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Search phrase: usual

Plays

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Play	Key Line	Modern Text	Original Text
Hamlet	Ham II.i.22	But, sir, such wanton, wild, and usual slips	But Sir, such wanton, wild, and vsuall slips,
Henry VI Part 3	3H6 IV.v.11	Under the colour of his usual game,	Vnder the colour of his vsuall game,
Henry VIII	H8 I.ii.132	First, it was usual with him – every day	First, it was vsuall with him; euery day
The Merchant of Venice	MV IV.i.72	And bid the main flood bate his usual height,	And bid the maine flood baite his vsuall height,
A Midsummer Night's Dream	MND V.i.35	Where is our usual manager of mirth?	Where is our vsuall manager of mirth?
The Taming of the Shrew	TS III.i.12	After his studies or his usual pain?	After his studies, or his vsuall paine?

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Glossary

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appurtenance	usual accompaniment, accessory
cart	drive around in a cart [usual punishment for a prostitute]
common	average, usual, general, ordinary
custom	habit, usual practice, customary use
customed	customary, ordinary, usual
exercise	habitual activity, usual occupation, employment
going	walking, going at one's usual pace
old	normal, usual, commonplace
ordinary	routine, norm, usual procedure
residence	normal place of performance, usual venue [in the city]
unfurnished	lacking tapestries, without the usual fittings
use	usual practice, habit, custom
used	customary, usual, accustomed
wonted	accustomed, usual, customary

Thesaurus

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accompaniment, usual	appurtenance
fittings, without the usual	unfurnished
going at one's usual pace	going
occupation, usual	exercise
pace, going at one's usual	going
practice, usual	custom
practice, usual	use
usual	common
usual	customed
usual	old
usual	used
usual	wonted
usual accompaniment	appurtenance
usual occupation	exercise
usual practice	custom
usual practice	use
venue, usual	residence

Themes and Topics

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Responses	... there are few instances of yes as the usual affirmative response in that play is ay...
Thou and you	...gulars giving speakers a choice it was usual for you to be used by inferiors to super... ...macy as when addressing god and it was usual when the lower classes talked to each ot...

Words Families

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Word Family	Word Family Group	Words
UNUSUAL	BASIC	see USUAL
USUAL	BASIC	usual adj, usually adv
USUAL	NOT	unusual adj

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