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  • So thou, thyself outgoing in thy noon, Unlooked on diest, unless thou get a son.

    Shakespeare Bevington, David 2002

  • "Unlooked-for blessings" are generally twice as grateful as those which you are led to expect -- so, at least, I have found them.

    She and I, Volume 1

  • Unlooked-for beauties spring to light on every side; the very essence of music and poesy float around him as he advances; while above, around, and through all, sounds the magnificent diapason of everlasting truth.

    The Continental Monthly, Vol III, Issue VI, June, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various

  • Unlooked for delays have impeded the work of publication.

    Marion Harland's autobiography : the story of a long life, 1910

  • Unlooked-for events were now raising Lincoln to the highest place which his ambition could contemplate.

    Abraham Lincoln Godfrey Rathbone Benson Charnwood 1904

  • Unlooked-for opportunity now held before her eyes, distant and difficult of attainment, but not impossible, a position of assured safety, luxury, and prominence, which appealed powerfully to the love of pleasure, still dormant, and to the love of conspicuousness, which became the two most noticeable features of her character.

    The Life of Nelson Mahan, A. T. 1897

  • Unlooked for circumstances made the continuation of the work impossible, and the five thousand specimens of the erratic rocks of Switzerland collected by Professor Guyot, in preparation for his part of the publication, are now deposited in the College of New Jersey, at Princeton.

    Louis Agassiz His Life and Correspondence Agassiz, Louis 1885

  • Unlooked-for opportunity now held before her eyes, distant and difficult of attainment, but not impossible, a position of assured safety, luxury, and prominence, which appealed powerfully to the love of pleasure, still dormant, and to the love of conspicuousness, which became the two most noticeable features of her character.

    The Life of Nelson, Volume 1 (of 2) The Embodiment of the Sea Power of Great Britain 1877

  • Unlooked-for help at last came to her in the person of Monseigneur Martha, who had graciously honoured the lunch with his presence.

    The Three Cities Trilogy: Paris, Volume 5 ��mile Zola 1871

  • Unlooked-for help at last came to her in the person of Monseigneur Martha, who had graciously honoured the lunch with his presence.

    The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete Lourdes, Rome and Paris ��mile Zola 1871

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