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The night was long and we were young and this was an occasion for a special bottle or two, for the saved and revered whisky, a drink that I had slowly grown accustomed to during my residence, and one that always left me feeling as though I had spent the night with my head next to a camel’s rump
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Sons’ eyes had grown accustomed to the darkness and it hurt to look at the
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The ring on her finger still felt awkward … she wasn’t accustomed to wearing things like that but all the same, it felt right and reminded her of how much Joris had cared
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The more I pulled myself down the more accustomed I became; the more I explored with open eyes, the more I was astonished by the unbelievable mad blueness of the sea
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‘Heartless women!’ he said good naturedly, obviously accustomed to the fact that his son does not rate his practical skills
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Because the poor Hindu is accustomed to being ruled by someone else - 700
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It was only with the greatest reluctance that Burberry allowed herself to become accustomed to the brightness of this early hour
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By now she had grown accustomed to the weight of her mother’s old engagement ring on her finger and the Chinese style vase stood proudly in its new position on the fireplace mantelpiece
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And the more you listen, the easier and more quickly your brain will become accustomed to slipping into that alternate state
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It takes about three quarters of an hour to drive from Naples to Sorrento and was it an education … I daresay I shall become accustomed to driving over here but believe me it is crazy! The basic rule of the road seems to be ‘go for it’ and they obey this one regardless of commonsense, consideration for other drivers or even practicality
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friends and some of his tutors had become so accustomed to
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rather than having become accustomed into something that you are not
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become accustomed to the brightness of this early hour
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Boredom was never a problem; Chrissie had become accustomed to it before she reached the age of ten
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White Feathers strolled in to take his accustomed seat at the table in the great room
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After a few days the tiger gradually became accustomed to its braying and was no longer so afraid
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They grew stronger and more accustomed to their growing strengths as time went along
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It would have been suicide to go in after him – that sea was wild … but would anyone believe her? Nervously, she debated this with herself, too accustomed to being disbelieved to put any reliance on it
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for soldiers when they become accustomed to war
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“Well, I have had more sex than I’m accustomed to
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But then the market went bad and I couldn’t sell it for what I wanted and after awhile I got too accustomed to living here
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Allcock free reign of the accommodations in the cabin and allowed Harry a sense of freedom and liberty to which he was gradually becoming accustomed
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‘Chrissie Hartley-Jones was accustomed to wandering around the moor according to Andy Simthwaite
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He can feel men he calls friends, men who he would normally rely on, men accustomed to the sights and sounds of mean lives, momentarily falling apart
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The whole area was untouched and much quieter than the hustle and bustle they had grown accustomed to back in the village
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Roman was not accustomed to seeing her in
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had grown accustomed to seeing
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They were accustomed to living in a virtual environment
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Gem was accustomed to her diminutive size, actually found it had advantages when fighting larger opponents
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And indeed bad as his clothes were and coarsely as he spoke, he seemed like a skipper accustomed to be obeyed
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Turtle "Oh, no! It bothers us no more than air, after we have once become accustomed to it," said the turtle
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"Why should I do anything? What difference will it make? After battling the Undeath for an eternity, I have grown accustomed to the fact that it cannot be defeated
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And so pilgrims are accustomed to kneel here in
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He is less accustomed, indeed, to social intercourse,
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being accustomed to consider a greater variety of objects, is generally much superior to that of
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How could they? Having shared her bed before, over and over again, he had grown accustomed to quenching his lust as soon as it arose
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It therefore ordains, that all servants and labourers should, for the future, be contented with the same wages and liveries (liveries in those times signified not only clothes, but provisions) which they had been accustomed to receive in the 20th year of the king, and the four preceding years; that, upon this account, their livery-wheat should nowhere be estimated higher than tenpence a-bushel, and that it should always be in the option of the master to deliver them either the wheat or the money
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It was pointless for him to ask how he knew that, Alec had simply grown accustomed to the fact that the One Elf knew everything
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she was becoming accustomed to travelling on the water
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her would last? He was a man accustomed to bedding beautiful women
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The tortoise behind me seems to be accustomed
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customers will become accustomed to you being that way
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Suddenly I was sitting out-of-body (known as OBE) in the form I’m more accustomed to and had reassumed out of habit
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The elegance of his dress, of his equipage, of his house and household furniture, are objects which, from his infancy, he has been accustomed to have some anxiety about
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A merchant is accustomed to employ his money chiefly in profitable projects ; whereas a mere country gentleman is accustomed to employ it chiefly in expense
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To have enforced payment of a small debt within the lands of a great proprietor, where all the inhabitants were armed, and accustomed to stand by one another, would have cost the king, had he attempted it by his own authority, almost the same effort as to extinguish a civil war
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Accustomed to the murky cave, the
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" Country gentlemen and farmers, dispersed in different parts of the country, cannot so easily combine as merchants and manufacturers, who being collected into towns, and accustomed to that exclusive corporation spirit which prevails in them, naturally endeavour to obtain, against all their countrymen, the same exclusive privilege which they generally possess against the inhabitants of their respective towns
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Appreciate the different experiences in your life even though they are not what you may be accustomed to
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Not only no great convulsion, but no sensible disorder, arose from so great a change in the situation of more than 100,000 men, all accustomed to the use of arms, and many of them to rapine and plunder
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The manufacturer has always been accustomed to look for his subsistence from his labour only ; the soldier to expect it from his pay
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He was not accustomed to the physical punishments of overindul-gence and given this, it irritated him as much as it made him extremely reluctant to leave his bed
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This was not what any of them were accustomed to back home
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Alternatively, the wall indicates that you are too accustomed to your old habits and way of thinking
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When the undertakers of fisheries, after such liberal bounties have been bestowed upon them, continue to sell their commodity at the same, or even at a higher price than they were accustomed to do before, it might be expected that their profits should be very great ; and it is not improbable that those of some individuals may have been so
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His sacred royal majesty of Portugal promises, both in his own name and that of his successors, to admit for ever hereafter, into Portugal, the woollen cloths, and the rest of the woollen manufactures of the British, as was accustomed, till they were prohibited by the law ; nevertheless upon this condition :
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” A tall man held out his cheek towards her, she rubbed her cheek to his as if that were the greeting she had been accustomed to all her life
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The way he bristled at the mention of the name ‘Roscius Avienus’, and then slackened with an almost forced conge-niality was a hallmark of deception that he had long since grown accustomed to identifying
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She was accustomed to this kind of frank talk
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Clearly this man had been through a traumatic experience; humans were not accustomed to time-travel, and certainly his encounter with the beings he called the Elusivers would have been troubling, even to a B’tari
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That minister had unfortunately embraced all the prejudices of the mercantile system, in its nature and essence a system of restraint and regulation, and such as could scarce fail to be agreeable to a laborious and plodding man of business, who had been accustomed to regulate the different departments of public offices, and to establish the necessary checks and controlls for confining each to its proper sphere
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We, of course, had always worn the simplest of clothes and this formal wear was quite a glamorous departure from what we were accustomed to seeing
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The whole nation, besides, being accustomed to a wandering life, even in time of peace, easily takes the field in time of war
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As his eyes became accustomed to the darkness he slowly raised his head and looked around the cramped interior of the tent
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Those militias which, like the Tartar or Arab militia, go to war under the same chieftains whom they are accustomed to obey in peace, are by far the best
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As the Highlanders, however, were not wandering, but stationary shepherds, as they had all a fixed habitation, and were not, in peaceable times, accustomed to follow their chieftain from place to place; so, in time of war, they were less willing to follow him to any considerable distance, or to continue for any long time in the field
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As the Highlanders, too, from their stationary life, spend less of their time in the open air, they were always less accustomed to military exercises, and were less expert in the use of their arms than the Tartars and Arabs are said to be
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The ancient Germans were, like the Scythians or Tartars, a nation of wandering shepherds, who went to war under the same chiefs whom they were accustomed to follow in peace
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It was a militia of shepherds and husbandmen, which, in time of war, took the field under the command of the same chieftains whom it was accustomed to obey in peace
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It may take a while to become accustomed to it, but I urge you to try and make a start
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She was not accustomed to those
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In the meantime, Jon was getting accustomed to the constant roll and shifting movement of the ship as it sailed on the sea
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By this indulgence of the public, the smuggler is often encouraged to continue a trade, which he is thus taught to consider as in some measure innocent; and when the severity of the revenue laws is ready to fall upon him, he is frequently disposed to defend with violence, what he has been accustomed to regard as his just property
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To them this amusement compensates the small difference between the taxes which they pay on account of the war, and those which they had been accustomed to pay in time of peace
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were accustomed to doing service outside of the country as
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Great indulgence would for some time be due to those provinces of the empire which were thus subjected to burdens to which they had not before been accustomed; and even when the same taxes came to be levied everywhere as exactly as possible, they would not everywhere produce a revenue proportioned to the numbers of the people
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No doubt he was accustomed to dealing with hysterical, know-nothing midwives
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Lewis Powell, one of the accomplices, was accustomed to being
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After all, this was a family of the sea during this period of time, and they had become quite accustomed to this life
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accustomed to following orders from his superiors
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As the Shenandoah headed north, there was an eerie feeling for those who were not accustomed to this phenomenon, and it
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What a knockout! Then, Gloria’s eyes seemed to become accustomed to the darker room, and she noticed the
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It is one of the reasons why I maintain that the terrorists were pretty brave, because not all grew up in the bush and were not accustomed to the bush environment
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“Then what happens?” asked the Thimble Down deputy, who had never been to sea before and was not accustomed to the constant rocking of the ship, something reflected in his slightly green pallor
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brown, just as if she had been accustomed to tend geese in all sorts of
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Maybe she was growing accustomed to Sicarius’s stealthy approaches, because she did not jump this time
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"Patty and I were hardy children, and accustomed to 'run out' in all
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They were of course accustomed to cadets who were very sharp
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Individuals who have grown accustomed to such ―favors‖, let‘s refer to them as tributes, will often take a rather dim view of exceptional or enterprising talents conveniently perceived as the personification of ―greed‖ incarnate; mobilizing, for their own personal ‖needs‖, resources that might otherwise serve the interests of people truly in need of assistance at the expense of other individuals who would rather manage their own affairs
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We were accustomed to killing terrorists wherever we could find them and quite unexpectedly sometimes
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the recklessly extravagant who have grown accustomed to living beyond their means…or off their inheritances
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Character no longer appears to be the single overriding issue concerning most Americans accustomed to voting with their
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) Adopting conspicuously faulty and (otherwise) self-serving reasoning conveniently side-steps a very important fact; that we all exist in a less than perfect world subject to changing fortunes and other unexpected events that routinely challenge our mettle; and that Nature, however, has its own inestimable manner of compensating each of us with an innate capacity to endure hardships and rise above our present condition however unfavorable or improbable our prospects for a ―better‖ life may appear and that an individual‘s threshold for suffering and privation oftentimes vary in proportion to that individual‘s (mental) endurance and acquired habits in spite of that individual‘s accustomed environment and in any event, such (gratuitous) impressions are problematical at best and should not serve as a litmus test in determining who should or should not be permitted to live or given an equal opportunity to exercise free choice(s) pre-empted by selfish motives indifferent to such rights; motives whose arbitrary designs are (otherwise) impervious to the apparent limits or consequences of questionable solutions whose (hardened) indifference to Life must inevitably diminish the (inherent) value a society confers upon its citizens regardless of their station in life
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We would give you some time to settle in to this new situation and grow accustomed to how things will now run
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The former stand out in full view while the latter are less comprehensive by force of (accustomed) habit
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A Cultural War waged by determined ideas is a much more subtle, deceptive and formidable form of warfare inasmuch as it craftily conceals its (unstated) purpose; a social and cultural conversion cutting at the (very) heart of a society‘s traditional belief system; a gradual, however determined process that oftentimes goes unchecked until an awakening society (roused from its slumbers) suddenly finds itself in the midst of altered customs and norms no longer consonant with that society‘s accustomed practices
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Pampered and spoiled beyond their parent‘s willingness to control or muster the required checks that separate rights from privileges (inevitably) gave rise to increasingly selfish attitudes common among a growing generation of young men and women accustomed to having their own way
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The Poles were not willing to give up what they had become accustomed to, namely grabbing anything that belonged to the Jews
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Where problems may sometimes arise lie in shorter-term progressions resistant to (social) changes perceived counter to or incompatible with accustomed traditions
