Unnoticed

Examples

• I did not wait to be ordered back to mine, but retreated unnoticed, as unnoticed I had left it. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Not invisible but unnoticed, Watson. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• Cigars dropped unnoticed from nerveless fingers. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• I am an obscure, unnoticed man, without patron or friend to help me. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• But it was universal in the district, and therefore unnoticed by the inhabitants. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• She passed him by, and would have gone upstairs unnoticed, but Clym was so concerned that he immediately followed her. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• They stand largely unnoticed, and very much undefined--poor ghosts of the truth among the gibbets. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• A shape hitherto unnoticed, stirred, rose, came forward: a shape inharmonious with the environment, serving only to complicate the riddle further. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Malone was not a man given to close observation of nature; her changes passed, for the most part, unnoticed by him. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The Solon of an unnoticed island, replied Justinian, with a smile. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• Margaret was so unconscious of herself, and so much amused by watching other people, that she never thought whether she was left unnoticed or not. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Now, he has his back towards me, thought I, and he is occupied too; perhaps, if I walk softly, I can slip away unnoticed. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• It has engendered a fine concern about average people, about the voiceless multitudes who have been left to pass unnoticed. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Emma then looked up, and immediately saw how it was; and after a moment's debate, as to whether it should pass unnoticed or not, replied, Never marry! Jane Austen. Emma.
• The boy--BEING a boy--passed unnoticed. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• I have sat alone and unnoticed, half an evening, while he conversed with his young cousin, my pupil. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• The unconcealed curiosity, with which he looked hard in my face while he spoke, convinced me that I had passed unnoticed by him at the Opera. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• The Frenchwoman stood unnoticed, looking on with her lips very tightly set. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• They are ever parting, ever meeting; and the identity or diversity of their tendencies or operations is for the most part unnoticed by us. Plato. The Republic.
• To pass in and out of the prison unnoticed, and elsewhere to be overlooked and forgotten, were, for herself, her chief desires. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.

Editor: Maggie