Sentence examples for as the custom of from inspiring English sources

This day, meantime, is one of the unfortunate ones to the Romans, and for its sake two others in every month; fear and superstition, as the custom of it is, more and more prevailing.

The principal minister of the Bey has pledged himself that the last clause of the 12th article of our treaty with this Regency, inserted by Joseph Etienne Famin, shall have the same effect with respect to American merchant vessels as the custom of all other nations at peace with Tunis has established with respect to their own, and no other.

However, the practice of giving an unwanted gift to someone else is surely as old as the custom of gift giving.

This game, later recognised as the fourth Test in history and the first to be played in England, is more important than its result, as the custom of cricket tours between England and Australia was cemented.

Neither was the decapitation of convicted felons unique to Halifax; the earls of Chester amongst others also exercised the right to "behead any malefactor or thief, who was apprehended in the action, or against whom it was made apparent by sufficient witness, or confession, before four inhabitants of the place", recorded as the Custom of Cheshire.

In order for Muhammad to master Arabic in its pure form and become well acquainted with Arab traditions, Āminah sent him as a baby into the desert, as was the custom of all great Arab families at that time.

In the case of a woman, the two of them might, as was the custom of the time, share a bed.

Earlier in the day Syd and Paul had each taken a heroic dose, as was the custom, of LSD, on a sugar-lump.

With 86 shuffling steps, Pope John Paul II approached the Western Wall today, reached out a trembling hand to touch its cool stone, and, as is the custom of Jewish visitors, tucked into a crevice a note to God.

DNA sequencing revealed a mutation in a gene called SCARB1, but, as is the custom of this group and many others, Woidislawsky wasn't told because no one knew what, if anything, the mutation meant.

Darwaza left school without going to Istanbul or Beirut to finish his education as was the custom of his generation.