But all our good intentions to frustrate the guile of those who thought to get the better of us by superior cunning were nipped in the bud by an unforeseen and very unfortunate occurrence.
Madame de Fleury never stirred from her place of concealment: as the evening and the hour of the domiciliary visits approached, Victoire and Maurice were alarmed by an unforeseen difficulty.
But those who will consent to perpend the enormous and utterly unforeseen advance of the nineteenth century will recognise the danger of limiting their anticipations concerning the possibilities of the twenty-first.
While it is true that many unforeseen conditions must always unite in determining the destination of this coveted prize, there still seems to be one inexorable condition to which all Orange County aspirants must conform.
A moment later they were trotting towards freedom and the open country, Cecil making the horses go slower now, wishing to reserve their strength for any unforeseen emergency.
This is very true, where they are unforeseen or inevitable.
Some unforeseen Providence will fall out, that may cast the balance; some Joseph or other will say, "Why do ye strive together, since ye are brethren?
A storekeeper near by had promised to supply the family, but, discouraged by the unforeseen length of the father's absence, he had that day refused to trust them further.
He was prompt and ready in the event of unforeseen complications, and never permitted any thing to take him by surprise.
Weeks elapsed, and it seemed that the tactics of temporisation would have their usual result, when an unforeseen incident complicated the situation.
An unforeseen event, however, showed Cambyses a way out of the difficulty.
The course of my reflections, and the issue to which they led, were unforeseen by myself.
What unforeseen effects had that knowledge produced!
Events unforeseen might protract it for years, but it could not arrive in less than a twelvemonth.
The sense of what was unforeseen and obvious, the rolling backward of the gates had gone with the living voice, with the nobility of will that made one understand what he saw and felt in what was now but argument and logic.
Queensberry was as fully convinced as Claverhouse that there had been a plot, which the unforeseendelay in Edinburgh had alone prevented from being put to execution.
At Drumclog, and subsequently at Glasgow, unforeseen circumstances had imposed a leading and conspicuous part on Claverhouse.
It was the unforeseen in the lines of intrenchment.
The brothers awoke to the fact that in the best laid plans of mice and men the unforeseen is ever present.
She produced a draft for one thousand dollars, which she said she always carried for unforeseen emergencies, and offered it to the doctor to use for charity or as he wished, if he would change the order about the grapes.
Bold initiative should solve any unforeseen difficulties that may arise.
So swift and unforeseen was the movement that no one could interfere.
Slyne was saying to Captain Dove, who also seemed to have grown suddenly apprehensive of some unforeseen mischance.
The day was not over before this apparently insignificant fact was known all over the parish, and was taking the most extraordinary and unforeseen proportions.
The joy I felt at this unforeseen success was much diminished, however, by the sudden news that Mr. Courjeault had come back from France, where he spent only one month.
Your unforeseen exit from Canada fills us with a regret and sadness, which is increased by the fear we have, that the reform you have started, and so gloriously established everywhere, will suffer from your absence.
Trusting in God alone for success, I felt that those two men were to be put among those unforeseen obstacles which Heaven wanted me to overcome, if I could not avoid them.
My hope was that the people would soon follow their chief, and be reconciled to me, but I did not expect that this would be so soon, and from such an unforeseen and unexpected cause.
Even in the system of private redress we often {220} find a distinction made between intentional or foreseen injuries on the one hand, and unintentional and unforeseen injuries on the other.
Yet even in the system of self-redress intentional or foreseen injuries often distinguished from unintentional and unforeseen injuries, pp.
Our conduct is based upon our ideas; hence the erroneous notion as regards some fact in the past, present, or future, which is produced by a lie or false promise, may lead to unforeseen events detrimental to our interests.
We shall, finally, see that the infection of uncleanness is shunned by gods even more than it is shunned by men; and this largely helps to explain the attitude of religion towards unintentional and unforeseen shedding of human blood.
Sometimes it reaches its goal in a way quite unforeseen by the agent himself.
Duchesse," he said in his most courtly manner, "I beg that you will accept my apologies for this unforeseen interruption.
The appointment made was for eight o'clock, by which time, allowing for obstacles and unforeseen delays, all was sure to be well over.
If they were better informed they would feel more confidence in their own natural powers, and would not be so unnecessarily alarmed when unforeseen difficulties occur, or when professional aid cannot be immediately procured.
Many unforeseen conditions may exist, however, and many accidents arise, that may falsify an apparently safe conclusion.
Even the invention of railways has produced the unforeseen result of a return in the direction of barbarism.
Unforeseen circumstances have thrown us together for a time.
Again, after describing the region of Gettysburg, he concludes: "Such is the ground upon which unforeseen circumstances were about to bring the two armies in hostile contact.
The sudden declaration of Denmark, unforeseen by all the world, much embarrasses those here who hope to see the armed neutrality fail.
Sir, Some days ago I was about to prepare a new despatch, touching affairs on the carpet here, when an unforeseen event prevented me.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "unforeseen" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
