An unhoped-for piece of luck.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

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

To what cause are we to attribute this unhoped for success?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Expedition to Botany Bay] Reference

Howbeit at last Jupiter administred to me an unhoped remedy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Golden Asse] 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

No; they had been too delighted at this unhoped-for wealth for the idea to come near them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pierre And Jean] Reference

An incident, perhaps sadly longed for, but unhoped for, increased this gloomy, melancholy expression.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

Ah! scarce possible is it that thou appearest in thy mother's arms so unhoped for, and so unexpected.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I.] Reference

A sense of beatitude, for which no words exist, flooded his soul at the sight of that unhoped wealth.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Distinguished Provincial at Paris] 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

A lot of people objected to seeing another side of the -- of the Kennedy White House at the time, yes, but unrequited, unhoped.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Century] Reference

When at last the little coincidence turns up unsought and unhoped for, I know the angels are on my side exactly like Auntie said.    From Wordnik.com.  [More Work for the Undertaker]

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

Hongi's visit was such an unhoped for and unexpected honour, so much greater in proportion was the necessity for their lamentations.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Narrative of a Nine Months' Residence in New Zealand in 1827] Reference

Cecilia, charmed at this unhoped for success, was making further enquiries into what had passed, when Mrs Hill, in a low voice, said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cecilia] 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

"You, madame, beneath my roof; this is an unhoped-for condescension!".    From Wordnik.com.  [Fairy Fingers A Novel] Reference

But the temptation to accept this unhoped surrender proved too strong.    From Wordnik.com.  [Demos] Reference

Now the plan had formed itself in most unhoped completeness, and he was happy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thyrza] Reference

Forgive the transports of a blessing so unexpected, so unhoped for, so unthought of!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Comedies of William Congreve Volume 1 [of 2]] 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

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

Eveline; for with her unhoped-for union with Damian, ended the trials and sorrows of THE BETROTHED.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Betrothed] 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

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

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