Whose heart th 'accustom'd sight of death makes hard. From Wordnik.com. [Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3)] Reference
1774: Whose heart th 'accustom'd sight of death makes hard. From Wordnik.com. [As You Like It (1623 First Folio Edition)] Reference
'It would accustom us to appearing in public in our. From Wordnik.com. [Chatterbox, 1905.] Reference
This technique will accustom you to being with yourself. From Wordnik.com. [Deepak Chopra: Anxiety: How To Change Your Response] Reference
It wasn't easy to accustom himself to urbanization again. From Wordnik.com. [This Crowded Earth] Reference
He was trying to accustom himself to the idea of having a name. From Wordnik.com. [The Status Civilization] Reference
"Elfreda can't accustom herself to being a celebrity," laughed Miriam. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Harlowe's Third Year at Overton College] Reference
It is wonderful how soon the men accustom themselves to these simple rules. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
Try as hard as I would, I could not accustom my muscles to these new conditions. From Wordnik.com. [Pharaoh's Broker Being the Very Remarkable Experiences in Another World of Isidor Werner] Reference
Percy could not accustom himself to the seeming waste of throwing over the "shorts.". From Wordnik.com. [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference
It requires time to accustom the infant stomach to perform this heavier work of digestion. From Wordnik.com. [The Mother and Her Child] Reference
Having simple needs, you find it less painful to accustom yourself to the hazards of fortune. From Wordnik.com. [The Simple Life] Reference
It was many years before he could accustom himself to the idea that he had no longer a country. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
We accustom ourselves and our children to hypocrisy, to the practice of a double-faced morality. From Wordnik.com. [The Conquest of Bread] Reference
What we have to do is to help him to get control of himself, and accustom him not to do without us. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Unable to see his hand before his face he stopped to accustom his eyes to the absence of any light. From Wordnik.com. [Spring Street A Story of Los Angeles] Reference
Man's wants increase daily, if he do not accustom himself in his early days to practise self-denial. From Wordnik.com. [Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers] Reference
She is not naturally melancholy, and may soon accustom her mind to like hope better than remembrance. From Wordnik.com. [A Sketch of the Life of the late Henry Cooper Barrister-at-Law, of the Norfolk Circuit; as also, of his Father] Reference
He did not take advantage of his residence in Philadelphia to accustom himself to the ways of the world. From Wordnik.com. [Albert Gallatin American Statesmen Series, Vol. XIII] Reference
How dangerous it is to accustom your sons and daughters to a style of living beyond your means and theirs!. From Wordnik.com. [The Simple Life] Reference
Secondly, we must keep our senses under a strict guard, and accustom them to restraint by frequent denials. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March] Reference
The baby should have, if possible, from thirty to forty days to accustom himself to cow's milk exclusively. From Wordnik.com. [The Mother and Her Child] Reference
I must accustom myself to it privately, so I write it down once more, and it laughs in my face and mocks me. From Wordnik.com. [The Love Affairs of an Old Maid] Reference
An old German writer has said that "six months are sufficient to accustom an individual to any change in life.". From Wordnik.com. [Red-Tape and Pigeon-Hole Generals As Seen From the Ranks During a Campaign in the Army of the Potomac] Reference
Kazuo sat upright, trying to see everything around him, to accustom himself to the environment and feel a part of it. From Wordnik.com. [Polar Bear] Reference
"Ah, ah!" said Porthos, looking at D'Artagnan, to whose gasconading he had never been able quite to accustom himself. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845.] Reference
"It will be desirable to strengthen your nerves and accustom yourself to it," answered Anne of Austria, somewhat dryly. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
In the manner in which you spend your money, as in every thing else, accustom yourself to a certain degree of self-denial. From Wordnik.com. [Advice to a Young Man upon First Going to Oxford In Ten Letters, From an Uncle to His Nephew] Reference
In order to accustom them to the service, we supposed, they were frequently roused during the night to prepare for battle. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of a Cannoneer Under Stonewall Jackson] Reference
You should next accustom yourself to use the hand and fingers easily and naturally, while still holding the coin as described. From Wordnik.com. [Healthful Sports for Boys] Reference
It takes time to accustom oneself to marching through deep sand, just as it takes time to acquire the 'heather-step' in August. From Wordnik.com. [The Second Battalion Royal Dublin Fusiliers in the South African War With a Description of the Operations in the Aden Hinterland] Reference
Yet what better advice could we give our sons than to follow this? or to what could we better exhort them to accustom themselves?. From Wordnik.com. [Plutarch's Morals] Reference
As I stood on the threshold striving to accustom my eyes to the darkness of the interior, I heard the sound of voices to my right. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
As for Eleanor, it was some time before she could accustom herself to the idea of having a living father, and a famous one at that. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Harlowe's Senior Year at High School] Reference
Let us not look down upon the child's simple act of generosity; it is these which accustom the soul to self-denial and to sympathy. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
It will accustom our people to distinguish between the real dollar that pays where it goes and a paper dollar which only promises to pay. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography.] Reference
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