Adjective : her usual skill. ,the usual January weather. ,He says the usual things. From Dictionary.com.
Noun : He could expect only the usual. From Dictionary.com.
But, because these articles are a simple record of what I have seen and what I have heard, they may perhaps be of use in bringing out of the shadow -- that awful shadow of "usualness" into which they have fallen -- many incidents that would, before the war, have roused the world to wonder, to pity and to infinite awe. From Wordnik.com. [Great Britain at War] Reference
And will his formulation of messages basically reject the politics of the usualness?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 16, 2007] Reference
“We have known of the Delphic Oracle so long from school texts that we coat it over with a shrugging usualness that we should not …” 322. From Wordnik.com. [The Muse in the Machine] Reference
After all, even if we grant them full discretion to judge the "cruelty" of a punishment, its "usualness" necessarily requires a survey of precedent and state law. From Wordnik.com. [The Connecticut Supreme Court finds a right to same-sex marriage.] Reference
The outward usualness of things continued after dinner. From Wordnik.com. [The Turmoil] Reference
Altogether, the usualness of things was rather startling to Bibbs. From Wordnik.com. [The Turmoil] Reference
Those within hearing distance merely shrugged their shoulders and smiled tolerantly at the disturbance as an affair of accustomed usualness. From Wordnik.com. [The Tears of Ah Kim] Reference
The train came to an uncertain stop, and the sun and the poles and the trees faded, and his universe rocked itself slowly back to its old usualness, with Anthony Patch in the centre. From Wordnik.com. [The Beautiful and Damned] Reference
And presently, the mighty lifts did raise them all to the Cities of the Pyramid; and thereafter there was something more of usualness; save that ever the embrasures were full of those that watched the Youths afar upon the Great Road. From Wordnik.com. [The Night Land: Chapter 4] Reference
The one who bored people to death with a usualness like those practical graves of useful holes ...? ". From Wordnik.com. [Powell's Books: Overview] Reference
But there the usualness of things ended. From Wordnik.com. [The Other Side of the Door] Reference
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