"custom" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Ysmay was glad that custom decreed the bride keep her eyes on the plate she shared with the groom.
- It's willing to follow a path that's been trod many times before and content to admire views that time and custom have long since decreed worthy.
- He was guarding the gate, where custom decrees a watch be kept, though no enemy has ever advanced across the desert.
- In many countries custom has decreed that women should play a minor part in public affairs.
- It sounded as though local custom decreed that two acts of physical love constituted grounds for marriage, and he was definitely not ready for that.
- The custom of punctilious courtesy, so deeply ingrained as to mean in his case the impossibility of wounding another, decreed that some pretence must be kept up before Ruth.
- The floor below would serve as an inn; but as custom decreed that the main meal was served at noon, it was rare for guests to stay over.
- Out Island custom also decrees that each island must be presented as one of their gods' runes, on its own chart.
- The cattle were changing owners, and custom decreed that an abstract of title should be indelibly seared on their sides.
- Fujiko bowed to Blackthorne and went away, glad that custom decreed that important matters were always to be handled by a third party in private.
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