consequence to one's existence, to one's work, to reality, to this earth-as if ideas were not the province of reason, but of that mystic faith which I despised.†   (source)
  • I must have projected the thought unwittingly, for she came in, somewhat coldly: 'It's a pity you didn't do a little more thinking and a little less sleeping.†   (source)
  • One leaped to stand ready to meet Drizzt's whirling charge, while the second, unwittingly singling itself out as Wulfgar's next target, bolted for the back door.†   (source)
  • Now that the comfort stations were run under military ordinances and the women not professionals but rather those who had unwittingly enlisted or been conscripted into the wartime women's volunteer corps, to contribute and sacrifice as all did, the expectation was that the various diseases would be kept more or less in check.†   (source)
  • "The unwitting femme fatale," Denny murmured, and Amanda gave a little hiss of amusement.†   (source)
  • A tourist from Oklahoma, sixty-nine years old, a Vietnam veteran, unwittingly helped the murderer to his feet, and for this benevolent act was shot through the heart with the Glock 19 pistol that the than pulled from beneath his coat.†   (source)
  • And I realized to my delight that, however unwittingly, I had already put together the first part of the frame to surround this tragic landscape: my dog-eared train ride, the passage I had cherished and reread with such daft absorption, would now represent the arrival in the town of our heroine's body, disinterred from the potter's field in New York and shipped in a baggage car for final burial in the city of her birth.†   (source)
  • It is true that, by suppressing information, he had defeated Galiullin's good intentions and, perhaps unwittingly, had given a fatal turn to the events.†   (source)
  • It was during a session of this game that Prophet electrified the class and held it unwittingly in the palm of his hand for several staggering moments.†   (source)
  • The tune came again, like a touch from a small hand that he had unwittingly pushed away.†   (source)
  • [A trap-door may or may not open; or perhaps the stage may or may not slowly collapse, and the characters—all unwittingly—gently sink and disappear without interrupting their actions—or just quite simply carry on, according to the technical facilities available†   (source)
  • Risa has gotten to know an overweight girl prone to tears, a girl wound up from a week of nicotine withdrawal, and a girl who was a ward of the state, just like her—and also just like Risa, an unwitting victim of budget cuts.   (source)
    unwitting = unintentional (without knowledge)
  • The question that still remains is: Did he do so wittingly or unwittingly?†   (source)
  • And in an unwitting comic ellipsis, he added, 'The bed did not appear to have been slept in.'†   (source)
  • Baba believed Carter had unwittingly done more for communism than Leonid Brezhnev.†   (source)
  • A short, unwitting cackle was forced out of her, and the man in black threw back his head.†   (source)
  • The bassetts were often my unwitting assistants.†   (source)
  • Unclothed and unprotected, with her baby in her arms, she defies the storm unwittingly.†   (source)
  • —for Mr. Adams, in his haste to reach the scene, had unwittingly donned his secretary's coat.†   (source)
  • The guests became my unwitting coconspirators.†   (source)
  • The attack might have succeeded had it not been for the fact that they unwittingly chose to stage the attack right outside a compartment full of DA members, who saw what was happening through the glass and rose as one to rush to Harry's aid.†   (source)
  • His mother died in the attempt to save him — and unwittingly provided him with a protection I admit I had not foreseen.†   (source)
  • Creating means vandalizing the lives of other people, turning them into unwilling and unwitting participants.†   (source)
  • I do not know whether to view myself as an unwitting dupe, or, what is worse, a self-deluded fool; but even these doubts may be an illusion, and I may all along have been dealing with a woman so transparently innocent that in my over-subtlety I did not have the wit to recognize it.†   (source)
  • Those other aspects are a bit of ironic window dressing the author embeds in his text as cues for how to understand Alex's story and the message he unwittingly conveys.†   (source)
  • According to Sophie, Langdon had been called to the Louvre tonight not as a symbologist but rather as a suspect and was currently the unwitting target of one of DCPJ's favorite interrogation methods—surveillance cachée—a deft deception in which the police calmly invited a suspect to a crime scene and interviewed him in hopes he would get nervous and mistakenly incriminate himself.†   (source)
  • He wonders how many times they've crossed paths, how many meals they've unwittingly shared in Commons.†   (source)
  • When you unwittingly stuck your hand into the wasps' nest, you hadn't made a covenant with the devil to give up your civilized self with its trappings of love and respect and honor.†   (source)
  • And suddenly the sound of his pet name, uttered by his father as he has been accustomed to hearing it all his life, means something completely new, bound up with a catastrophe he has unwittingly embodied for years.†   (source)
  • Some of Teabing's intended targets received lavish gifts of artwork, others unwittingly bid at auctions in which Teabing had placed specific lots.†   (source)
  • I had been the entitled half, the society-approved, legitimate half, the unwitting embodiment of Baba's guilt.†   (source)
  • In F. M. Forster's early novels, English tourists find ways of making mischief, usually unwittingly and not always comically, when they travel to the Mediterranean.†   (source)
  • Of course, none of them dared utter it to his face unless they wished to suffer the same fate as the poor kid who had unwittingly inspired that nickname when he had fought Assef over a kite and ended up fishing his right ear from a muddy gutter.†   (source)
  • His reasoning was simple, for when David had come within moments of being blown off the face of the earth by misinformed men who were convinced he had to die, that misinformation had been unwittingly furnished by Panov and the way it had happened infuriated him.†   (source)
  • It's not good, Doctor, it's not good at all, and I'd be a very ungrateful patient-which I'm not-if I even unwittingly let you hear things I don't think you should hear.†   (source)
  • Imagining a future in which I didn't exist, in which I had unwittingly erased myself from his memories, kept my hands pinned under my legs and my mind, for once, in check.†   (source)
  • Now and then they would call out the name of some celebrity, who would then unwittingly turn in their direction just long enough to let them trigger their shutters.†   (source)
  • Newsmen, bragging that they had ridden the great Seabiscuit, unwittingly printed images of the lowly Grog in countless magazines and newspapers.†   (source)
  • For those of you who may not understand the enemy we face out here let me remind you that the previous week this group of terrorists took two innocent and unwitting women who had Downs Syndrome, rigged them with explosive vests and detonated them 20 minutes apart in a crowded market causing several deaths and hundreds of injuries.†   (source)
  • The fact that they unwittingly stopped some 500 feet short of their goal explains why they didn't see Hansen, Hall, or Lopsang on top, and vice versa.†   (source)
  • The group had unwittingly strayed to the easternmost edge of the Colat the lip of a 7,000foot drop down the Kangshung Face.†   (source)
  • Despite this, Moody remained adamant, until Zaree unwittingly came up with a solution to his dilemma.†   (source)
  • And it becomes all the more ironic since it is plain that the Germans had unwittingly imprisoned and doomed a man whom later they might have considered a major prophet—the eccentric Slavic philosopher whose vision of the "final solution" antedated that of Eichmann and his confederates (even perhaps of Adolf Hitler, the dreamer and conceiver of it all), and who had the message tangibly in his possession.†   (source)
  • I had unwittingly created a new stereotype among the island people and it seemed insidiously pervasive among the parents.†   (source)
  • The stillness was broken only by the unwitting shuffling of the mourners, as they tiptoed in to take their leave of the dead.†   (source)
  • So somewhat distressed in mind that unwittingly I might have offended, I sat down.†   (source)
  • Unwittingly, Jan's desire to protect Mary had helped him.†   (source)
  • Happy because now Adam hadn't played, even unwittingly, stool pigeon to the Boss.†   (source)
  • She slept unwitting of the devouring wheels that brought him to her.†   (source)
  • Then, all unwitting that he has awakened Mrs. Hubbard, he slips out through the other door into the corridor.†   (source)
  • The name agreed upon for the child was Eugenie Victoria, but that afternoon Melanie unwittingly bestowed a name that clung, even as "Pittypat" had blotted out all memory of Sarah Jane.†   (source)
  • It confined his life to the happier age that Lincoln understood—which unwittingly he helped to destroy—the age that gave sanction to the _honest compromises of his thought.†   (source)
  • When she returned now, summer by summer, she met with her innocent and unwitting smile all of his obscene innuendoes, his heavily suggestive threats, his bitter revelations behind her back.†   (source)
  • So quickly is man unwittingly and unpredictably moved that without knowing that they were thinking it, the town had suddenly accepted Grimm with respect and perhaps a little awe and a deal of actual faith and confidence, as though somehow his vision and patriotism and pride in the town, the occasion, had been quicker and truer than theirs.†   (source)
  • I turned my head away, ashamed for him, feeling that I had unwittingly committed an obscene act in rousing his hopes so wildly high, feeling sorry for his having such hopes.†   (source)
  • This was the mother, the dead sister Ellen: this Niobe without tears who had conceived to the demon in a kind of nightmare, who even while alive had moved but without life and grieved but without weeping, who now had an air of tranquil and unwitting desolation, not as if she had either outlived the others or had died first, but as if she had never lived at all.†   (source)
  • And keeping to this plan, wherever their two unwitting guides strolled, his aunt and he tagged along behind.†   (source)
  • Lily Briscoe had looked up at last, and there was Mrs. Ramsay, unwitting entirely what had caused her laughter, still presiding, but now with every trace of wilfulness abolished, and in its stead, something clear as the space which the clouds at last uncover—the little space of sky which sleeps beside the moon.†   (source)
  • But he was forced to make Elaine the central figure of this confession, and, after half an hour, he had unwittingly presented the King with a story to believe in—a story with which Arthur could content himself if he did not want to be conscious of the true tale.†   (source)
  • The first time it was given by a foreigner such as the one he had pulled unwittingly in his ricksha one day, only this one who gave him the paper was a man, very tall, and lean as a tree that has been blown by bitter winds.†   (source)
  • Mary was convinced that because of some sin she had unwittingly committed in her life, she was mated with the devil himself.†   (source)
  • But I never assumed, like the old woman, that he was an unwitting topic; not even the poodle was entirely that but knew even when she became deaf before her death that she was spoken of.†   (source)
  • She accepted me as Sebastian's friend and sought to make me hers also, and in doing so, unwittingly struck at the roots of our friendship.†   (source)
  • Yes, Henry: not Bon, as witness the entire queerly placid course of Bon's and Judith's courtship—an engagement, if engagement it ever was, lasting for a whole year yet comprising two holiday visits as her brother's guest and which periods Bon seems to have spent either in riding and hunting with Henry or as acting as an elegant and indolent esoteric hothouse bloom possessing merely the name of a city for origin history and past, about which Ellen preened and fluttered out her unwitting butterfly's Indian summer; he, the living man, was usurped, you see.†   (source)
  • I decided to keep my misadventure secret, that I would tell no one that I had been unwittingly an agent for pro—Ku Klux Klan literature.†   (source)
  • Which act, Aunt Bertha added venomously, was a very gracious one, albeit unwitting, and one for which she was very thankful, since she saw no reason to inflict that man's rude and surly presence on poor Nathan Sternowitz.†   (source)
  • Reassuring the apologetic actor James Hackett, who had unwittingly aroused a storm of hostile laughter by publishing a confidential letter, Lincoln added that he was quite used to it: "I have received a great deal of ridicule without much malice; and have received a great deal of kindness, not quite free from ridicule."†   (source)
  • Taken at its simplest it is a clue which directly incriminates someone whose initial is H, and it was dropped there unwittingly by that person.†   (source)
  • And as the boys looked, they gripped each other suddenly, for past the fissure slid the flat head of an enormous serpent; passed, and was followed by a scaled body as thick as a man's; the monster slid endlessly on into the deep earth and vanished behind the working and unwitting men.†   (source)
  • We would sit forever in our conspiracy of silence, forever bound together in that conspiracy by our awareness of our earlier, unwitting conspiracy to commit Adam Stanton and Willie Stark to each other and to their death.†   (source)
  • The big difference was this: Back in those days the Boss had been blundering and groping his unwitting way toward the discovery of himself, of his great gift, wearing his overalls that bagged down about the seat, or the blue serge suit with the tight, shiny pants, nursing some blind and undefined compulsion within him like fate or a disease.†   (source)
  • But he knew that her sorrow at that moment was not for him or for herself, or even for the boy whom idiot chance had thrust in the way of pestilence, but that, with a sudden inner flaming of her clairvoyant Scotch soul, she had looked cleanly, without pretense for the first time, upon the inexorable tides of Necessity, and that she was sorry for all who had lived, were living, or would live, fanning with their prayers the useless altar flames, suppliant with their hopes to an unwitting spirit, casting the tiny rockets of their belief against remote eternity, and hoping for grace, guidance, and delivery upon the spinning and forgotten cinder of this earth.†   (source)
  • He had cuckolded a friend, betrayed a wife, taken a bribe, driven a man, though unwittingly, to death.†   (source)
  • That fact was too horrible to face, for it robbed me of something out of the past by which, unwittingly until that moment, I had been living.†   (source)
  • "Like what?" said Carrie, unwitting of what was coming.†   (source)
  • Yet all the same, I must have unwittingly inflicted great pain upon you.†   (source)
  • Unwittingly she had touched his emotions.†   (source)
  • He closed his eyes and grasped the elbows of the chair, touching unwittingly the lady's arm.†   (source)
  • But last night, after I led him unwittingly into such deadly peril, it suddenly fell from my eyes.†   (source)
  • Bertine, as she pronounced Sondra's name, turned to take her arm, which gave Mason the exact information and opportunity he desired—that of seeing and studying for a moment the girl who had so tragically and no doubt all unwittingly replaced Roberta in Clyde's affections.†   (source)
  • Out of the dozen contradictory Zeniths which together make up the true and complete Zenith, none is so powerful and enduring yet none so unfamiliar to the citizens as the small, still, dry, polite, cruel Zenith of the William Eathornes; and for that tiny hierarchy the other Zeniths unwittingly labor and insignificantly die.†   (source)
  • Then he talked harshly to the unwitting culprit, and in his voice there was nothing but godlike wrath.†   (source)
  • It was Selden himself who unwittingly fused the group by arresting the attention of one of its members.†   (source)
  • Flo was unwittingly torturing her.†   (source)
  • Once, and unwitting that he did so or that I saw, he laughed aloud, mockingly and defiantly, at the advancing storm.†   (source)
  • That was the distinctive quality of the part into which Stein and I had tumbled him unwittingly, with no other notion than to get him out of the way; out of his own way, be it understood.†   (source)
  • And yet, when M. Verdurin said that he was not satisfied with Swann, he had not only expressed his own sentiments, he had unwittingly discovered his wife's.†   (source)
  • "Of course," continued the unwitting Clare, "I should have been glad to know you to be descended exclusively from the long-suffering, dumb, unrecorded rank and file of the English nation, and not from the self-seeking few who made themselves powerful at the expense of the rest.†   (source)
  • She had done—unwittingly—an awful and terrible thing—the very worst crime, in her eyes, that woman ever committed—she saw it in all its horror.†   (source)
  • The unwitting Sue and Jude, the couple in question, had determined to make this agricultural exhibition within twenty miles of their own town the occasion of a day's excursion which should combine exercise and amusement with instruction, at small expense.†   (source)
  • He had found Oldring's retreat; he had killed a rustler; he had shot an unfortunate girl, then had saved her from this unwitting act, and he meant to save her from the consequent wasting of blood, from fever and weakness.†   (source)
  • And from there, by the same meticulous process, he proceeded to Clyde—his interest in the affairs of Lycurgus society and the rich and beautiful Miss X, who because of a purely innocent and kindly, if infatuated, indication on her part that he might hope to aspire to her hand—had unwittingly evoked in him a passion which had been the cause of the sudden change in his attitude and emotions toward Roberta, resulting, as Mason insisted he would show, in the plot that had resulted in Roberta's death.†   (source)
  • Imprudent waste and destruction of newsprint, unwittingly flushed down the drain or sent up the chimney, was high treason, a crime against our forests and the nation's economy.†   (source)
  • the torment which had forced him to leave his own house had lost its sharpness when it lost its uncertainty, now that Odette's other life, of which he had had, at that first moment, a sudden helpless suspicion, was definitely there, almost within his grasp, before his eyes, in the full glare of the lamp-light, caught and kept there, an unwitting prisoner, in that room into which, when he would, he might force his way to surprise and seize it; or rather he would tap upon the shutters, as he had often done when he had come there very late, and by that signal Odette would at least learn that he knew, that he had seen the light and had heard the voices; while he himself, who a moment ago ha†   (source)
  • Were my hair not white and were I not so debilitated by this malign fever, you would see me prepared to give you satisfaction, man to man, weapon in hand, for the injury I have unwittingly inflicted upon you, and for the additional injury caused by my traveling companion, for which I likewise must take responsibility.†   (source)
  • The man spoke truly; he might unwittingly, in sheer terror, utter the shriek that might prove a warning to the wily Scarlet Pimpernel.†   (source)
  • She had betrayed him to his enemy—unwittingly 'tis true—but she HAD betrayed him, and if Chauvelin succeeded in trapping him, who so far was unaware of his danger, then his death would be at her door.†   (source)
  • Armand knew that: her impulses and imprudence, knew it still better; but Blakeney was slow-witted, he would not listen to "circumstances," he only clung to facts, and these had shown him Lady Blakeney denouncing a fellow man to a tribunal that knew no pardon: and the contempt he would feel for the deed she had done, however unwittingly, would kill that same love in him, in which sympathy and intellectuality could never had a part.†   (source)
  • I looked at the old house from the corner of the street, but did not go nearer to it, lest, being observed, I might unwittingly do any harm to the design I had come to aid.†   (source)
  • When, therefore, Mr. Preston reached me that which he had picked up upon the floor, and near the folding doors of the apartment, it was with an astonishment nearly bordering upon terror, that I perceived my own already hanging on my arm, (where I had no doubt unwittingly placed it,) and that the one presented me was but its exact counterpart in every, in even the minutest possible particular.†   (source)
  • I reproach myself, most bitterly, for having been so unfortunate as to cause the dissension that occurred, although I did so, I assure you, most unwittingly and heedlessly.'†   (source)
  • the man with whom I have unwittingly formed a compactum, or agreement, is sadly forgetful of the obligations of honesty!†   (source)
  • "There can be no doubt of that," I replied unwittingly, and not at first observing (so much had I been absorbed in reflection) the extraordinary manner in which the speaker had chimed in with my meditations.†   (source)
  • If it were so, as she feared, he was of course unwitting; he himself had not taken account of his intention.†   (source)
  • Catherine had kept up her acquaintance with the Lintons since her five-weeks' residence among them; and as she had no temptation to show her rough side in their company, and had the sense to be ashamed of being rude where she experienced such invariable courtesy, she imposed unwittingly on the old lady and gentleman by her ingenious cordiality; gained the admiration of Isabella, and the heart and soul of her brother: acquisitions that flattered her from the first — for she was full of ambition — and led her to adopt a double character without exactly intending to deceive any one.†   (source)
  • The truth was that in appointing this spot, and this hour, for the rendezvous, Lucetta had unwittingly backed up her entreaty by the strongest argument she could have used outside words, with this man of moods, glooms, and superstitions.†   (source)
  • The means of democracy are therefore more imperfect than those of aristocracy, and the measures which it unwittingly adopts are frequently opposed to its own cause; but the object it has in view is more useful.†   (source)
  • Receiving no reply to this extraordinary appeal, which in truth, as it was delivered with the vigor of full and sonorous tones, merited some sort of notice, he who had thus sung forth the language of the holy book turned to the silent figure to whom he had unwittingly addressed himself, and found a new and more powerful subject of admiration in the object that encountered his gaze.†   (source)
  • If I have not, and it is not true that you have come unwittingly to me as I have to you, I can say no more.†   (source)
  • All this I have created; all these I provide with their living; everywhere where there is a smoking chimney, it is I who have placed the brand on the hearth and meat in the pot; I have created ease, circulation, credit; before me there was nothing; I have elevated, vivified, informed with life, fecundated, stimulated, enriched the whole country-side; lacking me, the soul is lacking; I take myself off, everything dies: and this woman, who has suffered so much, who possesses so many merits in spite of her fall; the cause of all whose misery I have unwittingly been!†   (source)
  • "Dearest, dearest Valentine," exclaimed he, "forgive me if I have offended you, and forget the words I spoke if they have unwittingly caused you pain."†   (source)
  • Unwittingly, the men had dropped alongside of the ark, which had been purposely concealed in bushes cut and arranged for the purpose; and Judith Hutter had merely pushed aside the leaves that lay before a window, in order to show her face, and speak to them.†   (source)
  • I have been surprised to detect encircling the pond, even where a thick wood has just been cut down on the shore, a narrow shelf-like path in the steep hillside, alternately rising and falling, approaching and receding from the water's edge, as old probably as the race of man here, worn by the feet of aboriginal hunters, and still from time to time unwittingly trodden by the present occupants of the land.†   (source)
  • The slight, though of her own causing, and self-explanatory, she was unable to dismiss as unwittingly shown, so sensitive had the situation made her.†   (source)
  • While musing upon the singularity of my fate, I unwittingly daubed with a tar-brush the edges of a neatly-folded studding-sail which lay near me on a barrel.†   (source)
  • And while their manners were thus the subject of sarcastic observation, the untaught Saxons unwittingly transgressed several of the arbitrary rules established for the regulation of society.†   (source)
  • But, though the world scouts at us whale hunters, yet does it unwittingly pay us the profoundest homage; yea, an all-abounding adoration!†   (source)
  • Raskolnikov had unwittingly worked a revolution in his brain on a certain point and had made up his mind for him conclusively.†   (source)
  • "Because," replied the woodsman, "I know not if these yeomen and I are used to shoot at the same marks; and because, moreover, I know not how your Grace might relish the winning of a third prize by one who has unwittingly fallen under your displeasure."†   (source)
  • Unwittingly here a secret has been divulged, which perhaps might more properly, in set way, have been disclosed before.†   (source)
  • She had thought of the possibility of such a signal in answer to that which had been unwittingly given by Charley; but she had not expected it yet.†   (source)
  • '"Cherizette," said the Lady Flabella, inserting her mouse-like feet in the blue satin slippers, which had unwittingly occasioned the half-playful half-angry altercation between herself and the youthful Colonel Befillaire, in the Duke of Mincefenille's SALON DE DANSE on the previous night.†   (source)
  • Then fearing that his paroxysm might get the better of him, he clutched with one hand the branch of a tree against which he was leaning, and with the other convulsively grasped the dagger with a carved handle which was in his belt, and which, unwittingly, he drew from the scabbard from time to time.†   (source)
  • The various occurrences of national existence have everywhere turned to the advantage of democracy; all men have aided it by their exertions: those who have intentionally labored in its cause, and those who have served it unwittingly; those who have fought for it and those who have declared themselves its opponents, have all been driven along in the same track, have all labored to one end, some ignorantly and some unwillingly; all have been blind instruments in the hands of God.†   (source)
  • 'But I am not prepared,' he went on, 'to deny — perhaps I may have been, without knowing it, in some degree prepared to admit — that I may have unwittingly ensnared that lady into an unhappy marriage.†   (source)
  • all the morning long; I squeezed that sperm till I myself almost melted into it; I squeezed that sperm till a strange sort of insanity came over me; and I found myself unwittingly squeezing my co-laborers' hands in it, mistaking their hands for the gentle globules.†   (source)
  • I felt a little shaky at the thought, as well as at the knowledge that I had unwittingly exposed him to such danger.†   (source)
  • And who are you, blabbing by rote, years, pages, languages, reminiscences,
    Unwitting to-day that you do not know how to speak properly a single word?†   (source)
  • Around the idea of thee the war revolving,
    With all its angry and vehement play of causes,
    (With vast results to come for thrice a thousand years,)
    These recitatives for thee,—my book and the war are one,
    Merged in its spirit I and mine, as the contest hinged on thee,
    As a wheel on its axis turns, this book unwitting to itself,
    Around the idea of thee.†   (source)
  • Now I am terrified at the Earth, it is that calm and patient,
    It grows such sweet things out of such corruptions,
    It turns harmless and stainless on its axis, with such endless
    successions of diseas'd corpses,
    It distills such exquisite winds out of such infused fetor,
    It renews with such unwitting looks its prodigal, annual, sumptuous crops,
    It gives such divine materials to men, and accepts such leavings
    from them at last.†   (source)
  • And yet thou living present brain, heir of the dead, the Old World brain,
    Thou that lay folded like an unborn babe within its folds so long,
    Thou carefully prepared by it so long—haply thou but unfoldest it,
    only maturest it,
    It to eventuate in thee—the essence of the by-gone time contain'd in thee,
    Its poems, churches, arts, unwitting to themselves, destined with
    reference to thee;
    Thou but the apples, long, long, long a-growing,
    The fruit of all the Old ripening to-day in thee.†   (source)
  • away from them,
    except as it results to their bodies and souls,
    So that often to me they appear gaunt and naked,
    And often to me each one mocks the others, and mocks himself or herself,
    And of each one the core of life, namely happiness, is full of the
    rotten excrement of maggots,
    And often to me those men and women pass unwittingly the true
    realities of life, and go toward false realities,
    And often to me they are alive after what custom has served them,
    but nothing more,
    And often to me they are sad, hasty, unwaked sonnambules walking the dusk.†   (source)
  • TEIRESIAS I say thou livest with thy nearest kin In infamy, unwitting in thy shame.†   (source)
  • 4) Away with me, a worthless wretch who slew Unwitting thee, my son, thy mother too.†   (source)
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