Randy is gripped by a crazy, unaccountable desire not to bore Amy.

The reason is this: Every evening when I have it with me I feel an unaccountable desire to open and con- sult it, even if I can think of no reason for wishing to know the time.

She had an unaccountable desire to seek shelter of some kind.

Whenever Smaug's roving eye, seeking for him in the shadows, flashed across him, he trembled, and an unaccountable desire seized hold of him to rush out and reveal himself and tell all the truth to Smaug.

All of us looked in both directions, and then Helen stepped up to the black door and gave a knock that was recognizably a signal and not a casual rapping by some passerby with an unaccountable desire to tap on black doors.

I felt the unaccountable desire to weep.

- I am on the lookout for the signs that acute observers of this phenomenon believe mark the onset of middle age: an unaccountable desire to wear sensible shoes and hit the sack at a reasonable hour.

Of course, the first thing that brought this possibility to my mind was the fact of Mr. McNair's unaccountable desire to have you wear diamonds.