Habitual

Examples

• You are too young--it is an anachronism for you to have such thoughts, said Will, energetically, with a quick shake of the head habitual to him. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• It puts the student in the habitual attitude of finding points of contact and mutual bearings. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The man of whom I speak was a low pantomime actor; and, like many people of his class, an habitual drunkard. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• But Nicholas was neither an habitual drunkard nor a thorough infidel. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Politics are our habitual study, Joe. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• In his seat he had nothing of the awkwardness of the convent, but displayed the easy and habitual grace of a well-trained horseman. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• He knew that this was like the sudden impulse of a madman--incongruous even with his habitual foibles. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Even in the thinking of her endurance, she drew her habitual air of proud indifference about her like a veil, though she soon cast it off again. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• It is obvious that unless the lower eye did thus travel round, it could not be used by the fish while lying in its habitual position on one side. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• There was a certain triteness in these reflections: they were those habitual to young men on the approach of their wedding day. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• He does not take a drink so that he may become an habitual drunkard, or be locked up in jail, or get into a brawl, or lose his job, or go insane. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• He will also achieve pretty much the same stock of knowledge since that knowledge is an ingredient of his habitual pursuits. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• This imperceptibly helped to render habitual the impression within him, that he had done with, and dismissed that part of life. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• He made a grimace which was habitual with him whenever he was out in a game; then subsided into a laugh, and drew a brandy-flask from his pocket. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• His face returned into its lines of habitual anxiety. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• She left the room as she spoke, her features writhed into a sort of sneering laugh, which made them seem even more hideous than their habitual frown. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• And the habitual assurance of security has gone too. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Frankish, however, was his habitual tongue. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Before changing his course, he always needed to shape his motives and bring them into accordance with his habitual standard. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Her extreme habitual reserve would rarely permit her to talk freely or to interrogate others closely. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Half a dozen comfortable market-men, who were habitual callers at the Quiet Woman as they passed by in their carts, were partial to the topic. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• The emperors and dynasties might come and go; the mandarins, the examinations, the classics, and the traditions and habitual life remained. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• She stood awhile at the bedside, one hand placed in the other, gently rocking herself to and fro, in an attitude and with a movement habitual to her. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Legree was not an habitual drunkard. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Her pride was hurt, but her habitual control of manner helped her. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• My habitual mood of humiliation, self-doubt, forlorn depression, fell damp on the embers of my decaying ire. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• And presently afterwards, looking at me with a quicker glance than was habitual to her quiet eye, Le Docteur John l'a-t-il vue dernièrement? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• When I speak of poverty, I do not so much mean the natural, habitual poverty of the working-man, as the embarrassed penury of the man in debt. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The paper man she was making would have had his leg injured, but for her habitual care of whatever she held in her hands. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• He sat in his chair--still, but not at rest: expectant evidently; the lines of now habitual sadness marking his strong features. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.

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