unawares

Unawares to thyself thou hast forged thine own chains, and riveted them upon thy limbs.

But even with such preparation, her beauty seemed to come upon him unawares when he saw her at breakfast.

He did not know why, but it wrung a sob from him; it took him so unawares.

Occasionally, too, he darted a glance over his shoulder, that the approaching enemy might not come upon him unawares.

She's bold enough and clever enough to catch you unawares this very evening.

Nothing, I resolved, should pass me unawares, and the faintest hint should be welcomed and followed up.

A stranger visited me, and I entertained a late distinguished attach of the Reform Club unawares.

Why, not so much to go at them as to go about them and take them unawares in the rear.

Already that day exists for us, shines in on us at unawares, but the path of science and of letters is not the way into nature.

His relation towards her had grown upon him unawares, and now their own hands were about to cut it at the root.