But there is, also, a run on the main role from unexpected quarters.

Help, however, was coming to him from a totally unexpected quarter.

It came from an unexpected quarter out of the black night behind me.

The bill is also getting help from some other unexpected quarters.

Just one response, from an unexpected quarter, must be noticed here.

There were also signs of democratic support in unexpected quarters.

And company, when it came, did so from an unexpected quarter.

It was to come from an unexpected quarter: the environmentalists.

Matters were going well enough, when trouble developed from an unexpected quarter.

I think we just had help from an unexpected quarter.