They left her without that last faint shadow of doubt which, almost unbeknown to herself, had been her main support during the past few minutes of this intense agony.
"Petticoat Rule"
Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy
When she growed bigger and you growed bigger, she showed her liking less, but it peeped out at times unbeknown to herself, and yet I never guessed it!
"Mattie:--A Stray (Vol 3 of 3)"
Frederick William Robinson
One thing is perfectly certain: that such a war as the present is the result of the activity of governing cliques and classes in the various nations, acting through what are called "Diplomatic" channels, for the most part in secret and unbeknown to their respective mass-peoples, and for motives best known to themselves.
"The Healing of Nations and the Hidden Sources of Their Strife"
Edward Carpenter