"Unwitting" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... looked, his bride like a moth skimmed forth, and kneeling Quick, with quivering sighs, Gathered the pieces under the moon's sly ray, Unwitting as an automaton what she did; Till he entreated, hasting to where she was kneeling, Let ...
— Moments of Vision • Thomas Hardy
... oath to every lip. The Battery Major still crimsons with wrath at the thought of him, and the Observing Officer remembers bitterly the long, uncomfortable hours he spent, perched up in a tree a hundred yards or so from the German lines. And this is how Archibald Smith was the unwitting cause of so much anger to the battery, and the saver of many a ...
— Mud and Khaki - Sketches from Flanders and France • Vernon Bartlett
... a more consummate love-making, with all the base intent of betrayal, than this cavalier seduction of Michael by the elderly, six- quart ship's steward. When Michael, not entirely unwitting of the snub of the man's lack of interest, stirred restlessly with a threat to depart, he ...
— Michael, Brother of Jerry • Jack London
... on her every word—no light task. And my reward? A scant unceremonious "Hallo!" when we meet; a scanter "Night" or "Morning," according to the circumstances, when we part. A brave smile from me and she is gone, an unwitting ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 146., January 14, 1914 • Various
... grievously wounded the Doctor; he could not cease to recall the austerity with which he had debarred the poor woman all intercourse with Adele upon her sick-bed. And it seemed to him a grave thing, wherever sin might lie, thus to alienate the mother and daughter. His unwitting agency in the matter had made him of late specially mindful of all the wishes and even caprices of Adele,—much to ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866 • Various
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