| 1. | I asked him if anything untoward had occurred. - from The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie |
| 2. | And now, dear Caroline, you must draw a moral from the untoward events of to-day. - from The Best American Humorous Short Stories by Various |
| 3. | What means this scorn, thou most untoward knav. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 4. | Full of grief at this untoward event, Heracles buried him with due honours, and then set out to chase the boar. - from Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E.M. Berens |
| 5. | She lived with her single daughter in a very small way, and was considered with all the regard and respect which a harmless old lady, under such untoward circumstances, can excite. - from Emma by Jane Austen |
| 6. | It has before been hinted, perhaps, that every little untoward circumstance that befell him, and which indirectly sprang from his luckless mishap, almost invariably irritated or exasperated Ahab. - from Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville |
| 7. | I reflected that even in those untoward times there must have been latent in Biddy what was now developing, for, in my first uneasiness and discontent I had turned to her for help, as a matter of course. - from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens |
| 8. | And with many other words did he testify and exhort, saying, Save yourselves from this untoward generation. - from The King James Bible |
| 9. | They had a very good time and nothing untoward happened until after tea, when they found themselves in the Barry garden, a little tired of all their games and ripe for any enticing form of mischief which might present itself. - from Anne Of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery |