Unlooked

Here is a passage which illustrates effectively the kind of unlooked-for obstacle that beset the surveyor's path: -- ❋ H., Begbie (1915)

Sir Patrick said his knighthood – announced in the New Year Honours List – had been “an unlooked-for honour”. ❋ Unknown (2010)

When magic blossomed unlooked for and unexpected from peasant hovels to castle solars? ❋ Alix Rickloff (2011)

Where the words are singular, to make them plural is the mark of unlooked-for passion; and where they are plural, the rounding of a number of things into a fine-sounding singular is surprising owing to the converse change. ❋ Hal Duncan (2010)

For most of us, Winter respite comes in the form of a heart, that sentimental keepsake, that unlooked for display of affection, candlelight and a glass of champagne warming us up halfway through this otherwise cold, snowbound, steely gray month. ❋ Jamie Schler (2011)

Yesterday, an hour before my time of setting out, an old friend from the Country unlooked for; paid me a visit, and, I beg you will regard the circumstance as one of those which may plead some excuse for my failure in calling on you, which must be postponed till some other opportunity. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The end is not implausible, not unlooked for, not unsatisfying, but I found it awkward to encounter a cliffhanger for all that the novel is fraught with a sense of doom throughout. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Arriving unlooked for and unwanted, within two days we had made more false steps, more errors of judgement and more enemies than I would have believed possible. ❋ Unknown (2010)

A challenge in which Darth's wife face functioned as his target naturally had given him an unlooked-for advantage. ❋ Unknown (2010)

According to the BBC, he called the knighthood an “unlooked for honour”. ❋ Unknown (2010)

It is a story of the seamy underside of respectability and conformity, and of the discovery of unlooked-for courage. ❋ Papersky (2008)

Forgotten dangers, or those that went unrecognized, were always the worst, for they sprang up unlooked for. ❋ Rose Melikan (2010)

When the study door closed, however, her smile faded, until she perceived that here was an unlooked for chance. ❋ Rose Melikan (2010)

But "Under Heaven" serves as a reminder that even a longtime reader can still be surprised by Kay, who brings new gifts, unlooked for, when the "usual" would have been more than enough to satisfy. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Once, after over a decade of uninterrupted victories which began in 1996 at the age of twenty-one, he was asked to explain an unlooked-for failure in a major championship. ❋ Unknown (2010)

He is so [ugly]...[unlookable]! ❋ Jww (2018)

Sam: "Did you see [Kerry's] [reaction] to the [Columbus] Short drama?" Jason: "Dude she unlooked so fast I could have sworn she never knew him" ❋ ___thewildcard (2016)