unsuspicious

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Unsuspicious the Askaris proceeded until their movements were hidden from their friends by the intervening scrub, then with hardly a sound the five lithe and muscular Waffs leapt upon them.

From Wilmshurst of the Frontier Force by Prater, Ernest

Unsuspicious of their presence, the sheriff and his men marched to the house and were within the ambuscade.

From Vermont A Study of Independence by Robinson, Rowland E. (Evans)

Unsuspicious as the Nelson people were, they acted upon a sort of instinct,—that instinct within us which answers so mysteriously to the cry of blood from the earth,—and arrested these four men.

From Station Amusements in New Zealand by Barker, Lady (Mary Anne)

Unsuspicious of stratagem, Cressida comes to dinner; and at table, Helen, Pandarus, and others, praise the absent Troilus, until "her heart laughs" for very pride that she has the love of such a knight.

From The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems by Purves, D. Laing

Unsuspicious of the presence of his late dread mistress he bounded up the hill and began to circle around, chasing the lively moths.

From My Dark Companions And Their Strange Stories by Stanley, Henry M. (Henry Morton)