1. sealed the deal with the customary handshake
1. "It is not customary to love what one has"
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Quote by Anatole France
2. "large and excellent joints, the delicacies and cleanliness customary in Italy were wanting"
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Alison Weir, The Life of Elizabeth I
3. "The diplomats were at their customary business of making the world safe for new wars."
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F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned
4. "eating together as always: Lily chattering away, Mother and Father making their customary"
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Lois Lowry, The Giver
5. "Our clients' faces, with the customary outward paleness and inner glow of the book lover."
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Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale
6. "Dr. Barlow, it is, of course, customary to check with the caption before, uh, giving away his ship." -Deryn Sharp"
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Scott Westerfeld, Behemoth
7. "Once, as he inhaled with his customary vehemence, I had a thought that made my armpits come alive."
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Martin Amis, House of Meetings
8. "For capitalism to develop, customary ties between people and the land must be severed, and communal obligations among people disrupted."
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Quote by David McNally
9. "Once a person has become detached from his possessions, his customary duties, his moments of solitude, where is he? What is he?"
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Patricia Highsmith, Nothing That Meets the Eye: The Uncollected Stories of Patricia Highsmith
10. "Where you come from it is customary to boil vegetables until they fall apart. This does mean,' said Samad tersely, 'that it is a good idea."
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Zadie Smith, White Teeth