"Unbeknown" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... everywheres not nearly nowhere near not at all not much or not muchly ill illy first firstly thus thusly much muchly unknown unbeknown complexioned complected ...
— Practical Grammar and Composition • Thomas Wood
... Pontotoc Bibb, "I understand, ole feller, what keeps you so quiet now. You've got a wife unbeknown to the Remittee! and a happy ...
— Short Story Classics (American) Vol. 2 • Various
... I'd put 'em down to old Piggot and Mother Hauseman," she thought. "They'd never miss the money, and it 'ud be a good deed for the likes of them to help their betters, and might likely profit their own souls, though unbeknown." ...
— The Beth Book - Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius • Sarah Grand
... well to talk," retorted Mr. Teak. "My missis never leaves the 'ouse unless I'm with her, except when I'm at work; and if she thought I knew of it she'd take and put it in some bank or somewhere unbeknown to me, and I should be farther off it ...
— Ship's Company, The Entire Collection • W.W. Jacobs
... Mr. Gridley, for some reason or other that's unbeknown to me, and I can't help wishing you could jest have a few words with her. You're a kind of a grandfather, you know, to all the young folks, and they'd tell you pretty much everything about themselves. I calc'late she is n't ...
— The Guardian Angel • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
... a river pirate, did I? No, ma'am, I was a privateer, but not a pirate. I was sailing under your colors, unbeknown to you. Is that correct military language, Phelps? To make a long story short, Scipio told me in his charcoal style what happened last night, and all about Harman's sudden going away. Well, sir—ma'am, I mean—it struck me of a heap. I never was worse doubled up by news in my life. I'm ...
— A Dream of Empire - Or, The House of Blennerhassett • William Henry Venable
... smart a'most as if he'd bin in the open air, an' they obsarved, when he turned round, that a huge lobster of some unbeknown species was holdin' on to his trousers with all its claws like a limpet! The fish—or ripslang, as one of the men called it, who said he knowed it well—turned out to be a pugnaceous creetur, for no sooner did it see ...
— Under the Waves - Diving in Deep Waters • R M Ballantyne
... quite unbeknown, An' peeked in thru' the winder; An' there sot Huldy all alone, 'Ith no one nigh ...
— Successful Recitations • Various
... linking the hull place together. I roamed along through the beautiful streets and looked on the happy, cheerful-faced workmen, who thronged them now, for their short day's work wuz ended and they wuz goin' home. My heart swelled almost to bustin' and I sez almost unbeknown to myself, to Robert Strong who wuz walkin' by my side: "We read about the New Jerusalem comin' down to earth, and if I didn't know, Robert Strong, that you had founded this city yourself, I should think that this ...
— Around the World with Josiah Allen's Wife • Marietta Holley |
