About this time Thersites Junior really began to make something like a reputation, and to walk abroad
habitually with a bank-note comfortably lodged among the other papers in his pocketbook.
After their early dinner at three o'clock, Miss Pink
habitually retired to her own room "to meditate," as she expressed it.
Van Brandt suffers
habitually from nervous irritability, and he felt particularly ill last night.
People who in former years
habitually called upon me and invited me--or who, in the event of my absence,
habitually wrote to me at this season--have abstained with a remarkable unanimity from calling, inviting, or writing now.
We might have taken the case of insects visiting flowers for the sake of collecting pollen instead of nectar; and as pollen is formed for the sole object of fertilisation, its destruction appears a simple loss to the plant; yet if a little pollen were carried, at first occasionally and then
habitually, by the pollen-devouring insects from flower to flower, and a cross thus effected, although nine-tenths of the pollen were destroyed, it might still be a great gain to the plant; and those individuals which produced more and more pollen, and had larger and larger anthers, would be selected.
And, fool that I was, when they misjudged me, I indulged them on that account more than myself, being
habitually hard on myself, and often even taking revenge on myself for the indulgence.
You probably never heard before the proposition "that the inhabitants of the Andaman Islands
habitually eat stewed hippopotamus for dinner," but there is no difficulty in understanding the proposition.
They could not believe it indeed, for they could not take in the immensity of all they
habitually enjoyed, and so could not conceive that what they were destroying was the very thing they lived by.
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.
The multitude worshipped on trust--though always distinctly knowing why--but the officiators at the altar had the man
habitually in their view.
I believe there has been in England, since the days of the STUARTS, no law so often infamously administered, no law so often openly violated, no law
habitually so ill-supervised.
inquired the stranger, who seemed
habitually suspicious in look and manner.
