Naught hath he asked for her of gold nor jewels, but only thisthat she shall not come unbidden to our home.

An element that was mysterious, and in a sense disheartening, crept unbidden into the severity of grey rock and dark pine forest and took the sparkle from the sunshine and the sea.

Often as she had visited the spot since, she had never done so without the memory of that spring morning flashing unbidden through her brain.

Do they not rather emerge unbidden from the vague limbo of sub-consciousness?"

But stop, my Muse, the ungrateful sound forbear, Maria's name still wounds each British ear: 200 Each British heart Maria still does wound, And tears burst out unbidden at the sound; Maria still our rising mirth destroys, Darkens our triumphs, and forbids our joys.

Before him stood his four well-grown, sturdy, ruddy-faced boys, awaiting his pleasure with seemly reverence, for none of them would have dared to be seated unbidden in the presence of their father.

We have now made the serene spaces of the upper Heavens our media to transmit market reports and sporting news, second-rate music and worse oratory and in the meantime the great masters of thought, Homer and Shakespeare, Bach and Beethoven remain unbidden on our library shelves.

* Her pencil faltered; she looked into space, and the image of Beekman Brown, pleasant-eyed, attractive, floated unbidden out of vacancy and looked at her.

I remember once upon a time meeting a young woman who had come, unbidden by the hostess, to "write up" a social function where a number of celebrated people were congregated.

Deliberately crossing his bare shins, he sat down unbidden beside my father, smoking a long-stemmed pipe.

And now I stood beside that rivulet's spring, That came unbidden with a bubbling bound And stealing forth, a gentle trembling thing, It seemed an infant fearing all around Yet clinging to its mother's breastthe ground.