Example Sentences

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For there will be an element of habitual and legitimate custom even in the most unhabitual and detestable things that can be done at all.

From The Note-Books of Samuel Butler by Butler, Samuel

She was shyly aware of a lapse into unhabitual emotion and of some closer approach to the maternal relation fostered by his growing resemblance to James Penhallow.

From Westways by Mitchell, S. Weir (Silas Weir)

My gratitude sped to the Lord, whose sole guidance I perceived in my visit to Nantu and my walk by the unhabitual route of the debris-filled lot.

From Autobiography of a Yogi by Yogananda, Paramahansa

There was a weary distress on his face, mixed with an unhabitual firmness.

From An Ambitious Woman A Novel by Fawcett, Edgar

This exhibition of an unhabitual and more difficult intellectual effort when the patient was mute is suggestive of an inconsistency.

From Benign Stupors A Study of a New Manic-Depressive Reaction Type by MacCurdy, John T. (John Thompson)