wontedly

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All the familiar tapestries and cushions and rare knick-knacks which wontedly converted the further end of it into a charming reception room were gone.

From The Lamp of Fate by Pedler, Margaret

Thus it was that Bruce missed his wontedly uproarious welcome as he cantered, at sunset one July day, into a smashed farmstead where his friends, the "Here-We-Comes," were bivouacked for the night.

From Bruce by Terhune, Albert Payson

It was incredible that the wontedly dignified and sweet-tempered collie had thus returned a greeting.

From Bruce by Terhune, Albert Payson

If flower I cull or grass, I ponder that it takes Root in that soil, where wontedly she strayed Betwixt the stream and glade, And found at times a seat Green, fresh, and flower-embossed.

From The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and Modern Times by Biese, Alfred

Cottle addressed to him a letter of not very delicate remonstrance on the subject, to which Coleridge replied in his wontedly humble strain.

From English Men of Letters: Coleridge by Traill, H. D. (Henry Duff)