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Sentences ending with wont

Mr.------ talked, talked, talked as is his wont. [5]
He did not take the holy communion this Easter day, or go to confession as was his wont. [11]
Yesterday, it had struck him that ever since his father's death--that was ever since Paula's change of residence--Philippus dressed more carefully than had been his wont. [10]
He kissed his sister, holding her hand in his as was their wont. [2]
March met Fulkerson on the steps of the office next morning, when he arrived rather later than his wont. [8]
His face was not paler than its wont. [11]
The rider arose as if he had just remembered himself and had tarried longer than his wont. [13]
Fox seemed surprised, and laughed evasively,--not heartily as was his wont. [9]
The passengers were a social company enough, but I had kept myself apart, as was my wont. [6]

More example sentences with the word wont in them

Mr. Veneer sent word that the messenger should wait below, and presently appeared in the study, where Abel was making himself at home, as is the wont of the republican citizen, when he hides the purple of empire beneath the apron of domestic service. [6]
Thus she was wont, at the most unexpected moments, to betray the passion within her, the passion that made him sick with desire. [9]
We have been wont to think of all the British as aristocrats, while they have returned the compliment by visualizing all Americans as plutocrats--despite the fact that one-tenth of our population is said to own nine-tenths of all our wealth! [9]
Mr. Marmaduke was wont to rise at noon, and knew not wheat from barley, or good leaf from bad; his hands he kept like a lady's, rendering them almost useless by the long lace on the sleeves, and his chief pastime was card-playing. [9]
Dear Elizabeth was wont to plead for him before she died, but I would never listen to her. [9]
And he was wont to leave his weighty business affairs to shift for themselves while he attended the diocesan and general conventions of his Church. [9]
Miss Grower was wont to express optimism in deeds rather than words. [9]
She had been wont to dislike this habit in him; he had been glad that she did; it answered to the ideal he had formed of what the woman he loved should be. [10]
The gentlemen were wont to dine at the Coffee House, and I would sit near the foot of the table, taking notes of their plans. [9]
We were commonly wont to chirp like a pair of crickets while we braided our hair and got into our beds; but this night there was not a sound in the chamber. [10]
What we are wont to call wisdom is often naively innocent of impending change. [9]
The chief-priest was wont to bear himself stoutly in the field, and now he gives up the command because a dying woman touches his heart. [10]
Moses Hatch was wont to ask Cynthia how her daddies were. [9]
I plied Cockle with questions as to what they purposed doing with me, but he was wont to turn sulky, and would answer me not a word. [9]
Then he retired with less assurance than he had come, and John Paul sprang to his feet and laid his hands upon my shoulders, as was his wont when affected. [9]
Franz von Welemisl, who was wont to creep like her shadow, and who was again a guest at the Tetzels' house, had been kept within doors by the cough that plagued him. [10]
The small Seal which aforetime I was wont to take with me abroad lieth in my treasury. [5]
On Saturday mornings, when she went downstairs, she was wont to find the porch littered with newspapers and her husband lounging in a wicker chair behind the disapproving lilacs. [9]
How abominably you were wont to behave in those days, Virginia. [9]
The swarthy bearers were far too slow for his longing, and more than once he flung to them as much money as they were wont to earn in a week, to urge them to a brisker pace. [10]
It comprised the Watauga settlement among the mountains of what is now Tennessee, and was called prosaically (as is the wont of the Anglo-Saxon) the free State of Franklin. [9]
But, as she was wont, she made good her own will and he shrugged his shoulders, wrathful indeed, but overmastered by her. [10]
So the doctor was wont to take the minds of patients from themselves. [9]
There Mr. Botcher was wont to sit (when he was not depressing one of the tiles in the rotunda), surrounded by his friends and their tobacco smoke, discussing in his frank and manly fashion the public questions of the day. [9]
Scipio's patrician blood was wont to rise in the presence of those whom he deemed outside the pale of good society, and I fear he ushered Mr. Fairbrother to the street with little of that superior manner he used to the first families. [9]
Mr. Plimpton, who was wont to apply his gifts as a toastmaster to his own festivals, hailed him from the other end of the table. [9]
At first he was merely conscious of having gone through a fearful experience, which threatened to fling him far outside the sphere of everything he was wont to reverence and hold sacred. [10]
Cousin Maud, who was ever wont to mount the stair with an echoing tread and a loud voice, now went about stepping softly in her shoes, and when she called or spoke it was gently and scarce to be heard. [10]
If Mrs. Scherer was a surprise to us, her husband was a still greater one; and I had difficulty in recognizing the Adolf Scherer who came to our dinner party as the personage of the business world before whom lesser men were wont to cringe. [9]
He also wrote various sorts of hands, fearful and marvellous to the uninitiated, with which he was wont to decorate my monthly reports to my grandfather. [9]
Watching the tempest-swept valley, the tortured forest, where wild life was in panic, there came upon him the old impulse to put his thoughts into words, "and so be rid of them," as he was wont to say in other days. [11]
Ann drew herself up with pride and hastily answered that if any one craved news of him he had best apply to Mistress Ursula Tetzel, inasmuch as she was ever wont to have a keen eye on her dear cousin. [10]
There was something uncanny in this self-control, this sang froid with which he was wont to sit at boards waiting unmoved for the time when he should draw his net about his enemies, and strangle them without pity. [9]
There is something uncanny in the passion of a man whose life has been ordered by the inexorable rules of commerce, who has been wont to decide all questions from the standpoint of dollars and cents. [9]
She was wont to wake up suddenly in the morning--the very early morning --with the imagined sound of the gold Cock of Beaugard crowing in her ears. [11]
They were wont to swim with the tide of indolence, extravagance, self-seeking, and sordid pleasure now flowing through the hardy isles, from which had come much of the strength of the Old World and the vision and spirit of the New World. [11]
She was wont to stare at this lady while dressing and exclaim:--"Say, I hope they put it all over that district attorney! [9]
He was wont to say to the little Avocat whenever Francois's name was mentioned: "The spirit of a man will support him, but a wounded spirit who can bear? [11]
They were wont to say to each other, as the hurrying world made inroads on the strict Quaker life to which they had returned: "All the world's mad but thee and me, and thee's a bit mad. [11]
Caesar was wont to say that this man's hands were matchless for lightness and delicacy of touch, but to-day they trembled as he lifted the laurel wreath from Caesar's head and unbuckled the padded breast plate. [10]
I was wont to ride that summer at four of a morning to canter beside Mr. Starkie afield, and I came to know the yield of every patch to a hogshead and the pound price to a farthing. [9]
He was wont to quote with more or less austerity--chiefly the result of his professional life--this: "For justice, all place a temple, and all season summer. [11]
She was wont to entertain Ephraim on the days when his hands failed him, when he sat sunning himself before his door; and she knew that he was honest. [9]
Her walk was to begin from the second tavern, and that was the very spot where low rioters were wont to assemble--and his darling was so young, so fair, and so defenceless! [10]
This was the time at which the "notes" of any who were in affliction from loss of friends, the sick who were doubtful of recovery, those who had cause to be grateful for preservation of life or other signal blessing, were wont to be read. [6]
Couches, such as they were wont to be on at meals, there were not, so each man snatched up the first thing he could lay his hands on to serve as a seat. [10]
The places for these interested persons were divided from the stage by a space for the orchestra, whence the stage was easily reached by steps up which the chorus were wont to mount to it. [10]
Staid citizens with their families occupied the benches, groups were chatting under the spreading linden-tree at the north entrance, and young maidens in white muslin promenaded, looking seaward, as was the wont of Puritan maidens, watching a receding or coming Mayflower. [4]
Every morning, at the hour Austen was wont to drive Pepper to the Ripton House stables across the square, Hilary had contrived to be standing near his windows--a little back, and out of sight. [9]
At length comes the gala night of nights,--the last of the old year,--and the assembling of the five hundred legislators and of the army that is wont to attend them. [9]
We came from the forest earlier than we were wont, on Saint Maurice's day, forasmuch as that Ann could not be longer spared and, now more than ever, I could not bear to leave her alone. [10]
Hodder drew towards the fire the big chair in which it had been Langmaid's wont to sit, and perhaps it was the sight of this operation that loosed the lawyer's tongue. [9]
Upon these roofs the brothers were wont to walk, and here they sat at peaceful evening. [4]
So it was that this spacious kitchen, with its huge chimney, and paved with square flagstones and sanded, became like one of those ancient corners of camaraderie in some exclusive inn where gentlemen of quality were wont to meet. [11]
She felt instinctively that he was a man who was not wont ordinarily to talk about his affairs. [9]
Aunt Polly was tender far beyond her wont, in her good-night to Sid and Mary. [5]
And best can teach its Delphian chord How Nature to the soul is moored, If once again that silent string, As erst it wont, would thrill and ring. [6]
I haste to take Endres' place while Eppelein, his faithful serving-man, whom he had not taken with him as is his wont, holds him up on the other hand. [10]
It is by straws we are enabled to tell which way the wind is blowing, and I first noticed his partiality for Miss Trevor from the absence of the lively conflicts she was wont to have with Farrar. [9]
Our Cyraenian horses stood in marble stalls, and the great hall, in which my father's friends were wont to meet, was like a temple. [10]
They climbed the steps, tottering now with age and disuse, and Virginia playfully raised the big brass knocker, brown now, that Scipio had been wont to polish until it shone. [9]
Even Aunt Easter stepped gingerly, though she was wont to affirm, when assisting Miss Jinny in her toilet, an absolute contempt for Ben's commands. [9]
I thought that sounded mighty pretty, and paused a moment to pat myself on the back, as is my wont when I say something that I think of superior quality. [6]
Where was the smile that was wont to twinkle in his merry eye like the sparkle of a diamond and to play saucily about his lips--where the unwrinkled serenity of his brow and the defiantly audacious demeanor of his whole handsome person? [10]
Insall and her Silliston neighbours were wont, indeed, gently to rally her on her enthusiasms, while understanding and sympathizing with this need in her. [9]
It was foolish, she knew, but their presence seemed--in the magnitude which trifles are wont to assume in the night-watches--of late to have poisoned her pleasure. [9]
Another time when she called Dunyasha her voice trembled, so she called again--though she could hear Dunyasha coming--called her in the deep chest tones in which she had been wont to sing, and listened attentively to herself. [2]
So Dame Maria sat there in sour and virtuous dignity, looking like the Virgin Mary as painters and sculptors were at that time wont to represent her; and her farmer-son shuddered whenever his eye fell on his step-mother. [10]
On this particular sakkia had been wont to sit all day a patient fellah, driving the blindfolded buffaloes in their turn. [11]
Dark things were said of this spot, and the country folk of the island were wont to avoid it. [11]
My uncle had ridden forth at an early hour, and was not yet returned, but my aunt I found below stairs, strange to say, against her wont, dressed and in discourse with the chaplain. [10]
He was wont, quoth he, to take good care not to risk his skin for other folks, but in this matter it seemed to him not too dear a bargain. [10]
May emotions as pure as that song set astir Be the wont that the future shall bring her. [7]
In a never-ceasing procession they steamed up the river; those calm boats which had been wont to carry the white cargoes of Commerce now bearing the red cargoes of war. [9]
In all his proceedings he was wont to know very well, exactly what he wanted, and to do without any fuss or comment whatever he thought right and fitting. [10]
For some time previously, the company's horses had been frequently stolen, and the coaches delayed, by gangs of outlaws, who were wont to laugh at the idea of any man's having the temerity to resent such outrages. [5]
I wrote a prescription for as many baskets of champagne as would be consistent with the well-being of our guests, and such light accompaniments as a London company is wont to expect under similar circumstances. [6]
He took another pinch of snuff, and again forgot to put it to his nose, but brushed imaginary dust from his coat, as was his wont, and whispered to himself: "Why now, why now, I had not thought she was so much a woman. [11]
Let them not perceive that thou art much changed from thy wont, for thou knowest how tenderly thy old play-fellows bear thee in their hearts and how 'twould grieve them. [5]
He hummed in patches to himself the words of a song that the 'brules' were wont to sing when they hunted the buffalo: "'Voila! [11]
The driver pointed out what is called Byron's Path, where he was wont to ride. [4]
Each time that one of the unwieldy traveling-carriages, drawn by several horses, came in sight, in which the wealthy Roman was wont to take his ease on a long journey, or whenever a particularly splendid litter was borne past, Melissa asked the mosaic-worker for information. [10]
And having managed one of the largest plantations in the province, I felt the man, as lads are wont after their first responsibilities. [9]
His voice took on the oily quality in which he was wont to bargain. [9]
Whereupon Ann smiled on him so graciously that I was in pain for him, and she signed to me, and, I taking the lower part as was our wont, we gave Prince Wizlav's "Song to Dame Love. [10]
At the top of this rock stood a tower built of rough blocks, in which the anchorites were wont to take refuge when they were threatened with a descent of their foes. [10]
With the complacency of the sun Honora was wont to regard this most constant of her satellites. [9]
But the fittings of the roofless centre-chamber in which she was wont to perform her incantations and divinations argued no small outlay. [10]
In the catacomb of St. Callixtus, St. Bridget used to remain long hours in holy contemplation, and St. Charles Borromeo was wont to spend whole nights in prayer there. [5]
When I was of smallest dimensions, and wont to ride impacted between the knees of fond parental pair, we would sometimes cross the bridge to the next village-town and stop opposite a low, brown, "gambrel-roofed" cottage. [6]
From the Manor of Rozel he was wont to repair constantly to the little white house, which remained as the two had left it,--his own by order of the Queen,--and there, as time went on, he spent most of his days. [11]
The languid indolence of his movements scarcely impaired the natural dignity of his presence, yet his musical voice was wont to have a feeble, beseeching tone. [10]
As the wounds of a murdered man are said to bleed afresh when the murderer approaches, Caracalla's irritable soul was wont to break out in a frenzy of rage when any one was so rash as to allude to this, his foulest crime. [10]
He did not notice that she kept her hands under her chin as he drew her to him, that she did not, as had been her wont, put them on his shoulders. [11]
Yet was it not easy to supply that which was needed, or to refrain from speech or reproof when, for instance, my brother must need have from the land of Egypt for Ann such another noble horse as the Emirs there are wont to ride. [10]
I gulped down my emotion as the gate creaked behind me, and made my way slowly to the white seat under the big chestnut behind the house, where my grandfather had been wont to sit reading his prints, in the warm weather. [9]
And the Italian must likewise have seen these, inasmuch as that they hung down, whereas they were wont to be drawn to the sides. [10]
On this particular morning, about nine o'clock, he was stacking bolts of woollen goods near that delectable counter where the Colonel was wont to regale his principal customers, when a vision appeared in the door. [9]
And he had, moreover, dropped the subtly sarcastic manner I was wont to associate with him. [9]
After a few minutes he emerged again, an old felt hat on his head which he was wont to wear in the country and a stick in his hand. [9]

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