Once he was taken unawares.

These shadows had crept in unawares, a silent partie carrée, to take their phantom places at the table, and only Etta seemed able to jostle hers aside and talk it down.

That he might not be taken unawares, therefore, it is said he always carried a small Bible in his coat-pocket.

He had left his little Bible at the bottom of his coat-pocket and his big Bible on the desk buried under the mortgage he was about to foreclose: never was sinner taken more unawares.

Religion blushing veils her sacred fires, And unawares Morality expires.

The chief of the bailiffs (sbirri) shall avoid making domiciliary arrests, but he shall try to seize the culprit unawares, away from his home, and so securely get him under the leads of the Palace of the Doges.

But the beginning was so full of God's truth, sir, romance though it was,and gave me such precious new light about educating children, that I was led on unawares.

While you can pray as you were praying then, he who would silence you might be silencing unawares the Lord himself!" She made no answer, though the change in Frank's tone moved her; and when he told her his errand, that thought also passed from her mind.

" Or else, in looking once more for that exquisite scene between Haidée and Don Juan on the beach, we fall unawares upon these lines: "Year after year they voted cent.

Mr. M. Dousman (April 10) writes that a knave has worried him, dogged his heels away from home, and sued him, at unawares.

Appearances of springthe more deepened sound of the falls, the floating of large cakes of ice from the great northern depository, Lake Superior, and the return of some early species of ducks and other birdspresented themselves as harbingers of spring almost unawares.

Bring home all the flowers and pretty wood-growths you can, and you may find that you have been entertaining angels unawares.

The maharajas of Baroda, Jeypore, Bhartpur, Gwalior and several other provinces obey the scriptural injunction and have many times entertained angels unawares.

Unawares thou wert thyself an answer to thy Christmas prayer: "God bless us every one!" OLIVER TWIST

Thus the "public opinion" of slave states protects the defenceless slave by arming a host of legal penalties and setting them in ambush at every thicket along his path, to spring upon him unawares.

But she who strove to 'scape love's toils Quite unawares was caught!

I reckon the redskins must have come down from above somewhere, and so caught them unawares.

It would have given Dory a surprise, a vastly different notion as to what she thought of him, had he seen her unawares just then.

His daughter and only child was afraid of him; his wife had been afraid of him in her time, and had faded slowly out of a life that had been very joyless, unawares, hiding her illness from him to the last, as if it had been a sort of offence against him to be ill.

Such women were not taken unawares.

It was this yielding, pliant attitude that struck Stillman as he came upon her almost unawares on that early December afternoon, a yielding, pliant attitude which gave a curious sense of tenacity under the surface.

At one point a warrior was seen stationed on a ridge to beat a drum and give signals to the rest; but the spies of the whites stole on him unawares, and shot him.

We ought therefore to be so forearmed that if some persecution which we did not expect arrives, we may not be taken unawares.

No unnecessary sweeping or dusting, no visiting nor entertaining angels unawares on that dayit was held sacred to soap suds, blue-bags, and clotheslines.

And he had let this challenge out on me so sharply, catching me unawares that I was alone with him, and, as it were, at his mercy, before I could pull my wits together.