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Unwares   Listen
adverb
Unwares  adv.  Unawares; unexpectedly; sometimes preceded by at. (Obs.)






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Unwares" Quotes from Famous Books



... never saw my lady lay apart Her cornet black, in cold nor yet in heat, Sith first she knew my grief was grown so great; Which other fancies driveth from my heart, That to myself I do the thought reserve, The which unwares did wound my woeful breast. But on her face mine eyes mought never rest Yet, since she knew I did her love, and serve Her golden tresses clad alway with black, Her smiling looks that hid[es] thus evermore And ...
— A History of English Literature - Elizabethan Literature • George Saintsbury

... disclosed to the Quene, who appointed the Lord Bothwell, (as him selff confessed,) to wait upoun the returnyng of the said Lard, as that he did with all diligence; and so being assuredlie informed by what way he came, the said Erle Bothwell foirsett[1020] his way, and cuming upoun him at unwares, did tack him, after that he was evill wounded in the heid;[1021] for nether could he gett his led horse, nor yitt his steall bonet. With him was tacken the sowme of four thowsand crownis of the sone, whiche the ...
— The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) • John Knox



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