Secretly, too, both were ashamed, having come unawares upon knowledge that was not meant for them.
Ovid tells us, in a delightful passage, of the manner in which Philemon and Baucis received the gods unawaresas guests in their humble cottage.
I must take this opportunity of thanking the good soul who once upon a time, so I was afterwards informed, made me drink such a concoction unawares for the cure of some such trouble; but I still remain incredulous.
O, how ungodly men, that are unawares crept into the vineyard, how do they turn the grace of our God into lasciviousness!
He did this while I was his enemy, without my desires, without my knowledge, without my deserts; he did it unawares to me.
After much thought and cogitation, the incidents of the morning flashed unawares through her memory.
Unawares his eye espied Pao-ch'ai much amused, and he too could not suppress a smile.
The perusal of this note filled Pao-yü unawares with exultation.
But she unawares now heard Pao-yü remark with a smile: "Cousin Pao, let me see that string of scented beads of yours!
But unawares perceiving Hsi Jen wave her hand and call her by name, she had to walk up to her.
When Tai-yü guessed the object of the handkerchief, her very soul unawares flitted from her.
Miss," she whispered with a smile, "you came upon me so unawares that you gave me quite a start!
Hence it was that when the other day she unawares felt unwell, she at once abstained from food during two or three days, while she carefully also nursed herself by taking proper medicines.
Lin Tai-yü was herself a prey to emotion and agitation, when unawaressorrowful accents also struck her ear, from the direction of the mound.
These words reached the ears of both girls, and, so unawares were they taken, that they got a regular start, and jumping up with all haste they went to see behind the boulder.
Unawares the assembled people, who had received no special sensation from the sermon, woke up also at the sight of Vincent's face.
Vincent dropped her arm, and she recoiled from him with an involuntary movement; unawares she clasped her thin hands and gave one wild look into his face.
Perhaps it was some breath of anguish escaping from her unawares that drew towards her the restless gleaming eyes of another strange spectator there.
Catching himunawares she wrenched herself free from his hold.
But she told us that the stranger paid for his lodging regularly, and would arrive at the cottage unawares of an evening and stay part of the night .
So the officers fell on me unawares and brought me to the prefect, who questioned me and I told him what I had told the broker: but he laughed and said, 'This is not the truth.
To which Muin will reply, "With thy leave, I will fall on him at unawares and bring her to thee.
Then he took the Barmecide unawares and raising his arm, till the whiteness of his arm-pit appeared, dealt him such a buffet on the neck that the place rang to it.
These men have all unawares brought with them that which may well bear me up through whatever may be coming.
Cicely would fain have resisted, but was forced to obey, though protesting that she should not sleep; and she lay awake for a long time watching the Queen writing, until unawares slumber overpowered her eyes.
Begin betimes to practise good, Lest fate surprise thee unawares Amid thy round of schemes and cares; To-morrow’s task to-day conclude.
We deliberate about the parcels of life, but not about life itself, and so we arrive all unawares at its different epochs, and have the trouble of beginning all again.
The fact of the matter is that a truly successful professional thief is a very interesting man to meet, and he is all the more interesting to the officer if he has been able to catch him unawares and without much trouble.
The question came like the crack of a whip, and I was glad the familiar phrase had slipped out unawares and diverted her.
But what Fairy is this coming unawares on us sitting by the side of the most lucid of little wells?
He said to himself that by stealing upon the prisoner unawares he might possibly find him engaged in surreptitiously reading the note.
But surely I must have fallen unawares amongst heathens; it cannot be that I am in a Christian knight's castle; and if you are indeed heathens, then kill us at once.
And a few weeks ago, when the snow was yet lying hard in the valleys, I came unawares quite close upon the strange building.
Leaves and blossoms were just bursting out, and one day, wandering alone in the grounds, she happened unawares upon an orchard in full bloom, and fairly gasped, utterly overcome by the first shock of its beauty.
Presently after I had thus resolved, I came unawares out of the trackless ground upon a beaten path, which methought led in the direction of my course.
Ah, lad, I doubt your organs be not so sound as you suppose;" and saying this he sighed again, and smiled whimsically when I asked him if I had unawares been wounded in another part.
So Gudred set off at once, and cameunawares on Soti, and made them lead him up the country, and hang him there.
Seeing that smile, Hannah had caught her unawares in her thoughts.
He fell upon the Captain unawares and struck him to the ground, and the chances are, in his drunken fury, would have murdered him, but for the timely assistance of Micah Martin.
It would be too humiliating to Gervase to admit that a sober man had beaten him in fair fight; hence the fiction that he was pounced upon suddenly and unawares by a man who was mad drunk.
Thus these two devoted, conscientious souls conspired to provide the parsonunawares with a sufficiency of air and light.
