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Sentence Examples The full houses and positive critical reviews indicate that theatre audiences are in a mood to be entertained and this comedy wont disappoint. Erial, as was her wont, chose mostly whites and other pale, unobtrusive colours. In accordance with use and wont the meeting resolved itself into a small party for the further exploration of the area. He was to begin in favour of continuing use and wont, yet when the Directory was adopted he honourably accepted its guidance and ruling. Also, perhaps because I'm so familiar with Peter Pan itself, my mind, as is its wont, tended to wander, if not wonder. Bad custom will thrive as it is wont do into the wee hours in less hospitable joints. Harty, as is a poacher's wont, removed any dubiety by forcing the ball into the back of the net, before running off in pursuit of the acclaim. Anthony loved it but, as customers are wont to do, he insisted I name the drink. The manager was satisfied that his side attempted to conjure something, as has been their wont since the season began. It is, no doubt, the wont of every generation to look back at the past with an over-egged fondness and to be too damning of current standards. If he won't say that, and he won't, he's wont to say nothing to his own skills. And if practicality is your wont rather than sentimentality, you should still go. As is his wont when games are in their infancy, he contented himself with a schoolmasterly lecture. He didn't even leave behind a puff of smoke, as more inept magicians were wont to do. Being of a certain age and background, I was wont to sport the occasional safety pin back in my teens. She was just sitting there, as araneids are wont to do when there is no prey on their web. Turning an incident into a lesson, as was his wont, Mather reflected on how alike he and the dog were, yet ultimately how unalike. But I want to remind him of this one simple fact before he becomes excessively boastful, as he is wont to do. Since they don't want to have it happen to them, they figure that if they are silent, they wont be known as tattletales. As is my wont, I slept in this morning and made up for a few short nights earlier in the week. Show More Sentences Children wont starve themselves, and after a few days my daughter was eating like a horse. I wont say this is a caricature but the emotions and oversensitiveness are strangling our own heroes. The bosses, as is their wont, reacted as if I had proposed handing out our promotional material written in Sumerian and wrapped in a puzzle. It had to be one of the most exciting and challenging matches of the year and one I wont be forgetting in a hurry. And I have to start looking good too, as my latest crush wont be turned on by pastiness. Returning as was her wont, she then commanded the same child that had stopped the hole to unstop it, whereupon the lad regained his sight. There were two sturdy draft harnesses drawing the cart, slowly as is their wont. You may recall that Carlo was wont to give Wayne, the delivery boy, a cup of coffee and make small talk about root vegetables. So Mums and Dads, Grannies and Granddads give us a bell and let us know who is about and we wont leave anyone out. Dissolute Persons are wont to prepare themselves for venereous Acts by Bathing. From its doors tandem and four-in-hands were wont to start for a run to New Rochelle. Hopefully i wont be all stiff and achy since i might have done a bit too much today, but i was eager to get in and do some gardening! It was also at Pentecost that King Arthur and his knights were wont to sit and wait for some unusual or miraculous occurrence before they sat to feast. As boys are wont to be, they were full of nonsense and mischief. They are also wont to niggle and squiggle over every jot and tittle. If you tax pot as commodity and allow the people to regulate themselves then cops wont have a reason to group stoners and other drug users together. Golf was sufficiently well established that on 21 October 1633 the Town Council reserved the Inches for archery, golf and other pastimes according to use and wont. Like helpless bods clinging to a leaky wreck somewhere between Indonesia and Australia, we were willing to grasp any straw floating past, as drowning people are wont to do. And nothing escapes over the side, as things are wont to do from my skillet. Well, linguistician that I am, my first thoughts set me to playing about with semantics and, as is my wont on these occasions, to casting my thoughts back to the bard. Show More Sentences But certainly in the first half City, as is their wont, refused to wallow in self-pity and played like a side determined to make light of any inconveniences. Their supporters had settled for a draw when, with the whistle already between the referee's lips, Owen ghosted in unnoticed, as is his wont, to nod in a cross from Joe Cole. As is the wont with all our film heroes who wax eloquent on the plague of video piracy only when their films are slated for a release, Chiranjeevi too was no exception. Now, the media, as we know, can overdo those things, as is our wont. The ball was old and the pitch was slow and Jones, as was his wont, was moving around the crease to disrupt the bowler's line. Jack decided to stand up to the stumps. Without the right gradient to drain off onto the edges and without the drains, water, as is its wont, finds its own shape, filling every crevice and crater. As is often the wont of those who have succeeded through factional alliances, when ambition calls, the instinct is to disown your own and condemn others. As is their wont, Melrose will no doubt withdraw into themselves and adopt a siege mentality, blaming referees and everybody else for problems which are of their own making. Allen responded with his own Op-Ed in the Times, and the media, as is their wont, proceeded to pick sides. As celebrities on the movie promotion circuit are wont to do, Cameron Diaz is hawking her latest cause celebre. Tom Wood ruled the vast Citadel Theatre Shoctor Stage as he is wont. I know that in about a month he will have the whole thing down pat and wont even break a sweat the next time he has to read an excerpt out of his book. But this passage is one in which, as is her wont, the author mimes the language of male philosophical and theological tradition that she seeks to transvalue. This is what the stretcher guy was planning on happening, but as the poet Burns is wont to say, the best laid plans of mice and men gang aft agley. His skin was darker than a Urani's wont and slightly olive skinned. Forgive my candor, though such is my wont, but much like that moose on a spit, Bernie is dead. At least I wont have to worry about Phil dobbing me in anymore. That it didn't materialise was not for the wont of endeavour or skill. Film festival reviews are, as is their wont, often prone to hyperbole. In order to keep his intellect undulled by the routine of his dreary work, Matthew Arnold was wont to write a few lines of poetry each day. Show More Sentences But as bubba is wont to do, he sucked up all the oxygen in the room. This they were wont to use also for hatchets, but now by trucking they have plentie of the same forme of yron. A pact could form where the SP won't stand against the SDP in Lib Dem areas, and the SDP wont stand against the SP in further left-leaning areas. No I know I wont forget you but I'll forget myself if the city will forgive me. We sit down to our meals, suspect not the intrusion of armed uninvited guests, who erewhiles, we know, were wont to surprise us. And yet, Bindra, as is his wont, underplayed the result, though he did admit he could be overcritical at times. Strauss mentions the custom, that the scholars of the Rabbis in the consessus were wont to stand. My mother was wont to call me your Nestle-cock, and I love you as well as she did. She saw her own face, glowing with girlish beauty, and illuminating all the interior of the dusky mirror in which she had been wont to gaze at it. Beards and nobility go hand in hand, so it will come as no surprise to most that members of the great lordly houses are wont to vaunt their beardly heritage. There greet in silence, as the dead are wont, And sleep in peace. The divine providence is wont to afford its concourse to such proceeding. If Abbott should someday cast an eye on higher office, as Texas governors are wont to do, another prominent executive mansion also has been updated for wheelchair mobility. Owner Russian adventurer Fedor Konyukhov wont be on board-Instead the boat will be campaigned by a yong but experient crew led by Australian skipper Mark McRae. We're hoping it's the same shade of white as his old Fiat 500, in which he was wont to play motorway snooker on long journeys such was its resemblance to a cueball. Peter Pol, doctor in divinitie used to sit upon his mule, who as Monstrelet reporteth, was wont to ride up and downe the streets of Paris, ever sitting sideling, as women use. In an apparent bid to act senatorially, and not, as he is wont, as a singular sensation, the Mayor did not throw a hissy fit when Schumer advised him of his plans. Examples from Classical Literature Indeed, on the morrow she seated herself at the work-frame and embroidered as she was wont to do. Perhaps our experience in soldiership has taught us to value training more than we have been popularly wont. Not much you wont, he said, and put his hand on the speaking tube, but she stopped him. It raged mostly among children and youths, and was wont to affect them with a long and, as it were, a chronical sickness. It proved to be a little out of place, but otherwise he was as immaculate as was his wont. Kings themselves were wont thus to immure the wives and daughters of defeated rebels. We slaves would eat our breakfast, and go to the fields, dare wont no hurry-scurry. Thou art like the hyacinthine flower, wont to stand aloft 'midst varied riches of its lordling's garden. But why should man die because he loveth Jesu Christ better than he was wont? Contrary to wont, the ban against Spinoza was stringently enforced, to keep young people from his heresies. I tell you what it is,' says jone, 'it wont do to let them two lunertics have rooms to themselves. Duncan had been wont to say of him that Kellogg could talk the hind-leg off of a mule. I wants Mistis ter come back in one dese big Langshan hens, so you wont git so lonesome, dats whut I wants. There was a paddle still in it, and a bow net set on hoops, such as we were wont to use for eels and tench. They had not been wont to come at blent, nor had his affair with Janie Iver created them. The learned, of course, after their wont, know him by a lengthier and more imposing name. Love is not comfort, nor house, nor lands, nor the tame delights of use and wont. Well, I hope to goodness the house wont be burgled during the night, said he. It is this statue which immigrants, on their way to Ellis Island, are wont to apostrophise. He was devoted to the Countess, and was aye wont to be timorous where she was concerned. Show More Sentences Our author is wont to break off suddenly and intersperse his arguments with affectionate words of exhortation. Merchet was the most striking consequence of unfreedom, but manorial documents are wont to connect it with several others. I am a peaceful trader, and I am not wont to be so shouted at upon so small a matter. He wont be there himself, as he has to come east, but hes paid a man to take charge of the motorship for us. When he did, he was wont to laugh at himself, and so neutralise the laugh raised against him. Now, the hetairai of Naucratis are wont somehow to be exceedingly fair, beyond all women whom we know. And then Mrs. Otway, as was her wont, had fallen into eager, impulsive talk. And to think that as a boy he was wont to bring me posies, and wear my colors! Id have rote you sooner only the sensor wont let me tell where I am an I couldnt think of nothin else to say. For instance, there was a great fair which was wont to be held at Rhuddlan, in Denbighshire. Now men ride to the Althing after their wont, and now both sides are at the Thing. Pee-wee said, Some engines have the sleeping sickness and they wont go at all. Nobody aint ever broke out of this jail yet, and by crikey, they wont, as long as Im the keeper! I knew that where beforetime he was wont to have forty great sails, at the least, in his ports, now he hath not past six or seven. We are wont to say, Margaret, that everything is endurable but a sense of guilt. The needlework at which women are wont to labour is nine times out of ten white work or brightly-coloured work. Verily he opened his mouth to the evangelic lore, who in the old law was wont to open the mouths of the prophets. Day after day passed, and the friends of Chios were wont to note his thoughtfulness. The savants at that time were wont to Latinize their names in their enthusiasm for the classics. Burke took refuge, as his wont was when too hard pressed, in a mighty bellow. Show More Sentences You told me that you and your father were wont to go out together in the morning. Christopher has his post still at the Censors office, and wont, Im afraid, get his demobilization for some time. Denisov, as was his wont, rode out in front of the outposts, parading his courage. From these marble memorials of the dead you turn to the galleried pew where, in life, those they commemorate were wont to worship. For in 3840 is matere men weren wont to maken questiouns of e simplicite of e purueaunce of god and of e ordre of destine. The taskmaster does not now interfere with him as he was wont to do when he first arrived. A safety razor that wont cut air will be given to the first one that discovers the boat! She closed the door, as was her wont, with a little slam and went down-stairs. Between Laleham and chertsey there is some open, rather untidy ground on which gypsies are wont to camp. It has been my wont to choose a saddle-backed feather for a dead shaft, and a swine-backed for a smooth flier. What now is thy wont in the handplay with the helm and the hauberk of rings? However, Mr. buttle has had his lesson, and I think he wont sneak around us again. One foot is well soaked, but its warm weather and I guess I wont get the epizootic. My dear old Pieface, your Church wont be any good till you get disestablishment. They wont bight nor jaw back, but they feal az raw and kold az the yelk ov an egg. The chapel which had been wont to recall Lambert most painfully to her mind was now unentered. Are you sure you wont go off after the flying frog, or something like that? And are ye in the wont of drawing up wi' a' the gangrel bodies that ye find cowering in a sand-bunker upon the links? He kept, as he was wont to phrase it gently himself, a temple of Terpsichore. We virgins of Tyre are wont to carry a quiver and to wear a buskin of purple. Show More Sentences Never mind all that, Zizi said, impatiently, it wont get us anywhere to mull over that. There was a cheery ring to Zenie's voice that had been wont to drag so dispiritedly. She sank back into the great arm-chair where Addie Tristram had been wont to sit. But Mirandy, pouring her batter into the pan, heeded him no more than was her wont. Start walking and keep it upwell be behind you and it wont be healthy if we catch up. The cattlemen wont hire me, though I kin rope and hog-tie as well as any puncher they got. For I trust my honest wife, Most honest if uncomely to the eye, Hath not with foolish chatterings wearied you, As is the wont of women. The old judgment seat stood back against the wall, and our table was the one at which the justices had been wont to sit. The force with which this element is wont to rage is common knowledge. Yes, I do hope the noise wont keep Tommy awake, said Dan concernedly. The ironmaster was sitting at the breakfast-table alone, as was his wont. Draxy was not wont to allude to the lost and irrecoverable joys. She wont be quite so daring and so unladylike if Nancy is by. Mrs. Thrale was wont to allege that she sat for the fair gambler. There wont be a light in the window because I shant be there. It was wont to be esteemed an ordinary visnomy, a quotidian merely. T wont be so lonesome for Jesse now breakin stones over to Sioux Falls. All the drivel you got in the Union wont wash in practical politics. Under his slouched hat there was a sterner face than there was wont to be. He resurrected the harmonica with which it was his wont, ashore in public-houses, to while away the time between bottles. Show More Sentences Her voice, shriller than its wont, raged at her predicament. And wont I have the hot stuff to make old Lukes eyes pop out! Well, if this is a beauty contest, I hope the judges wont be partial. Aunt Polly was tender far beyond her wont, in her good-night to Sid and Mary. Ef she squirts it on dry, an the leaves are dry, too, the eggs wont die. Dr. Mangan drove home as swiftly and capably as was his wont. We shook hands in silence, and not without the exhibition of as much emotion as Anglo-Saxons are wont to show. Then, suggested Frank, you wont mind if I experiment with the corer? But that isnt Gods will for you, Sandie, and He wont have it. It wont do, she averred, but Mr. Denby has every earmark of it. You wont want any breakfast when I get through with you, growled eldredge. A broad leather strap hanging from his shoulder supported a scrip or satchel such as travellers were wont to carry. He was not wont to miss his mark, and the giantess fled, howling. Twixt doleful songs, tears, and sad elegies, Such as old grandames, watching by the dead, Are wont to outwear the night with. They wont have to wait for the Council to verbalize a measure. You wont get out until you do as the boss wants, said Whalen. My Father, as was his wont, proceeded next to this venturous undertaking. Nordica sang after dinner, and sang charmingly, as is her wont. I wont say anything about it to any one, said Myron virtuously. Tell the claim agent there wont be salvage enough to fill a waybill. Show More Sentences Two gaolers, who had been standing there, wont out, and the prisoner was brought in, and put to the bar. In vain, according to his wont, did he again attempt to temporise. Still they played, jarringly, for that was their untutored wont. With the fibres thus builded up the members were wont to engage the police and rival social and athletic organisations in joyous combat. Believe me, sir, I ope you wont ave the thing aboard the Nancy. And yeti wonder if I wont scare mother by calling at this time of night? The duke had thrown himself, as he was wont to do in moments of dullness and vexation, on his bed. Bill was wont to boast of the ratting qualities of his dogs at home. We wont find Williston this here night, thats one thing sure. He was exposing himself in most audacious fashion, as was his wont. I cant pay her fare to Ypsilanti, but I wont refuse her a home. I wont trouble you to introduce me to any more of your friends, Gard. Landy, as was his wont, clutched the armrest of the car and said nothing. He was wont to say, aih but hes a terrible clever body yon Geordie Lockie! They are wont to forget that the world is not governed by policy and expediency. I fancy that blatherskite, Dorsett, wont sail so high tomorrow. They wont do that, and if they do, England will break the blockade. If they are at CAA Honda we wont have much trouble finding them. Anyhow, drawled the man from catch-as-catch-can, she wont go no more. Mister Wull, Jehoshaphat asked, propitiatingly, wont you be put ashore? Show More Sentences It wont do to cheapen your work by putting a small price on it. Still I think he has made a bad exchange, for Mrs. ptomaine wont last. Cook, cried Stubb, collaring him, I wont have that swearing. But though blood, as he was wont to remark while negotiating his periodical loans, is thicker than water, a brother-in-law's affection has its limits. He went into one of the saloons he had been wont to frequent and bought a drink, and then stood by the fire shivering and waiting to be ordered out. I remember an answer which when quite young I was prompted to make to a valued adviser who was wont to importune me with the dear old doctrines of the church. The prince walked in quickly and jauntily as was his wont, as if intentionally contrasting the briskness of his manners with the strict formality of his house. At midnight, in the silence, when the eyes Of happier mortals balmy slumbers close, The weary tale of my unnumbered woes To Chloris and to Heaven is wont to rise. This was the appearance of a dreadful epidemic, which, in that age and long before and afterwards, was wont to slay its hundreds and thousands on both sides of the Atlantic. The rag and tag of the street run past The Summer's here but it wont last. Winkle with a heavy clothes-brush, indulging, during the operation, in that hissing sound which hostlers are wont to produce when engaged in rubbing down a horse. Yet now he was sitting in his office, long after the last clerk had left, long after the hour at which he himself was wont to leave, his mind full of his late employee. A low ridge intervenes between the Phutra plain where the city lies, and the inland sea where the Ma-hars were wont to disport themselves in the cool waters. Captain Nichols wandered about the streets for an hour of bitter cold, and then made his way to the Place Victor Gelu, where the sailor-men are wont to congregate. Even Allie Boone, whose frocks came from Paris, was wont to look with longing eyes on that rosebud concoction as Anne trailed up the main staircase at Redmond in it. Find more words! 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