Unaccustomed

Examples

• What wonder then, in time of siege, want, extreme heat, and drought, that it should make unaccustomed ravages? Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• He suspected, that unaccustomed poverty was the cause of the mystery, and that the artist was unwilling to be seen in the garb and abode of want. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• You are right in supposing that I am not unaccustomed to--an influential position. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• We distort a dozen sickly trees into unaccustomed shapes in a little yard no bigger than a dining room, and then surely they look absurd enough. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Opening it they found a crude message printed almost illegibly, and with many evidences of an unaccustomed task. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• The unaccustomed visitor from outside, naturally assumed everybody here to be prisoners--landlord, waiter, barmaid, potboy, and all. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• It was a scene of unaccustomed confusion in these days of depopulation. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• That he had been able to turn his hands at all to such unaccustomed labor was a source of mild wonder to him. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• For a wonder, he had had a good night's rest at last; and the unaccustomed luxury of sleep had, as he said himself, apparently stupefied him. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Then, agitated as she had been by her mother's violence, and now by unaccustomed fears, she lay unable to sleep, starting at every sound. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Unaccustomed to industry, he knew not in what way to contribute to the support of his increasing family. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• My face, neck, and hands, from unaccustomed exposure to the air and sun, were burnt to a berry-brown. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Her unaccustomed ears could hardly catch her father's voice, as they stood on the steps awaiting the opening of the door. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.

Typist: Tyler