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Example sentences for "unaccountably"

Lexicographically close words:
unacclimated; unaccommodating; unaccompanied; unaccomplished; unaccountable; unaccounted; unaccustomed; unacknowledged; unacquaintance; unacquainted
  1. He therefore disappeared from their midst one day as suddenly and unaccountably as he had come amongst them.

  2. It chanced they were no sooner in the room where the regalia was kept, than the lady found herself taken suddenly and unaccountably ill, and indeed feared she must die; before bidding adieu to life, she begged for a little whisky.

  3. Upon this every soul was confounded; for the phenomenon just then observed by Ahab had unaccountably escaped every one else; but its very blinding palpableness must have been the cause.

  4. Now, for instance, many a party of pleasure goes to that old ruin where Sir Francis Varney so unaccountably disappeared in broad daylight.

  5. A strange heaviness came across his spirits, which before had been so unaccountably raised.

  6. It is most unaccountably hot tonight, and I never knew anything like it in October.

  7. Dalzell, returning one afternoon from the library encountered Midshipman Farley, who was looking unaccountably gloomy.

  8. But you appear, Mr. Darrin, either to have lost some of your snap or ambition, or else you have gone unaccountably stale.

  9. Among the earthworks of the Ohio valley, there is a small but very interesting class, which has hitherto most unaccountably escaped observation.

  10. The skull is wonderfully well preserved; unaccountably so, unless the circumstances under which it was found may be regarded as most favorable to such a result.

  11. In the middle of the night, when suddenly and unaccountably aroused from a restless doze, she spoke sharply as her eyes rested on a white figure prone upon the floor in the reflected light of the moon.

  12. That now that she was older she slept in a room by herself as she became unaccountably restless and wide awake if anyone slept in the room with her.

  13. Not but that the affair appeared to me unaccountably strange; for, beyond Verner's Pride, I did not think Rachel possessed an acquaintance.

  14. Legrand, who seemed to be getting unaccountably warm upon the subject; "I am sure you must see the antennae.

  15. The young gentleman found himself most unaccountably often at the house of Mr. Henderson.

  16. Signora Rivolta hearing these good people so earnestly conversing with each other on the subject of the storm and its probable extent, was unaccountably led to give heed to their discourse.

  17. All that he had said, all that she had seen, seemed, as though it possessed a power of material growth, unaccountably to absorb her.

  18. A strange feeling began to take hold of her, creeping stealthily through her limbs; and she was terrified, but unaccountably elated.

  19. A tall, cadaverous young man makes up for a ghost in an anonymous novel,[15] while a mysterious woman in a black veil attends a midnight funeral in the castle, then unaccountably disappears.

  20. An orchid collector is found unaccountably dead in a jungle in the Andaman Islands, with a strange bulb lying under him, which bulb is brought to England and watched carefully by a botanist there till it comes to flower.

  21. A couple of men take refuge in a deserted house and note a strange vine covering the porch that shakes unaccountably and violently.

  22. To this part of Falstaff’s character, many things which he does and says, and which appear unaccountably natural, are to be referred.

  23. All were unaccountably indifferent to his main purpose.

  24. It could not be said that Wilhelmine was a timid woman, yet hers was one of those natures which, though ready to attempt many things, shrink unaccountably at any touch of dreariness, and almost dread meeting strangers.

  25. The Duchess decided to fetch it, but she lingered a moment, for it was unaccountably disagreeable to her to pass through the half-light of her sleeping apartment.

  26. Had I not already (thus the tempter continued) been swimming rather unaccountably far, supposing me on a straight track for that inviting spot where my sentinels and my drapery were awaiting my return?

  27. There was a British trench on the top of it, but on its eastern rim the Germans had established posts, rather unaccountably in view of the aggressive character of the troops of the 9th Division.

  28. The enemy's barrage was unaccountably light and ragged, even when the violence of our counter-battery fire is considered, and fell upon the British front line.

  29. I called on Lyndhurst yesterday, who said they had unaccountably overlooked this plausible topic.

  30. It was unaccountably pleasant there, with this strange, almost magical blurring of realities into a velvety ease .

  31. The Shepherd's Calendar ought by rights to have been ready before the 1st of January, but Cerizet was working unaccountably slowly; all the work of composing fell to him; and Mme.

  32. Peppino suddenly recollected a thrilling piece of news which most unaccountably he had forgotten to tell Lucia.

  33. There was something more than a drooping sadness in the attitude, something strangely like remorse, as though unaccountably she blamed herself.

  34. I have no wish to hear;" and she fell unaccountably to talking of Jervas Rookley, at first in something of a flurry, and afterwards in a tone as though she found great comfort in the thought of him.

  35. A truly good book is something as natural, and as unexpectedly and unaccountably fair and perfect, as a wild flower discovered on the prairies of the West or in the jungles of the East.

  36. It appeared that the trial was being delayed in consequence of the absence of Peters, who was an important witness, and who unaccountably failed to make his appearance.


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