Unwonted

Unwonted silence reigned in the house, the members spoke in whispers, and the ordinary business was transacted with celerity and quietness.

The Last Man 2003

Unwonted numbers of starving sea-gulls and other sea-birds flocked to London in search of human charity, for the very fishes could not withstand the cold, and the inhospitable ocean afforded food no longer to its winged hosts.

A Girl Among the Anarchists Isabel Meredith

Unwonted excitement of going to two Operas told on shattered frame, so staggered to Maiden

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, July 16, 1892 Various

Unwonted and appalling terror astonished every one, and me more even than the rest.

The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini Cellini, Benvenuto, 1500-1571 1910

Unwonted and appalling terror astonished every one, and me more even than the rest.

LXXVII 1909

Unwonted excitement is a sure cause of fatigue, and the emotions of the day had been so many and varied as to produce a complete exhaustion and an almost paralyzing numbness She had also eaten less than usual in the hurry of departure, and felt both hungry and weak.

Arabella 1907

Unwonted and appalling terror astonished every one, and me more even than the rest.

Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 06 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Artists Elbert Hubbard 1885

Unwonted mental disturbance was playing tricks with Polly's complexion.

The Town Traveller George Gissing 1880

Unwonted circumstances may make us all rather unlike ourselves: there are conditions under which the most majestic person is obliged to sneeze, and our emotions are liable to be acted on in the same incongruous manner.

Middlemarch 1871

Unwonted circumstances may make us all rather unlike ourselves: there are conditions under which the most majestic person is obliged to sneeze, and our emotions are liable to be acted on in the same incongruous manner.

Middlemarch: a study of provincial life (1900) 1871