All 27 Uses of
accustomed
in
Of Human Bondage
- She took from the top of the harmonium the large Bible and the prayer-book from which the Vicar was accustomed to read prayers, and put them on Philip's chair.†
Chpt 3-4accustomed to = used to (adapted to something, so it seems normal)
- Mr. Carey was accustomed to say that he was the only man in his parish who worked seven days a week.†
Chpt 7-8
- Mrs. Carey placed in front of her the sixpenny bit she was accustomed to put in the plate, and gave Philip threepence for the same purpose.†
Chpt 7-8
- He had been accustomed to eat it himself, as it seemed blasphemous to throw it away, but Philip's keen appetite relieved him from the duty.†
Chpt 7-8
- He was accustomed to say that Papists required an epithet, they were Roman Catholic; but the Church of England was Catholic in the best, the fullest, and the noblest sense of the term.†
Chpt 7-8
- There was snow on the ground, and Aunt Louisa had allowed herself the unaccustomed luxury of a fire in her bed-room; but in Philip's little room it was so cold that his fingers were numb, and he had great difficulty in undoing his collar.†
Chpt 13-14unaccustomed = not used tostandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unaccustomed means not and reverses the meaning of accustomed. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
- Soon they grew accustomed to the two walking into chapel arm in arm or strolling round the precincts in conversation; wherever one was the other could be found also, and, as though acknowledging his proprietorship, boys who wanted Rose would leave messages with Carey.†
Chpt 17-18accustomed to = used to (adapted to something, so it seems normal)
- Now, for the sake of his German he had been accustomed on Sunday mornings to attend the Lutheran service, but when Hayward arrived he began instead to go with him to Mass.†
Chpt 27-28
- In the afternoon Philip thought he would go to the Luxembourg to see the pictures, and walking through the garden he saw Fanny Price sitting in her accustomed seat.†
Chpt 43-44
- It was silly of him to take offence at what she had said; it was doubtless his own fault; she had not meant to make herself disagreeable: he ought to be accustomed by now to making at first sight a bad impression on people.†
Chpt 55-56
- She felt more kindly disposed to Philip than ever before, and the unaccustomed tenderness in her eyes filled him with joy.†
Chpt 59-60unaccustomed = not used tostandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unaccustomed means not and reverses the meaning of accustomed. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
- He was unaccustomed to alcohol and it had gone to his head.†
Chpt 63-64unaccustomed to = not used to (not adapted to something, so it seems normal)
- He was accustomed to go to the tavern once a week; and soon Philip, Lawson, and Hayward got into the habit of meeting there every Tuesday evening: change of manners made it now little frequented, which was an advantage to persons who took pleasure in conversation.†
Chpt 67-68accustomed to = used to (adapted to something, so it seems normal)
- She was so accustomed to him now that she took no pains to keep up before him any pretences.†
Chpt 71-72
- He had become accustomed to living without his wife and missed her very little.†
Chpt 77-78
- With accustomed brilliancy Jacobs gave a graphic little discourse upon the club-foot: he spoke of its varieties and of the forms which followed upon different anatomical conditions.†
Chpt 83-84
- Sally listened to all this with a slight, slow smile, not much embarrassed, for she was accustomed to her father's outbursts, but with an easy modesty which was very attractive.†
Chpt 87-88
- He warned Philip that he could not make his foot like the other, but he thought he could do a good deal; and though he would always limp he would be able to wear a boot less unsightly than that which he had been accustomed to.†
Chpt 93-94
- When they had dined Philip sat in his arm-chair by the fire, smoking his pipe; and the unaccustomed wine had made him forget for a while the anxiety about money which was so constantly with him.†
Chpt 95-96 *unaccustomed = not used tostandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unaccustomed means not and reverses the meaning of accustomed. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
- She had been used to his subservience: he was only too glad to do anything for her in the old days, she was accustomed to see him cast down by a cross word and in ecstasy at a kind one; he was different now, and she said to herself that he had not improved in the last year.†
Chpt 95-96accustomed to = used to (adapted to something, so it seems normal)
- Philip was put on the job regularly, but he could not accustom himself to the publicity; and he dreaded Friday morning, on which the window was dressed, with a terror that made him awake at five o'clock and lie sleepless with sickness in his heart.†
Chpt 105-106accustom = to make someone used to something
- She was a large woman, with flaxen hair, and a boldly painted face, a metallic voice, and the breezy manner of a comedienne accustomed to be on friendly terms with the gallery boys of provincial music-halls.†
Chpt 107-108accustomed to = used to (adapted to something, so it seems normal)
- In these matters a periphrase was demanded by the decorum of life, but, as he asked another question instead, it flashed through him that the doctor must be accustomed to the impatience of a sick man's relatives.†
Chpt 107-108
- There was a little table by the side of Mr. Carey's chair, and on it were a Bible and the large volume of the Common Prayer from which for so many years he had been accustomed to read to his household.†
Chpt 107-108
- Growing more accustomed to his work it tired him less, and his mind, recovering from its long stagnation, sought for fresh activity.†
Chpt 107-108
- It was a story that Philip was not unaccustomed to: the husband had been a soldier in India; the legislation forced upon that country by the prudery of the English public had given a free run to the most distressing of all diseases; the innocent suffered.†
Chpt 113-114unaccustomed to = not used to (not adapted to something, so it seems normal)
- It was Mrs. Athelny's native village, and she had been accustomed from her childhood to pick in the hop-field to which with her husband and her children she still went every year.†
Chpt 117-118accustomed = used to (adapted to something, so it seems normal)
Definition:
to make someone used to something
(used to is an expression that means someone has adapted to something, so it does not seem unusual)
(used to is an expression that means someone has adapted to something, so it does not seem unusual)
In professional environments, you may make a better impression by saying one is accustomed to something rather than one is used to something.