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  • My ears, accustomed to the silence of the peak, felt battered by them.†   (source)
  • Tate was accustomed to Kya being guarded, but her behavior seemed more distant and stranger than ever.†   (source)
  • Besides, she was accustomed to its burden.†   (source)
  • It was a larger group than I'd been accustomed to hanging out with, and a more diverse crowd.†   (source)
  • He took the cigarette out momentarily and spoke in the confident voice to which I was accustomed.†   (source)
  • Our ears became accustomed to the whistle of falling shells, to the rumble of gunfire, our eyes familiar with the sight of men digging bodies out of piles of rubble.†   (source)
  • He seems accustomed to the heat—even in his hot uniform, he doesn't appear to sweat.†   (source)
  • Having lived in Montana, they were accustomed to dealing with flats.†   (source)
  • For a Depression-era teenager accustomed to breakfasting on stale bread and milk, and who had eaten in a restaurant only twice in his life, the Manhattan was paradise.†   (source)
  • Walt is accustomed to calling the shots.†   (source)
  • Flora Baumbach appeared even smaller and rounder than she was as she sat twisting her napkin with hands accustomed to being busy.†   (source)
  • There was little I could do in a dress, and as for shoes, they imprisoned freedom-loving feet accustomed to the feel of the warm earth.†   (source)
  • They had seen continuous change and were accustomed to it, but here it seemed shocking and sad.†   (source)
  • Things settled back into their accustomed, monotonous order.†   (source)
  • Unaccustomed to seeing so many of our fellow countrymen in one place, my parents started mingling feverishly, discovering friends of friends and long-forgotten colleagues.†   (source)
  • After all, the Count was not accustomed to losing at cards.†   (source)
  • I spend more time with mortals than most gods and have grown accustomed to their sounds.†   (source)
  • By then I'd grown accustomed to the sometimes random nature of Marine Corps assignments.†   (source)
  • Lotte had become accustomed to visiting the family business once a day to make sure everything was in order.†   (source)
  • It had taken a while, but Wes was finally getting accustomed to the long route, the new school, and the new environment.†   (source)
  • As a stopgap measure, while he searched for a female, Father thought of seeing if Peak couldn't be accustomed to living with goats.†   (source)
  • I looked at her closely, unaccustomed to the gentle tone of her voice.†   (source)
  • He had grown accustomed to dealing with surprises.†   (source)
  • But gradually Tally grew accustomed to the darkness, the roar of water below, the unexpected slap of cold spray against her face.†   (source)
  • Neither of them smiled much—they greeted Michael and me with the bemused curiosity to which I was getting accustomed.†   (source)
  • Nobody could quite believe their ears until she looked directly at Harry and Ron and said grimly, 'I've become accustomed to seeing the Quidditch Cup in my study, boys, and I really don't want to have to hand it over to Professor Snape, so use the extra time to practise, won't you?'†   (source)
  • The man Jack's eyes were accustomed to the dim moonlight, so he had no desire to turn on an electric light.†   (source)
  • Thomas finally grew accustomed to the light and opened his eyes fully.†   (source)
  • During the last year, he had grown accustomed to the icy water.†   (source)
  • Accustomed to seeing stiff, mortified contestants, the audience responded with uncertain titters.†   (source)
  • The Ryans were not accustomed to having opposition at election time.†   (source)
  • And you won't believe this, but if you listen to any kind of music long enough, first you get accustomed to it and then you learn to like it.†   (source)
  • He stared as his vision grew accustomed to the darkness.†   (source)
  • That caused quite a sensation among the villagers, who were accustomed to loose-fitting, simple peasant clothing.†   (source)
  • After a year of slavery in the Salt Mines of Endovier, Celaena Sardothien was accustomed to being escorted everywhere in shackles and at sword-point.†   (source)
  • I was happy, but I had become accustomed to not showing it.†   (source)
  • I have grown accustomed to the extraordinary.†   (source)
  • You have to accustom yourself to thinking that way.†   (source)
  • Thinking about that for a moment, he realized that it could be the other way around: that it was he who had become accustomed totheir schedule.†   (source)
  • But her facial muscles weren't accustomed to being used in this way, and the soldiers thought they had never seen her look more fierce.†   (source)
  • I've now grown accustomed to hearing the alarms blare at all times.†   (source)
  • We are a nation at war, we have been for nearly a century, and we are not unaccustomed to obstacles in the path to victory.†   (source)
  • I'm accustomed to getting up before the sun rises; he pulls me back to bed.†   (source)
  • Reunification was unique in the fact that it focused on getting my feet on the ground, and during the reunification work we focused on reconnecting me to different facets of my family and dealt with the everyday practical things that I had not been accustomed to such as getting the kids their shots and overall checkups, which we never had the opportunity to do before.†   (source)
  • As the others took their accustomed seats, it struck Eddard Stark forcefully that he did not belong here, in this room, with these men.†   (source)
  • He had not grown accustomed to killing in spite of how much of it he had done.†   (source)
  • The ground was hardened by an accustomed tread and as Jack rose to his full height he heard something moving on it.†   (source)
  • I could see a little after my eyes grew accustomed to the dimness.†   (source)
  • We—uncertain how to plead, for he is not accustomed to it.†   (source)
  • "I speak of none but the computer that is to come after me," intoned Deep Thought, his voice regaining its accustomed declamatory tones.†   (source)
  • Accustomed as I was to jolting around in the backs of taxis, the smoothness and chill of the ride was sealed off, eerie: brown sand, vicious glare, trance and silence, blown trash whipping at the chain-link fence.†   (source)
  • Mr. Poe always seemed to have a cold and the Baudelaire orphans were accustomed to receiving information from him between bouts of hacking and wheezing.†   (source)
  • Right now, it can provide neither, at least at the standard the people are accustomed to," says Plutarch.†   (source)
  • We are accustomed to whining about how small our allowances are, or how upset we are because we only have three pairs of athletic shoes, when there are so many around us who have no money, no homes, and no shoes at all.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Massey had been discreetly taken away the day before and was even then winging her way back to New York — in the shipping hold instead of the first class she'd been accustomed to.†   (source)
  • I quickly became accustomed to the routine at Aunt Mary's home, as well as to my new school.†   (source)
  • The stares and name-calling hurt, but I was growing accustomed to coping with it.†   (source)
  • You must become accustomed to it.†   (source)
  • Taya was bothered by this, because she felt he wasn't accustomed to me or my tone and it was too much to ask a two-year-old to look me in the eye in that situation.†   (source)
  • They've spent decades here prolonging the brief lives of the undernourished, accustomed completely to the tragedy playing out around us.†   (source)
  • She was now accustomed to telling lies without feeling guilty.†   (source)
  • I also remember that he has had almost two years to accustom himself to the idea of her death.†   (source)
  • In English, Mike took his accustomed seat by my side.†   (source)
  • He was accustomed to the social lives of high school football stars: the handlers, the harems, the informal advisers, the coaches.†   (source)
  • That level of storm can be unnerving, but when it goes on for as long as this one, you become accustomed to its fury.†   (source)
  • On one level this was natural and something to which Ned had become accustomed, for both women were great beauties, Gertie slim and dark, Julia tall and felicitously proportioned.†   (source)
  • Mae followed Terry through the building, which was more of an engineer's lair than the parts of campus she'd become accustomed to visiting.†   (source)
  • And Amy, who had become accustomed to his moods, didn't press the matter further.†   (source)
  • She was accustomed to the knowledge that nobody prayed for her——but this free floating repulsion was new.†   (source)
  • People were not yet accustomed to waiting in line and getting their own food.†   (source)
  • But eyelids are not like elbows or knees or shoulders, parts of the body accustomed to being jostled.†   (source)
  • What we're here to do is transform the way people have been accustomed to living," Sergio said.†   (source)
  • To get him accustomed.†   (source)
  • She looked unaccustomed to sitting down — like a constantly busy woman who resented having to stop, but whose body forced her to rest.†   (source)
  • It took the twins awhile for their eyes to grow accustomed to the dark.†   (source)
  • Josh asked, looking around now that his eyes had become accustomed to the dim light.†   (source)
  • I have in the past been accustomed to addressing under-servants by their Christian names and saw no reason to do otherwise in this house.†   (source)
  • Having grown accustomed to two boys who rumble their way down any staircase, fearing no danger, this is a new experience for Jai and me.†   (source)
  • In early June Lewicki came to see me unexpectedly one day, not at his accustomed time but at midday.†   (source)
  • But as your mind becomes accustomed to the changes, it will be easier.†   (source)
  • Shifting shadows started at last to coalesce, and after a while my eyes became accustomed to the gloom, and I could see.†   (source)
  • As my eyes grew more accustomed to the dark, the fires of Trebon seemed to grow brighter.†   (source)
  • I'm so accustomed to this kind of rambling that I barely notice the jumble.†   (source)
  • She is not, after all, accustomed to pain," he says.†   (source)
  • Kid cops, mid-twenties, confident and uninspired, accustomed to soothing worried parents of curfew-busting teens.†   (source)
  • But she was so accustomed to his poetic excesses that she celebrated the adventure of the galleon as one of his most successful.†   (source)
  • It was a royal voice, accustomed to command.†   (source)
  • We're really accustomed to making mileage.†   (source)
  • I finally got around to replacing the ripped porch screen, and Marley, by now quite accustomed to his self-made doggie door, promptly dove through it again.†   (source)
  • Moreover, his wife has become accustomed to a luxurious way of life.†   (source)
  • On Mykonos he had preferred the outskirts of the migrant camps, and he had grown accustomed to a degree of independence from their fellow refugees.†   (source)
  • Now, in the small room, they gathered again, Patria, Noris, Mama, even Jaimito, though he hung back sheepishly, unaccustomed to being on his knees.†   (source)
  • The two are obviously accustomed to working together.†   (source)
  • Shukhov had grown accustomed to it.†   (source)
  • He rubbed a hand over his jaw, a calculating gesture I'd grown accustomed to in only a few short days of knowing him.†   (source)
  • Dewey had become accustomed to this brand of abuse; it was a routine part of his existence.†   (source)
  • Mahtob had diarrhea, a phenomenon of her tension to which I was becoming accustomed.†   (source)
  • "It's just that I'm terribly accustomed to your dramatics.†   (source)
  • On the sixth day, Sa', who had grown accustomed to staring dully only at the path ahead, happened to glance up.†   (source)
  • Milo and Tock stood blinking in the bright light and, as their eyes became accustomed to it, the first things they saw were the king's advisers again rushing toward them.†   (source)
  • We were already accustomed to rumors of this kind.†   (source)
  • She could see the traces of the elite athlete he once had been, noting the graceful, fluid way he moved and the easy way he smiled, as if long accustomed to both victory and defeat.†   (source)
  • I been accustomed of late to just let things alone when they appear in the fog, sit still and not try to hang on.†   (source)
  • But as she got older and accustomed to the liberty she had as a woman at ACS—where she could coach and play sports as she pleased—she began to feel at odds with the Jordanian society in which she had grown up.†   (source)
  • I am not accustomed to be kept waiting.'†   (source)
  • Patrons of the Lakeview Branch had gotten accustomed to him doing everything from finding that obscure book on Catherine the Great to fixing the library computers when they crashed.†   (source)
  • That bothered me, but not too much because I was accustomed to not getting everything I wanted.†   (source)
  • They had about them a perfunctory air, like men accustomed to caring for livestock.†   (source)
  • When you get to be an octogenarian, you grow as accustomed as one can to losing friends and family.†   (source)
  • By now we are fully accustomed to the false public proclamations of politicians themselves.†   (source)
  • Sewell might describe women as "weak and delicate [and] accustomed to no toil or trial" but they still managed to flee "with their arms full of treasures rescued from their doomed homes, and some even shouldered valises and trunks with the strength of strong men, and bore and dragged them through the crowd."†   (source)
  • I was accustomed to hours of strenuous activity every day, between working construction, running, and the gym.†   (source)
  • Both men were accustomed to big ones, and the food was surprisingly good.†   (source)
  • Though accustomed to his silences, none of the men could remember him being that silent.†   (source)
  • Anybody accustomed to dilapidated African hospitals would be astonished, for it gleams in the afternoon sun and has the hygiene and efficiency of a Western hospital.†   (source)
  • I wasn't accustomed to being trapped indoors, and my depression was bearing down on me.†   (source)
  • I find it is harder for them to grow accustomed to the Spence way of life.†   (source)
  • I had become accustomed to the many seniors who'd come into our classes to practice their Senior Boards presentations in front of us.†   (source)
  • He was six-two, one-ninety, with thick dark hair, a lean tanned face, and the calm gaze of someone accustomed to killing other people.†   (source)
  • She'd vowed to be strong for Nathan and Savannah, who had grown accustomed to Adam's trips.†   (source)
  • But for me, the gifts were part of the Chinese tradition I was accustomed to.†   (source)
  • Korphe's women, accustomed by now to the infidel among them, stood at the edge of the firelight, their faces glowing, as they clapped and sang along with their men.†   (source)
  • It could take years, but Oscar was accustomed to that.†   (source)
  • I'm still trying to become accustomed to the reactions I have around him.†   (source)
  • Newspaper editors, accustomed to sorting through endless battle photographs, would cast an idle glance at it, then stand fascinated.†   (source)
  • So I made myself look at it, to become accustomed to the sight.†   (source)
  • "I come from a people/ Who are accustomed to little/ Humble and silent."†   (source)
  • I'm accustomed to his brash overconfidence.†   (source)
  • Then the darkness that I'd become so accustomed to gave way to a faint, flickering light.†   (source)
  • It would be wise if you accustomed yourselves to stepping in and out, here where there is a landing-place, before you set off downstream.†   (source)
  • By 1954, Obasan, Uncle, and I have grown accustomed to the new quiet in the house.†   (source)
  • trip together and that he could remain in the style to which he was accustomed; he would have his own money and need come to me for nothing.†   (source)
  • The count decorated it according to his personal taste, with a decadent, ambiguous refinement that startled Blanca, accustomed as she was to country life and her father's classical sobriety.†   (source)
  • I even grew more accustomed to writing Snow Flower about my husband and our intimate moments.†   (source)
  • As the day passes, he feels edgy and watchful, detecting some extra bile in the comments and stares to which he's grown accustomed.†   (source)
  • As my eyes grew accustomed to the darkness, I saw that Mrs. Pritchard was seated in one of the chairs staring at me.†   (source)
  • It pains me, you see, as I have grown accustomed to our time together.†   (source)
  • "Need I remind you," said Millard, "these are not the sort of bombs we're accustomed to.†   (source)
  • They seemed accustomed to the devil's beating on the roof.†   (source)
  • Unaccustomed to such a response, he was somewhat taken aback.†   (source)
  • She was accustomed to dealing with donors and charitable organizations by mail.†   (source)
  • Accustomed to city lights, Clary couldn't believe how dark it was in Idris at night.†   (source)
  • He would never grow accustomed to pupil-less eyes.†   (source)
  • I had grown accustomed to people staring at Danny, at his beard and side curls.†   (source)
  • He had grown accustomed to carrying a gun and this saddened him.†   (source)
  • This contact with people of less resources than I was accustomed to opened my eyes and made me re-evaluate everything I had.†   (source)
  • Last chance to grab property, to make connections on the sort of scale the upper houses have always been accustomed to.†   (source)
  • My part in the eviction was kept very much alive, and although I was under orders to make no speeches, I had grown accustomed to being introduced as a kind of hero.†   (source)
  • It was an army of men accustomed to hard work, hard work being the common lot.†   (source)
  • Even the sky overhead was subtly different than the one she was accustomed to farther downtown.†   (source)
  • She had grown accustomed to fighting upstream for us, for so long, and now there was no battle left.†   (source)
  • These are the shapes which now inhabit you, she told herself, and to whose points and lines and angles you must become accustomed.†   (source)
  • Had she simply grown too accustomed to Jorge's absence?†   (source)
  • This meant he was accustomed to hearing helicopters.†   (source)
  • It was a hard face, a face accustomed to work.†   (source)
  • .... I am not accustomed to being questioned in such manner and .... Don't keep repeating it.†   (source)
  • At first I don't see much, but as we kneel beside him, my eyes get accustomed to the dim.†   (source)
  • Everybody here does some work; something you are probably not accustomed to.†   (source)
  • She'd need time, he thought, time and more finesse than he was accustomed to employing.†   (source)
  • They had become inured—or accustomed, at least—to the shouts of the cadre.†   (source)
  • My eyes weren't accustomed to the light, so I had to cover them and squint.†   (source)
  • Shaw was not accustomed to being told what to do.†   (source)
  • I was unaccustomed to this scope of attention.†   (source)
  • They were all creatures of the wild, accustomed to being hunted, and they all became still as statues.†   (source)
  • Under other circumstances, I might judge you to be a laborer, accustomed to carrying heavy objects, or a fisherman, conditioned by hauling in nets all day long.†   (source)
  • She was accustomed to the scratchy feel of the tow-linen shirt she wore.†   (source)
  • Nora cooked in a sort of country style; succotash wasn't something the rest of them were accustomed to.†   (source)
  • That constantly saying what one doesn't mean accustoms the mouth to meaningless phrases.†   (source)
  • Though it took a special act of legislation to allow Justinian to marry one of such lowly stature, Theodora proved herself a worthy empress, commissioning two royal spies to sneak into China and steal silkworms so that she could drape herself in the manner in which she felt she could become accustomed.†   (source)
  • As it becomes a familiar part of their daily lives, citizens will grow accustomed to it.†   (source)
  • Booth is a man accustomed to the finest things in life, and his miserable existence in the swamp has him longing for the tender flesh of Lucy Hale, a bottle of whiskey, a plate of oysters, and a warm bed.†   (source)
  • She was an outwardly calm girl, but packed with an inner fire and spirit that Wulfgar had been unaccustomed to in a woman.†   (source)
  • I. F. Stone argues that "Athenians were accustomed to hearing the gods treated disrespectfully in both the comic and tragic theatre."†   (source)
  • "That's quite obvious, Mr. Martin, but I'm not accustomed to stopping murder trials because prosecuting attorneys are surprised.†   (source)
  • Dr. Mansour would explain these interventions of his by saying "I always pass on my experience to my children," and it was in exactly the same fatherly spirit that Dr. Mansour was accustomed to destroy the hopes of the students whose theses he was supervising.†   (source)
  • After a hundred years of fighting for survival and leading my coven to The Shade, I'd grown accustomed to being revered and followed.†   (source)
  • Safia had clearly grown accustomed to her exalted status.†   (source)
  • Maybe that wasn't fair, but my brain wasn't all that accustomed to fairness around that time.†   (source)
  • I was accustomed to seeing the sky and the stars and moon.†   (source)
  • He was taller, yes, but also he knew that his walk was different, more like a Red man, unaccustomed to the feel of a White man's road beneath his feet, wishing for the greenwood song, which was near extinguished in these parts.†   (source)
  • Although I had been living a hard life working at the veneer mill, my body had grown accustomed to many comforts; the time had come to get ready for the hundreds of walking miles ahead to the Gulf of Mexico.†   (source)
  • I've lost my cunning, having grown accustomed to food, you see.†   (source)
  • Keetah's great-great-grandmother had hung the ring at the head of her bed and when she had returned to the house to check it, and found the kelp ring flabby, she had come to this spot to watch for the returning canoes, to see if her husband was in his accustomed place.†   (source)
  • The world looked blurred through the window and I waited for my eyes to accustom themselves to sunlight.†   (source)
  • We are accustomed to Science.†   (source)
  • Indeed, I had been accustomed to wincing when a female said "damn."†   (source)
  • ANNIE [EVENLY]: Yes, but I'm not accustomed to it.†   (source)
  • The Cockney children in London were restless when the bombing stopped and disturbed a pattern to which they had grown accustomed.†   (source)
  • As his eyes accustomed themselves to the dimness, Blue Elk remembered his own boyhood and his grandmother's lodge.†   (source)
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