on a sudden
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English[edit]
Prepositional phrase[edit]
- (obsolete) all of a sudden; suddenly
- 1667, John Milton, “Book VIII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, line 900:
- How are thou loſt, how on a ſudden loſt,
- 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:
- On a sudden he was aware of a man linking along at his side. He cried a fine night, and the man replied.