All 6 Uses of
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Far from the Madding Crowd
- In about the time a person unaccustomed to bodily labour would have decided upon which side to lie, Farmer Oak was asleep.†
Chpt 1-3 *
- Beside her Oak now noticed a little calf about a day old, looking idiotically at the two women, which showed that it had not long been accustomed to the phenomenon of eyesight, and often turning to the lantern, which it apparently mistook for the moon, inherited instinct having as yet had little time for correction by experience.†
Chpt 1-3
- Springing to her accustomed perpendicular like a bowed sapling, and satisfying herself that nobody was in sight, she seated herself in the manner demanded by the saddle, though hardly expected of the woman, and trotted off in the direction of Tewnell Mill.†
Chpt 1-3
- To the shepherd, the note of the sheep-bell, like the ticking of the clock to other people, is a chronic sound that only makes itself noticed by ceasing or altering in some unusual manner from the well-known idle twinkle which signifies to the accustomed ear, however distant, that all is well in the fold.†
Chpt 4-6
- I shan't mind it again, for they will all have grown accustomed to seeing me there; but this morning it was as bad as being married——eyes everywhere!"†
Chpt 10-12
- Having from their youth up been entirely unaccustomed to any liquor stronger than cider or mild ale, it was no wonder that they had succumbed, one and all, with extraordinary uniformity, after the lapse of about an hour.†
Chpt 34-36
Definition:
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(accustom) to make someone used to something
(used to is an expression that means someone has adapted to something, so it does not seem unusual)editor's notes: In professional environments, you may make a better impression by saying one is accustomed to something rather than one is used to something.