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long-accustomed

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  • Sure, for those long-accustomed to WSC's previous home, the Clark Street Playhouse, the Artisphere is an eye-popping change.

    Washington Shakespeare Company's haunted 'Richard III' isn't haunting enough Celia Wren 2010

  • The UN move has already compelled all relevant parties to the conflict to re-examine long-accustomed and long-stymied tactics and mindsets.

    Bradley Burston: Ten Reasons Palestine Is Right to Bring its Case to the UN Bradley Burston 2011

  • I mean I'd like Jaison to win, because then, when we wed, he'll be able to support me in the manner to which I am long-accustomed, but I'll still love him even if he loses.

    Tallulah Morehead: Survivor: Samoa: The Silence of the Chickens 2009

  • You will have to forgo no long-accustomed homage; you will not witness and own the depreciation of your smiles.

    The Virginians 2006

  • Captain Murray, by proclaiming their independence while still in open rebellion, and not only abrogated the treaty with the Griquas, but engaged to stop the long-accustomed supplies of gunpowder for the defense of the frontier, and even to prevent them from purchasing it for their own defense by lawful trade.

    Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa 2004

  • By long-accustomed habit his legs bore him to a certain pleasant villa on Goldwire Avenue, and when he realized where he was, he smiled and rang at the gate.

    Asimov's Science Fiction 2004

  • Early involvement of local entrepreneurs and informal-sector artisans would have averted the Project's ill-fated attempt to set up an independent charcoal marketing channel that involved SEDOM entrepreneurs many of whom are retired civil servants long-accustomed to Government subsidies.

    Chapter 5 1993

  • They watched with amusement the cautious and long-accustomed sparring between Picard and Korsmo.

    VENDETTA: THE GIANT NOVEL PETER DAVID 1991

  • They watched with amusement the cautious and long-accustomed sparring between Picard and Korsmo.

    VENDETTA: THE GIANT NOVEL PETER DAVID 1991

  • They watched with amusement the cautious and long-accustomed sparring between Picard and Korsmo.

    VENDETTA: THE GIANT NOVEL PETER DAVID 1991

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