1 In another moment she would step forth into the night, and his eyes, accustomed to the obscurity, would discern her as clearly as though she stood in daylight.
2 Zeena came into the room with her dragging down-at-the-heel step, and quietly took her accustomed seat between them.
3 These people, drawn from many different places and with many different backgrounds, gave the whole life of the County an informality that was new to Ellen, an informality to which she never quite accustomed herself.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret MitcheGet Context In CHAPTER III 4 The heavy mahogany table and sideboards, the massive silver, the bright rag rugs on the shining floor were all in their accustomed places, just as if nothing had happened.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret MitcheGet Context In CHAPTER IV 5 Scarlett, accustomed to wide vistas of rolling red hills, felt that she was in prison.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret MitcheGet Context In CHAPTER VII 6 There had been fighting in Tennessee for three years and people were accustomed to the thought of that state as a far-away battle field, almost as far away as Virginia or the Mississippi River.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret MitcheGet Context In CHAPTER XVII 7 The Confederate soldier was so accustomed to his verminous state he did not give it a thought and scratched unconcernedly even in the presence of ladies.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret MitcheGet Context In CHAPTER XXX 8 He was just plain Cracker, a small farmer, half-educated, prone to grammatical errors and ignorant of some of the finer manners the O'Haras were accustomed to in gentlemen.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret MitcheGet Context In CHAPTER XXX 9 But they were, as a class, childlike in mentality, easily led and from long habit accustomed to taking orders.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret MitcheGet Context In CHAPTER XXXVII 10 Soon Atlanta became accustomed to seeing Scarlett and her bodyguard and, from being accustomed, the ladies grew to envy her her freedom of movement.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret MitcheGet Context In CHAPTER XLII 11 In such emergencies, Judy would usually have turned to Lily to fuse the discordant elements; and Miss Bart, assuming that such a service was expected of her, threw herself into it with her accustomed zeal.
House of Mirth By Edith WhartonGet Context In BOOK 1: Chapter 12 12 Such flashes of joy as Lily moved in would have blinded Miss Farish, who was accustomed, in the way of happiness, to such scant light as shone through the cracks of other people's lives.
House of Mirth By Edith WhartonGet Context In BOOK 1: Chapter 14 13 Carol perceived that Mrs. Dyer was accustomed to this indignity.
14 Maybe it ain't any Hotel Radisson parlor, but still, it's so much better than anything these hired girls are accustomed to at home that they think it's fine.
Main Street By Sinclair LewisGet Context In CHAPTER XXIV 15 But Lena asked Jake and me to get off our horses and stay awhile, and behaved exactly as if she were in a house and were accustomed to having visitors.
My Antonia By Willa CatherGet Context In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: IV