Read full poem →published (Kilmarnock, 1786) a volume of the poems which he had been
composing from time to time for some years. This volume was unexpectedly
successful, so that, instead of sailing for the West Indies, he went up
Dictionary Entry
In an unexpected manner.
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Poetry examples for “unexpectedly”
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Read full poem →what events the action was to be concluded, it is vain to conjecture. Nor
can it be thought strange that he should stop here, however unexpectedly.
To write without reward is sufficiently unpleasing. He had now arrived
Read full poem →Then said he : Men said formerly, when anything happened
to them unexpectedly, that it happened by chance : as if any
one should dig the earth, and find there a hoard of gold, and