Habitually

Examples

• I can only suppose now, that it was a part of his policy, as a very clever man, habitually to deceive his own instruments. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• One of Lydgate's gifts was a voice habitually deep and sonorous, yet capable of becoming very low and gentle at the right moment. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• I don't show what I feel; some of us are obliged habitually to keep it down. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• If one had habitually breathed the New York air there were times when anything less crystalline seemed stifling. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• All her eagerness for acquirement lay within that full current of sympathetic motive in which her ideas and impulses were habitually swept along. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• But my voice (habitually gentle) possesses a high note or so, in emergencies. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Play then changes to fooling and if habitually indulged in is demoralizing. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• I don't wish to make a display of my feelings, but I have habitually thought of you more in the night than I am quite equal to. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• The consciousness of what he habitually did, oppressed the girl heavily, and she slowly cast down her eyes. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Whereas you couldn't be more occupied with your day's calculations and combinations than you habitually show yourself to be, if you were a carpenter. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Mrs Veneering is habitually disposed to be tearful, and has an extra disposition that way after her late excitement. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• The multitude worshipped on trust--though always distinctly knowing why--but the officiators at the altar had the man habitually in their view. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• It made us all lethargic before we had gone far, and when we had left the Half-way House behind, we habitually dozed and shivered and were silent. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• If I could have been habitually imposed upon, instead of habitually discerning the truth, I might have lived as smoothly as most fools do. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• That is what I say, returned Mrs. Mawmsey, who habitually gave weight to her speech by loading her pronouns. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• In the Onites apelles the tarsi are so habitually lost that the insect has been described as not having them. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• Breeders habitually speak of an animal's organisation as something plastic, which they can model almost as they please. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• By general consent, they even avoided that side of the street on which he habitually walked; and left it, of all the working men, to him only. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• Many men and a yet larger number of women , and many boys and girls, declared that they habitually saw mental imagery, and that it was perfectly distinct to the m and full of color. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• But still there are many hermaphrodite animals which certainly do not habitually pair, and a vast majority of plants are hermaphrodites. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• The uncle, a rigid old gentleman of strong force of character; the nephew, habitually timid, repressed, and under constraint. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• A clew to the matter may be found in the fact that the supporters of the interest side of the controversy habitually use the term self-interest. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The increase of these flies, numerous as they are, must be habitually checked by some means, probably by other parasitic insects. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• He gorged himself habitually at table, which made him bilious, and gave him a dim and bleared eye and flabby cheeks. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• In face, watchful behind a blind; habitually not uncensorious and contemptuous perhaps. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Mr and Mrs Veneering, for example, arranging a dinner, habitually started with Twemlow, and then put leaves in him, or added guests to him. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Being habitually silent on the subject of human folly, I am all the readier to keep my lips closed on this occasion. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.

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