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Example sentences for "onbeknown"

Lexicographically close words:
omnivorous; onager; onanism; onard; once; onced; oncet; oncle; oncoming
  1. And as I looked on his beloved linement I forgot everything else and onbeknown to me I leaned over the railin' and sez: "Here is sunthin' that no one has seemed to think on at home or abroad.

  2. So when Serepta wuz born (and born a girl ontirely onbeknown to her) she wuz took right away from her mother and gin to this brother.

  3. I sez reasonably: "Serepta would have been glad to flew above 'em, but the Ring and the vile laws lay holt of her onbeknown to her and dragged her down.

  4. But onbeknown to myself these words come to me: "The mills of the gods grind slowly But they grind exceedingly small.

  5. I answered her like one talkin' onbeknown to herself, two of my eyes and my spectacles furtively watchin' the liniment of my beloved pardner, and my speritual eyes feastin' on the perfect loveliness of the seen.

  6. She wuz born that way onbeknown to her I spoze, and so I d'no as I ort to blame her for her soft ways.

  7. But most always some little onworthy selfish motive will come sneakin' in by some back door of the heart and wiggle its way along till it sets down right by the side of our highest whitest motives and stays there onbeknown to us.

  8. We slep' as well as we could considerin' the size and hardness of the mattress and pillows, and the confidences that wuz bein' poured into us onbeknown from both sides.

  9. He wuz kinder mean too, runnin' after wimmen at that time, though onbeknown to Jane Olive or his folks, but it come out afterwards, he wuz awful sly.

  10. He didn't go so fur this time, but had almost onbeknown to himself sought safety for his dear Philury in flight.

  11. He may have gone into some meetin' house and wandered up into the steeple onbeknown to him, or some educational exhibit, or Bible rooms, but never, never in that place.

  12. But I spoze Sam enjoyed pretty good health all the time onbeknown to his folks and wuz kinder savin' up his strength, layin' it up as you may say for the time o' need, so he had it all when he wuz married.

  13. And as if in answer to my onspoken thoughts my pardner sez: "Mawlstroms will draw anybody in onbeknown to them; they're deadly dangerous!

  14. Who knows what we may be ketchin' ontirely onbeknown to us?

  15. But anon I hearn a voice at my side and I see Faith had come back onbeknown to me (she had been in Sister Meechum's tent mendin' a rent in her dress).

  16. The full kag emptied its contents over his nefarious purposes, and I bust out almost onbeknown to me and sez: "It is no use; it is vain, it is worse than vain!

  17. Besides it might have been born a girl onbeknown to her.

  18. I wuz brung down some, but I kep on with considerable eloquence, though it wuz kinder drizzlin' away onbeknown to me, such is the power of environment.

  19. Yes, onbeknown to me a feelin' of sadness come over me--sadness and regret.

  20. Though that wuz onbeknown to him at the time, and he ort not to have gloried in it.

  21. And onbeknown to me I carried myself in that proud and stately way that Josiah asked me anxiously-- "If I had got a crick in my back?

  22. The Governor here took out his watch and looked at it almost onbeknown to me, I wuz so took up a-talkin' for Justice and Mahala.

  23. But Josiah looked kinder oneasy all the time that I wuz a-lookin' at it; he wuz afraid of what thoughts I might be entertainin' in my mind onbeknown to him, and he hurried me onwards.

  24. Sez I, "Spozen you should take it to yourself for a spell, imagine how it would be with you if you had been born there onbeknown to yourself.

  25. And everybody who goes through it always calculates to hold it back if there is anybody comin' behind 'em, for that door has been known to knock a man down when it come onto him onexpected and onbeknown to him.

  26. The Chinese Village wuz jest like goin' through China or bein' dropped down onbeknown to you into a China village.

  27. How congenial they wuz, they had been friends always, made so onbeknown to them, they only had to discover each other, and then they wuz intimate to once, and dear.

  28. Arvilly wuzn't to blame; it spoke itself onbeknown to her.

  29. As I looked on it I spoke to my pardner almost onbeknown to me, "Oh, Josiah!

  30. But I spoze the walls of water like as not is risin' on each side on 'em onbeknown to them, and when the time comes, when the bugle sounds, they will rush in and overwhelm the armies of Greed and Tyranny and the oppressed.

  31. I murmured onbeknown to myself, "The poor received Him gladly;" "Except ye do these things ye cannot be my disciples.

  32. I throwed my arms 'round Tommy onbeknown to me, and sez I, "Millions and millions of money wouldn't pay your grandma for you.

  33. I felt as though I had met Abraham or Isaac onbeknown to them.

  34. And the Bay of Naples wuz beautiful, its beauty stole on you onbeknown and growed and growed till it possessed your hull heart and soul, if you had a soul.

  35. The tears run down my face onbeknown to me, for oh the hunted, haunted look he wore!


  36. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "onbeknown" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.