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  • For which and further reasons he felt it was his interest and duty even to wait on and profit by the unlookedfor occasion though why he could not exactly tell being as it was already several shillings to the bad having in fact let himself in for it.

    Ulysses 2003

  • And at all times she wore an air of inexplicable contentment, as if his presence had satisfied her in some deep, unlookedfor way.

    The Satanic Verses Rushdie, Salman 1967

  • For which and further reasons he felt it was his interest and duty even to wait on and profit by the unlookedfor occasion though why he could not exactly tell being as it was already several shillings to the bad having in fact let himself in for it.

    Ulysses James Joyce 1911

  • But a new emotion had begun to take possession of Janet -- an emotion so strong as to give her an unlookedfor sense of detachment.

    Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill Winston Churchill 1909

  • But a new emotion had begun to take possession of Janet -- an emotion so strong as to give her an unlookedfor sense of detachment.

    The Dwelling Place of Light — Complete Winston Churchill 1909

  • But a new emotion had begun to take possession of Janet -- an emotion so strong as to give her an unlookedfor sense of detachment.

    The Dwelling Place of Light — Volume 2 Winston Churchill 1909

  • We subject the unlookedfor and unimagined to the mathematical formulae of the schools.

    The Mystery of Marie Roget 1842

  • To conclude purely negatively from the positive absence of political odia and monetary requests that its page cannot ever have been a penproduct of a man or woman of that period or those parts is only one more unlookedfor conclu-sion leaped at, being tantamount to inferring from the nonpre — sence of inverted commas (sometimes called quotation marks) on any page that its author was always constitutionally incapable of misappropriating the spoken words of others.

    Finnegans Wake 2006

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