Then came nepenthe and scholium, aleatoric and consuetude. From Wordnik.com. [Pool of National Spelling Bee competitors whittled down to 48] Reference
Mont – Fitchet, “the stain hath become engrained by time and consuetude; let thy reformation be cautious, as it is just and wise.”. From Wordnik.com. [Ivanhoe] Reference
And therefore, least by over-long consuetude, something should take life, which might be converted to a bad construction, and by our country demourance for so many dayes, some captious conceit may wrest out an ill imagination; I am of the minde (if yours be the like) seeing each of us hath had the honor, which now remaineth still on me: that it is very fitting for us, to returne thither from whence we came. From Wordnik.com. [The Decameron] Reference
I am not alleging that a pervasive consuetude fraudium grips the entire scientific community. From Wordnik.com. [LewRockwell.com] Reference
For the present he swept the skies leisurely, feasting on the infinite wonders which no consuetude could render commonplace. From Wordnik.com. [The Mayor of Warwick] Reference
"Yet bethink thee, reverend father," said Mont-Fitchet, "the stain hath become engrained by time and consuetude; let thy reformation be cautious, as it is just and wise.". From Wordnik.com. [Ivanhoe] Reference
A custom relieved of its consuetude, would be to avail myself of this opportunity to remark on the pros or cons of the death penalty or animal captivity or integrated education. From Wordnik.com. [The Windshield] Reference
Our Constitution, consecrated by the callous consuetude of sixty years, and grasped in triumphant argument by the left hand of him whose right hand clutches the clotted slave-whip. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell] Reference
The consent, say they, of realmes and lawes pronounced and admitted in this behalfe, long consuetude and custorne, together with felicitie of some women in their empires haue established their authoritie. From Wordnik.com. [The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women.] Reference
Trembling the while, Ogger, who knew by experience what were the power and might of Charles, and who had learned the lesson by long consuetude in better days, then said, 'When ye shall behold the crops shaking for fear in the fields, and the gloomy Po and the Ticino overflowing the walls of the city with their waves blackened with steel. From Wordnik.com. [The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 04] Reference
Trembling the while, Ogger, who knew by experience what were the power and might of Charles, and who had learned the lesson by long consuetude in better days, then said, 'When ye shall behold the crops shaking for fear in the fields, and the gloomy Po and the Ticino overflowing the walls of the city with their waves blackened with steel (iron), then may ye think that Charles is coming.'. From Wordnik.com. [A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 1] Reference
` ` the stain hath become engrained by time and consuetude; let thy reformation be cautious, as it is just and wise. ''. From Wordnik.com. [Ivanhoe] Reference
As she recited her infirmities, he reminds her, he “started back, and that is my common consuetude when anything pierces or touches my heart. From Wordnik.com. [John Knox and the Reformation]
Bot and yf all the foirnamed shall dampne that whiche we dampne, and approve that whiche we requyre, then we most earnestlie beseik your Grace, that notwithstanding the long consuetude which thei have had to live as thei list, that thei be compelled eyther to desist from ecclesiastical administratioun, or to discharge thare dewities as becumeth trew ministeris; So that the grave and godlie face of the primitive Churche reduced, ignorance may be expelled, trew doctrine and good maneris may ones agane appeare in the Churche of this. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6)] Reference
"Trembling the while, Ogger, who knew by experience what were the power and might of Charles, and who had learned the lesson by long consuetude in better days, then said, 'When you shall behold the crops shaking for fear in the fields, and the gloomy Po and the Ticino overflowing the walls of the city with their waves blackened with steel, then may you think that Charles is coming.'. From Wordnik.com. [Historical Tales, Vol. 6 (of 15) The Romance of Reality. French.] Reference
For to haunte armes was theyr consuetude. From Wordnik.com. [The Example of Vertu The Example of Virtue] Reference
"started back, and that is my common consuetude when anything pierces or touches my heart. From Wordnik.com. [John Knox and the Reformation] Reference
‘tenebrous’, ‘solacious’, ‘pulcritude’, ‘consuetude’ (all these occur in. From Wordnik.com. [English Past and Present] Reference
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