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May I ask your patience while she is accustoming herself to it; of your kindness I am well assured.

From Miss Ashton's New Pupil A School Girl's Story by Robbins, Mrs. S. S.

"I find," he writes to Linlithgow on April 21st, "Mr. Welsh is accustoming both ends of the country to face the king's forces, and certainly intends to break out into open rebellion."

From Claverhouse by Morris, Mowbray

"That is what I object to," said Rachel; "it is accustoming them to confound heroism with pugnacity."

From Clever Woman of the Family by Yonge, Charlotte Mary