Over all, there is that deft, subtle knowledge of place displayed by its busy inmate, a lifelong Wontedness to surroundings, indefinable and unconscious, which fascinates us, and which reminds us that the same scene may be to one habituated to it the most iterated of commonplace and to new-comers often alive with novelty and interest.
"A Midsummer Drive Through The Pyrenees"
Edwin Asa Dix
That familiar odor of home and the Wontedness of life made her isolation on her little atom of the unusual more pitiful.
"The Portion of Labor"
Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
Well, take them separately or as a group, they were an absorbing study to the man who had seen so little of their kind for so long past, yet knew that kind by the Wontedness of his lifetime.
"The Brown Study"
Grace S. Richmond