Indeed, his crooked eye became straight with indignation, while his neck no longer retained its wonted curve.
Here he paused, as his face assumed its wonted seriousness, and that wart, now historical, looked brighter than ever.
People without homes in the old world found happy homes there; civilization drove the buffalo from his wonted haunt to give place to man; man himself yielded to the power of progress marching westward.
With their wonted heartiness, his men made answer in "shouts and acclamations, while the drums thunder a march to meet the promised conflict.
I thought she was coming with your aunt to take possession of the guest-chamber," Kitty said at last, smiling through her tears, wishing to change the current of thought which deprived her lover of all his wonted composure.
She listened amazed to his tone, which, with all its wonted calmness, trembled audibly as if in consequence of throbbing pulses.
Lashmar inquired, trying to speak with his wonted calm, but betraying a good deal of nervousness.
A good age," remarked the athletic lawyer, with obvious difficulty subduing his wonted breeziness.
Yet her gaze had nothing wild; on the contrary, it searched him with all the wonted keenness.
Lord Dymchurch sat in his usual corner of the library, and, on Lashmar's approach, smiled his wonted greeting.
And here she remains, until the anguish of her joy runs out, and her mind resumes its wonted calm.
He has bid his charge good morning, and hurries back to his wonted haunts.
What Time hath done with me I cannot tell," said he, with less than his wonted ease, "save that nothing Time can do can avail to quench old feelings.
As he himself expressed the matter with wonted Latinity.
But the feeling of generosity which for a moment gleamed on his heart, like a brief sunbeam on a stormy day, gave way to the wonted selfishness with which that heart was clouded.
The doubling hare, When flying from the swift pursuit of hounds, Baying loud triumph, leaves her wonted path, And seeks security within her nest.
But Miss Dilly was ill now and unable to do her part; and what was worse, and more, she had lost her wonted cheerful and gay way of looking at things.
So it was that Faith's joy had its wonted mixture of gravity when she met the Squire again.
A little quieter, perhaps, when not called out of it; a little shyer of even innocently putting herself forward; but in speech or action, speaking and acting with her wonted free simplicity.
The grin was gone, and the farmer stood with his wontedsolemnity of face and manner.
But he evinced his wonted imprudence in making public what had better have been concealed, and in dragging into the controversy Sir Thomas Blacket, a near relative of Sir Alexander’s wife.
On Easter Sunday he performed his wonted devotions in St. Paul’s Cathedral.
She came in soon, and sat down in her wonted chair by the fire.
Then he would break out from his wonted quietness at times to rail at his foes, calling down the wrath of Heaven to blight them.
The Latin dictionary does not help us to its meaning, and it might be that of the French cultiver, from which we should have, by the wonted changes, to cultive.
Lot came forward from a cluster of young firs, parting the rank undergrowth with the careless wonted movement of one who steers his way among his own household goods.
Thus vice has been banished from her wonted haunts, and the Park has become a respectable evening promenade.
XI It was Carnival Week, and the people had resumed their wonted gaiety.
These abuses daily increase since the Censors, discouraged by the multitude of Empirics swarming in every Corner, have omitted their wonted searches, being to their loss of time, and expences out of their own Purses for the publick good only.
With his wonted observance of religious duty, slowly he made his way to the cathedral through the shouting multitude, and to the sound of many fiddles and the fanfare of trumpets.
Meanwhile Tom Holtum was being introduced at Moolapund, where he was very soon at his ease, and chatting away with his wonted fearless candour, which Harry had been heard to call "impudence and vanity rolled up in whale's blubber.
Moreover, Dante and Petrarch passed for almost classical; and in nearly all such instances of condescension, pecuniary interest swayed the scholar from his wonted orbit.
His voice soon regained its wonted tone, when he thus continued the relation of his misfortunes.
And, though the shady gloom Had given day her room, The sun himself withheld his wonted speed, And hid his head for shame.
In urns and altars round, A drear and dying sound Affrights the Flamens at their service quaint; And the chill marble seems to sweat, While each peculiar power foregoes his wonted seat.
Such a female population could not grow up in a young colony, with the wonted preponderance of males, and leave no traces in subsequent generations.
