adv. (UN-1 11, 5 b; cf. prec.)
1605. Drayton, Idea, li. Calling to mind … How things still unexpectedly have run, As it please the Fates.
1693. Dryden, Juvenal (1697), p. xxii. A most Bountiful Present, which … came most seasonably and unexpectedly to my Relief.
1774. Pennant, Tour Scotl. in 1772, 283. A seat beautifully wooded, gracing most unexpectedly this almost treeless tract.
1825. Scott, Talisman, xxiii. Engaged in subduing the angry feelings which had been so unexpectedly awakened.
1869. Tozer, Highl. Turkey, II. 220. We found ourselves close to the beach…, on which we unexpectedly emerged.
b. With adjs. or advs.
1818. Scott, Rob Roy, xxvi. We took a kind farewell of this unexpectedly zealous friend.
1850. Mrs. Carlyle, Lett. (1883), II. 123. She arrived yesterday unexpectedly early.
1877. Lady Brassey, Voy. Sunbeam, xviii. Rejoicing that we had … a fresh fair wind, so unexpectedly soon.
