"Unused" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... tenderness on her friend's part; and indeed in later days Miss Sharp would never have committed herself so far as to advance opinions, the untruth of which would have been so easily detected. But we must remember that she is but nineteen as yet, unused to the art of deceiving, poor innocent creature! and making her own experience in her own person. The meaning of the above series of queries, as translated in the heart of this ingenious young ...
— Vanity Fair • William Makepeace Thackeray
... by the proceedings; the passion for progress and agitation was in his very blood. Here was such an opportunity to strike a blow for unification, and it was passing unused. The women only needed a little rousing, the factory-girls and the married women too, who held back their husbands. And they stood up there, frittering away the time with their singing and their poetry-twaddle! With one leap ...
— Pelle the Conqueror, Complete • Martin Andersen Nexo
... I know, How ye, that play with soul and sense, Are not unused to trouble friends Of goodness, for most gracious ends—[86] And this I speak in ...
— The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Vol. II. • William Wordsworth
... was once one of the best in Africa, but now suffers from poor maintenance; more than 100,000 outstanding requests for connection despite an equally large number of installed but unused main lines domestic: consists of microwave radio relay links, open-wire lines, radiotelephone communication stations, fixed wireless local loop installations, and a substantial mobile-cellular network; Internet connection is available in Harare and planned ...
— The 2008 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
... unused to flattery, save as it came from her grandmother, Theo, or old Hagar, and now paying no heed to his remark she said: "Can you stay here alone while I go for help? Our house ...
— Maggie Miller • Mary J. Holmes
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