"And what became of the money you put in Uncle Allan's business?" asked Gilbert with unexpected intelligence.

There would have been an extra five hundred dollars a year when he was at sea, and on the strength of this addition to their former income he intended to increase the amount of his life insurance, but it had not yet been done when the sudden illness seized him, an illness that began so gently and innocently and terminated with such sudden and unexpected fatality.

When I have reduced these to nothingness I ask if the yellow house on the outskirts of the village is still vacant, and the Colonel replies that it is, at which unexpected but hoped-for answer I fall into a deep swoon.

Peter, carrying many small things too valuable to trust to others, jumped, as suggested, and gave his new friend an unexpected shower of bumps from hard substances concealed about his person.

DEAR MARGARET,I have had you much in mind since I left you, always with great anxiety lest your strength should fail under the unexpected strain you put upon it.

But even as the girl was in the first throes of delight at this unexpected meeting, the guttural laugh of Magua was heard, and she saw the dark form and malignant visage of the savage.

"The baccy, sir; Harvey Birch, he got home, and he bring you a little good baccy." To Sarah Wharton this intelligence gave unexpected pleasure, and, rising from her seat, she bade the black show Birch into the apartment, adding suddenly, with an apologising look, "If Mr. Harper will excuse the presence of a pedlar.

The unexpected has to be reckoned with, of course; and much depends on ability to estimate the form which the unexpected may take.

The unexpected has to be reckoned with, of course; and much depends on ability to estimate the form which the unexpected may take.

In a few moments the girl came along and nearly stumbled over her in the darkness, crying out in alarm at the unexpected encounter.

Warm and dry inside, the Winnebagos made the best of their unexpected situation and whiled away the hours with games, stories, and "improving conversation," as Jo Severance recounted later.

Agony bore quickly down on her paddle to offset the pull of the current; it struck an unexpected rock underneath the surface and twisted itself out of her hands.

THE GUINEA-HEN Pontiff of the Unexpected Adjective I call him!

This unexpected pleasure THE MAGPIE [Announcing.]

What evil destiny had brought Sandy Bruce in the character of school visitor that day?Sandy Bruce, retired school-teacher himself, superintendent of the hospital in Charlottetown, road-master, ship-owner, exciseman,Sandy Bruce, whose sharp and unexpected questions had been known to floor the best of scholars and upset the plans of the best of teachers.

That was an outcome quite unexpected, although I now remembered that chickadees were in or near the St. Augustine swamp; and what was more to the purpose, I could now discern some relationship between the tee-koi, tee-koo (or, as I now wrote it, see-toi, see-too), and the familiar so-called phoebe whistle of the black-capped titmouse.

This was an unexpected result, as the currents are usually supposed to prevail in the direction of the monsoon.

Analytical anthropology has led to other and often unexpected results.

"Wentworth, a friend of mine, has lately had rather an unexpected legacy, in the shape of a large estate and manor, about a mile and a half outside of the village of Korunton.

They were so absorbed in their tender explanations, that they did not see Madame Clerambault when she came near, and the good lady, overcome by this unexpected meeting, hurried home to tell the news to her husband.

She shielded him from every rough or unexpected contact, just as his valet used to do.

Had a thousand savages been rushing on him he would have flown to the rescue of his favourite; but an unexpected obstacle came in the way.

If at a moment of simultaneous and unexpected suspension by the banks it adds something to the many embarrassments of that proceeding, yet these are far overbalanced by its direct tendency to produce a wider circulation of gold and silver, to increase the safety of bank paper, to improve the general currency, and thus to prevent altogether such occurrences and the other and far greater evils that attend them.

No civilized people, after gaining an unexpected victory, could have shown more delicacy and forbearance than was exhibited by the slaves at the great moral consummation which they had attained.

He spoke with great effect of the unexpected progress of freedom, from island to island, from colony to colony, until, with a solitary exception, upon that day the stain of slavery was obliterated forever from every British possession.