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With the lady's departure an air of wontedness seemed to repossess the room and the two people who were left.

From Hilda A Story of Calcutta by Duncan, Sara Jeannette

That familiar odor of home and the wontedness of life made her isolation on her little atom of the unusual more pitiful.

From The Portion of Labor by Freeman, Mary Eleanor Wilkins

Dick’s imagination in the meantime was far less capable of drawing so much wontedness from his new condition. 

From Under the Greenwood Tree, or, the Mellstock quire; a rural painting of the Dutch school by Hardy, Thomas

Then the two beasts settled themselves to their places with a wontedness that assured Thryng they would be perfectly manageable under her hand.

From The Mountain Girl by Erskine, Payne

With the lady's departure an air of wontedness seemed to repossess the room, and the two people who were left.

From The Path of a Star by Duncan, Sara Jeannette