Unawares

Unawares and in spite of themselves, the lovers have never had but one desire -- the desire for death!

The Vivisection of Bone, Part 1: Romancing the Bone 2007

While I was writing Light I also wrote the shorts “Entertaining Angels Unawares” and “Cicisbeo”, neither of which is massively optimistic or pro-escapist.

Is There Someone at the End of This Rope? A Long Day's Struggle With M. John Harrison Abigail Nussbaum 2005

They may have been there for ages, but I just noticed that three of the best stories from Conjunctions: 39, The New Wave Fabulists are excerpted online: "Entertaining Angels Unawares" by M.

Archive 2004-06-01 2004

Unawares, he became conscious of some one having given him a push; and faintly fell on his ear the plaintive tones of some person in distress.

Hung Lou Meng 2003

Unawares, dimly, she felt his reaching out for sympathy, realized dimly that there was something that even a young girl could do for him.

Elsie Marley, Honey Joslyn Gray

Unawares his eye espied Pao-ch'ai much amused, and he too could not suppress a smile.

Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books Xueqin Cao

Unawares, he became conscious of some one having given him a push; and faintly fell on his ear the plaintive tones of some person in distress.

Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books Xueqin Cao

Unawares thou wert thyself an answer to thy Christmas prayer:

Ten Boys from Dickens Kate Dickinson Sweetser 1903

Unawares, so to speak, I can reckon of it up -- easy.

Scarhaven Keep 1899

Unawares an impression of antiquity would come stealing over the senses, on a November evening, say, when the blue wood-smoke mounted from a cottage chimney and went drifting slowly down the valley in level layers; or on still summer afternoons, when there came up from the hollow the sounds of hay-making -- the scythe shearing through the grass, the clatter of the whetstone, the occasional country voices.

Change in the Village George Sturt 1895