How To Use Accustomed to In A Sentence

Matters went on pretty well with us until my master was seized with a severe fit of illness, in consequence of which his literary scheme was completely defeated, and his condition in life materially injured; of course, the glad tones of encouragement which I had been accustomed to hear were changed into expressions of condolence, and sometimes assurances of unabated friendship; but then it must be remembered that I, the handsomest blue coat, was _still in good condition_, and it will perhaps appear, that if I were not my master's The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 262, July 7, 1827
Galbanum is also a apparent, though more coumarin-like than the sharp green I am accustomed to find in this interesting resinoid. Villoresi's Vetiver
Both bird and beast are accustomed to noises in the air. Times, Sunday Times
Unlike most men I was accustomed to about me, he was smooth-shaven. Chapter 13
And in the long term, as the mobile industry gets more accustomed to the idea of upgradeable phone software, more and more devices will be upgraded. EWeek - RSS Feed

The army's Quartermaster Corps, unaccustomed to providing for the needs of a wartime force, had disbursed flimsy, floorless tents; as a result, Grant and the rest of the four - thousand - man force slept in the cold mud, protected from the elements by thin woolen blankets. 'The Training Ground: Grant, Lee, Sherman, and Davis in the Mexican War, 1846-1848'
Max Bedacht was not the kind of frowsy, self-assertive Communist most Congressmen were accustomed to encountering. On being called a bigot and/or racist
Ever the courtier alert to the slightest imperfections in his outward mien, the Earl is accustomed to checking his physical appearance in the glass.
To grow accustomed to humans in dire need is to become something less than human. Christianity Today
Besides, a later age is accustomed to having actors vary their birth name somewhat.
Belliard's October success hasn't surprised manager Tony La Russa, who said his second baseman is accustomed to playing in pressure situations because he does so every winter in the Dominican Republic. Belliard plays up to Cards' expectations
Remember, he is more accustomed to interviews with fawning, gushy, fans, rather than with more hard-nosed journalists.
The Dynamo was accustomed to puffing his way through 40 unfiltered cigarettes a day, mainly in his office or his car, both now out of bounds.
Over the years I'd become accustomed to Molly and her tangential thinking. THE MANANA MAN
By reason of which infirmity he was not able so distinctly and clearly to discern the points and blots of the dice as formerly he had been accustomed to do; whence it might very well have happened, said he, as old dim-sighted Isaac took Jacob for Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
Now the silence settled over the garden was thick and heavy, a stark contrast to the chirping and tweeting he was so accustomed to.
The chiefs left the ship displeased at what they called stingy conduct in the captain, as they were accustomed to receive trifling presents from the traders on the coast. Adventures of the first settlers on the Oregon or Columbia River
Living and working in London you become accustomed to freaks, weirdos and nutters wandering about doing their own thing and occasionally dragging normal people into random conversations.
People have grown accustomed to political shenanigans to the point where it's considered a form of entertainment.
The mitraille vanished in shapelessness; the bombs plunged into it; bullets only succeeded in making holes in it; what was the use of cannonading chaos? and the regiments, accustomed to the fiercest visions of war, gazed with uneasy eyes on that species of redoubt, a wild beast in its boar-like bristling and a mountain by its enormous size. Les Miserables
He had, however, not become accustomed to being 'gentled' instead of 'busted.' Roosevelt in the Bad Lands
Therefore, litterbugs and those accustomed to spitting on the pavement no longer dare to give free rein to their impulses or else they'd better take along with them a waste-paper basket or a cuspidor whenever they opt for a stroll.
Both flute parts are included on each flutist's copy - very helpful to young flutists who may not be accustomed to the individual responsibilities of chamber music.
He had been raised by humans since birth, so he wasn't trained in basic chimpanzee survival skills or accustomed to the wilds of Oklahoma, where water moccasins and copperheads abounded.
The ship bobbed on the waves, without any of the sudden heaving that it had been accustomed to so far into the trip.
My makeup had taken Claire the longest because she was not accustomed to working on someone with such pale skin, and kept overestimating the colours.
Presumably the fact that Scots are accustomed to wild weather helps.
Humans, she demurs, are not accustomed to such ‘rapid changes,’ as she terminates the relationship.
If the speech he is making is one that he is accustomed to make over and over again, he may be almost unconscious of what he is saying, as one is when one utters the responses in church.
They get accustomed to humdrum research and will create more when the current assignment runs dry.
Brahma Chellaney of the Center for Policy Research believes Indians have become accustomed to terrorism.
She is slowly becoming accustomed to the public scrutiny. Times, Sunday Times
That's him, sir," said Jimmy, long accustomed to Arnold Morgan's encyclopedic memory. BARRACUDA 945
She had become accustomed to retsina but she really preferred raki, the homemade firewater of mountain villages. THE QUEST FOR K
So might a concert pianist, accustomed to performing on a Steinway grand, have been shocked when they wheeled in an old joanna from a neighbourhood pub.
It deals with two women who reject their suitors because they've decided they want to marry men who are more fashionable, affected and accustomed to courtly manners.
Amy had not been accustomed to hearing herself spoken of as a "person," and the word angered her. Reels and Spindles A Story of Mill Life
I am accustomed to a political argument that cuts to the core.
But, being unaccustomed to existence as a dragon, by the time the lambent flame burst from his cavernous mouth, Natieasdo had disappeared, taking Lationae with him.
We are well accustomed to the routine. Times, Sunday Times
unaccustomed to wearing suits
The weather presented a particular challenge, especially for American servicemen unaccustomed to subarctic conditions.
Accustomed to riding a spirited Nicaean stallion, he was now trying to adjust to a small grey donkey. The Falcons of Montabard
Heavy rains extended south to the Illawarra escarpment west of Wollongong, an area accustomed to drenchings from east coast lows.
Despite the huge vexation it certainly causes, many of us have become so accustomed to it that we look upon it as a ‘normal’ phenomenon or something laughable.
Tim wound steadfastly, back hunched over the reel, unaccustomed to the strange combination of muscles and effort.
One unaccustomed to the use of bonga and chewing it for the first time, usually experiences a most disagreeable combination of symptoms; constriction of the oesophagus, a sensation of heat in the head and face, the latter becoming red and congested; at the same time dizziness and precordial distress are experienced. The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines
His eyes became accustomed to the darkness, he saw veils of moving smoke, lighter shapes that suggested vast nudities, then rows of bent heads with blurred outlines. Death in Ecstasy
He's disaccustomed to travelling by t 'railway, an' he'll be sure to want his rale mistress an 'his friend Learoyd, so ye'll make allowance for his feelings at fost.' Soldiers Three
When she had been a little accustomed to me, she would not part with me; I have been so happy as to make myself useful to her and her children; and in acquitting myself as far as I could of my debt of gratitude, I have found the best and only defence against that regret and anguish which devoured me. The Old Manor House
Incidentally, I've become accustomed to being regarded with withering nonplussitude, so the seductive smile of the woman with the "celebutard" sunglasses and the giant soda was a pleasant surprise: Grappling With Change: A Farewell to Summer and a Return to Arms
Unlike Turner, who's accustomed to publicly displaying his developing work, Isaac has previously kept her dances under wraps.
I had grown accustomed to hearing about disasters and fighting in the sub continent.
The moat had always been one of the glories of Castlemere, a smooth ring of water on which swans were accustomed to float. THE HARDIE INHERITANCE
Since men from feudalistic societies tended to be unaccustomed to using their own initiative and there were political objections to giving them too much liberty, the success of these experiments varied considerably.
He that had been accustomed to curse and swear for many years, now swore no more. Christianity Today
We were well accustomed to the noises of our strange new world that summer. The Times Literary Supplement
The great increase of games and festivals and their enormous cost were signs of approaching trouble for the republic, and foretold the terrible days of the empire, when the rabblement of the capital, accustomed to be amused and fed by their despotic and corrupt rulers, should cry in the streets: "Give us bread for nothing and games forever! The Story of Rome from the Earliest Times to the End of the Republic
Accustomed to advanced students, Marina Derryberry feared that his lessons might be glorified baby-sitting.
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Simon said he has grown accustomed to regularly hearing what sounds like a raging party downstairs - usually after midnight.
They also stated that they could not settle in towns; they had always been accustomed to live in the jungles and commit dacoities upon the people of the towns as a kind of _shikar_ The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II
Where were the sforzandoes and allargandos I was accustomed to?
The trot of the dromedary is a pace terribly disagreeable to the rider, until he becomes a little accustomed to it; but after the first half-hour I so far schooled myself to this new exercise, that Eothen
We queried whether the doctor became hungry on the second day, but he assured us that he's long since become accustomed to no-food days.
The US admiral's impulsive behaviour reflected the mood of a navy which had grown accustomed to overwhelming superiority. Nemesis: The Battle for Japan, 194445
We are not now accustomed to associate democracy with such overt expressions of class hostility and social conflict.
I am accustomed to a spare diet.
Most travel companies are accustomed to haggling over prices with each other.
Svenson was not normally given to such arrogant posturing, but he felt sure that the two were not men of violence — that indeed, they were educated and accustomed to clean cuffs and uncalloused hands … rather like himself, actually. The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters
The middle-aged may want to preserve an order they are accustomed to, or perhaps their careers.
We were well accustomed to the noises of our strange new world that summer. The Times Literary Supplement
She's become accustomed to the sound of fire engines and the sight of soldiers in fatigues searching vehicles.
It was a farm called L'Ormage that the King had fixed upon; and the court, accustomed to his ways, followed the many roads of the park, while the King slowly followed an isolated path, having at his side the grand ecuyer and four persons whom he had signed to approach him. The French Immortals Series — Complete
However, many people who are unaccustomed to green tea find its vegetal flavor difficult to drink.
But 30-odd years in the notoriously fickle fashion industry have left him well accustomed to setbacks of the sort he experienced yesterday. Times, Sunday Times
He knows the road; his sturdy horse is accustomed to the hills; he takes one for three francs an hour -- about half what is charged at Saratoga or Sharon or Richfield; he expects a few cents as pourboire, that is all. Manners and Social Usages
More accustomed to chasing William from nightclub to nightclub, the British press remained unaware for weeks of these taxpayer-funded joyrides. William and Kate
He is a boisterous, garrulous man eager to debate issues but clearly unaccustomed to being challenged by a woman.
Many international counselors are accustomed to the fresh, unprocessed foods that are the norm in many countries.
Here in Southern California we're accustomed to summer westerlies and northwesterlies that kick in about noon and may work up to about 20 knots.
Once one is accustomed to such a splendid palace it no longer dazzles.
But for travelers accustomed to the bells and whistles of a big ship, a week at sea with little more than card games and some old DVDs for entertainment can make even the cushiest yacht feel like a dinghy. Cruise Ships Out; Yachts In
Had she understood the real meaning of "Bourdon," she would have bitten off her tongue before she would have once called Boden by such an appellation; though the bee-hunter himself was so accustomed to his Canadian nickname as to care nothing at all about it. Oak Openings
As to the seals and morses, accustomed to live in a hard climate, they remained on these icy shores. Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Virginians are accustomed to counteract with a mint julep, and such as cloudy heads iind conf'emal to corritation; that the Sa pecanoe boys, the Ohio militia, the Michi - iran raccoon catchers and a band of music, were all disembogued upon the opposite shore. The wars of the gulls; : an historical romance in three chapters; chap. I, Shewing how and why and with whom the gulls went to war: chap. II, Shewing how the gulls make the deep to boil like a pot: chap. III, Shewing how a certain doughty general of the g
In spite of Corfu, he looked very ill to-day, and Isabel wondered whether he were really worse or whether she was simply disaccustomed to living with an invalid. Chapter XXXIII
Most people aren't accustomed to thinking of their lawns as part of the environment.
As gatekeepers, general practitioners are accustomed to husbanding the scarce resources of the NHS, and this might look like a logical extension of their role.
Charlie, who was unaccustomed to medical facilities of any kind, wrinkled her nose at the antiseptic appearance of the room.
The Pistons clearly are a shaken team unaccustomed to taking two sound beatings in a series.
Airline pilots are well accustomed to overriding mechanisms of this sort.
Food had been served to them earlier by an orderly grown accustomed to glacial silences, split only by the odd cracking of a wooden chair. THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
It was a huge sum of money for connections more accustomed to competing at the nation's less salubrious tracks, yet they would not be moved. Times, Sunday Times
I wonder how the cold weather will hamper players accustomed to intense heat. Times, Sunday Times
We have grown accustomed to the public squabbling between millionaire football club managers.
He fidgets in his chair like a man unaccustomed to sitting still, crossing and uncrossing his legs, slipping his socked feet underneath him.
Be careful if you are not accustomed to Japanese horseradish paste, known as wasabi, with its warm and unique sensation that permeates up to the inner part of your nose.
We are accustomed to English players being in the minority. Times, Sunday Times
With my courtliest bow, in my best French, I made my compliments to her as if I had been accustomed to entering rooms in no other fashion. The Rose of Old St. Louis
As an actor he was accustomed to declaim the lines written for him fluently, but seemed to be having trouble in expressing his own thoughts. THE HARDIE INHERITANCE
It was obvious that not all these people were lying: a man accustomed to weighing evidence is quick at detecting a lie. The Catalans
But many who took refuge at Paris became accustomed to a Gallican atmosphere, and hence perhaps some of the regalist views about the Oath of The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
Migrants from other islands working for the mining operation or smaller businesses are people who have been accustomed to working hours.
As Americans, we were accustomed to an abundance of food and other goods as a part of our lives, and I think the most obvious adjustment to the war took place in our kitchen and dining room.
If you are accustomed to working with microcomputers, you may feel that microcontrollers are tight spots.
We've become accustomed to that and we operate better when we put pressure on ourselves.
Two of the squad, perhaps more accustomed to the city environment than jogging about in the sticks, got a little freaked out by the clusters of trees, and were separated from the main party.
Not only that, the media on the whole grows more accustomed to ignoring important stories that cry out for real, gumshoed investigations. Moving On: 2006
She was almost contemptuous, certainly disrespectful to him who'd grown accustomed to respect. A Plague of Angels
A mathematical system designed to remind you that you can't afford the kind of living you've grown accustomed to.
There, individuals who are accustomed to, say, the metric system must also be conversant with the imperial system now embattled even in the kingdom of its formerly eponymous empire, Britain pretty much solely for the purpose of taking the American test. The English Is Coming!
Staff grew accustomed to what they described as his "bizarre" behaviour. Thestar.com - Home Page
State companies, accustomed to cosy relations with government, will be loth to offer up their own 10% of flesh.
It is by this repeated practice that one becomes more accustomed to the subtle mechanics of the mind and more familiar and intimate with the experience of stillness.
It felt unsettling because we as the audience are accustomed to sadness, depression and irrational outbursts in typical movies that deal with death.
Non-design folk have grown accustomed to the default 12’ text of word processing; typewriting as opposed to typesetting.
Top performers are accustomed to being" headhunted "by recruiters. PRWeb
I was accustomed to being the only child at a table full of adults.
The very Indian allies, though accustomed to bushfighting, regarded it as almost impenetrable, and full of frightful danger. The Adventures of Captain Bonneville
On the contrary, she gladly accepted the work and became accustomed to it quickly.
When you're actually working on the ships it gets better, because you become accustomed to the motion.
Her lips on this part of me unaccustomed to affectionate contact were strong with devotion, with the powerful will to console. A DEATH IN THE FAMILY
Irish migrants were well accustomed to patterns of temporary itinerancy.
We were accustomed to working together.
We are accustomed to thinking of those characters as heroes, and at first glance, Kaczynski seems to resemble them.
We are not now accustomed to associate democracy with such overt expressions of class hostility and social conflict.
My footing was less than secure, and somehow my ankle, accustomed to the exclusively forward motion of road running, twisted.
In the intervening years, we have become far more accustomed to the Russians on their regular visits. Times, Sunday Times
The hotel was a good one, not luxurious, but considerably better than she was accustomed to staying in while working.
A favourite theme with the company was the want of soldiers or generals at the North, and the impossibility that a set of mechanics and tradesmen, who knew only how to make money and keep it, should be able in chivalrous and gentlemanly exercises to cope with the Southern cavaliers, who were accustomed to sword and pistol and the use of them from their youth up. Daisy in the Field
But "bulkhead" seats in the first row of the coach cabin won't be as roomy as frequent fliers are accustomed to. Airlines Are at It Again: Less Legroom
You will find that, on most ships, the staff is well accustomed to handling crowds and is skilled at moving passengers with dispatch and courtesy.
Canalis, like many men accustomed to perorate, allowed to be too plainly seen. Modeste Mignon
I started with aardvark, calling it a burrowing insectivorous mammal, then aardwolf, a hyena-like mammal, making my way to acclimate—to accustom or become accustomed to new surroundings or circumstances. The Beautiful Miscellaneous
He decided to show some signs of devotion to what he had been accustomed to call the grossest of superstitions; to reveal symptoms of latent Roman proclivities. South Wind
We are accustomed to the infinite length of the horizon all about us.
For professionals accustomed to finding quick resolutions to pressing financial challenges, that can be frustrating.
Folsom's neighbor was a famous "musher," a seasoned, self-reliant man, thoroughly accustomed to all the hazards of winter travel, but ten miles from his destination he crossed an inch-deep overflow which rendered the soles of his muk-luks slippery, and ten yards further on, where the wind had laid the glare-ice bare, he lost his footing. Laughing Bill Hyde and Other Stories
It is a part of Britain as yet largely unaccustomed to tourists.
The trot of the dromedary is a pace terribly disagreeable to the rider, until he becomes a little accustomed to it; but after the first half-hour Eothen, or, Traces of Travel Brought Home from the East
Those accustomed to buying and running their own equipment may find the transition difficult. Computing
He had grown accustomed to Salomon Brothers' bonus sessions, where he had rarely got more than he expected.
If you call a businessperson evil for making profit, who will be left to produce your high living standards that you have grown accustomed to? Happy 101st Birthday, Ayn Rand, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
It wasn't as if Martinez was unaccustomed to physical labor: She grew up in Fresno, the eleventh of twenty-two children of farmworker parents.
The buildings were low by the standards of a contragravity-using people, the highest barely a thousand feet and few over five hundred, and they were more closely set than Sword-Wonders were accustomed to, with broad roadways between. Space Viking
Often the outgoing person is so accustomed to the procedures that he or she forgets to tell the new person many basic details. Christianity Today
Those accustomed to buying and running their own equipment may find the transition difficult. Computing
But we were so accustomed to it that we hardly even thought to conceive otherwise.
Besides, she had become accustomed to Sally.
Therefore, litterbugs and those accustomed to spitting on the pavement no longer dare to give free rein to their impulses or else they'd better take along with them a waste-paper basket or a cuspidor whenever they opt for a stroll.
But there is a worse thing in store for the bold man who habituates himself to eat a dozen dishes at once: when there are but few dishes served, out of pure habit he will feel himself half starved, whilst his neighbour, accustomed to send his sop down by help of a single relish, will feast merrily, be the dishes never so few. Memorabilia
They are young people accustomed to bullying from superiors. Nemesis: The Battle for Japan, 194445
We have been accustomed to regard the rebel inhumanity to prisoners as one of the darkest clouds in the whole horizon; but look round you: see how that inhumanity is opening the eyes of men at home and abroad to the true character of this rebellion. Three Discourses
Regimental durbars, semi-formal councils, enabled men to air complaints outside the usual hierarchy, and in WW I Indian soldiers on the western front were issued with the narcotic hemp they were accustomed to chew.
People have become accustomed to being fed money. Times, Sunday Times
The lonely people always is accustomed to lonely steadying.
Most importantly, it shows how an organization accustomed to failure and discord can learn to make a habit of success.
Residents in the area are well accustomed to bears and have been warned to keep garage doors closed. Times, Sunday Times
Quickly she glanced down at herself, still not accustomed to this fancy getup she wore, including what Englishers called bobby socks and saddle shoes. Covenant
Her lips on this part of me unaccustomed to affectionate contact were strong with devotion, with the powerful will to console. A DEATH IN THE FAMILY
The effect of the triplet is the same: the ear has been accustomed to expect a new rhyme in every couplet; but is on a sudden surprised with three rhymes together, to which the reader could not accommodate his voice, did he not obtain notice of the change from the braces of the margins. Lives of the Poets, Volume 1
Sir Nicholas, who is defending a majority of 6,733, is accustomed to controversy.
But I have been an anguissette all my life, and I have grown accustomed to dealing with the distraction. Kushiel's Avatar
Once accustomed to, the niqab is certainly not inconvenient.
These manual laborers, long accustomed to toiling in the fields, are good workers.
It was a huge sum of money for connections more accustomed to competing at the nation's less salubrious tracks, yet they would not be moved. Times, Sunday Times
Accustomed to a written character, their eyes became wearied by the crabbedness and formality of type. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 339, January, 1844
I think that I was beastlier than I meant to be, but I am not accustomed to young kids. New Treasure Seekers
The nearest analogue to this remarkable partnership is to be found in the vegetable kingdom, where, as the researches of Schwendener, Bornet, and Stahl have shown, we have certain algæ and fungi associating themselves into the colonies we are accustomed to call lichens, so that we may not unfairly call our agricultural Radiolarians and anemones Scientific American Supplement, No. 324, March 18, 1882
Perhaps it would be best to stick with chik-flix disguised as superhero flix that you are accustomed to. Stan Lee Developing a Gay Superhero Television Series for Showtime | /Film
We would have had difficulty identifying it as a logging site as the stumps were mossed and the beech seedlings and undergrowth were abundant - a total contrast from the sites we were accustomed to seeing after harvesting by the old method.
The hills are covered with arms and standards; and the emperor of the Greeks is accustomed to wars and triumphs. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
They had grown unaccustomed to using their power of collective action.
conservative people unaccustomed to informal dress
I started out as a wee little brat in Los Altos for 6 years where we were accustomed to NON-white Christmases, then moved to Connecticut where we lived in quintessential New England suburbia..where we OFTEN had white Christmases. White Christmas, LA style
Since the usufruct allowed to clerics resembled the grants of land which sovereigns were accustomed to make to subjects who had distinguished themselves by military or political service, and which the Church was at times compelled to concede to powerful lay lords in order to secure necessary protection in troubled times, it was natural that the term benefice, which had been applied to these grants, should be employed to denote the similar practice in regard to ecclesiastics. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne
The carer, a competent young woman, was obviously quite accustomed to this and handled the worst offenders with patience, courtesy, and complete effectiveness.
The epidemiology of diseases such as cancer is certainly different from what we are accustomed to in the West.
We are accustomed to English players being in the minority. Times, Sunday Times
She spoke of the place as of a home; there were so many people she knew there, superintendents and forewomen and attendants, it had been dull and empty to come back here again, and hard to find herself altogether cut off from the life and society she had been accustomed to. The Growth of the Soil
Returning five starters on the offensive line certainly doesn't hurt, but the blocking schemes are very different for the new offense than what the unit is accustomed to. Around the Western Athletic Conference
In the 1802 Preface, this thought is preceded by a return to the 1798 Advertisement: "They who have been accustomed to the gaudiness and inane phraseology of many modern writers ... will, no doubt, [here] frequently have to struggle with feelings of strangeness and aukwardness: they will look round for poetry, and will be induced to inquire by what species of courtesy these attempts can be permitted to assume that title" (596). Wordsworths Balladry: Real Men Wanted
His eyes became accustomed to the dark after the brilliance of the sun outside.
To young people accustomed to weekend trips to the places depicted, the fear evoked by such scenes is alien. Times, Sunday Times
But they were accustomed to such demonstrations; they well knew that the curates never dined or took tea together without a little exercise of the sort, and were quite easy as to consequences, knowing that these clerical quarrels were as harmless as they were noisy, that they resulted in nothing, and that, on whatever terms the curates might part to-night, they would be sure to meet the best friends in the world to-morrow morning. Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte
If your child is accustomed to seeing parents or older siblings use the toilet they may prefer to use the ‘big’ toilet with a child's seat instead of a potty.
Unusually for a man accustomed to getting his own way, he accepted her uncompromising approach. Times, Sunday Times
Locals and businesses alike have become accustomed to a monthly flat rate system for making phone calls.
The young man has been accustomed to hard work.
In the morning when I arose, I found my hoofes shriveled together with cold, and unable to passe upon the sharpe ice, and frosty mire, neither could I fill my belly with meate, as I accustomed to doe, for my master and I supped together, and had both one fare: howbeit it was very slender since as wee had nothing else saving old and unsavoury sallets which were suffered to grow for seed, like long broomes, and that had lost all their sweet sappe and juice. The Golden Asse
Then, as he recovers from the initial shock, he grows accustomed to his good fortune, or acts on a theory drawn from the common multitude of easily won women. 2009 February 15 | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS
However, most people who are accustomed to looking at photographs have gotten over the naive demand that everything in photographs be rendered rectilinear.
Both bird and beast are accustomed to noises in the air. Times, Sunday Times
This, though a plentiful, and by no means unwholesome fare for growing boys, was not what he had been accustomed to, and feeling far too heavy and unwell after it to venture upon an encounter with the Doctor, he wandered slow and melancholy round the bare gravelled playground during the half-hour after dinner devoted to the inevitable "chevy," until the Vice Versa or A Lesson to Fathers
For the Homeric civilization was not a different stage of development of that same civilization which appears when the first beginnings of what we are accustomed to call Hellenism are presented to us; it was totally diverse, and in many respects more complex and more splendid. The Sea-Kings of Crete
The chirography was labored, heavy and trembling; it betrayed the stiff hand of a man more accustomed to guiding the plough than the pen. The Honor of the Name
The US admiral's impulsive behaviour reflected the mood of a navy which had grown accustomed to overwhelming superiority. Nemesis: The Battle for Japan, 194445
A difficult thing to do and made more so when you've grown accustomed to the shelter provided by an acquiescent state leadership seemingly incapable or unwilling to bring you to heel.
I guess you could consider me a dull old geezer who is not yet 65, but over 55 and who is still not accustomed to doing nothing for a living.

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