Meanings of quite unawares in English

He came up quite unawares to our camp whilst we were grubbing.

They were taken quite unawares, and with but short resistance they fled.

He wheeled around so suddenly that the poor old lady was taken quite unawares.

Well, at least she would not be taken quite unawares!

It came out quite unawares, quite undesignedly.

I beg that you will kindly excuse this confusion, of which I am only guilty quite unawares.

He catches me quite unawares.

The trial had closed so suddenly that we were taken quite unawares and left wholly undetermined what to do.

His wits were probably "wool-gathering"; for the phrases which had been so often conned for public occasions slipped off his tongue quite unawares.

James Ollerenshaw spoke, and I imagine that nobody was more surprised than James Ollerenshaw by his brief speech, which slipped out of him quite unawares.

Quite unawares was caught!

'You take me quite unawares by such a question!' she said, with a forced laugh of uneasiness.

"I have been seeking you all the evening, yet this unexpected meeting caught me quite unawares."

Quite unawares I ran full tilt into a group of soldiers, looking as ugly and dirty as the ruins amongst which they were prowling.