- The
rivalry among France,
England and the Holy
Roman Empire lent
James unwonted diplomatic weight, and saw him
secure two
politically and
financially advantageous...
- Amneris: "Quale
insolita gioia nel tuo sguardo" / In your
looks I
trace an
unwonted joy). Aida
appears and, when Radamès sees her,
Amneris notices that he...
-
together in his room at the
Royal College of Music, and I
recall vividly his
unwonted happiness over it ... He
ceased to speak, and put his
finger on the note...
- administration, one
outcome of
which was a
general fall of
prices that made the
unwonted regularity of the
collection of
taxes doubly unwelcome,
naturally excited...
- novel,
Melville refers to Moby-**** as "the
White Whale", a
creature of "
unwonted magnitude" with a "remarkable hue" and "deformed
lower jaw".
These traits...
- in the 1840s when "little was done on
those dark days, the
dreamy and
unwonted state of
affairs generating an
excited condition in the Forms, unfavourable...
- of a
double race ... But our
Scots islands far away
Shall glitter with
unwonted day, And cast for once
their tempest by To
smile in Kaiulani's eye. — Robert...
- of the
eighth century when the
Scandinavian peoples and the
Danes show
unwonted activity and more than
usual daring and
persistency in
their robberies...
-
lifting himself to his full height, and
compressing hie fine
features to
unwonted sternness—for he
usually wears a smile—he
turned upon the negro, and with...
-
disturb Theodosius (c. 423–529) at his devotion, "beat the wood" at an
unwonted hour. St.
Sabas (439–532) rose for his
devotions "before the hour of striking...
