One man there was who might have been expected to credit such charges, yet surprised his acquaintances by what seemed an unwonted exercise of charity.
The landlord had received notice that two gentlemen would dine under his roof, and the unwonted event was making quite a stir in the hostelry.
No boy was he, enjoying a rare and unwonted ride--rather was he a knight in armour on his trusty warhorse, pacing forth undauntedly to do battle with tyrants and dragons in the cause of Right.
On his way to the plantations, Mr. Field encountered his head man, whose countenance wore an unwonted expression of gloom.
For a moment he was unable to account for such an unwonted sensation, when suddenly recollection returned to him, and leaping up, he hastily put on his clothes.
Charlotte, with unwonted vehemence; "I would rather do anything than that!
He seemed grateful for his daughter's visit, and received her with unwonted kindness of manner.
Diana was pale; but there was an unwonted light in her eyes, and she had by no means the appearance of a victim newly offered on the sacrificial altar of filial duty.
Unwonted and appalling terror astonished every one, and me more even than the rest.
His plump blond face, flushed with the unwonted heat went darkly red.
Father Brewster lingered for anunwonted hour after the midday meal.
I ask only because of sincere affection for you all, and because the child has aroused in me an unwonted interest.
He said as much to Rosendo in reply; and as he did so, he thought the old man's face took on a queer and unwonted expression.
The unwonted gloom seemed to add to the terror of the forces of the bellowing flood.
He was a largely-built, thick-set Zulu of a rich copper colour, which threw out in unwonted blackness the jetty shine of his head-ring.
But, in reality, not the creak of a beam, not the springing of a board, not an unwonted sound within or without the house escaped his notice.
March and Rose looked at each other aghast at this unwonted outburst from Hazel, and Mrs. Blossom, hearing the wail, made her appearance from the bedroom.
I would, grandmarm," said her granddaughter, gently, taking off the unwonted finery and kissing the wrinkled face.
So, quite worn out at last with all this unwonted excitement, he drowsed off to sleep for as long as ten minutes and dreamed that he was a--bigamist.
With a sudden narrowing-eyed shrewdness the Doctor turned and watched an unwonted flicker of worry on Stanton's forehead.
These unwonted accompaniments of a bachelor supper were looked upon with an evil eye by some of the guests.
Buried in the cushions, she sat, looking into the blaze, a smile of ineffable tenderness illumining her face; her cheeks bright with unwonted scarlet.
The people testified their regret by the unwonted honors paid to the memory of the deceased Inca.
He declared the attack had been brought on by some unwonted exertion beyond her strength, or by some extraordinary strain caused by great fear or overwhelming grief.
As the leather curtain fell the cheering boys caught a last glimpse of the faces of two smiling Sisters, jubilant over the fact that they were carrying home an unwonted treasure for their old people.
He was sensible of unwontedexcitement in a possibility.
Edna regarded the extraordinary light in Sylvia's eyes and her unwonted gayety of manner at the breakfast-table with mental questioning.
I should not have been surprised had her lips, parted already in a mysterious smile, opened still further in a prophetic chanting to the sun.
Some understanding of her began to creep upon him; he dropped the child's hand, and came a step nearer.
These strangers displayed unwonted courage, for the ordinary native has a wholesome dread of our frail craft.
Heriot recognized with a touch of awe his own unwonted fertility.
He only knew that he felt an unwontedexpansion of his heart towards this really charming little daughter.
Peter was the only person present who was at ease; the unwonted joy of finding himself in the "great parlour" had excited him.
So she was left alone and undertook, with trembling hands and dimmed eyes, her unwonted task.
She, however, felt a shrinking from this inspection, an unwonted diffidence and shyness made her almost fancy it would be taking a liberty.
Hassan was now in such a weak state of mind that he no longer recognised his own people in their unwonted garments, and the more extraordinary the things reported to him the more readily he believed them.
The woman in the chimney corner hugged up closer her dirty baby with the delight of so unwonted a feast to her eyes.
Twenty dinners at home could not have given Daisy so much pleasure, as she had now to see the poor cripple look at her unwonted luxuries, and then to see her taste them.
She was there still, when June came back, and stopped and looked at her, a vague expression of care sitting in her black eyes, into which now an unwonted moisture stole.
June stopped; and the little white figure there looked so slight, the attitude of the bended head was so childlike and pitiful, that the mulatto woman's face twinkled and twitched in a way most unwonted to its usual stony lines.
In the meantime Mrs. Darling had put the children to bed in unwonted silence and lit their night-lights.
We usually had intimation of the arrival of a shoal of fish by the unwonted number of sea-birds we saw flying low and diving into the sea, and indeed gorging themselves.
The terror and distress she had undergone had done their worst; and the necessity for exertion past, the overstrung nerves gave way beneath the unwonted tension.
All this I enjoyed often and fully, free, unwatched, and almost alone: for this unwonted liberty and pleasure there was a cause, to which it now becomes my task to advert.
With a steady stare of awakening wonder over Sid's unwontedcaution Hoag followed, first into the open glare of the sun and then under the roof of a wagon-shed.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "unwonted" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
