Accustomed

"Accustomed!" said Belinda, smiling: "one does grow accustomed even to disagreeable things certainly; but at this rate, my dear Lady Anne, I do not doubt but one might grow _accustomed_ to Caliban." ❋ Maria Edgeworth (1808)

Spencer Aimes is just your average, undercover, government-hired super-assassin accustomed to a life of exotic European locales, flashy sports cars and even flashier women. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Tell us all again about how: the resulting probabilities would look very different from the probabilities to which we are accustomed is great science. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Playing to the standards to which Green Bay fans have grown accustomed is something else. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The bifurcation between the working poor and the middle class in a capitalist society means that by following the chain of hierarchy to which we have become accustomed translates into those that are most able to exude power being over represented. ❋ Renee (2009)

We are, in short, accustomed to taking cues from the outside world, filtering them through a neural network, and writing our own novel inside our head. ❋ Unknown (2009)

You in Canada have not had that history, but are a part of the great British Empire, and you have been accustomed from the first to think in terms of Imperial power, and therefore of the relations of nations one to another. ❋ Unknown (1917)

To take away from an old woman whose life has been spent in household cares all the foolish little belongings to which her affections cling and to which her very fingers have become accustomed, is to take away her last incentive to activity, almost to life itself. ❋ Unknown (1910)

So much accustomed is he to the knowledge that he must shoot or be shot, that it affects his spirits no more than does the fact that "Man is mortal" spoil the dinner of a plump tradesman in West Europe. ❋ Mary Edith (1909)

Further, the lives of such women are usually sheltered, and thus they do not have very much opportunity of realizing that the meed of ceremony to which they are accustomed is largely a tribute paid, not to themselves or to their womanhood, but to the particular leisured class to which they happen to belong. ❋ Unknown (1909)

And the balance of the golden rule, to which I was accustomed, is an easy one to weigh things in; and even little hands can manage it. ❋ Unknown (1868)

It is a trite evasion to say, that words could not express our long drawn agony; yet how can words image sensations, whose tormenting keenness throw us back, as it were, on the deep roots and hidden foundations of our nature, which shake our being with earthquake-throe, so that we leave to confide in accustomed feelings which like mother-earth support us, and cling to some vain imagination or deceitful hope, which will soon be buried in the ruins occasioned by the final shock. ❋ Unknown (1826)

And this is the first exercise to which an Army ought to become accustomed, that is, to assemble itself quickly: and to do this, you must frequently each day arrange them and disarrange them. ❋ Unknown (2003)

British readers will be accustomed to the use of the code word "youths") ❋ Unknown (2009)

I was accustomed, that is, until one day when the word took on a life of its own. ❋ AMANDA OLLIVER (2011)

Even if you assume irreducible physical uncertainties exist (say because of quantum mechanics), the resulting probabilities would look very different from the probabilities to which we are accustomed which is just that, complete and utter nonsense. ❋ Unknown (2010)