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  • Corfu he looked very ill to-day, and she wondered if he were really worse or if she were simply disaccustomed to living with an invalid.

    The Portrait of a Lady 2003

  • Sychaeus, and sows the surprise of a living love in the long-since-unstirred spirit and disaccustomed heart.

    The Aeneid of Virgil 70 BC-19 BC Virgil

  • When I became larger and was still unable to earn any money, I would gladly have disaccustomed myself to eating; but when now and then at noon I would pretend to be sick and push back my plate, what did it mean?

    The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 09 Friedrich Hebbel and Otto Ludwig Various

  • In spite of Corfu, he looked very ill to-day, and Isabel wondered whether he were really worse or whether she was simply disaccustomed to living with an invalid.

    Chapter XXXIII 1917

  • He's disaccustomed to travelling by t 'railway, an' he'll be sure to want his rale mistress an 'his friend Learoyd, so ye'll make allowance for his feelings at fost.'

    Soldiers Three Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • In spite of Corfu he looked very ill to-day, and she wondered if he were really worse or if she were simply disaccustomed to living with an invalid.

    The Portrait of a Lady 1881

  • When she had said this she looked at Vinicius with astonishment and regret, for he had disaccustomed her to similar outbursts; and he set his teeth, so as not to tell her that he would have given command to beat such a brother with sticks, or would have sent him as a compeditus

    Quo Vadis: a narrative of the time of Nero Henryk Sienkiewicz 1881

  • In spite of Corfu he looked very ill to-day, and she wondered if he were really worse or if she were simply disaccustomed to living with an invalid.

    The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 2 Henry James 1879

  • "Your late father was serious, never talked at random, and even disaccustomed your mother from laughter!"

    The Precipice Ivan Aleksandrovich Goncharov 1851

  • In 1679, French doctors blasted coffee, because it "disaccustomed people from the enjoyment of wine."

    Slate Magazine Christie Aschwanden 2011

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