"Thank you, my dear," said the innocent gentleman, looking much pleased at the unexpected honour.

Miss Melham did me the unexpected honor of having her young man present for help, if necessary, as she explained.

The clerk sat down awkwardly, stunned by the unexpected honour.

"It is indeed an unexpected honor to be here with you, General."

"It was an unexpected but very high honor to have an asteroid named after me," McKay said.

"This is an unexpected honor," the man went on.

"My noble lords, this is a most unexpected honor," he said in a voice honed on the open seas.

It was an unexpected honor in his declining years.

As I told him, it was an unexpected honor.

"Princess Meredith, to what do I owe this unexpected honor?"