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  • s  not anticipated
    a virtue unlooked-for in people so full of energy

  • To the evil imagination, this great, unlooked-for destruction is a miracle--all the more astonishing because it seems to accomplish, in this violent and profane world, a .
  • Most startling revelation was that im roved tax collections under pay-as-you-go would bring in an unlooked-for $5,067 million.
  • That so soign a soul as Lucius Beebe should ride a hobby as undandified as railroading is as unlooked-for as red wine with fish.
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  • Patrick Stewart in BBC News
    Sir Patrick said his knighthood - announced in the New Year Honours List - had been "an unlooked-for honour". "The knights of the theatre represented to me not only the pinnacle of the profession but the esteem in which the profession was...

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