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  • Do you habitually have a sensitive stomach, Beatrice?†   (source)
  • April rain falls slantwise through the billboard's spotlights and Volkheimer's television flickers blue and he ducks habitually as he passes through the doorway between his kitchen and the main room.†   (source)
  • The sheriff was a lean figure, unimposing, who habitually chewed a stick of Juicy Fruit gum (though he wasn't chewing any at the moment, mostly out of deference to the American legal system, which he believed in wholeheartedly despite its flaws).†   (source)
  • Her habitual manner was one of amazement—that some right-minded Zebulon County person would actually let such a piece get away from the family, or else that some city person would actually pay what Dinah asked for it.†   (source)
  • In those cases, the comfort quotient became a negative number, and doing what came habitually actually detracted from happiness.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Meany called out; her voice now sounded merely habitual—or as if she were imparting a prerecorded message.†   (source)
  • Dr. Stanpole was not patrolling the corridor as he habitually did when he was not busy, so I sat down on a bench amid the medical smells and waited.†   (source)
  • No one in her family, however, noticed the transformation in her, and she was not able to resist the power of their habitual expectations.†   (source)
  • They extended this privacy veil habitually, as a matter of course, but even so they could see this man meant something to this woman.†   (source)
  • It nestled in the darkness inside a leather satchel which Ford Prefect habitually wore slung around his neck.†   (source)
  • My hand worries the absence on my left side, a habitual gesture now.†   (source)
  • "Not at all," his father says eventually, one hand going to his ribs, a habitual gesture that has baffled Gogol until now.†   (source)
  • Many could not read, which was a serious impediment now that I habitually read to Suleiman late in the afternoons.†   (source)
  • It was the sudden change, from my habitual lack of expression to something human, that some of the Seven Issas found disturbing.†   (source)
  • As if to compensate for all this watching, Nathan habitually overlooked me.†   (source)
  • I drew close to the walls, trying in my habitual detachment only to understand the nature of her cry.†   (source)
  • But all the way home he forgot he wasn't in Australia still, and he habitually drove on the wrong side of the road.†   (source)
  • So, usually, these habitual gargoyles get kicked out of CIC before too long.†   (source)
  • With insults and threats they led her in to Colonel Garcia, whom she could recognize blindfolded by his habitual cruelty, even before he opened his mouth.†   (source)
  • We don't habitually get captured.†   (source)
  • As indifferent and irregular as he had been until then regarding food, that was how habitual and austere he became until the end of his days: a large cup of black coffee for breakfast, a slice of poached fish with white rice for lunch, a cup of cafe con leche and a piece of cheese before going to bed.†   (source)
  • Eragon soon mastered the ability, and as the motion became habitual, his mind was freed to daydream.†   (source)
  • Elliott had been a short, pudgy, unattractive kid with too white skin and carrot red hair that was habitually frizzed out.†   (source)
  • Madura foot was found wherever people habitually walked barefoot, but the town of Madurai, not far from Madras, had the dubious honor of lending its name to this disease.†   (source)
  • It was the only necessity that I didn't habitually carry with the rest of my tools because it was too big.†   (source)
  • And, for the same reason, she habitually kept her windows closed.†   (source)
  • He looked up as Simon entered the room and scowled his habitual scowl, but said nothing.†   (source)
  • Cholly, by his habitual drunkenness and orneriness, provided them both with the material they needed to make their lives tolerable.†   (source)
  • Had all the people she was habitually nasty to caught her behind the gym and scalped her?†   (source)
  • They say I'm a habitual hassler.†   (source)
  • But an earnest young Presbyterian chaplain with the New Jersey troops, a graduate of the College of New Jersey at Princeton, Philip Vickers Fithian, found the level of piety alarmingly below his expectations and worried what the consequences might be to the American cause of so many of all ranks so habitually taking the name of the Lord in vain.†   (source)
  • Stalin's son habitually left a foul mess.†   (source)
  • And even those in the audience who were familiar with Lenny's habitual scat, the vocal apparatus with its endless shifts and modulations and assumed identities, the release of underground words and tensions—they felt a small medicinal jolt at the pitch of the decorator's voice.†   (source)
  • When her key rattled the door, Mr. Freeman would have already asked his habitual question, "Hey, Bibbi, have a good time?"†   (source)
  • If a company habitually paid below 80 percent, Feldman might post a hectoring note, like this one: The cost of bagels has gone up dramatically since the beginning of the year.†   (source)
  • "Stop crying," I said, but although she habitually followed me around, she did not obey.†   (source)
  • In a habitual gesture, Frannie tapped his dark-framed glasses back up his nose.†   (source)
  • Given Cooper's habitual silence, Max entertained himself at night by trying to draw the many creatures he had seen.†   (source)
  • Allege adultery, habitual cruel and inhuman treatment, desertion, drunkenness, abuse, nonsupport, throw in everything because the marriage is over whether Lettie would admit it or not.†   (source)
  • But by the next Sunday, when we gathered at the Delf, I did my habitual count of persons and was surprised to find that all who had been there when last we gathered for worship were there again.†   (source)
  • He offered her one of the sugared nuts from the bag he habitually carried, studying her, and measuring if she was up to what was waiting in the bedroom beyond.†   (source)
  • If Carlos hadn't habitually positioned his own car for a quick exit, they might have escaped him as well.†   (source)
  • The places the illegals habitually cross are dragged each day, to erase old footprints.†   (source)
  • His habitual absence emboldened the more brutal prison officials and gave them carte blanche to do whatever they wanted.†   (source)
  • She took a long drink, then leaned against the counter and propped one leg against the cupboards behind her in her habitual pose.†   (source)
  • I still love you, Gustavo, but it's a habitual love, a wound in the knee that predicts rain.†   (source)
  • Way too into himself, not the type to move in a habitual keeper, love or no love.†   (source)
  • To begin with it was easy and habitual, but then he could do it only by redirecting his attention, or by a deliberate relaxation in which he put all thoughts of her out of his mind.†   (source)
  • Dominating the concourse, but ignored by the travelers as a habitual sight, stood a statue of Nathaniel Taggart, the founder of the railroad.†   (source)
  • My father habitually bought sundry pieces of furniture whenever he stepped into a store; he showed little judgment in his choices.†   (source)
  • As if that scrawl was the result of great discipline, as if at the age of thirty or so she had been blasted, forgotten how to write, lost the use of a habitual style and forced herself to cope with a new dark unknown alphabet.†   (source)
  • Just then, for the first time since he had lain down, Zooey, with his eyes still shut, compressed his lips—very much, as a matter of parenthetical fact, in the habitual style of his mother.†   (source)
  • The water pipeline habitually froze during the winter, and my brothers and I spent many mornings unfreezing the pipe with hot coals from the fire.†   (source)
  • The legislature has often "decided rights which should have been left to judiciary controversy, and the direction of the executive, during the whole time of their session, is becoming habitual and familiar."†   (source)
  • Or maybe he just habitually had one stuck in his mouth.†   (source)
  • She mocked the loving care he gave to the sheet of blond hair that fell over his forehead, and she referred to him habitually as "the Prince of Roland Park."†   (source)
  • The Prime Minister passed his hand across his face, an habitual gesture.†   (source)
  • What still amazes is the handwriting: not the placid, diligently legible schoolboy script I habitually used, but a savage scurrying scrawl indicating the breakneck speed of distraught emotions.†   (source)
  • An autopsy was to be made today, but their prosector was a habitual drunkard and you never could tell how careful he would be.†   (source)
  • Combined with his habitual expression of cynicism it gives his countenance a Mephistophelian cast.†   (source)
  • And yet it is habitual to summer nights, and is of the great order of noises, like the noises of the sea and of the blood her precocious grandchild, which you realize you are hearing only when you catch yourself listening.†   (source)
  • Eugene slowed his step obediently here; at the jobbing butcher's he was habitually caught.†   (source)
  • Her aunt, who listened to this with no diminution of her habitual scorn, was yet unable to deny that from generation to generation, things, as she grudgingly put it, were bound to change?†   (source)
  • She would stop herself in the middle of one of her habitual fantasies about the old days, which she projected into her future, saying dully to herself that there would be no future.†   (source)
  • But even though I felt her presence, I also felt the habitual fruitlessness of thinking about her.†   (source)
  • Lindsey looked over the hood of the car at our brother—her habitual check-in mode still operating.†   (source)
  • It's a face that hints at habitual hard living.†   (source)
  • The young habitually mistake lust for love, they're infested with idealism of all kinds.†   (source)
  • I was flattered, so I smiled and waved back in spite of my habitual fearfulness.†   (source)
  • I glanced at Ty's face, at his plate, the wife habitually noticing what the husband was eating.†   (source)
  • He'd thank me for meals and habitually used the word "please."†   (source)
  • Guitar, a habitual street roamer, believed he knew every public thing going on in the city.†   (source)
  • Her hands were light and competent on the wheel, her hair scooped back in its habitual braid.†   (source)
  • The actual paper answer sheets were not included; they were habitually shredded soon after a test.†   (source)
  • He habitually met every command with resistance.†   (source)
  • His masseter muscles stood out, outlining his jaw, as if he habitually clenched his teeth.†   (source)
  • Habitual cruel and inhuman treatment; adultery; desertion; physical abuse.†   (source)
  • He handled the antiques with the competence of experience and, she thought, habitual use.†   (source)
  • It was Adams's impression that Jefferson was pulling back from his habitual extravagances.†   (source)
  • He continued his habitual weekday morning routine.†   (source)
  • Some would have called Jim Hawkins habitual, even boring.†   (source)
  • Seen this way she is younger than he's thought; and, with her habitual expression of strained anxiety wiped away by unconsciousness, much more attractive.†   (source)
  • They found the Captain in the dining room, in a disheveled condition that did not accord with his habitual neatness: he was unshaven, his eyes were bloodshot from lack of sleep, his clothing was still sweaty from the previous night, his speech was interrupted by belches of anisette.†   (source)
  • The vortex's ghastly howl faded into the usual noise of the wind; the water assumed a calm, flat quality that betrayed no hint of the habitual violence visited upon that location; and the contorted fog that had writhed above the abyss melted under the warm rays of the sun, leaving the air as clear as oiled glass.†   (source)
  • Do they not hear me hollering over the fence at my sons every day in the habitual, maternal accents of a native-born fishwife?†   (source)
  • Within a few days her spiritualist friends, the Rosicrucians, the Theosophists, the acupuncturists, the telepathists, the rainmakers, the peripatetics, the Seventh-Day Adventists, and the hungry or otherwise needy artists began to appear—all those who had habitually been part of Clara's court.†   (source)
  • Habitual fretting about her children, her husband, her sister, the help, had rubbed her senses raw; migraine, mother love and, over the years, many hours of lying still on her bed, had distilled from this sensitivity a sixth sense, a tentacular awareness that reached out from the dimness and moved through the house, unseen and all-knowing.†   (source)
  • And in that drowsy, comfortable state I had a strange, habitual mortal feeling, that the sun would wake me gently later and I would have that rich, habitual vision of the ferns in the sunshine and the sunshine an the droplets of rain.†   (source)
  • Today she wears her habitual expression of strained anxiety; she smells of violets, and also of camphor — she is doubtless prone to headaches — and of something else he can't quite place.†   (source)
  • She was habitually defiant and fearless, and when she felt controlled, as she often did, she could be irresistibly willful.†   (source)
  • He had just made a nasty comment about how the employee's lounge reeked of cigarettes when she smiled and brought out her then-habitual pack of Pall Malls.†   (source)
  • Swiftly he undoes the none-too-clean bibbed apron which she is wearing, and which he recognizes as the one habitually worn by slovenly Dora; then he unbuttons the front of her dress, noticing as he does so that there is a button missing, with the threads still hanging in place.†   (source)
  • If she remembered that, before the fire, she had wept real tears in my arms, it made no change in her; she was, as always in the past, a person of little indecision, a person for whom habitual quiet did not mean anxiety or regret.†   (source)
  • I remember because the gardener, Zahid, was there, being his habitual lazy self, leaning on a rake and saying how he might call it a day on account of the nasty weather.†   (source)
  • She had habitually arrived early ever since taking the job, and now she gave a quick thanks that this was so.†   (source)
  • Habitual tardiness?†   (source)
  • I could not drive with Daddy, or even be in the same room with him, without a looming sense of his presence, but once he turned forward in the seat and began to look out the window, I took up my now habitual thoughts of Jess Clark.†   (source)
  • Habitually putting himself in other people's shoes, he was in his private life charming and engaging, generous and genuinely empathetic.†   (source)
  • The Maycomb County High School principal was a Mr. Charles Tuffett, who to compensate for his name, habitually wore an expression that made him resemble the Indian on a five-cent piece.†   (source)
  • Ambitious to excel—to make himself known—he had nonetheless recognized at an early stage that happiness came not from fame and fortune, "and all such things," but from "an habitual contempt of them," as he wrote.†   (source)
  • Like a slot machine, fed habitually, mindlessly, monotonously, so that you're almost shocked when the jackpot falls in your lap.†   (source)
  • It was the same day, the same time, we met for our habitual lunch— the same lunch I never wanted to go to.†   (source)
  • Its common features— such as he start for he starts; we going instead of we are going; and we be going for a habitual action—can be heard everywhere.†   (source)
  • After the tension, the anger, the bravado of her earlier state of mind, followed by the violence of Pilate's words to her granddaughter, this quiet social-tea tone disarmed her, threw her too soon and too suddenly back into the mannered dignity that was habitual for her.†   (source)
  • Just from the little I know about the group of teenagers the boy had as friends, they are habitual drunks.†   (source)
  • She glanced around her and thought, in habitual professional calculation, how wonderful it was that one could buy so much for a dime.†   (source)
  • This thirst for worn things led him to casual but habitual examinations of trash barrels in alleys and wastebaskets in public places.... All in all, his personality was an arabesque: intricate, symmetrical, balanced, and tightly constructed—except for one flaw.†   (source)
  • Habitually.†   (source)
  • In a gesture Eve recognized as habitual and automatic, Samantha bent to give the cat one quick scratch between the ears.†   (source)
  • Adams instinctively disliked Bancroft, thought him a gossip, found his habitual mocking of Christianity offensive, thought him dishonest and rightly suspected him of using inside information to profit on the London stock market.†   (source)
  • His mouth was set in its habitual glower, the corners bent downward in perfect convexity, and his ashen head blended seamlessly into the white clouds overhead.†   (source)
  • Habitually?†   (source)
  • Rearden hung up the telephone receiver, with a frown of worry, not about the problem of fuel and the end of the California oil fieldsdisasters of this kind had become habitual-but about the fact that the Washington planners found it necessary to placate him.†   (source)
  • But they went to their usual posts and went on with their habitual routine, pulling levers, pressing buttons, feeding leather into automatic cutters, piling boxes on a moving belt, wondering, as the hours went by, why they did not catch sight of the foreman, or the superintendent, or the general manager, or the company president.†   (source)
  • The sight and sound of water became a torment; Fitzsimmons habitually avoided areas of the barn where horses were being washed because the spectacle of flowing water was agonizing.†   (source)
  • But to have any chance against War Admiral, Smith knew he was going to have to make the habitually pace-stalking Seabiscuit, who had to fight the inertia of a much blockier heavier body, into a rocket-fast breaker.†   (source)
  • Holding himself erect, his tall figure moving with the unstressed, unhurried confidence of habitual authority, the white of a fine handkerchief in the breast pocket of his black dinner jacket, he walked slowly down the stairs to the drawing room, looking-to the satisfaction of the dowagers who watched him-like the perfect figure of a great industrialist.†   (source)
  • Doing homework is imperative; some runners habitually drift in or out in the homestretch or on turns, and the jockey who can arm himself with this knowledge and position himself on the rail behind such a horse can ensure himself a clear path of escape.†   (source)
  • Eugene was walking down the habitual hills to Bertsingers', Jewelers, and with sharp sniffs that as always rather pained him after breakfast he was taking note of the day, its temperature, fog condition, and prospects of clearing and warming up, all of which would be asked him by Mr. Bertsinger Senior, who would then tell him if he was right.†   (source)
  • Then as if this phrase automatically aroused an habitual association in his mind, he glances up at the chandelier disapprovingly.†   (source)
  • At noontime I no longer browsed in the Post, but walked over to the newspaper stand near Times Square and bought a copy of the Daily Worker, which without ostentation—indeed, with grave casualness—I read, or tried to read, at my desk in my habitual way as I chewed at a kosher pickle and a pastrami sandwich, relishing each instant I was able to play, in this fortress of white Anglo-Saxon power, the dual role of imaginary Communist and fictive Jew.†   (source)
  • While she talked, pushing the roughened hair out of her eyes with her habitual impatient gesture, he felt hurt too; he recognized the justice of her remarks, he was prevented from defensiveness because of the impartiality of her voice; but at the same time the impartiality stung him and wounded him.†   (source)
  • This was the church where the sounds of music and dancing came from habitually on many another night besides Sunday, clearly to be heard on top of the hill.†   (source)
  • He has a round kewpie's face—a kewpie who is an unshaven habitual drunkard.†   (source)
  • The judge sat in his habitual pose, his head sunk down into his neck.†   (source)
  • Men are kind to a faithful wagging dog, but he must not walk habitually upon two legs.†   (source)
  • Meanwhile, here are five specimens of the English language as it is now habitually written.†   (source)
  • Therefore, they habitually feared a man who stood alone.†   (source)
  • Hugo seems asleep in his habitual position.†   (source)
  • But so was her habitual shrewdness involuntary, the shrewd suspiciousness of a rich girl.†   (source)
  • Simon, however, preserved his habitual appearance of immaculate and well-washed urbanity.†   (source)
  • The males, who habitually meet these outsiders, do not feel that way; their confidence, if they are confident, is of a different kind.†   (source)
  • It happened again just as they were passing one another: it was only a twitch, a quiver, rapid as the clicking of a camera shutter, but obviously habitual.†   (source)
  • I propose, as I say, to enroll a special legion, the members to be paid for their services at the same rate as they get habitually, with, of course, the additional expenses.†   (source)
  • It was more sad than ironical; it was indeed utterly and hopelessly sad; it conveyed a quiet despair, born partly of conviction, partly of a mode of thought which had become habitual with him.†   (source)
  • Unlike the fluent, methodical way in which she habitually moved about the kitchen, her manner now was disjointed, uncertain.†   (source)
  • Twelve of the town's most prominent citizens revealed as habitual frequenters of Belle Watling's sporting house!†   (source)
  • Even though she was engaged, my mother had disapproved at first with halfhearted, habitual disapproval.†   (source)
  • The present must be smooth, habitual.†   (source)
  • Barnard, on the other hand, accepted the position with what Conway had learned to regard as an habitual good humor.†   (source)
  • An habitual uneasiness made the priest beat at the mule — 'Mula, Mula,' but the mule took its time, sliding down the bank towards the river.†   (source)
  • The liftman slammed the gates, touched a button and instantly dropped back into the droning twilight of the well, the twilight of his own habitual stupor.†   (source)
  • I spoke loudly to make myself heard above the dance music, but he answered softly in English fluent enough to suggest that it was now habitual to him.†   (source)
  • And she illustrated how Mama was to turn to me, terribly exact, if she had only been able to drop her habitual grandeur.†   (source)
  • It was a face that seemed habitually silent and unspeaking, as though it could not speak if it would.†   (source)
  • I, standing with my razor in my hand, became suddenly aware of the merely habitual nature of my action (this is the drop forming) and congratulated my hands, ironically, for keeping at it.†   (source)
  • For him it was impossible to drift into the habitual callousness of the sort of officialdom that sees men only as pawns to be shifted here and there and "expended" at the will of others.†   (source)
  • Thus, whereas plague by its impartial ministrations should have promoted equality among our townsfolk, it now had the opposite effect and, thanks to the habitual conflict of cupidities, exacerbated the sense of injustice rankling in men's hearts.†   (source)
  • "The most habitual thing for this Court to do is to take the line of least resistance and follow the suggestion of the State's Attorney and say, "Death!"†   (source)
  • One moment more, with her head raised, she listened, as if she waited for some habitual sound, some regular mechanical sound; and then, hearing something rhythmical, half said, half chanted, beginning in the garden, as her husband beat up and down the terrace, something between a croak and a song, she was soothed once more, assured again that all was well, and looking down at the book on her knee found the picture of a pocket knife with six blades which could only be cut out if James was very careful.†   (source)
  • Here his old father habitually sat squatting on his thighs and leaning against the wall and here he sat now, having taken his bowl of food there to sup it, now that the children filled the but to bursting when they were clamoring.†   (source)
  • —save that it fades, save that it undergoes a gradual transformation, becomes, even in the course of one short walk, habitual—this scene also.†   (source)
  • I list below, with notes and examples, various of the tricks by means of which the work of prose-construction is habitually dodged: DYING METAPHORS.†   (source)
  • He was abusing Big Brother, he was denouncing the dictatorship of the Party, he was demanding the immediate conclusion of peace with Eurasia, he was advocating freedom of speech, freedom of the Press, freedom of assembly, freedom of thought, he was crying hysterically that the revolution had been betrayed — and all this in rapid polysyllabic speech which was a sort of parody of the habitual style of the orators of the Party, and even contained Newspeak words: more Newspeak words, indeed, than any Party member would normally use in real life.†   (source)
  • Perhaps I had waited too long to start working for white people; perhaps I should have begun earlier, when I was younger—as most of the other black boys had done—and perhaps by now the tension would have become an habitual condition, contained and controlled by reflex.†   (source)
  • Yes, he's in the office," said Hugh, the habitually worried expression leaving his face at the sight of her happy, dancing eyes.†   (source)
  • Man is not capable of thought in any high degree, and even the most spiritual and highly cultivated of men habitually sees the world and himself through the lenses of delusive formulas and artless simplifications—and most of all himself.†   (source)
  • What was the good of doing it then, and she heard some voice saying she couldn't paint, saying she couldn't create, as if she were caught up in one of those habitual currents in which after a certain time experience forms in the mind, so that one repeats words without being aware any longer who originally spoke them.†   (source)
  • He was paler, thinner, pouchy under the eyes, drooping in the corners of his mouth and he showed the scars of a boil on the side of his chin; his voice seemed flatter and his movements alternately listless and jumpy; he looked down-at-heel, too, with clothes and hair, which formerly had been happily negligent, now unkempt; worst of all, there was a wariness in his eye which I had surprised there at Easter, and which now seemed habitual to him.†   (source)
  • Below that come the dumb masses whom we habitually refer to as 'the proles', numbering perhaps 85 per cent of the population.†   (source)
  • What do you think it is, to drag people from their preoccupations, where they do their habitual toil!†   (source)
  • Hugo sits at rear, facing front, his head on his arms in his habitual position, but he is not asleep.†   (source)
  • Boredom therefore can arise from the cessation of habitual functions, even though these may be boring too.†   (source)
  • Next to him, on his left, Hugo is in his habitual position, passed out, arms on table, head on arms, a full whiskey glass by his head.†   (source)
  • He puts his head back on his arms and closes his eyes, but this time his habitual pass-out has a quality of hiding.†   (source)
  • The nature of Paradise Park was inimical to the kind of thought that had habitually been hers.†   (source)
  • She disengaged herself from his hold and moved away, striving for the composure habitual with her.†   (source)
  • Thus her habitual morbid brooding came to have a rival for the possession of her mind.†   (source)
  • They were new and beautiful, and the color bearer habitually oiled the pole.†   (source)
  • There was more here than Mescal's habitual shyness.†   (source)
  • An uncommon prudence is habitual with the subtler depravity, for it has everything to hide.†   (source)
  • His colloquialisms seemed to Carol no more lax than their habitual slang.†   (source)
  • [divided between his uxoriousness and his habitual elevation of moral sentiment] That's very English†   (source)
  • Her clients said that Lena 'had style,' and overlooked her habitual inaccuracies.†   (source)
  • He reproached his wife with her inattention, her habitual neglect of the children.†   (source)
  • And this work was in order with the precaution habitually observed by him.†   (source)
  • The mother is well bred, quiet, and has the habitual anxiety of straitened means.†   (source)
  • His habitual scepticism was like a direct inheritance from that old woman.†   (source)
  • But as he buckled it over the one he habitually wore his hands became steady.†   (source)
  • Mr. Heathcliff followed, his accidental merriment expiring quickly in his habitual moroseness.†   (source)
  • The preference for landed property is no longer found habitually in any class but among the poor.†   (source)
  • And as he said this, the "eye severe" of the magistrate had lost nothing of its habitual arrogance.†   (source)
  • Stunned amazement will probably be your habitual state of mind.†   (source)
  • His reserve had been always excessive and habitual.†   (source)
  • The count received him with his habitual smile.†   (source)
  • "Yes," replied Pierre with the smile of mild irony now habitual to him.†   (source)
  • (H.) If the government habitually destroyed wealth, the country must have been poor†   (source)
  • One habitual feeling impelled him to get rid of the blame and to pass it on to her.†   (source)
  • Their improvidence is habitual and unconquerable.†   (source)
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