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Usual   /jˈuʒəwəl/  /jˈuʒuəl/   Listen
adjective
Usual  adj.  Such as is in common use; such as occurs in ordinary practice, or in the ordinary course of events; customary; ordinary; habitual; common. "Consultation with oracles was a thing very usual and frequent in their times." "We can make friends of these usual enemies."






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"Usual" Quotes from Famous Books



... due course, matters had altered considerably for the better on my being again left behind in my glory; and, but for the fact of being deprived of the close companionship of my constant chum Tom, I can honestly say that my life was far happier than when the school was going on as usual. ...
— On Board the Esmeralda - Martin Leigh's Log - A Sea Story • John Conroy Hutcheson

... whom he had lived in dread, than James had seen him show over any patient since he had been with him. It seemed to him inconsistent. Mrs. Ewing did not come down to luncheon; Clemency said that she was not feeling as well as usual but Gordon did not seem much disturbed even by that. He gave Clemency some powders, with instructions how to administer them to the sick woman before he left, but he did not show concern, and did not go upstairs to see her. Clemency ...
— 'Doc.' Gordon • Mary E. Wilkins-Freeman

... was a little conversation between the two sisters, just before Georgiana's departure to the railway station, which was almost touching. She had endeavoured to hold up her head as usual, but had failed. The thing that she was going to do cowed her even in the presence of her sister. 'Sophy, I do ...
— The Way We Live Now • Anthony Trollope

... went home late. It had been a poor day for him, and his receipts were less than usual, though he ...
— Luke Walton • Horatio Alger

... returned with his mother, who seemed gayer, happier than usual. Esperance went at once to speak to her and was enthusiastically ...
— The Idol of Paris • Sarah Bernhardt


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