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Sentences starting with accustomed

Accustomed as Janet was to these frequent arraignments of her father's inefficiency, it was gradually borne in upon her now--despite a preoccupation with her own fate--that the affair thus plaintively voiced by her mother was in effect a family crisis of the first magnitude. [9]
Accustomed as she was to give prompt utterance even to her displeasure, she exclaimed hotly, and with tears in her eyes: "It is shameful, it is base. [10]
Accustomed to trample on the rights of others, you have lost the genius of your own independence and become the fit subjects of the first cunning tyrant who rises among you. [7]
Accustomed to perform his duty silently and, where speech was necessary, to study the utmost brevity, he had not learned the art of clothing his thoughts in pleasing forms. [10]
Accustomed to love him from a distance, she continued to live in and with him, and in her thoughts and dreams he remained her own. [10]
Accustomed to give herself up entirely to the gifts which the present offered, she had turned her back on Ratisbon and its inhabitants, with whom, during this period of happiness she could easily dispense, as if they were a forgotten world. [10]
Accustomed to the company of dead statesmen and heroes, his own ideas had risen to a higher standard. [6]
Accustomed as Darius and Prexaspes were to royal splendor, they were still astonished at the beauty and brilliancy of the satrap's palace. [10]
Accustomed as I am, to an extended sphere of work, in its nature resembling a man's, I could not content myself in living for one being alone, however dear. [10]

Sentences ending with accustomed

But this gentleman produced a new impression upon her, quite different from any to which she was accustomed. [6]
He did not need it for his own wants; his position at court yielded him a far larger income than he required for the modest life to which he was accustomed. [10]
But I think it may safely be taken as a principle that this parish has the right to demand from the pulpit that orthodox teaching which suits it, and to which it has been accustomed. [9]
On that festal evening Hur and his guests at first failed to notice the uproar to which every one was accustomed. [10]
On the fifth discipline was restored, the quartermaster's department organized, and the citizens were permitted to assemble at the guild-hall, pursue their trades and business, follow the pursuits to which they had been accustomed. [10]
Zorrillo--it caused her bitter pain--had not cast even a single glance at her, and she began to miss the society of men, to which she had been accustomed. [10]

Sentences containing accustomed two or more times

People accustomed to the monster mile-wide Mississippi, grow accustomed to associating the term "river" with a high degree of watery grandeur. [5]

More example sentences with the word accustomed in them

But no doubt you, who are old, have long since grown accustomed and reconciled to what seems to me such a disagreeable novelty. [5]
I cannot give you that to which you have been accustomed all your life, that which you have here at Fairview, but I shouldn't say this to you if I believed that you cared for them above --other things. [9]
I will show you a man presently who was accustomed to nibble at eight meals a day. [5]
The man who would try to heal every suffering brute was accustomed to see those whom he loved best grieve on his account. [10]
He rubbed his withered hands with satisfaction as he seated himself in his accustomed chair, and when Mary came to call him to dinner, it was a pleasure to him to jest with her. [10]
I may say with truth that I should be a useful member of that, as I am accustomed to sitting on financial boards. [9]
He crossed himself with an accustomed movement, bent till he touched the ground with his hand, and bowed his white head with a deep sigh. [2]
A flock of wild mountain goats, accustomed to come at this hour to quench their thirst at the spring, came nearer and nearer, but drew back as they detected the presence of a human being. [10]
One evening we were sitting in the accustomed spot--that is, the coping. [11]
But few seconds were needed for these reflections, and as he was accustomed when need arose to control himself, he said: "We must see--some means must be found--" and then without any greeting to his host, he slowly returned to his own house. [10]
The Alexandrian populace were accustomed to see much that was strange in the busy streets of their crowded city; but this vehicle attracted every eye, and excited astonishment, admiration and mirth, wherever it appeared, and not unfrequently the bitterest ridicule. [10]
The trio were well accustomed to act together, and were linked to each other by ties of mutual interest and advantage, and nothing more was needed. [12]
The man said we were now on the Feil-Stutz, above the Schwegmatt--information which I was glad to get, since it gave us our position to a degree of particularity which we had not been accustomed to for a day or so. [5]
The French journals, we are accustomed to say, are not newspapers at all. [4]
The United States was too much accustomed to employing dollar-and-a-half thieves in all manner of official capacities to regard his explanation of the voucher as having any foundation in fact. [5]
And how beggared was that frugal heart, accustomed to spend all its store of love on so few objects--nay, chiefly on one alone who was now no more! [10]
And yet I was sure that I loved Maude; in a surprisingly short period I had become accustomed to her, dependent on her ministrations and the normal, cosy intimacy of our companionship. [9]
Soon after, he was standing in the spacious room in which he was accustomed to sit and to sleep when he was in Thebes. [10]
But such immunity was not to be granted to the emperor's sweetheart, who could so audaciously reject two brothers accustomed to easy conquests; her demure severity could hardly be meant seriously. [10]
I said I was accustomed to squandering large sums in that way --it was the kind of person I was. [5]
I have long wanted a good chance for getting acquainted with the social sphere several grades below that to which I am accustomed, and I have no doubt that I shall find matter for half a dozen new stories among those connections of mine. [6]
I get along very well without the luxury and the wealth and the sort of society I've been accustomed to, but I do miss the respect and can't seem to get reconciled to the absence of it. [5]
I was not very much accustomed to flattery, and it came the sweeter to me. [7]
Rostov was therefore unpleasantly struck by the presence of French officers in Boris' lodging, dressed in uniforms he had been accustomed to see from quite a different point of view from the outposts of the flank. [2]
Eyes accustomed to twilight must also endure pain, she told herself, ere they became used to the brilliance of the sun. [10]
And it magically transformed for me (as I stood, momentarily alone, in the doorway where I had first beheld Maude) the accustomed scene, and charged with undivined significance the blue shadows under the heavy foliage of the maples. [9]
Presently he advanced towards the altar rail --he was accustomed to do this with his little flock--and placing one hand on the lectern, began to speak. [4]
Frequently their sparring took the form of a serious discussion, which served a double purpose; first their minds, accustomed to serious thought, found exercise in spite of the murderous pressure of the burden of forced labor, and secondly, they were supposed really to be enemies. [10]
He knew this tone in his master's voice, for thus he was accustomed to reprove bad scholars and erring priests; but to him he had never yet so spoken. [10]
A person accustomed to watch the faces of those who were ailing in body or mind, and to search in every line and tint for some underlying source of disorder, could hardly help analyzing the impression such a face produced upon him. [6]
It is accustomed to this view of life, so much so that it fancies it never knew what war was, or what a battle was, until the novelists began to report them. [4]
I became accustomed to this dumb society, and picked on in silence, attributing all the wood noises to the cattle, thinking nothing of any real bear. [4]
He was accustomed to thinking of it calmly, sometimes wistfully, even to such a degree that the thought of self-destruction had come upon him as a temptation. [6]
We are accustomed to think that with the advent of the genuine novel of society, in the first part of this century, a great step forward was taken in fiction. [4]
He is accustomed to the phrases with which the plausible visitor, who has a subscription book in his pocket, prepares his victim for the depressing disclosure of his real errand. [6]
They'll move out to settlements like Glendale full of dirt and vermin and disease and live as they're accustomed to. [9]
He is accustomed to seeing the publisher impoverish the author--that spectacle must be getting stale to him--if he contracts with the undersigned he will experience a change in that programme that will make the enamel peel off his teeth for very surprise--and joy. [5]
The wits used to say that Ropers,--the poet once before referred to, old Samuel Ropers, author of the Pleasures of Memory and giver of famous breakfasts,--was accustomed to have straw laid before the house whenever he had just given birth to a couplet. [6]
Demetrius was accustomed to rise at cock-crow and go to bed at an early hour, and he was on the point of retiring even before the usual time, when Marcus came to his room and begged him to give him yet an hour. [10]
Then, as happens to people of weak character, he desired so passionately once more to enjoy that dissipation he was so accustomed to that he decided to go. [2]
They were accustomed to nibbling at dainties and delicacies at set hours four times a day, and they had no appetite for anything. [5]
The youth, accustomed to Moor's wonderful clearness, Titian's brilliant hues, found Filippi's pictures indistinct, as if veiled by grey mists. [10]
He was accustomed to listen to all that was said in the Emperor's presence, and year by year he had learnt to understand more of what he heard. [10]
We are accustomed to issue invitations somewhat early, on account of my necessary preparations. [10]
She is accustomed to hot weather on the Nile, and will not find our beautiful Susa too warm. [10]
Cleopatra was accustomed to hear these mysterious sayings from his lips, and interpreted them in her own way. [10]
They were free to go to any meals in the house, and they chose their accustomed four. [5]
The patient accustomed to four meals and late hours--at both ends of the day--now consider what he has to do at a health resort. [5]
Where was he to find the money he was accustomed to give his sister on the first day of every month? [10]
He would have to do without his accustomed morning meal. [5]
I am bored to death, for Verus, Balbilla and the others have asked for leave of absence that they may go to inspect the work doing at Lochias; I am accustomed to find that people would rather be any where than with me. [10]
Not being accustomed to carrying about soiled clothes, he declined this proposal, and consulted a chambermaid. [4]
The prince, accustomed to bright faces and tender caresses, broke away from her in terror to run back to his brother and sisters. [10]
Orion was accustomed to be treated in his own country as the heir of the greatest man in it; the color mounted to his brow and his Egyptian heart revolted at having to bend his pride and swallow his wrath before an Arab. [10]
A man accustomed to American food and American domestic cookery would not starve to death suddenly in Europe; but I think he would gradually waste away, and eventually die. [5]
He became accustomed to all Elsie's strange looks and ways. [6]
I am accustomed to a kind of loneliness and self-dependence. [6]
At the same time, in a thundering voice, he commanded the Alexandrians--who were not accustomed to the imperial tone--to desist from their mad project. [10]
It had led through the midst of the bare rocky landscape, and their eyes, accustomed to distant horizons and luxuriant green foliage, met narrow boundaries and a barren wilderness. [10]
Somebody said that those who were accustomed to luxury at home liked Rodick's, and that those who were not grumbled. [4]
The repulse which this man, accustomed to success, had received from Barine had been hard to forget, yet he did not resign the hope of winning her. [10]
The ringleader of this little mob was a short-haired bully and amateur prize-fighter named Allen, who was accustomed to lording it over the upper floor, and had more than once shown a disposition to make trouble with Tracy. [5]
Mechanically, and still thinking of nothing but Irene's deliverance, she fulfilled the task which she was accustomed to perform every day at the sound of this brazen clang, and went to her room to fetch the golden jars of the god. [10]
She did not think of applying submission and self-abnegation to her own life, for she was accustomed to seek other joys, but she understood and loved in another those previously incomprehensible virtues. [2]
People accustomed to think in that way forget, or do not know, the inevitable conditions which always limit the activities of any commander in chief. [2]
I gathered that they found themselves sadly out of their element in that kind of business at first, but afterward got accustomed to it, reconciled to it, and more or less at home in it. [5]
We are accustomed, therefore, to look for analyses of these periodicals, and at last we have placed before us a formidable-looking monthly, "The Review of Reviews. [6]
That hurts them; then they are annoyed, and they get accustomed to think grudgingly of you--you who are more lovable than they are. [10]
These few, for their knowledge and for the pleasure which it brought, paid the accustomed price. [11]
While thus occupied, the sovereign, accustomed to speculation, encountered many a dangerous doubt, but he only needed to gaze at the crucified Saviour to find the way again to the promises of his Church. [10]
For many weeks the sick man had been so accustomed to let himself be waited on that he accepted the shepherdess's good offices as a matter of course, and she never attempted to account to herself for her readiness to serve him. [10]
The flavor of the Partaga is too delicate for palates that have been accustomed to Connecticut seed leaf. [5]
The leader of the orchestra had been accustomed to submit to the sovereign's arrangements as unresistingly as to the will of higher powers, and Barbara also restrained herself. [10]
I was, for the moment, no longer the self-confident and triumphant young attorney accustomed to carry all before him, to command respect and admiration, but a complicated being whose unity had suddenly been split. [9]
Evidently some of the letters were missing, for the name of the inquirer was not mentioned; there was a casual reference to "this handsome-featured aristocratic gentleman," as if the reader and the writer were accustomed to speak of him and knew who was meant. [5]
Her position in the house was such that only by sacrifice could she show her worth, and she was accustomed to this and loved doing it. [2]
In front of the gate of the king's palace sat a crowd of petitioners who were accustomed to stay here from early dawn till late at night, until they were called into the palace to receive the answer to the petition they had drawn up. [10]
She thought of the friends at Brandon, she thought of the poor old ladies she was accustomed to look after in the city, of the ragged-school that she visited, of the hospital in which she was a manager, of the mission chapel. [4]
He pushed open the door, and as soon as his eyes became, accustomed to the tobacco smoke, he surveyed the room. [9]
The world and the books are so accustomed to use, and over-use, the word 'new' in connection with our country, that we early get and permanently retain the impression that there is nothing old about it. [5]
Therefore it follows that I am accustomed to severe wounds, though my heart often aches at the sight of them. [10]
She had heard that he had been summoned to the Empress on his return home, and awaited him not without anxiety, for she was not accustomed to anything pleasant from Sabina. [10]
With no violent symptoms, but with steady persistency, the disease moved on in its accustomed course. [6]
Paaker, accustomed to solitude, became absorbed in thought, forgetting everything that surrounded him; even the widow herself, who had sunk on to a couch, and was observing him in silence. [10]
He has been so much accustomed to have his own will, that he will follow no advice, even if it come from his mother's lips. [10]
The people are so accustomed to nine-jointed titles and colossal magnates that a foreign prince makes very little more stir in Honolulu than a Western Congressman does in New York. [5]
Idleness had long since grown to be the occupation of his life; but accustomed to it as he was, he was sometimes conscious of its dark attendant shadow ennui--as of a disagreeable and intrusive interruption to the enjoyment of life. [10]
He was a simple-hearted old gentleman, of a shrinking, subdued spirit, accustomed to retirement, and very little acquainted with the world, which he had left many years before to come and settle in that place. [12]
Some young fellows shooting at a mark in the meadow saw the flying deer, and popped away at her; but they were accustomed to a mark that stood still. [4]
It took them several Sundays to get accustomed to it. [9]
But no; you see I was an unknown person, among a cruelly oppressed and suspicious people, a people always accustomed to having advantage taken of their helplessness, and never expecting just or kind treatment from any but their own families and very closest intimates. [5]
The unfortunate Paulus sat on a stone bench in front of the senator's door, and shivered; for, as dawn approached, the night-air grew cooler, and he was accustomed to the warmth of the sheepskin, which he had now given to Hermas. [10]
With just the same smile of agreement with which for fifteen years he had been accustomed to answer the old prince without expressing views of his own, he now replied to Princess Mary, so that nothing definite could be got from his answers. [2]
All that she said was judicious and precise, and showed that she herself superintended her household in every detail, and was accustomed to command with complete freedom. [10]
Pretty Kuni, the ropedancer, no longer existed; she must become accustomed to have the world regard her as a different and far less important personage, whom Lienhard, too--and this was fortunate--would not have deemed worthy of a glance. [10]
Yes, he was right; the old pirate's shrill whistle reached his ear from the Owl's Nest, and he was accustomed to obedience. [10]
The abundant natural resources of these Territories, with the security and protection afforded by organized government, will doubtless invite to them a large immigration when peace shall restore the business of the country to its accustomed channels. [7]
The confessor had reminded the sovereign of the anniversary which had already dawned, and which he was accustomed to celebrate in his own way. [10]
The body-servant's position relieved him of such humble duties, still, when on the chase, when travelling, or as need arose, he was accustomed to perform them unasked, and very willingly. [10]
He spoke so rapidly that he did not finish half his words, but his son was accustomed to understand him. [2]

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