The youth did not much effect social accomplishments. He had a passion for music and learned to play the violin. With this instrument he was wont to entertain himself in the intervals of study. Sometimes he would play for company. It was one of his habits to break off suddenly and rather capriciously in the midst of what he was doing. Thus did he with his music. It is narrated that on a certain occasion while playing by invitation for some friends, he suddenly put aside the instrument, saying in a sort of declamatory manner as was his wont--英文原著 · 《James Otis The Pre-Revolutionist》
To Sophocles, the Athenian, greeting. Yesterday, as I was going down to the market-place of Naucratis, I met Nicarete, who of all the hetairai in this place is the most beautiful. Now, the hetairai of Naucratis are wont somehow to be exceedingly fair, beyond all women whom we know. She had with her a certain Phocaean mariner, who was but now returned from a voyage to those parts of Africa which lie below Arabia; and she saluted me courteously, as knowing that it is my wont to seek out and inquire the tidings of all men who have intelligence concerning the ends of the earth.英文原著 · 《Old Friends》
He knocked at the ha' door just as he was wont, and his auld acquaintance, Dougal MacCallum--just after his wont, too,--came to open the door, and said, 'Piper Steenie, are ye there, lad? Sir Robert has been crying for you.'英文原著 · 《Redgauntlet》
For though Turpin tramped to York at a journeyman's leisure, Nicks rode thither at a stretch--Nicks the intrepid and gallant, whom Charles II., in admiration of his feat, was wont to call Swiftnicks.英文原著 · 《A Book of Scoundrels》
`It is your business,' he said, `to save the scoundrels in the other world. Leave to me the profit of their salvation in this.' And the Clerk triumphed after his wont: freedom jingled in his pocket; he doled out comfort, even life, to the oppressed; and he extorted a comfortable fortune in return for privileges which were never in his gift.英文原著 · 《A Book of Scoundrels》
Making a home repair as I am wont to do, when-- Mom is out of town. If you were on the floor-- oh, fuck, I don't even want to say it.美剧 · 《Billions》
I'd feel awful if this great idea fell apart because we got distracted by something else, as we are often wont to do.美剧 · 《Bojack Horseman》
No!! Hey-hey that's not a Nutter-Butter, that's just an old Wonton!美剧 · 《Friends》
I wont even talk! Youll just hear the noise from my video camera.美剧 · 《Friends》