Example Sentences

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So he spake and besought him, in his unwittingness, for truly it was to be his own evil death and fate that he prayed for.

From The Iliad by Homer

"Why don't we preach it ourselves?" said Desire, with inimitable unwittingness.

From The Other Girls by Whitney, A. D. T. (Adeline Dutton Train)

He displayed the fears, the unwittingness, the open candour of a cloistered maiden.

From Abbe Mouret's Transgression by Zola, Émile