What is "unexpectedly"

Usage examples of "unexpectedly".

Most of them, by nineteenth-century scientists, described incised bones, stone tools, and anatomically modern skeletal remains encountered in unexpectedly old geological contexts.

How she came back to The Bargee unexpectedly one afternoon and found you in bed with Sally.

For his part, Drehkos had then been well content to accept the baronetcy which was the patrimony of a second son of his sept of Clan Daiviz and the very munificent maintenance income which the new komees generously and most unexpectedly offered to furnish his brother until he was well married or had otherwise made his fortune.

Sir Richard had proved unexpectedly stony-hearted, saying when approached that if Brough felt too old for the job he had better retire and make room for a man strong enough to cope with such work as had to be kept going.

Tell me candidly, for you might kill me if you brought them out unexpectedly, as you have done this evening.

Hitting a ton of firmly embedded rock unexpectedly does nothing at all for the effectiveness of a bulldozer blade.

She denied strenuously that Hill tried to dissuade Birchill from carrying out the burglary because Sir Horace Fewbanks had returned unexpectedly from Scotland.

Gilles was the next heir to this Marquisate of Chavaray, to which Morlaix had so unexpectedly succeeded.

Martin kicked out unexpectedly and the warrior ducked, causing him to mistime his blow.

When they meet unexpectedly in Paris, Miss Pross comes in for exactly the same criticism that Jerry had leveled at his wife.

The sun shone rosily through the french windows, clearly revealing the features of the man stretched out on the settee and Chris came to an abrupt halt, her breathing unexpectedly constricted, almost unbearably conscious of the air burning her skin, as though someone had ripped off an entire layer and left her exposed to unendurable pain.

Then the girl had unexpectedly appeared, and the giant, and then they had gone back inside and ever since both shishi had been staring at the garden door, glazed.

They swelled out unexpectedly, and Spinney had the feeling the rock was moving to meet them.

The trisectors, the circle-squarers, and the cube-doublers, had seen their long-flouted theories proved to demonstration by one of the most learned and responsible men of science in the world, and one of their most sarcastic and hitherto successful flouters had been compelled to confess that he could find no flaw in the calculations of this mathematical Daniel so unexpectedly come to judgment.

Tristen abandoned the discipline of his horse, knelt to touch and found the velvety shelves unexpectedly tough, resisting his inquisitive, ungloved fingers.