There is no other art in which the conditions of success are so easy of attainment; there is no other art in the practice of which so much that is purely superficial passes itself off
habitually for something that claims to be profound.
Habitually obedient to John, I came up to his chair: he spent some three minutes in thrusting out his tongue at me as far as he could without damaging the roots: I knew he would soon strike, and while dreading the blow, I mused on the disgusting and ugly appearance of him who would presently deal it.
Nevertheless I am strongly inclined to believe that with all hermaphrodites two individuals, either occasionally or
habitually, concur for the reproduction of their kind.
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.
She
habitually ate chocolates for their sustaining quality; they contained much nutriment in small compass, she said.
"On the contrary, things seem satisfactory, ma cousine," said Pierre in the bantering tone he
habitually adopted toward her, always feeling uncomfortable in the role of her benefactor.
and his jolly friends,' said the young lady, vigorously cracking a hunting-whip, which she
habitually carried in her hand.
To them she was a goddess and each loved her and each hoped that he would be chosen as her mate, so they slaved for her and bore the stinging lash of her displeasure and the
habitually haughty disdain of her manner without a murmur.
Tom saw no reason why they should not make up this quarrel as they had done many others, by behaving as if nothing had happened; for though he had never before said to Philip that his father was a rogue, this idea had so
habitually made part of his feeling as to the relation between himself and his dubious schoolfellow, who he could neither like nor dislike, that the mere utterance did not make such an epoch to him as it did to Philip.
If I could have been
habitually imposed upon, instead of
habitually discerning the truth, I might have lived as smoothly as most fools do.
Their voices came down, afar and indistinctly, from the upper heights where they
habitually dwelt.
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.
