Their author was accustomed in later years to dictate 7,000 words at a sitting while the second Mrs Henty banged about in the back rooms of the house, raising hell with his unhappy sons.
"Violence and disruption stemming from the stresses created by abrupt changes in the climate pose a different type of threat to national security than we are accustomed to today," the report said.
It is this third revision that we are accustomed to today, so it was with avid curiosity that Promenaders crowded into the Albert Hall to hear Kirill Gerstein give the first modern-day performance of Tchaikovsky's first revision from 1879 (Prom 31).
The work was respectfully received when the City Opera gave its premiere in 1993, but Weisgall's edgy, dissonant style, angular lyricism and free adaptation of classical atonal methods may pose problems for audiences accustomed to today's new American operas, which are more eager to please.
There are obvious problems from the start, especially for those who are accustomed to today's discussions of consciousness.
While I enjoy the strategy and technique necessary to be a great boxer, I also understand that MMA is reflective of our current times and serves the instant gratification we've become accustomed to today.
The extraordinary toll, in a place where most residents are accustomed to summer days in which the mercury hits triple digits, has shocked and unnerved state and local officials, leading Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to order up a task force of health and emergency service officials to study how to avoid such deaths.
The family was accustomed to spending Thanksgiving and New Year's Eve in Manhattan, but Ms. Wendt wanted to cultivate a stronger connection to the city than a holiday vacation allowed.
As a result, the footage is not always as clear as we are accustomed to seeing today.
A week ago the election was shaping up in exactly the way to which we've become accustomed over the past decade: the Labour Party, plagued by infighting, was relying on the Greens to prop up the left-wing vote to add at least some credibility to what was going to be an inevitable loss.
