"Unaware" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... once to work and combed out the flax, wound it round the spindle, and sat spinning at her wheel so diligently that her work was quite done by Saturday evening. But Renzolla, who had been spoilt and petted in the fairy's house, and was quite unaware of the change that had taken place in her appearance, threw the flax out of the window and said: 'What is the king thinking of that he should give me this work to do? If he wants shirts he can buy ...
— The Grey Fairy Book • Various
... Prospector. "Look to your gold, gen'lemen—there's thieves abroad, and one of us may be harbourin' a serpent unaware. Ben, my lovely ...
— The Tale of Timber Town • Alfred Grace
... of inspiring loyalty to a high degree, but he was unaware of this. Being of a highly suspicious nature, he sacrificed to his groundless apprehensions numbers of his most loyal ...
— Kafir Stories - Seven Short Stories • William Charles Scully
... all been accomplished quietly, quickly; even those standing near by hardly noticed it, and those who did were unaware of the significance of the arrest. But once his man was safely ironed, the Chief's manner changed, and in the next instant the prisoner caught, perhaps from the eye of Corte, the stool-pigeon, some fleeting hint that he had ...
— The Net • Rex Beach
... Touches a lyre; content with my poor skill No touch save mine knew my beloved (and still I thought at times: Is there no sweet lost air Old loves could wake in him, I cannot share?). Oh, he alone, alone could so fulfil My thoughts in sound to the measure of my will. He is gone, and silence takes me unaware. ...
— Poems • Alice Meynell
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