wontedly
Example Sentences
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In place of his wontedly correct, if garish, form of dress, he was clad in ragged calico shirt and soiled drill trousers whose lower portions were in ribbons.
From Black Caesar's Clan : a Florida Mystery Story by Albert Payson Terhune
Cottle addressed to him a letter of not very delicate remonstrance on the subject, to which Coleridge replied in his wontedly humble strain.
From English Men of Letters: Coleridge by H. D. (Henry Duff) Traill
It was incredible that the wontedly dignified and sweet-tempered collie had thus returned a greeting.
From Bruce by Albert Payson Terhune
If flower I cull or grass, I ponder that it takes Root in that soil, where wontedly she strayed Betwixt the stream and glade, And found at times a seat Green, fresh, and flower-embossed.
From The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and Modern Times by Alfred Biese
Very soon there occurred an accident, not uncommon in unfortunate marriages, but which for special reasons was, in the family of Tiberius, far more than wontedly dangerous.
From Characters and events of Roman History by Frances Lance Ferrero
