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  • A Wolf accustomed to moving his own cubs can, if necessary, mouth an egg without breaking it, and though Father Wolf's jaws closed right on the child's back not a tooth even scratched the skin as he laid it down among the cubs.   (source)
    accustomed to = used to (frequently doing something)
  • She was not accustomed to an outward and spoken expression of affection, either in herself or in others.   (source)
    accustomed to = used to (adapted to something, so it seems normal)
  • Thus Roger Chillingworth scrutinised his patient carefully, both as he saw him in his ordinary life, keeping an accustomed pathway in the range of thoughts familiar to him, and as he appeared when thrown amidst other moral scenery, the novelty of which might call out something new to the surface of his character.   (source)
    accustomed = usual
  • I say at once there are fewer difficulties in holding hereditary states, and those long accustomed to the family of their prince, than new ones;   (source)
    accustomed to = used to (adapted to something, so it seems normal)
  • Fifty miles feels like five hundred on a horse, particularly if your body is more accustomed to a chair than a saddle.†   (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)
  • 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 took the cigarette out momentarily and spoke in the confident voice to which I was accustomed.†   (source)
  • He seems accustomed to the heat—even in his hot uniform, he doesn't appear to sweat.†   (source)
  • But once you become accustomed to such a life you will see its full meaning and its incredible beauty.†   (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)
  • Officer Delinko wished he'd brought a thermos of coffee, because he wasn't accustomed to getting up so early.†   (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)
  • As with any sewing circle since the beginning of time, the two in this one were accustomed to sharing observations from their day as they stitched.†   (source)
  • So, for a time, I dutifully answered, walking people through the tangled web of familial relationships that I'd grown accustomed to.†   (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)
  • Neither of them smiled much—they greeted Michael and me with the bemused curiosity to which I was getting accustomed.†   (source)
  • I looked at her closely, unaccustomed to the gentle tone of her voice.†   (source)
  • If it does not seem too rude, Sister, I am not accustomed to simply walking into a house of God and taking a tour.†   (source)
  • But gradually Tally grew accustomed to the darkness, the roar of water below, the unexpected slap of cold spray against her face.†   (source)
  • The radio purrs and the woman laughs and Herr Siedler looks almost nothing, Werner decides, like his neighbors, their guarded, anxious faces—faces of people accustomed to watching loved ones disappear every morning into pits.†   (source)
  • The man Jack's eyes were accustomed to the dim moonlight, so he had no desire to turn on an electric light.†   (source)
  • I've now grown accustomed to hearing the alarms blare at all times.†   (source)
  • Newt pointed at the broken glass of the door, where the glow of sunrise had brightened into the same white brilliance they'd grown accustomed to their first couple of days out in the Scorch.†   (source)
  • While Savannah had grown accustomed to receiving compliments for its good looks, the city was thoroughly unprepared for a shockingly negative piece of news about itself that came howling out of the FBI in Washington and resounded around the world.†   (source)
  • During the last year, he had grown accustomed to the icy water.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • Accustomed to seeing stiff, mortified contestants, the audience responded with uncertain titters.†   (source)
  • "We don't know that," he repeated; but I had grown accustomed to their savage fights—they no longer frightened me.†   (source)
  • , then he bought the barracks and the land around the Kanjobal settlement, and now, with Lillian's property, he was advertising a "Key West—style cottage," for people accustomed to "a slower, more gracious time."†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • The ground was hardened by an accustomed tread and as Jack rose to his full height he heard something moving on it.†   (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)
  • He grew accustomed to the uneasy octopus that lived inside him and squirted its inky tranquilizer on his past.†   (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)
  • We—uncertain how to plead, for he is not accustomed to it.†   (source)
  • That caused quite a sensation among the villagers, who were accustomed to loose-fitting, simple peasant clothing.†   (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)
  • Right now, it can provide neither, at least at the standard the people are accustomed to," says Plutarch.†   (source)
  • I quickly became accustomed to the routine at Aunt Mary's home, as well as to my new school.†   (source)
  • But eyelids are not like elbows or knees or shoulders, parts of the body accustomed to being jostled.†   (source)
  • Back in the hood the air was kept from moving and his face grew warmer and the fact that his head was warm seemed to warm his whole body and once he became accustomed to the cold he could look around and appreciate the world around him.†   (source)
  • Kid cops, mid-twenties, confident and uninspired, accustomed to soothing worried parents of curfew-busting teens.†   (source)
  • You must become accustomed to it.†   (source)
  • As my eyes become accustomed to the twilight, I see that his face is moist, his plump cheeks wet, his forehead soaked.†   (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)
  • She looked unaccustomed to sitting down — like a constantly busy woman who resented having to stop, but whose body forced her to rest.†   (source)
  • What we're here to do is transform the way people have been accustomed to living," Sergio said.†   (source)
  • But as your mind becomes accustomed to the changes, it will be easier.†   (source)
  • I was happy, but I had become accustomed to not showing it.†   (source)
  • I could see a little after my eyes grew accustomed to the dimness.†   (source)
  • She was accustomed to the knowledge that nobody prayed for her—but this free floating repulsion was new.†   (source)
  • I also remember that he has had almost two years to accustom himself to the idea of her death.†   (source)
  • "I WILL ASK you a series of simple questions so that you can grow accustomed to the serum as it takes full effect," says Niles.†   (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)
  • I'm still trying to become accustomed to the reactions I have around him.†   (source)
  • He gave me an odd look, it took me a while to recognize it as the one I'd grown accustomed to in the troupe.†   (source)
  • In early June Lewicki came to see me unexpectedly one day, not at his accustomed time but at midday.†   (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)
  • In English, Mike took his accustomed seat by my side.†   (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)
  • Snyder's playing is polished and complete, with none of the tangled thoughts and lost threads I've become accustomed to in Nathaniel's music.†   (source)
  • Last chance to grab property, to make connections on the sort of scale the upper houses have always been accustomed to.†   (source)
  • Josh asked, looking around now that his eyes had become accustomed to the dim light.†   (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)
  • I wasn't accustomed to being trapped indoors, and my depression was bearing down on me.†   (source)
  • They've spent decades here prolonging the brief lives of the undernourished, accustomed completely to the tragedy playing out around us.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • I tried to move among the angry voices, blinking, struggling to accustom my eyes to the very dim light.†   (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)
  • Moreover, his wife has become accustomed to a luxurious way of life.†   (source)
  • I wanted to buy our freedom: to convince Lestat we wanted only to take a. 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)
  • Shifting shadows started at last to coalesce, and after a while my eyes became accustomed to the gloom, and I could see.†   (source)
  • He was accustomed to the social lives of high school football stars: the handlers, the harems, the informal advisers, the coaches.†   (source)
  • He was accustomed to the danger, though, and the years of experience would stand him in good stead now.†   (source)
  • Becoming accustomed to thistype of stage takes two to three weeks, but this entire competition only ran for two weeks.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • But she was so accustomed to his poetic excesses that she celebrated the adventure of the galleon as one of his most successful.†   (source)
  • Then our eyes grew accustomed to the dark and we could see the dark outlines of men, and their red, sweating faces by the light of their torches.†   (source)
  • And by his manner, Kynes was a proud man, accustomed to freedom, his tongue and his manner guarded only by his own suspicions.†   (source)
  • I was amazed at how Mother's mind flowed, as if she were accustomed to running two paces ahead of a flood.†   (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)
  • "She's not accustomed to children," Miss Larsen whispers to me after Miss Grund shoots an icy look down the dinner table.†   (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)
  • Shukhov had grown accustomed to it.†   (source)
  • To get him accustomed.†   (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)
  • The two are obviously accustomed to working together.†   (source)
  • People can grow accustomed to bad smells or good smells; they stop noticing what once seemed overpowering.†   (source)
  • She'd vowed to be strong for Nathan and Savannah, who had grown accustomed to Adam's trips.†   (source)
  • —to be at home with, accustomed to, brutality and indifference, and to be terrified of human affection.†   (source)
  • By 1954, Obasan, Uncle, and I have grown accustomed to the new quiet in the house.†   (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)
  • It took some time to get accustomed to the city again.†   (source)
  • I stood there for a while letting my night vision accustom itself to the dense darkness, but I couldn't just stand there for very long.†   (source)
  • She was accustomed to dealing with donors and charitable organizations by mail.†   (source)
  • On the sixth day, Sa', who had grown accustomed to staring dully only at the path ahead, happened to glance up.†   (source)
  • That morning an apple and a glass of milk were enough for him; because he touched neither coffee or tea, he was accustomed to begin the day on a cold stomach.†   (source)
  • It was odd, considering I'd gotten accustomed to her being nowhere and anywhere, to finally know where my mother was.†   (source)
  • When you get to be an octogenarian, you grow as accustomed as one can to losing friends and family.†   (source)
  • That bothered me, but not too much because I was accustomed to not getting everything I wanted.†   (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)
  • So I made myself look at it, to become accustomed to the sight.†   (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)
  • Accustomed to city lights, Clary couldn't believe how dark it was in Idris at night.†   (source)
  • They had about them a perfunctory air, like men accustomed to caring for livestock.†   (source)
  • He would plan, of course, to make himself available for chores when she required him—otherwise life could go on in its accustomed way.†   (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 even in this regiment," he noted, "there were a number of Negroes, which to persons unaccustomed to such associations had a disagreeable, degrading effect."†   (source)
  • He had grown so accustomed to linking their love life to foreign travel that his Let's go to Palermo!†   (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)
  • By now we are fully accustomed to the false public proclamations of politicians themselves.†   (source)
  • She had grown accustomed to fighting upstream for us, for so long, and now there was no battle left.†   (source)
  • Accustomed to nestling with a bedful of siblings and grannies, they fitted their privacy tighter rather than claim the haunted room as human territory.†   (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)
  • The Second Years struck twice in quick succession on a visibly frustrated Cynthia, who was an excellent goalie but unaccustomed to such sudden, speedy shots.†   (source)
  • Mahtob had diarrhea, a phenomenon of her tension to which I was becoming accustomed.†   (source)
  • It may be the lateness of the day and the long journey, or the fact that I'm growing accustomed to seeing things, but I could swear that I see a shadow move along the floor behind the doors.†   (source)
  • I was accustomed to hours of strenuous activity every day, between working construction, running, and the gym.†   (source)
  • Clapp was in the process of interviewing Lettie Lang's former employers, almost all of whom were fairly affluent white homeowners accustomed to using black domestic help.†   (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)
  • He had proved useful in the woodland, being better accustomed to thick woods than any of the others.†   (source)
  • Even the sky overhead was subtly different than the one she was accustomed to farther downtown.†   (source)
  • Jacques glared at him, tall and commanding, the kind of man who had grown accustomed to getting what he wanted.†   (source)
  • Newspaper editors, accustomed to sorting through endless battle photographs, would cast an idle glance at it, then stand fascinated.†   (source)
  • It pains me, you see, as I have grown accustomed to our time together.†   (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)
  • "Need I remind you," said Millard, "these are not the sort of bombs we're accustomed to.†   (source)
  • Sometimes she stopped with a word or two of apology about the interruption, sometimes with a fragment of news, and he was accustomed to this as a part of office life.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • Shaw was not accustomed to being told what to do.†   (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)
  • Would she never become completely accustomed to the way her body reacted when they looked at each other?†   (source)
  • My eyes weren't accustomed to the light, so I had to cover them and squint.†   (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)
  • At first I don't see much, but as we kneel beside him, my eyes get accustomed to the dim.†   (source)
  • The navy commander's wife, unaccustomed to the rich foods and the imported champagne, vomited on the ballroom floor.†   (source)
  • This meant he was accustomed to hearing helicopters.†   (source)
  • Though war in the line was much more dangerous than what they were doing now, they had become accustomed to it.†   (source)
  • The voice had the firmness, the clarity and the special courtesy peculiar to men who are accustomed to giving orders.†   (source)
  • I had grown accustomed to the way my baby kicked and pushed against my skin from the inside, especially at night.†   (source)
  • He spoke quietly, in a restrained rumble, as if he were accustomed to letting his size do the talking.†   (source)
  • Everybody here does some work; something you are probably not accustomed to.†   (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)
  • "Oh!" she says after a few minutes, and I'd gotten so accustomed to the quiet that I almost fall off the stool.†   (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)
  • He wore a white polo shirt, white pants, and white sweater, and from the awkward way the little black skullcap sat perched on his round, balding head, it was clearly apparent that he was not accustomed to wearing it with any sort of regularity.†   (source)
  • She says she is very sorry, that he must know she usually works afternoons and is not accustomed to the liquor and then the lateness of the hour.†   (source)
  • The girl turned to face me, smiling weakly, as though her triumph were not in getting me to open the door but in the fact that she was able to smile at all when she was so accustomed to crying.†   (source)
  • I. F. Stone argues that "Athenians were accustomed to hearing the gods treated disrespectfully in both the comic and tragic theatre."†   (source)
  • I was accustomed to the bright sunlight of the Southwest, where the weather permitted activity outdoors all year around.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • That's quite obvious, Mr. Martin, but I'm not accustomed to stopping murder trials because prosecuting attorneys are surprised.†   (source)
  • They were all creatures of the wild, accustomed to being hunted, and they all became still as statues.†   (source)
  • As it becomes a familiar part of their daily lives, citizens will grow accustomed to it.†   (source)
  • Nora cooked in a sort of country style; succotash wasn't something the rest of them were accustomed to.†   (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)
  • I wasn't even trying to hide my scar anymore—there was no use—but I'd grown accustomed to wearing all the ones Mom had bought me.†   (source)
  • Accustomed though I was to him, the brusque words, his short manner, dashed the welcome from my lips.†   (source)
  • Safia had clearly grown accustomed to her exalted status.†   (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 come from a people/ Who are accustomed to little/ Humble and silent.†   (source)
  • They had become inured—or accustomed, at least—to the shouts of the cadre.†   (source)
  • It was difficult to find it there, difficult for fingers accustomed to grasping the handle of a broadax to pick up an object as tiny as a needle.†   (source)
  • He was not very well accustomed to taking personal risks, to endangering his life, and his life had been the poorer for it.†   (source)
  • The Cockney children in London were restless when the bombing stopped and disturbed a pattern to which they had grown accustomed.†   (source)
  • And the letter had that awkward, semibureaucratic, semi-Messianic style she had grown accustomed to without ever liking.†   (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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