Example Sentences

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No surprise or sense of unwontedness entered the minds of the servants at her early ride.

From A Pair of Blue Eyes by Hardy, Thomas

Perhaps the maritime occupation of the Islanders made them enjoy with the zest of unwontedness this rural "shore-holiday."

From Customs and Fashions in Old New England by Earle, Alice Morse

The airy invisibility of the stranger, the unwontedness of the scene, must have played havoc with the Colonel's credulity.

From The Harmsworth Magazine, v. 1, 1898-1899, No. 2 by Various

But in proportion to the unwontedness of such a calamity befalling Lacedaemonians, a widespread mourning fell upon the whole Laconian army, those alone excepted whose sons or fathers or brothers had died at their post.

From Hellenica by Dakyns, Henry Graham

Faintly, tremblingly in the unwontedness of the act, the request was made, and even that slight contact with the unchanging Rock steadied the wavering feet.

From All's Well Alice's Victory by Lewin, M.