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Sentences starting with usual

Usual thing. [11]

Sentences ending with usual

Meanwhile downstairs in young Nicholas Bolkonski's bedroom a little lamp was burning as usual. [2]
And he sent word to the lawyer a month ago that he wanted it to get here as usual. [11]
There were days when things went wrong, when there were delays, complications, more matters to attend to than usual. [9]
The Washington papers were more respectful, as usual--and conciliatory, also, as usual. [5]
In our rooms we all called her a good chap, and a dashed good chap when her husband happened to be rustier than usual. [11]
To-day, however, there was something on her mind, and she was not as alert and successful as usual. [11]
The dining-room door was open, and--marvellous--the table was still untouched, his father must have remained at the town-hall longer than usual. [10]
Miss Russell's reply was not as direct as usual. [9]
But the Master was more thoughtful than usual. [6]
The poor mother was doubly anxious because he seemed so unconscious of the risk he ran up there and looked about him even more boldly and self-reliantly than usual. [10]

Short sentences using usual

As usual, she was wise. [5]
She gave her usual answer. [5]
Aren't you lying as usual? [11]
She disappointed me, as usual. [9]
Affairs went on as usual. [4]
That warn't usual. [5]

Sentences containing usual two or more times

The hysteric stage which the wise old man had apprehended began to manifest itself by its usual signs, if anything can be called usual in a condition the natural order of which is disorder and anomaly. [6]
When Princess Mary went to him at the usual hour he was working at his lathe and, as usual, did not look round at her. [2]
It was the usual note--as to paucity of lines--and was written on the customary strip of paper; but there was nothing usual about the contents. [5]
I have declined them all, just as usual, though sorely tempted, as usual. [5]
He wrote: "I talked your letter into a fonograf in my usual tone at my usual gait of speech. [5]
This time, however, she gazed into her glass with more than the usual happy motive, without the usual slight conscious smile. [13]
But you are right as usual, Herse, as usual, only--here am I battening like a senator while you--I lay a wager you have drunk nothing but milk all day and eaten nothing but bread and radishes. [10]
At his usual hour (or rather at his usual minute and second, for he was the soul of punctuality) Mr Abel walked out, to be overtaken by the London coach, and Kit and the old gentleman went to work in the garden. [12]
As the Heliconidae are coloured in their usual manner, whilst the others depart from the usual colouring of the groups to which they belong, it is clear that the latter are the imitators, and the Heliconidae the imitated. [1]

More example sentences with the word usual in them

With his usual zeal he had gathered facts concerning the scene, which put my fictions all to flight. [4]
We are enjoying your story with our usual unspeakableness; and I'm right glad you threw in the shipwreck and the mystery--I like it. [5]
I swear to you that, as a man and an artist, I never felt better, and so I ought properly to be in my usual frame of mind. [10]
Separation, of which you say so much that is bad, does not seem to have had its usual effect on you. [2]
Three days before you came I got a packet of letters, not by the usual yearly mail. [11]
It was not written for any of these reasons, and therefore it is submitted without the usual apologies. [5]
Being vigilant, one would have seen, however, that he lived in some land of memory or anticipation, beyond his life of daily toil and usual dealing. [11]
But the captain would have none of the precautions he urged; declared he would walk the deck as usual, and vowed he could cope single-handed with a dozen cowards like Maxwell. [9]
Presently there came word from the Governor that I might walk upon the ramparts, and I was taken forth for several hours each day; always, however, under strict surveillance, my guards, well armed, attending, while the ramparts were, as usual, patrolled by soldiers. [11]
Indeed, this adaptable woman soon found that she had become an object of more than usual interest, by her latest exploit, in the circles in which she moved, and her softened manner and edifying conversation showed that she appreciated her position. [4]
He found him without much trouble in his usual attitude, occupying one of the chairs in the corridor. [9]
He is now without money or place, but as usual appears to worry least of all of us, and still reads his damned Tasso for amusement. [9]
We took them with us and marched into Orleans next day through the usual tempest of welcome and joy. [5]
The correspondence itself, with the usual reservations, is herewith submitted. [7]
He was received with the usual formalities, and was greeted at once by Captain Shewell. [11]
She was dressed with more than usual nicety, and her countenance showed clearly that she came charged with an important communication. [6]
He dressed himself with more than usual care, and walked down to the wharf where the Swordfish was moored. [6]
She dressed herself with more than usual care, and came down in the morning superb in her stormy beauty. [6]
Anatole followed him with his usual jaunty step but his face betrayed anxiety. [2]
It fills them with grief and alarms; and, would you believe it--such anguish of mind, especially when the Nile is so low and there is more sickness than usual, gives rise to numberless forms of disease? [10]
Biberli had noticed with delight that his master had not sought as usual to detain him. [10]
Then he said, with a wisdom that surprised him, for he would have liked to yield to the impulse of his curiosity: "Perhaps we'd better wait till Mrs. March comes down, and let things take the usual course. [8]
He was startled with a piece of information which gave him such an exquisite pang of delight that he could hardly keep the usual quiet of his demeanor. [6]
Petrus received his wife with no less gravity than was usual with him, but there was an arch sparkle in his half closed eyes as he asked: "You scarcely know what is going on, I suppose? [10]
For Dr. Leigh, whom she had sought out several times, was reserved, and did not voluntarily speak of Father Damon; she had heard that he was throwing himself with more than his usual fervor into his work. [4]
The gazettes from which the old prince first heard of the defeat at Austerlitz stated, as usual very briefly and vaguely, that after brilliant engagements the Russians had had to retreat and had made their withdrawal in perfect order. [2]
In the place where three or four currents meet there was the usual jam of carriages, furniture wagons, carts, cars, and hurried, timid, half-bewildered passengers trying to make their way through it. [4]
We imagine that when we are thrown out of our usual ruts all is lost, but it is only then that what is new and good begins. [2]
Well, one day when I was not around, one of these people came along--it was a she one, this time--and told a tale of the usual pattern. [5]
By this time, when he turned to me, he had regained his usual expression. [9]
He stopped whistling when he spied the storekeeper, and approached him in his usual hearty manner. [9]
I only speak what is in my mind with my usual crudeness. [11]
The two former were to attend to the sick in the infirmary, to ring the bell and chant the services as usual, that the escape of the rest might not be suspected; and Joanna, Paula, and Pulcheria, were to assist them. [10]
In the barn-yard were the hens, just as usual, walking with measured step, scratching and picking in the muck, darting suddenly to one side with an elevated wing, clucking, chattering, jabbering endlessly about nothing. [4]
The insurrectionary troop were locked into an open court upon bread and water, and as the usual room of detention of the establishment was too small for them all, for two nights they had had to sleep in a loft on thin straw mats. [10]
To-night, the crowd were far more restless than usual, far more irritating in their purposeless movements. [11]
After supper he went, as usual, to sit on the steps of his porch, and to cut his piece of Honey Dew, which never varied a milligram. [9]
When Princess Mary went to her father's room at the usual hour, Mademoiselle Bourienne and Anatole met in the conservatory. [2]
He came and went through the streets, and was found at his usual haunts, to observers as cool and nonchalant as ever. [11]
One day I went as usual, armed only with my bow and arrow, and, accompanied by my grey-hounds, heedlessly followed a hare; a troop of Danaids fell upon me, bound me with cords, and led me into their camp. [10]
Just as usual, we found the town in a fury of joy, all the bells clanging, everybody shouting, and several people drunk. [5]
In the usual way: by surmise. [5]
I loved to watch her, for with me she was ever her own absolute self, free from all artifice, lost in her perfect naturalness: a healthy, perfect soundness, a primitive simplicity beneath the artifice of usual life. [11]
Jim, as usual was washing, and Clemens was carrying water. [5]
Upon the table was the usual service, the heavy, much nicked stone ware, the row of plated and rusty castors, the sugar bowls with the zinc tea-spoons sticking up in them, the piles of yellow biscuits, the discouraged-looking plates of butter. [5]
As usual, Joan was required to take an oath without reservations. [5]
The usual storm was raging in the House. [5]
The tune sung was of--the usual country selection,--Mount Vernon. [4]
Jake as usual, was kicking his heels in front of the store, talking to Rias and others about the coming Fourth of July celebration at Brampton. [9]
As usual, Biberli was his confidant, and declared himself ready to use Katterle's services in his master's behalf. [10]
His white handkerchief was hanging out of his pocket behind, as usual on Sundays--accidentally. [5]
Monsieur le Colonel was grave, but this was his usual manner. [9]
The usual mixture was composed of three-fifths water to two-fifths wine. [10]
Murray Bradshaw's face was calm as usual, but there was a flush on his cheek, and Master Gridley saw the slight but unequivocal signs of excitement. [6]
As usual, she was beyond him; and despite her exclamations of surprise, of appreciation and pleasure she maintained the outward poise, the inscrutability that summed up for him her uniqueness in the world of woman. [9]
Pyramus, as usual, was away, and Barbara had taken care that no one should interrupt them. [10]
The lad's greeting was a little shy until he saw that Gaston was cool and composed as usual --in effect, nothing had happened. [11]
Her usual dress was a green gown, in colour not unlike the curtain of the office window, made tight to the figure, and terminating at the throat, where it was fastened behind by a peculiarly large and massive button. [12]
But when little Walpurga, half asleep, raised her tiny hand and lovingly stroked the wounded shoulder of her adopted mother, the matron, as usual when anything pleasant moved her heart, longed to have her husband at her side. [10]
Its long white-washed walls, it is true, glimmered through the gloom as distinctly as ever, but instead of towering--as usual at this time--mute and lifeless above the slumbering town--the most active bustle was going on within and around it. [10]
Arrived within the wall, we found the usual village sights and life. [5]
Melissa, as she walked on, could not think with her usual calm. [10]
In the marble vestibule of the Corn National Bank I ran into Tallant, holding his brown straw hat in his hand and looking a little more moth-eaten than usual. [9]
There is something very simple and pleasant about the following, which, in Philadelphia, seems to be the usual form for consumptives of long standing. [5]
It was a very pretty scene; more people were present than usual of a morning. [4]
It is a very picturesque drive, as are all the drives in this region, and if King did not enjoy it, it was not because Mrs. Farquhar was not even more entertaining than usual. [4]
At sunset that very day several guests had arrived as usual, followed by Antyllus, a youth of nineteen. [10]
On another reclined Verus, at full length, and as usual, crowned with roses; the third was for Plutarch, but was unoccupied. [10]
His spirits, as usual, were of the best, and from time to time Honora was aware of his glance. [9]
The officers, as usual, lived in twos and threes in the roofless, half-ruined houses. [2]
At once, as usual, he wanted to know why. [5]
The ground, as usual, had been carefully prepared, and trained gardeners raked, and watered, and weeded the patch. [9]
She was, as usual, elaborately dressed, and gave one the impression of being lost, so anxiously was she scanning the face of every new arrival. [9]
He seemed, as usual, distrait, betraying no curiosity as to the object of my call, his lean, brown fingers playing with the newspapers on his lap. [9]
The addresses, as usual, call attention to his own merits. [4]
It was, as usual, a simple meal, and yet he could only swallow a few mouthfuls, for everything had a bitter taste. [10]
She has the usual Upper River quota of factories, newspapers, and institutions of learning; she has telephones, local telegraphs, an electric alarm, and an admirable paid fire department, consisting of six hook and ladder companies, four steam fire engines, and thirty churches. [5]
It isn't his usual time to come yet. [11]
I had the usual three matches in my pocket. [4]
Say, rather, the usual thing is about to occur. [4]
I have the usual stock of reminiscences. [5]
The princess as usual spoke smilingly and listened with a laugh. [2]
Instead of their usual splendid attire, both wore dark robes, and the royal consort and mother, who mourned her first-born son, leaned motionless, with drooping head, against her kingly husband's shoulder. [10]
This was the usual sign of approbation, instead of the clapping of hands. [6]
It is the usual remark in such an emergency. [4]
Acting with his usual promptness, Philip, with the consent of Mr. Bolton, broke ground there at once, and, before snow came, had some rude buildings up, and was ready for active operations in the spring. [5]
Jake made his usual preliminary signal, and delivered himself to the following effect: "Wahl, I don' know jest what to say. [6]
That was his usual policy in war. [5]
I bought the usual paper-cutter to remember the place by, and had Mont Blanc, the Mauvais Pas, and the rest of the region branded on my alpenstock; then we descended to the valley and walked home without being tied together. [5]
And now, as usual of late, he hung about the gate of the schoolyard instead of playing with his comrades. [5]
Finally, as is usual in life, a, compromise prevails. [4]
Atossa, with her usual impetuosity, fell on the neck of the friend she had so sorely missed during his absence; the queen gave him her hand, and Nitetis met him like a loving daughter. [10]
It is my usual hour for retiring. [9]
Beginning with the usual formality, he said: "I am obliged to differ from nearly every sentiment expressed by the Earl of Eglington, the member for Levizes, who has just taken his seat. [11]
Having ended the usual formalities, he told how favorable his dreams were, and that he had called them together to know if they would accompany him in a war excursion. [5]
Instead of the usual formal audience of 15 minutes, we staid 4 hours and were made a good deal more at home than we could have been in a New York drawing-room. [5]
It was not usual for Mr. Crewe to find it difficult to begin a conversation, or to have a companion as self-sufficient as himself. [9]
He experienced the usual fate of authors who seek to introduce into the market literary wares of a new and better sort. [4]
Nicholas, having as usual exhausted two pairs of horses, without visiting all the places he meant to go to and where he had been invited, returned home just before dinner. [2]
There were the usual early loafers at the station, hands deep in pockets, ruminant, listlessly observant. [4]

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