Use unconsciously in a sentence
Sentences starting with unconsciously
- Unconsciously she sat up, smoothed her hair, got up, and went to the window, involuntarily inhaling the freshness of the clear but windy evening. [2]
- Unconsciously she began to stroke Lise's hand, and presently it turned and tightened on her own. [9]
- Unconsciously she repeated the words to herself: "Builded upon sand! [9]
- Unconsciously I sought the bluff face above the chimney, depicted in all its ruggedness by the painter of King Charles's day, and contrasted with the bundle of finery at my side. [9]
- Unconsciously this was so. [4]
- Unconsciously to herself, Margaret had worked this miracle. [4]
- Unconsciously agitated by joy, as if the sunset glow before him had suddenly been transformed into the dawn of a happy day, he answered by a loud cry glad with hope. [10]
- Unconsciously she immediately invented a reason for going down, and then, testing her strength, ran upstairs again, observing the result. [2]
- Unconsciously he crossed himself. [11]
- Unconsciously the Cure had declared himself the patron of all that made Pontiac for ever a notable spot in the eyes of three nations: and if he repented of it, no man ever knew. [11]
Sentences ending with unconsciously
- That it was the release of this germ these people feared unconsciously. [9]
- I should say that about half of us looked upon it in the same way; not consciously, perhaps, but unconsciously. [5]
- Sluggards have been sent to the ant for wisdom; but writers might better be sent to the spider, not because he works all night, and watches all day, but because he works unconsciously. [4]
- She kept smoothing out the letter she had had from Kingsley Bey, as though unconsciously. [11]
- To deepen a man's love for a thing, get him to talk of it to the eager listener--he passes from the narrator to the advocate unconsciously. [11]
- I wrote it in half an hour, almost unconsciously. [10]
- He laughed to himself, almost unconsciously. [11]
- Presently he found himself before a photograph on the wall beyond, at which he had been staring unconsciously. [9]
- Again she rested her elbows on the desk and her chin on her hands, and sighed unconsciously. [9]
- One evening I had met him at the Krone and left the table at which he presided in a very enthusiastic state of mind; for while emptying I know not how many bottles of Rhine wine he directed the conversation apparently unconsciously. [10]
More example sentences with the word unconsciously in them
- For he still wore unconsciously the colors of the army of the American Republic. [9]
- She sat long, with the letters in her lap, thinking--and unconsciously freezing. [5]
- He remained there, with his head unconsciously bent forward, drinking in the melody, stirring neither hand nor foot, hardly breathing. [5]
- The single torch which spluttered from the wall as they drank their coffee lighted up faces as strange, withdrawn, and unconsciously secretive as ever gathered to greet a guest. [11]
- We didn't know what they meant, or how to set about their accomplishment, but they were not, at least, mere selfish aspirations; they implied, unconsciously no doubt, an element of service, and certainly our ideal of marriage had something fine in it. [9]
- Austen's words, unconsciously, were an answer to her thoughts. [9]
- And so it was, unconsciously, between Comyn and me. [9]
- All unconsciously she was a true daughter of the twentieth century, and probably a feminist at heart, which is to say that her conduct was determined by no preconceived or handed-down notions of what was proper and lady-like. [9]
- As she lay waiting for the day when she must go from the garish scene, she unconsciously took stock of life in her own way. [11]
- One hand lay under her head, hidden among the thick dark brown hair, the other clasped unconsciously a little amulet of green stone, which hung round her neck. [10]
- For Honora, all unconsciously, wrote literature. [9]
- The artist had unconsciously worked his nationality into the picture. [5]
- Whether this occurred unconsciously to you in an hour of mental ecstasy, or whether you felt that you still lacked the means to represent the divine, and therefore returned to the older methods, I do not venture to decide. [10]
- Janet possessed all unconsciously the New England reverence for learning, she was stirred by the sight of this distinguished-looking person who sat on the painted stage, fingering his glasses and talking to Antonelli. [9]
- However, to the unconsciously indelicate all things are delicate. [5]
- And Janet, lingering unconsciously in front of that very emporium where Lisehad been incarcerated, the Bagatelle, stared at the finery displayed there, at the blue tulle dress that might be purchased, she read, for $22.99. [9]
- I have been unconsciously guided by it all these years. [5]
- The faithful love unconsciously announces its fidelity, and men instinctively are aware of it, and leave it unassailed. [11]
- She learned all unconsciously (by suggestion, as it were) to take delight in them; a delight that was to last her lifetime, a never failing resource to which she was to turn again and again. [9]
- I was unconsciously turning it over, when something impelled me to look around. [9]
- But unconsciously he turned, to see the effect upon Virginia Carvel. [9]
- Fourth.--I resolved to try on Winters, silently, and unconsciously to himself a mesmeric power which I possess over certain kinds of people, and which at times I have found to work even in the dark over the lower animals. [5]
- There is enough to account for them in that unconsciously remembered period of existence before we have learned the hard limitations of real life. [6]
- From time to time she found herself watching them furtively, comparing them unconsciously with her Quicksands friends. [9]
- This study always throws a flood of light upon the meaning of the text of an old author, the same light that the reader unconsciously has upon contemporary pages dealing with the life with which he is familiar. [4]
- But England talks through her nose yet; the Londoner and the backwoods New-Englander pronounce 'know' and 'cow' alike, and then the Briton unconsciously satirizes himself by making fun of the Yankee's pronunciation. [5]
- She had no thought that Guida had any vital interest in Philip, and ruthlessly, though unconsciously, she began to torture the young wife as few are tortured in this world. [11]
- The more Beaton thought of this, the more furious he became, and the more he was convinced that something like it had been unconsciously if not consciously in her mind. [8]
- For unconsciously she thought of them, all three, as one, a human trinity in which her faith had never been betrayed. [9]
- Natasha unconsciously felt this delicacy and so found great pleasure in his society. [2]
- This dear young thing in the theater had been sitting there unconsciously taking up a collection. [5]
- Towards both of these her mind had slowly and almost unconsciously changed, and she wished to think about neither. [11]
- Every step of the way she had been unconsciously repeating them. [9]
- They spoke of the war, and like everyone else unconsciously exaggerated their sorrow about it; they spoke of their last meeting--Nicholas trying to change the subject--they talked of the governor's kind wife, of Nicholas' relations, and of Princess Mary's. [2]
- I am telling the story honestly, as I remember it, but I may have colored it unconsciously, and the legendary pane may be broken before this for aught I know. [6]
- Almost unconsciously avoiding the main streets, he rode a roundabout way towards the little house where Constantine Jopp lived. [11]
- She had made the gesture unconsciously, but catching the look in his eye a sudden thrill of anxiety ran through her. [11]
- He observes that the desire of communication between man is the living force, which, in the development of language, "works both consciously and unconsciously; consciously as regards the immediate end to be attained; unconsciously as regards the further consequences of the act. [1]
- Suddenly was heard the cry for which she had been tensely but unconsciously awaiting. [9]
- In wandering along the cliff path in the afternoon, Irene and Mr. King were separated from the others, and unconsciously extended their stroll, looking for a comfortable seat in the rocks. [4]
- The enormity of the change that was to come into her life did not appall her in the least; but she had, in connection with it, a sense of unreality which, though not unpleasant, she sought unconsciously to dissipate. [9]
- One of them, the actual exhibitor no doubt, was a little merry-faced man with a twinkling eye and a red nose, who seemed to have unconsciously imbibed something of his hero's character. [12]
- It was plain that the Russian nest was ruined and destroyed, but in place of the Russian order of life that had been destroyed, Pierre unconsciously felt that a quite different, firm, French order had been established over this ruined nest. [2]
- I thought of that lovely, tender passage where Gabriel glides unconsciously by Evangeline upon the great river. [6]
- It was natural that Barbara should raise her eyes unconsciously, and find him out. [12]
- The tactical rule that an army should act in masses when attacking, and in smaller groups in retreat, unconsciously confirms the truth that the strength of an army depends on its spirit. [2]
- Who was to tell these solid, educated business men that the crazy industrial Babel they had helped to rear, and in which they unconsciously dwelt, was no longer the simple edifice they thought it? [9]
- The form which such a recognition takes, consciously or unconsciously, is worship; and worship does not question nor criticize, it obeys. [5]
- Perhaps I unconsciously stole the rest of the volume, too, for many people have told me that my book was pretty poetical, in one way or another. [5]
- He did not spare his language; he unconsciously used an oath or two. [11]
- All unconsciously she sought a relationship rarely to be found in banks and business offices; would yield herself to none other. [9]
- One does that so unconsciously with things one really likes. [5]
- Unconsciously, unintentionally, she smiled at him now, then, realising, retreated, shrinking from him, her face averted. [11]
- As her gaze rested on the youngest of the Nuremberg dignitaries, her pale cheeks flushed, and, as if unconsciously, the exclamation: "It is he! [10]
- Sometimes he unconsciously raised his hand to wipe the dust from his burning eyes, but he cared little that he saw very indistinctly what was passing around him, for there could be nothing more beautiful than what he beheld with his inward vision. [10]
- Almost unconsciously she put on the little table beside the bed a bunch of everlasting prairie flowers, and shaded the light to the point of quiet and comfort. [11]
- One isn't a printer ten years without setting up acres of good and bad literature, and learning--unconsciously at first, consciously later--to discriminate between the two, within his mental limitations; and meantime he is unconsciously acquiring what is called a "style. [5]
- Shilah was a place to which, almost unconsciously, he had deviated his course, because once Virginie Poucette had read him a letter from there. [11]
- Perhaps, unconsciously, I pitied them a little. [9]
- Every word of Pierre's burned into his heart, and with a nervous movement of his fingers he unconsciously broke the sealing wax and quill pens his hands came upon on his uncle's table. [2]
- The song flowed on--he waiting, listening, rising slowly and unconsciously from his recumbent position. [5]
- But for it, one would linger upon the Pope and the Doge, thinking them to be the motive and supreme feature of the picture; whereas one is drawn along, almost unconsciously, to see what the trouble is about. [5]
- He was approaching one of the groups of strikers, and unconsciously he slowed his steps. [9]
- And Polly read on, in her melodious voice, which is almost as pleasant to me as the Wasser-fluth of Schubert, which she often plays at twilight; and I looked into the fire, unconsciously constructing stories of my own out of the embers. [4]
- The dedication lay on the top, and handy, so, by-and-by, I unconsciously stole it. [5]
- In the beliefs of these men several sins not mentioned in the decalogue took really, if unconsciously, precedence of those which chanced to be found in that list. [4]
- During the hours of solitude, suffering, and partial delirium he spent after he was wounded, the more deeply he penetrated into the new principle of eternal love revealed to him, the more he unconsciously detached himself from earthly life. [2]
- At the sight of it the episode, and much else of recent happening, rushed back into Honora's mind, and she realized with suddenness that she had, in his companionship, unconsciously been led far afield and in pleasant places. [9]
- All the powers of his soul, as of every soldier there, were unconsciously bent on avoiding the contemplation of the horrors of their situation. [2]
- When a person of fair character for literary honesty uses an image, such as another has employed before him, the presumption is, that he has struck upon it independently, or unconsciously recalled it, supposing it his own. [6]
- Moreover, no philologist now supposes that any language has been deliberately invented; it has been slowly and unconsciously developed by many steps. [1]
- If she did not make the man love her,--I believe she did, as I believe you would, perhaps unconsciously, do,--she used his love, and was therefore better able to make all other men admire her. [11]
- For though he no longer intends, nor has the power, to use these teeth as weapons, he will unconsciously retract his "snarling muscles" (thus named by Sir C. Bell) (46. [1]
- Books brought the new current; and soon she had him moving almost unconsciously among old scenes, recalling old contests of ideas, and venturing on bold reproductions of past intellectual ideals. [11]
- The woman crept near and looked on, eagerly, lovingly, but timorously,--like one who fears a repulse; indeed, she tried furtively to touch the man's forehead, and jumped back, the picture of fright, when I turned unconsciously toward her. [5]
- It would seem natural to step from under a descending sword unconsciously, and against one's will and intent--yet this unconsciousness is not allowed. [5]
- And I, like my neighbors, unconsciously held back all I could, and threw my weight to the rear, but, of course, that did no particular good. [5]
- After a few moments, however, he had collected himself sufficiently to move on once more, when he discovered that he was repeating to himself, quite unconsciously, Mr. Hill's profanity "I wish to hell I wasn't. [9]
- It was some minutes before I came to, and then I opened my eyes just in time to see Sir Gareth fetch him an awful welt, and I unconsciously out with the prayer, "I hope to gracious he's killed! [5]
- They are the men who, unconsciously, keep life sweet. [9]
- He sincerely loved me, he cherished ambitions concerning me, yet thwarted every natural, budding growth, until I grew unconsciously to regard him as my enemy, although I had an affection for him and a pride in him that flared up at times. [9]
- She looked upon me in the same light as did my other friends, --that of a counsellor-at-law,--and I fell unconsciously into the role of her adviser, in which capacity I was the recipient of many confidences I would have got in no other way. [9]
- I suppose he may have used some irritating expressions, unconsciously, but not unconscientiously, I am sure. [6]
- They have the manner of laziness, they have the air of leisure, they have worn off the angular corners of existence, and unconsciously their life is picturesque and enjoyable. [4]
- The eyes of Maitresse Aimable were fixed on her now, and unconsciously the ponderous good-wife felt in that warehouse she called her pocket for her rosary. [11]
- She hurried a little, unconsciously, when she came to it, for there was Mr. Worthington on the steps talking to Mr. Flint. [9]
- The little princess, like an old war horse that hears the trumpet, unconsciously and quite forgetting her condition, prepared for the familiar gallop of coquetry, without any ulterior motive or any struggle, but with naive and lighthearted gaiety. [2]
- As she had laid her hand upon his hot forehead and over his eyes, he had unconsciously spoken her name. [11]
- Without intending it--hardly knowing it--I fell to listening intently to that sound, and even unconsciously counting the strokes of the mouse's nutmeg-grater. [5]
- Having reached the knoll, Pierre sat down at one end of a trench surrounding the battery and gazed at what was going on around him with an unconsciously happy smile. [2]
- It colored everything; it was always, whatever she was doing or saying, present, like an air that one unconsciously hums for days after it has caught his fancy. [4]
- And yet it is easy to underestimate the influences that, unconsciously to him, were expanding his mind and nursing in him heroic purposes. [4]
- We fell unconsciously into the habit of judging of a man's station in life by this outward and eloquent sign. [5]
- A great many insights that we seem to get from what we call intuition I think are due to the reason, which is unconsciously at work. [9]
- The authoress quite innocently and unconsciously gives the whole business away. [5]
- It grew up in New England out of the seed unconsciously planted by the first Pilgrims, was not crushed out by the weight of a thousand years of error spread over the whole continent, and the Revolution was proclaimed and recognized. [6]
- I was so impressed with this, that sometimes when she began to empty one of these sentences on me I unconsciously took the very attitude of reverence, and stood uncovered; and if words had been water, I had been drowned, sure. [5]
- They know their importance to the nation, and they unconsciously show it in their bearing, and the way they order their sustenance at the restaurant--but they work. [5]
- Unconsciously, each had impersonated the combatants in a struggle which was going on in her own breast. [9]
- Now, as the image of old Countess Rotterbach, Isabella's grandmother, forced itself upon his mind, he unconsciously knit his brow. [10]
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