You may easily believe, the last of my intentions was any further essay in a lottery I had found so inauspicious; but, while cold even to apathy, it was my inevitable chance to fall in the way of a pleasing and innocent young creature, who gave me, unsought and unwished-for, her heart. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Almost simultaneously, via France24 News, we "discover" elder French financial journalist Jean-Michel Quatrepoint, who rather brilliantly describes a possible and unwished-for scenario of the current global financial mess. ❋ Marian (2008)
Boston, though its substantial erections of brick and stone present great obstacles to the progress of the devouring element, frequently displays these unwished-for illuminations, and has some very well organized fire companies. ❋ Unknown (2007)
They fed him on biscuits and incomprehensible words; they gave him water to drink mixed with unwished-for rum. ❋ Herbert George (2006)
A Pelican At Blandings, however, follows the typical Wodehouse path of going to absurd lengths to stay the same typically by either staying engaged or returning to the blissful state of not being engaged after having been embroiled in a plot which involved an involuntary or unwished-for engagement. ❋ Autodidactic (2006)
Arthur Donnithorne looked flushed and excited; he had tried to make unpleasant feelings more bearable by drinking a little more wine than usual at dinner today, and was still enough under its flattering influence to think more lightly of this unwished-for rencontre with Adam than he would otherwise have done. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Laughter came unwished-for, carrying with it the taste of gall. ❋ Wolfe, Gene (1980)
To feel her so close to him, although only through unwished-for accident, is dangerously sweet. ❋ Margaret Wolfe Hamilton (N/A)
A long time she pondered, and the impulse to write to him came over her, but that impulse was followed by retrospection, and as one thing after another arose out of the past in solemn procession, closing with the unloved and unwished-for child which she had lost five years ago, she knew that she would not open a correspondence. ❋ Dell H. Munger (N/A)
It would be the last before the arrival of the unwished-for visitors, and they wanted to make the most of it. ❋ Margaret Bruce Clarke (N/A)
He had that most depressing of unwished-for possessions, a skeleton; its cupboard-door swung creakingly in the wind, and its bones rattled in his ears. ❋ Hugh Walpole (1912)
So vivid was this feeling of unwished-for companionship that he got up and looked in the shadowed recess of the alcove in which stood his bed; but, of course, there was no one there. ❋ Marie Belloc Lowndes (1907)
It is owing to this kindness of our numerous friends, in all quarters, that my new and unwished-for situation is not indeed a burden to me. ❋ Schroeder, J. F. (1903)
Trying to doze again, she lay with closed eyes; and a procession of strange, unwished-for thoughts busily pushed sleep away from her brain. ❋ M. Leone Bracker (1901)
He was in every way fitted to adorn his high office; but he was too good a man for that age and that country, and the unwished-for elevation which he won by the eloquence of his friend only plunged him within a few years into an abyss of misery and ruin. ❋ 1831-1903 (1895)
And he laughed again, -- a little huskily this time, for there was a sudden unaccountable and unwished-for lump in his throat, and a moisture in his eyes which he had not bargained for. ❋ Marie Corelli (1889)
The thought of the hateful complication introduced into his already sufficiently involved affairs by the involuntary kidnapping of his friend's wife filled him with a sense of impotent irritation, very foreign to his temper; and as certain looks and words of the unwished-for prisoner flashed back upon him, a hot colour rose, even in his solitude, to his wholesome brown cheek. ❋ Egerton Castle (1889)
Each meeting was the result of absolute chance, but Mistress Chance can play curious pranks at times, and it really seemed as though she was taking a mischievous delight in bringing about these unwished-for encounters. ❋ George De Horne Vaizey (1887)
"Good morning, Captain Johnson," he said with inward amusement as he noted the confusion of the pirate at the unexpected and evidently unwished-for meeting. ❋ Harry Collingwood (1886)
