Word: unbidden
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...riot he must be among the rioters; in a parade, one of the paraders; at a feast, often the unbidden guest. He sizzles at a fire and gets chilblains at a flood. He has been insulted and assaulted so often that some sympathetic States have enacted special legislation to protect...
...controls and was about to land him for the first time on German soil. As a further precaution, Der Führer permitted Colonel & Mrs. Lindbergh to land at fearsome Staaken, the military airfield ten miles from Berlin which an ordinary German civilian would no more think of approaching unbidden than he would think of committing High Treason...
Inasmuch as the Vagabond was an unbidden, unexpected and unknown guest, the saluation was startling in its directness...
...young millionaire who drives a roadster and is anxious to get out of town, a maid servant, a man who mumbles indignantly, a beachcombing artist with sneering enunciation, a tough blonde who incites Detective Chan to aphorism. After several aphorisms (sample: "Death is a black camel who kneels unbidden at the gate of every man"), suitable rebukes to an overenthusiastic assistant, and three narrow escapes which do not cause him to modify his placid nonchalance, Detective Chan reveals the guilty suspect, explains the actions of the others...
...intoxicated) uninvited to dances at various chapter houses. This is done so extensively as to tax the capacity of the house, and so make dancing even more like the preliminaries of wrestling than either fashion or comfort dictates. It also happens that when those who desire to enter unbidden are ardent males without escort they at times push in window sashes, glass and all, or break outer doors from their imitation handwrought hinges...