Customary

Examples

• I enjoyed my customary siesta. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• The leading idea was different from customary muckraking. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Among the more rigid socialists and reformers it is not customary to spend much time discussing mental habits. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• He had come in really tired, and after I had given him his tea, he threw himself into my chair with his customary presumption. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• I cooled slowly down to my customary level. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• The first of them told him so, with the customary prison sign of Death--a raised finger--and they all added in words, Long live the Republic! Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• I remember it now with my customary superiority to all feeling of offence. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• She is a nice plump young lass, and it is customary with me to adopt that manner of showing that I personally approve of a girl. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• The customary expedient of provincial girls and men in such circumstances is churchgoing. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Her face was composed again to its customary expression and its customary colour. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• A present impression and a customary transition are now no longer necessary to enliven our ideas. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• Miss Halcombe and Mr. Gilmore sat down together at the card-table--Mrs. Vesey took her customary chair. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Was not the only true, because the only moral, life gained through obedient habituation to the customary practices of the community? John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• On this question there arose the edifying brow-beating, customary on such points. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• The scene within was not quite the customary one. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• He said a few unimportant words, with a visible effort to preserve his customary ease of manner. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• His daughter could not induce him to settle down to his customary occupations or amusements that night. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• I bore the insult with my customary fortitude. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• We know that those mountains flaming to the sky were only the customary burning of the dry grass at that season of the year. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Tartar, now his customary companion, had followed him, and he couched across his feet. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Gulping down all further comment, he launched into his customary discours. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• There was a short pause; the brandy-and-water had done its work; the amiable countenance of Mr. Pickwick was fast recovering its customary expression. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• It is customary at Mawson's for the clerks to leave at midday on Saturday. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• It is customary to frown upon such aimless random activity, treating it as willful mischief or carelessness or lawlessness. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Sidney Webb, in the customary Fabian fashion, had dismissed the General Strike as a sign of socialist immaturity. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• He withdrew to the window and looked out, while I put my first customary question to my patient. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• The old lady was seated with customary state in the front parlour, but she was rather cross, and, by consequence, most particularly deaf. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• At that time it was customary to carry Convicts down to the dock-yards by stage-coach. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• In work of this nature it had been customary, as above stated, to depend upon a high explosive, such as dynamite, to shatter and break the ore to lumps of one hundred pounds or less. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The few kind words of welcome which she spoke found me hardly self-possessed enough to thank her in the customary phrases of reply. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.

Editor: Lou