All 4 Uses of
habitual
in
The Scarlet Letter
- The only surgeon was one who combined the occasional exercise of that noble art with the daily and habitual flourish of a razor.†
p. 81.1 *habitual = done regularly
- Not the less, however, though with a tremulous enjoyment, did he feel the occasional relief of looking at the universe through the medium of another kind of intellect than those with which he habitually held converse.†
p. 83.7habitually = in a manner that is done regularly
- Their voices came down, afar and indistinctly, from the upper heights where they habitually dwelt.†
p. 96.0
- For some unaccountable reason, as Arthur Dimmesdale felt the child's eyes upon himself, his hand—with that gesture so habitual as to have become involuntary—stole over his heart.†
p. 141.1habitual = done regularly