The U.K. tabloids, as is their wont, have branded her “shameless,” “sordid,” and “the scourge of society.”
Still, I valued his opinion, as us perennial patients are wont to do.
If they wont, they should stop the lip service, which is killing more Palestinians.
At one point more than ten publishers were in the mix, some within Random House bidding against each other (as is their wont).
And, as men who use this blatant tactic are wont to do, he became a turn off.
I wont forget how I learned there wasnt any one watching me.
She felt so debased, that she durst not ask for strength where she was wont to find it.
You wont get the best of our sex at stage-doors or in saloon-bars.
When the feast was over the Dwellers in Asgard went to Iduna's garden as was their wont.
They then began to talk of the absent one as had been their wont in the Dairi.
"accustomed," Old English wunod, past participle of wunian "to dwell, be accustomed," from Proto-Germanic *wun- "to be content, to rejoice" (cf. Old Saxon wunon, Old Frisian wonia "to dwell, remain, be used to," Old High German wonen, German wohnen "to dwell;" related to Old English winnan, gewinnan "to win" (see win) and to wean. The noun meaning "habitual usage, custom" is attested from c.1300.
contraction of will not, first recorded mid-15c. as wynnot, later wonnot (1580s) before the modern form emerged 1660s. See will.
