Adjective : He took his wonted place in the library. From Dictionary.com.
Adjective : He was wont to rise at dawn. From Dictionary.com.
Noun : It was her wont to walk three miles before breakfast. From Dictionary.com.
Again, however, did Donna Serafina intervene, recalling her wonted severity of voice: "Giacomo, you will please stay here.". From Wordnik.com. [The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome, Complete] Reference
To this cfFcdl recalling the wonted fcrenity cf hi-s countenance, which lie liad tor tome time loft, ar, d taking him by the hand, with a de - portment vviiully pallionate i. From Wordnik.com. [Pharamond; or, The history of France. A fam'd romance in twelve parts; the whole work never before Englished;] Reference
A short and animated conversation with her lover, as the day began to wane, partially recalled her wonted cheerfulness, but when he was gone she relapsed into her former mood. From Wordnik.com. [The Cavaliers of Virginia, or the Recluse of Jamestown. An Historical Romance of the Old Dominion. By the author of "The Kentuckian in New-York." In Two Volumes. Vol. I.] Reference
Had smooth'd in wonted flow and natural curl. From Wordnik.com. [Poems: Descriptive, Dramatic, Legendary and Contemplative, by William Gilmore Simms, Esq. In Two Volumes: Vol. II. I. Southern Passages and Pictures; II. Historical and Dramatic Sketches; III. Scripture Legends; IV. Francesca Da Rimini] Reference
'Yes, dear,' says I, 'put up his little hands to me kind of wonted'; an 'she turned a look on me like another creatur', so pleased an 'contented. ". From Wordnik.com. [In Dark New England Days] Reference
But soon recalling wonted pride. From Wordnik.com. [Ramayana. English] Reference
They have flight sans motion past their wonted garden. From Wordnik.com. [Upwards, Into the White Eye Rising] Reference
With dark thoughts, that to him were naught duly wonted. From Wordnik.com. [The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats] Reference
Elisabeth welcomed her with all her wonted charm and sweetness. From Wordnik.com. [The Hermit of Far End] Reference
"I understand," Cyn replied, with more than wonted seriousness. From Wordnik.com. [Wired Love A Romance of Dots and Dashes] Reference
Thou earnest indeed unto me according to thy ancient wonted manner. From Wordnik.com. [Meditations] Reference
"I have been bewitched, Sergeitch," he said, with his wonted calmness. From Wordnik.com. [Rabbi and Priest A Story] Reference
He has bid his charge good morning, and hurries back to his wonted haunts. From Wordnik.com. [An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith] Reference
"We do not know that," declared the professor, with his wonted cheerfulness. From Wordnik.com. [On a Torn-Away World Or, the Captives of the Great Earthquake] Reference
Otherwise, the life and gossip of the town had returned to its wonted serenity. From Wordnik.com. [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905] Reference
Clearly, here was one not much wonted to little kindnesses, and not insensible to them either. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866] Reference
With her wonted vivacity she afterwards observed, that she had risked her life both for the House of. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume III.] Reference
He saved twenty-three cattle; and his herd will, I trust, in a few years attain its wonted position. From Wordnik.com. [Cattle and Cattle-breeders] Reference
With his wonted caution, however, he had refrained from putting himself on record, other than orally. From Wordnik.com. [White Ashes] Reference
His intellect was as good as ever, but he lacked his wonted mental endurance and power of application. From Wordnik.com. [The Electric Bath] Reference
The Tencterians, besides their wonted glory in war, surpass in the service and discipline of their cavalry. From Wordnik.com. [Tacitus on Germany] Reference
But tell me, "said she, as her usual smile returned to its wonted place," how long shall we be before we arrive at. From Wordnik.com. [Fern Vale (Volume 1) or the Queensland Squatter] Reference
He went upstairs to his old bed-room, and in the morning found puss asleep in her wonted place at the foot of the bed. From Wordnik.com. [Little Folks (October 1884) A Magazine for the Young] Reference
I know not how long I should have dwelt on these circumstances, had not the children come to wish me their wonted good night. From Wordnik.com. [Yr Ynys Unyg The Lonely Island] Reference
Wyvis Brand, but they had been continued long after Margaret's errant fancy had been chided back to its wonted resting place. From Wordnik.com. [A True Friend A Novel] Reference
He heard this announcement calmly; and said to General Williamson, with his wonted grace, "General, I am ready to follow you.". From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume III.] Reference
On his days of abstinence he always wore linen clothes of a pale colour; and he changed his food and moved from his wonted seat. From Wordnik.com. [The Sayings Of Confucius] Reference
"My sorrows indeed hitherto," replied Urad, "have prevented my labour; but to-morrow I shall again rise to my wonted employment.". From Wordnik.com. [Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers] Reference
Shearing had commenced; and his mind, from the constant diversion of his thoughts, had partially recovered its wonted elasticity. From Wordnik.com. [Fern Vale (Volume 1) or the Queensland Squatter] Reference
But an external calamity has intervened; -- Providence has denied for a season, to one of the fruits of the earth, its wonted increase. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847] Reference
For many successive days he rode across grim solitary wastes with more enthusiasm than he could give to the wonted pilgrimages to Florence and. From Wordnik.com. [Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies] Reference
We passed on and as their fountains of spray disappeared in the distance the sun sank down to pay his wonted devotion before the shrine of night. From Wordnik.com. [An Epoch in History] Reference
My conviction, however, was not evidence, and I felt that I should need even more than my wonted good fortune to bring the black crime home to the real perpetrator. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852] Reference
So longe as the Queene continued in the chamber, the beating was quicke and liuely, but when she departed, it ceased, and the wonted weakenes of the poulces retourned. From Wordnik.com. [The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1] Reference
But as often as it was closed or left in darkness, the invisible revel recommenced at the wonted hour, preceded by the same preliminaries, terminating in the same manner. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865] Reference
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