All 6 Uses of
habitual
in
Hard Times
- If Bounderby had been a Conqueror, and Mrs. Sparsit a captive Princess whom he took about as a feature in his state-processions, he could not have made a greater flourish with her than he habitually did.†
Chpt 1.7 *
- All his proceedings were the result of the nicest and coldest calculation; and it was not without cause that Mrs. Sparsit habitually observed of him, that he was a young man of the steadiest principle she had ever known.†
Chpt 2.1
- An ill-made, high-shouldered man, with lowering brows, and his features crushed into an habitually sour expression, he contrasted most unfavourably, even in his mongrel dress, with the great body of his hearers in their plain working clothes.†
Chpt 2.4
- 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.†
Chpt 2.4
- Mrs. Sparsit's talent for — in fact for anything requiring accuracy — with a combination of strength of mind — and Family — is too habitually developed to admit of any question.'†
Chpt 2.9
- 'If that portrait could speak, sir — but it has the advantage over the original of not possessing the power of committing itself and disgusting others, — it would testify, that a long period has elapsed since I first habitually addressed it as the picture of a Noodle.†
Chpt 3.9
Definition:
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(habitual) done regularly