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unaccustomedness

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He was a large, heavy, pale-faced young man, with strange, sleek qualities that appealed to her through their unaccustomedness.

From Joanna Godden by Kaye-Smith, Sheila

In the second place, Walnut-tree Farm was so utterly different from the house which was our home, that everything about it was attractive from mere unaccustomedness.

From We and the World, Part I A Book for Boys by Ewing, Juliana Horatia Gatty

But the wind did stream by unceasingly, weird in the unaccustomedness of its silence.

From The Mountains by White, Stewart Edward

Pure self-interest caused the Duke of Stone quite unreservedly to hope that he was anguished by the unaccustomedness of his surroundings, and was ready to pour himself forth to any one who would listen.

From T. Tembarom by Burnett, Frances Hodgson

The burst of feeling which had frightened Paul by its unaccustomedness had passed like a fleeting outbreak of sunshine between dull clouds.

From Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1909 to 1922 by Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud)