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Examples
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It was rich, but I made it richer by playing unbeknowing.
SIWASH 2010
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I reached for my flashlight just unbeknowing everything was gone in my bedroom.
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She's got two little grandsons staying with her, and unbeknowing to me she hacked that bread into chunks and armed five little chaps with 'em, and she came forth as captain of the gang and suddenly they took me unawares in
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It was rich, but I made it richer by playing unbeknowing.
Siwash 1901
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It was rich, but I made it richer by playing unbeknowing.
Siwash 1901
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It was rich, but I made it richer by playing unbeknowing.
The God of His Fathers: Tales of the Klondyke Jack London 1896
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Some of the gold you washed had got slipped into the sides of the pan where it was broke, and the sticky dough must have brought it out, and I kneaded them up unbeknowing.
From Sand Hill to Pine Bret Harte 1869
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