wontedly

Updated: May 2, 2025

It was incredible that the wontedly dignified and sweet-tempered collie had thus returned a greeting. Especially from a woman! Mahan had often seen Red Cross nurses stop to caress Bruce. He had been amused at the dog's almost protective cordiality toward all women, whether the French peasants or the wearers of the brassard of mercy.

Albert Payson Terhune - Bruce

Through it all, waking or sleeping, ran a thread of wearisome pain limbs so stiff and flesh so bruised that it seemed to Ann as though the wontedly comfortable mattress on which she lay had been stuffed with lumps of coal. One break occurred in the ordered sequence of sleep and nourishment. This happened when Tony quitted Silverquay to rejoin his uncle.

Margaret Pedler - The Vision of Desire