Wexford wondered if his mother had nagged him into this unaccustomed task.

Chapter 4 IN A SQUALID room, Wolff sat at a table laboriously wielding a pencil by the light of a kerosene lamp--evidently an unaccustomed task.

Slogging her way through a day of unaccustomed tasks, she found herself daydreaming; Nicky miraculously not married after all, arriving on the doorstep and taking her away; Nicky ringing up, even writing a letter.

Wall Street yawned, having long since predicted that the strong economy would erase the deficit, but political leaders dived gleefully into an unaccustomed task: arguing over what to do with spare money.

Then they began the unaccustomed task of hauling all the baskets of grain by hand.

Then Sadler materialized out of shadow and relieved them of the frightful and unaccustomed task of thinking.

Sometimes, executives face unaccustomed tasks at nonprofits.

With a bit of awkwardness at the unaccustomed tasks, he got the horses bedded down in a shed at the side of the little building.

For a couple of days, many people who were unused to driving their own vehicles were forced to perform this unaccustomed task, threading their way through streets filled with other neophyte drivers.

Opening it they found a crude message printed almost illegibly, and with many evidences of an unaccustomed task.