The old gentleman who had just been lathered, and who was sitting in a melancholy manner with his face turned towards the wall, appeared quite unconscious of this incident, and to be insensible to everything around him in the depth of a reverie—a very mournful one, to judge from the sighs he occasionally vented—in which he was absorbed.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

Einseidel was to dine at the common table, I decided to wait; but I had my trouble for nothing, as she turned out to be quite unworthy of the delay.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

' Quite unconscious of the long blank, he supposed that they were still speaking together.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

The wearer of this unusual dress, who seemed quite unconscious of the attention it was attracting, stood a moment in the centre of the box, discussing with Mrs. Welland the propriety of taking the latter's place in the front right-hand corner; then she yielded with a slight smile, and seated herself in line with Mrs. Welland's sister-in-law, Mrs. Lovell Mingott, who was installed in the opposite corner.
— from The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

So they were all in all to each other, and came and went, quite unconscious of the interest they excited in those about them, who watched with sympathetic eyes the strong sister and the feeble one, always together, as if they felt instinctively that a long separation was not far away.
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

"That's the reason I was born in it," observed Jo pensively, quite unconscious of the blot on her nose.
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

For it seems to imply (though we are probably quite unconscious of the implication) an idea which, if developed, would transform the tragic view of things.
— from Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley

The relative adverbs, ubī̆ , quō , unde , often take the place of a relative pronoun with a preposition, chiefly in designations of place, and regularly with town and island names.
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

Smike unexpectedly encounters a very old Friend, who invites him to his House, and will take no Denial Quite unconscious of the demonstrations of their amorous neighbour, or their effects upon the susceptible bosom of her mama, Kate Nickleby had, by this time, begun to enjoy a settled feeling of tranquillity and happiness, to which, even in occasional and transitory glimpses, she had long been a stranger.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

First, I was not quite unconscious of the contrast in respect of meaning and intention between the silent look directed that way and the flow of words that had preceded it.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

The advisability of going North without delay filled my mind until I had become oblivious to all about me, and indeed I was walking quite unconscious of the hurrying traffic in Piccadilly until I felt a slight touch on the arm and heard a woman’s low voice exclaim in Italian, “Pardon, Signor Kennedy, but I believe we have met before?”
— from The Closed Book: Concerning the Secret of the Borgias by William Le Queux

He stopped short, and a look of martyrdom passed over his face as he turned and made his way to the bridge in the opposite direction to where that horror of pronounced tones sat quite unconscious of the agony her appearance was creating in the aesthetic soul of the young man.
— from Daireen. Volume 1 of 2 by Frank Frankfort Moore

Quite unaware of the interest he had excited among these simple negroes, Tom had been watched, all his movements commented on, from day to day.
— from Tom Willoughby's Scouts: A Story of the War in German East Africa by Herbert Strang

Opinions here vary a good deal among the friends that knew her best; but those who at different periods of her life lived for any length of time under the same roof, will be able to recall certain instances of an absence of tact, a lack of quick understanding of the feelings of others, which certainly never arose from want of a desire to understand.
— from A Lady of England: The Life and Letters of Charlotte Maria Tucker by Agnes Giberne

Miss Betsey trotted along the platform by her nephew's side, quite unconscious of the tumult she was raising in the breast of her grandniece.
— from Harper's Round Table, June 25, 1895 by Various

We could not gaze even on the mouldy vellum or faded leather of old bindings, and saw nothing but stupid modern painted cases, bodies quite unworthy of the souls they hid.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865 A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics by Various

Scrutiny of any kind did not appear to be acceptable to her, if one could read the trepidation visible in the short, quick upheavals of the broad collar which covered her uneasy breast.
— from The Filigree Ball Being a full and true account of the solution of the mystery concerning the Jeffrey-Moore affair by Anna Katharine Green

"I don't quite understand one thing, even yet, Bessie," continued Eleanor, frowning, "You know, at first, it seemed as if the idea we had was right; that this man had some crazy idea that he might be able to make a gypsy of Dolly.
— from The Camp Fire Girls at Long Lake; Or, Bessie King in Summer Camp by Jane L. Stewart

All the more monstrous as you seem quite unconscious of the iniquity of such a bargain."
— from The Bronze Eagle: A Story of the Hundred Days by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness

"It's evident he doesn't look in his glass before coming down," thought Jo, with a smile, as he said "Goot efening," and sat soberly down, quite unconscious of the ludicrous contrast between his subject and his head-gear, for he was going to read her the "Death of Wallenstein."
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott