Unwonted
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He crossed himself twice, as doubting whence arose the
unwonted
softening of a heart, which on such occasions used to resemble in hardness the steel of his sword.
More example sentences with word unwonted
But the unusual occurrences of the few preceding days, the altered mien of her lover during those events, his
unwonted
indifference to herself, and chiefly the romantic idolatry of Isabella, had aroused new sensations in her bosom.
"Very likely," said Sancho, "but that's not my fault, but your worship's, for leading me about at unseasonable hours and at such
unwonted
paces."
There was the widow before him, bouncing bodily here and there, with
unwonted
vigour; and Mr. Tracy Tupman hopping about, with a face expressive of the most intense solemnity, dancing (as a good many people do) as if a quadrille were not a thing to be laughed at, but a severe trial to the feelings, which it requires inflexible resolution to encounter.
Mr. Tupman was not in a condition to rise, after the
unwonted
dissipation of the previous night; Mr. Snodgrass appeared to labour under a poetical depression of spirits; and even Mr. Pickwick evinced an unusual attachment to silence and soda-water.
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