Unprepared

Examples

• Then probably Mr Inspector was not quite unprepared for their visit that evening? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• I was quite unprepared for the rapid manner in which Mrs. Guppy's power of jocularity merged into a power of taking the profoundest offence. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Prepared or unprepared, I wish to hear it all from you. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• Unprepared as he was for the large pill he had to swallow, he got it down. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• They would wonder among themselves why I wrote, and I want to have him wholly unprepared. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Now that they were swept away it became apparent how unprepared men were for the creative opportunities this clearance gave them. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I was surprised, and entirely unprepared for this;--but surely you will allow me to intercede for these poor creatures. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Arthur was quite unprepared for them, and quite unable to suggest an explanation of them. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Unprepared for such a desperate effort, for she had hitherto stood perfectly motionless, Bois-Guilbert had neither time to intercept nor to stop her. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• I was quite unprepared for what really did happen only the next day. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• But, dear Fanny, you must allow that you were not so absolutely unprepared to have the question asked as your cousin fancies. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• He seems perfectly unprepared for that. Jane Austen. Emma.
• We were unprepared for battle, she continued, as we were on a peaceful mission, as our banners and the colors of our craft denoted. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• No sensible man ever engages, unprepared, in a fencing match of words with a woman. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• This marring of the peace of home, by long hours of discontent, was what Margaret was unprepared for. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• The New Order found itself confronted with three riddles which it was quite unprepared to solve: Property, Currency, and International Relationship. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Mr. Peggotty had made a communication to me on the way to London for which I was not unprepared. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• He looked unprepared for my being so earnest, and even a little alarmed. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• I was so unprepared for the perfect coolness of this reception, though I might have expected it, that I did not know what to say. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The servant returned with a message for which I was not unprepared. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• But the routineers are always unprepared. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• He had been so wholly unprepared for what he heard now, that it was with difficulty he answered, 'Yes, Louisa. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• I was wholly unprepared for your announcement, and hope that assurance is my sufficient apology for having taken the liberty of addressing you. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• And now I come to a part of my story touching myself very nearly indeed, and for which I was quite unprepared when the circumstance occurred. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• But I was utterly unprepared for such a change as I saw in him when he entered the room and shook hands with me. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Or, perhaps, you are not unprepared for the announcement I have it in charge to make? Charles Dickens. Hard Times.

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