Unaccountably

Examples

• Suppose you found Miss Verinder quite unaccountably interested in what has happened to Mr. Ablewhite and Mr. Luker? Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Much depressed, and, to me, unaccountably so, I slowly descended to the street. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• She was, however, unaccountably improved in her appearance and looked very pretty. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The name re-pronounced by his lips overcame me unaccountably. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• In time, I doubt not, I shall make her uniformly sedate and decorous, without being unaccountably pensive. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Flattering as these professions of good feeling were, Arabella resolutely declined (most unaccountably, as Sam thought) to avail herself of them. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Twice did I leave them purposely together in the course of the last morning, and each time did he most unaccountably follow me out of the room. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• I had never in the whole of my previous experience found my duty and my inclination so painfully and so unaccountably at variance as I found them now. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• You seem unaccountably fond, Laura, of that dismal lake. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• From being brisk and bright, he now became, most unaccountably, a slow, solemn, and pondering young man. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Sir Percival, who had been unaccountably amused at his wife's remark, was just as unaccountably irritated by mine. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• In short, I behaved myself so unaccountably, that they were all of the captain's opinion when he first saw me, and concluded I had lost my wits. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.

Edited by Lizzie