All 11 Uses of
accustomed
in
Oliver Twist
- 'Well, then, keep quiet,' rejoined Sikes, with a growl like that he was accustomed to use when addressing his dog, 'or I'll quiet you for a good long time to come.'†
Chpt 16
- 'Why, what does the boy mean?' exclaimed Mr. Bumble, on whom the earnest manner and wan aspect of the child had made some impression: accustomed as he was to such things.†
Chpt 17 *
- He was too well accustomed to suffering, and had suffered too much where he was, to bewail the prospect of change very severely.†
Chpt 20
- By degrees, however, as some of it cleared away through the open door, an assemblage of heads, as confused as the noises that greeted the ear, might be made out; and as the eye grew more accustomed to the scene, the spectator gradually became aware of the presence of a numerous company, male and female, crowded round a long table: at the upper end of which, sat a chairman with a hammer of office in his hand; while a professional gentleman with a bluish nose, and his face tied up for the benefit of a toothache, presided at a jingling piano in a remote corner.†
Chpt 26
- The latter gentleman, who did not appear quite so much accustomed to good society, or quite so much at his ease in it——one of the two——seated himself, after undergoing several muscular affections of the limbs, and the head of his stick into his mouth, with some embarrassment.†
Chpt 31
- The little room in which he was accustomed to sit, when busy at his books, was on the ground-floor, at the back of the house.†
Chpt 34
- There sat the hideous old man, in his accustomed corner, pointing at him, and whispering to another man, with his face averted, who sat beside him.†
Chpt 34
- At any other time, this remonstrance, and the tone in which it was delivered, would have had the desired effect; but the girl being really weak and exhausted, dropped her head over the back of the chair, and fainted, before Mr. Sikes could get out a few of the appropriate oaths with which, on similar occasions, he was accustomed to garnish his threats.†
Chpt 39
- Fagin nodded to him to take no further notice just then; and, in a few minutes, the girl subsided into her accustomed demeanour.†
Chpt 44
- It was nine o'clock at night, when the man, quite tired out, and the dog, limping and lame from the unaccustomed exercise, turned down the hill by the church of the quiet village, and plodding along the little street, crept into a small public-house, whose scanty light had guided them to the spot.†
Chpt 48
- If he shut out the sight, there came the room with every well-known object——some, indeed, that he would have forgotten, if he had gone over its contents from memory——each in its accustomed place.†
Chpt 48
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.