An unhoped-for piece of luck. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : an unhoped-for piece of good luck. From Dictionary.com.
But for this unhoped-for help, I must have perished. From Wordnik.com. [Le Colonel Chabert] Reference
This unhoped-for catch recruited our stock of provisions. From Wordnik.com. [Journey to the Interior of the Earth] Reference
The matter eventually worked itself out with unhoped-for romance. From Wordnik.com. [The Beautiful and Damned] Reference
The festival had offered them an unhoped-for opportunity of rescuing her. From Wordnik.com. [The Jungle Girl] Reference
For I have received a very delightful and unhoped-for voice in my hearing. From Wordnik.com. [The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I.] Reference
A sense of immense, unhoped-for happiness filled his soul; all his doubts had died away. From Wordnik.com. [A House of Gentlefolk] Reference
For Clifton, the new-comer, but yesterday unknown, it was an unhoped-for success and fame and fortune. From Wordnik.com. [The Bill-Toppers] Reference
True, her marriage had, probably, made possible her younger sister's exceptional and unhoped-for match. From Wordnik.com. [The Genius] Reference
When he heard the sound of our guns, he recognized an unhoped-for assistance, a providential interposition. From Wordnik.com. [Five Weeks in a Balloon] Reference
This was an almost unhoped-for comfort, and it was even found that he could continue his journey before evening. From Wordnik.com. [Memoir and Letters of Francis W. Newman] Reference
At the end of a few weeks there came the great, the unlooked-for, the unhoped-for news -- the Peace of Villafranca!. From Wordnik.com. [The Dodge Club or, Italy in MDCCCLIX] Reference
But she was there, and her unhoped-for presence was to the young man, even under the circumstances, an infinite consolation. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
An hour had passed, and the ears of both were strained for the faintest sound in the corridor, when there came an unhoped-for break. From Wordnik.com. [The Genius] Reference
Jacqueline yielded without hesitation, only too glad of the unhoped-for good fortune which relieved her from her ennui and her depression. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
I dare not take the helm out of the hand of the kind pilots who have already guided my course within sight of a fair and unhoped-for haven. From Wordnik.com. [The Fortunes of Nigel] Reference
Here was an unhoped-for and magnificent reception. From Wordnik.com. [Mexico Its Ancient and Modern Civilisation, History, Political Conditions, Topography, Natural Resources, Industries and General Development] Reference
To Davis it was like the unhoped-for realization of a dream. From Wordnik.com. [Thomas Davis, Selections from his Prose and Poetry] Reference
It was, in fact, this unhoped-for pleasure which so delighted them. From Wordnik.com. [The Fortune of the Rougons] Reference
"You, madame, beneath my roof; this is an unhoped-for condescension!". From Wordnik.com. [Fairy Fingers A Novel] Reference
This was unhoped-for contentment, positive salvation, for she felt that. From Wordnik.com. [The Fat and the Thin] Reference
Stover slapped his foot on first base with the joy of unhoped-for victory. From Wordnik.com. [The Varmint] Reference
Kurwenal almost laughs, and in the pride of the unhoped-for hour cracks a joke. From Wordnik.com. [The Wagnerian Romances] Reference
Thou receivedst from us an unhoped-for benefit, and we, in return, an unmerited wrong. From Wordnik.com. [History of Florence and of the Affairs of Italy] Reference
Frail as Monsieur de la Baudraye might seem, he was really an unhoped-for good match for. From Wordnik.com. [Parisians in the Country] Reference
Here was an unhoped-for opportunity of accomplishing this in privacy, and at his leisure. From Wordnik.com. [The Tinted Venus A Farcical Romance] Reference
No; they had been too delighted at this unhoped-for wealth for the idea to come near them. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume VIII.] Reference
But Versailles was an unhoped-for shore to such a girl as this, a girl known to all Paris. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Comtesse Du Barry, with minute details of her entire career as favorite of Louis XV. Written by herself] Reference
His wife's death came as an unhoped-for relief; he felt like a man beginning the world anew. From Wordnik.com. [A Life's Morning] Reference
Eveline; for with her unhoped-for union with Damian, ended the trials and sorrows of THE BETROTHED. From Wordnik.com. [The Betrothed] Reference
From beginning to end, his plans had been crowned with unhoped-for success, and yet he was puzzled. From Wordnik.com. [The Native Born or, the Rajah's People] Reference
Complications in the opera at Dresden had given her an unhoped-for opportunity to go on in a big part. From Wordnik.com. [The Song of the Lark] Reference
Spike was sitting on the edge of his chair, dazed but happy, his head still buzzing from the unhoped-for praise. From Wordnik.com. [The Intrusion of Jimmy] Reference
However, at the unhoped-for sound of footsteps her eyes again brightened and turned feverishly towards the door. From Wordnik.com. [The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome, Volume 2] Reference
Imagination is alive in eye and ear to everything that may bring tidings of her, even of her unhoped-for return. From Wordnik.com. [Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula] Reference
Knowing him established in his family possessions, she only cared to taste for a little while this unhoped-for joy. From Wordnik.com. [Demos] Reference
Precisely as the colonel was enabling Sylvie to taste the unhoped-for joys of being sought in marriage, so Mademoiselle. From Wordnik.com. [The Celibates] Reference
It might naturally be expected that the aged German poet, after receiving from so celebrated a person such an unhoped-for kindness. From Wordnik.com. [Lord Byron jugé par les témoins de sa vie. English] Reference
But I will say at least, Courage! for things wonderful, unhoped-for, glorious, have happened even in this short while I have been alive. From Wordnik.com. [Hopes and Fears for Art] Reference
On his arrival he found the city reduced to the utmost distress; and, he coming like a messenger from heaven with his unhoped-for succour. From Wordnik.com. [Tales from Shakespeare] Reference
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