Unwonted

Then, with the waywardness of action which thought and feeling often take in unwonted situations, she began to wonder whether it could be right to be there – not only for her, but for anybody. ❋ Unknown (1864)

He recalled the unwonted agitation of Captain Vere and his excited exclamations so at variance with his normal manner. ❋ Unknown (1924)

Tertullian seems to have often found it necessary to coin unwonted forms of expression, or rather to invent an ecclesiastical nomenclature. ❋ Unknown (1854)

The same day shee was agen taken with a new kind of unwonted fitt, in which, after shee had bin awhile exercised with violence shee got her a sheet [?] & went up & downe, thrusting & pushing, here & there, & anon looking out at a window, & cryed ❋ Unknown (1792)

But the next instant, one of the boatmen, placidly lighting his pipe, was startled by an unwonted harshness in his captain's voice. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Fraction King, who listened greedily, for the time being experiencing unwonted ethical yearnings. ❋ Unknown (2010)

COMPANION could pay him, he felt that he had reduced the perplexity the unwonted amount of money had caused him. ❋ Unknown (2010)

His wretchedness overwhelmed him, and into his eyes came an unwonted moisture. ❋ Unknown (2010)

But whensoever the call came, being so constituted, it was manifest that he should adapt, should adjust himself to the unwonted pressure of new conditions. ❋ Unknown (2010)

It experienced a vague but menacing apprehension that subdued it and made it slink along at the man's heels, and that made it question eagerly every unwonted movement of the man as if expecting him to go into camp or to seek shelter somewhere and build ❋ Unknown (2010)

It was a warm winter's day for Forty-Mile -- a day in which the sky, filled with heaviness, drew closer to the earth, and the mercury sought the unwonted level of twenty below. ❋ Unknown (2010)

His fevered membranes and burnt stomach began to clamour for more and more of the scorching fluid; while his brain, thrust all awry by the unwonted stimulant, permitted him to go any length to obtain it. ❋ Unknown (2010)

My pulse rushed up in an unwonted manner, yet my rage mounted with it. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Ali, thought I, an unwonted benevolence burgeoning, what a delight to me is their delight! ❋ Unknown (2010)

In a moment, however, all the unwonted sensations were gone. ❋ Unknown (2010)

It was the first and last time he treated, until the play changed and his canny soul was roused to unwonted prodigality. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I to know that his willingness to talk was most unwonted and was where the liquor gave him away. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Within me coursed an unwonted sap, and I felt as though I were about to burst out into leaves and buds and green things. ❋ Unknown (2010)

And here on the crest, three hours afterward, he emerged, tired and sweaty, garments torn and face and hands scratched, but with sparkling eyes and an unwonted zestfulness of expression. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I have seen a learned man, drunk with wine, interrogate the new states of consciousness of his unwonted condition, and so doing, gain a more comprehensive psychological insight. ❋ Unknown (2010)