232 examples of unwittingly in sentences

Shall I, having first unwittingly done my friend the most grievous injury, proceed further to betray her, and doom her to a cruel death?

His calamities and death excited the compassion of Europe; and with it was added a profound indignation for the man who had unwittingly lured him on to his ruin.

The one, more than any other single man, stimulated, though unwittingly, the French Revolution; the other opposed that mad outburst with equal eloquence, and caused in Europe a reaction from revolutionary principles.

The young lawyer was, indeed, unwittingly preparing for his mission to paint Scottish scenery so vividly, and Scottish character so charmingly, that he may almost be said to have created a new country which succeeding generations delight to visit.

But how the air-ship did come upon the rock, how shall I know; save, maybe, it doth seem as that she might have flown low over the sea in that olden age, and come hard upon the Rock, because, maybe, there was one to the helm that did steer unwittingly.

This time, in his efforts to be understood, he stretched his words out so that unwittingly his voice took on rather a whining tone.

Next to Trajan was Hezekiah, whose penitence delayed for him the hour of his death: next Hezekiah, Constantine, though, in letting the pope become a prince instead of a pastor, he had unwittingly brought destruction on the world: next Constantine, William the Good of Sicily, whose death is not more lamented than the lives of those who contest his crown and lastly, next William, Riphaeus the Trojan.

Konrad, arrived at the house, helped to unload a horse of heavy packages which he conjectured to contain plunder; but it was gunpowder that he unwittingly handled.

But say, Jack," Bob demanded, in the alarm of local partisanship which apprehends that it may unwittingly have served an outside interest, "did you want us to dope it out that you were an invalid?

It has, unwittingly but explicitly, conceded the main question argued in the preceding pages.

By passing this resolution, and with such avowals, the south has unwittingly but explicitly, conceded the main point argued in the preceding pages, and surrendered the whole question at issue between them and the petitioners for abolition in the District.

It has, unwittingly but explicitly, conceded the main question argued in the preceding pages.

Only they unwittingly wrote it upon her neighbor's walls, thus saving both houses.

But he was drifting unwittingly toward the grand affair of his life.

It was into this ideal romance that De Beriot had wandered unwittingly in 1830.

"Men called him but a shiftless youth, In whom no good they saw; And yet, unwittingly, in truth, They made his careless word their law.

Then at last he knew that he had become a man and must put away childish things, and his mind floated on the thought, off to those distant stars where other boys had that night, perhaps unwittingly, become men.

What a service of contrast eachall unwittingly, need one saydid the other, just in the same fashion as contrasting colours accentuate the special quality one of the other.

And he was offered up unwittingly by Charlotte as a sacrifice to Anne's virtue.

When her smiles came the mouth remained as young as before, yet suddenly, as truly as the eyes, showedshowed him at leaststeadfastness of purpose, while the eyes, where fully half the smile was, still unwittingly revealed their depths of truth.

But thus both he and Anna unwittingly put the finishing touch upon that change of heart in the General which Flora, by every subtlety of indirection, this hour and more in the carriage, had been bringing about.

Conan, having unwittingly put on his gloves and handled the reins of his horse, lifted his hands to his face, and the touch having filled him with poisonous infection, he died soon after, to the great sorrow of his people, for he was an able and brave man, and inclined to justice.

You are a Federal scout whom I have unwittingly helped through the Confederate lines.

In the course of his argument the big man unwittingly made some remark that aroused the ire of his small adversary.

A fancy to humbug him came over me, and I told him that I was a somnambulist, and must beforehand beg his pardon should I unwittingly disturb his slumbers.

232 examples of  unwittingly  in sentences