But my wife found it much pleasanter than if I had indulged my bad habit of too earnestly studying the faces of the girls and women we passed.
But she never addressed him and seemed, indeed, almost to have lost the habit of speech.
The maid who was in the habit of coming about this time to light the kitchen-fire, heard a hollow cry in the next room, and opened the door in her terror.
This was becoming a habit to Tavia, the habit of almost sneering at those who appeared better off than herself.
It began with little things, for no particular reason except that her life was a rather empty one, and it is so easy to slip into the habit of telling the truth in little matters.
Not all at once, of course, but the habit grew upon her gradually, like lichen on an apparently healthy tree.
Before he was twelve years old he had formed the habit of studying far into the night; and his field included not only Greek, Latin, Hebrew and modern European literatures, but mathematics also, and science and theology and music.
To name such works is to suggest Longfellow's varied interests and his habit of experimenting with any subject or verse form that attracted him in foreign literatures.
It as Southey's habit to work by the clock, turning out chapters as another man might dig potatoes.
When Wyatt and Surrey brought the sonnet to England, they brought also the habit of imitating the Italian poets; and thishabit influenced Spenser and other Elizabethans even more than Chaucer had been influenced by Dante and Petrarch.
Because he expresses this almost universal feeling simply and reverently, his work is dear to men and women who would not have the habit of work interfere with the divine instinct of worship.
Of late it has become almost a critical habit to disparage Longfellow; but no critic has pointed out another poet who has reflected with sympathy and understanding the feelings of so many widely different peoples.
It was the habit of Old-English chieftains to take their scops with them into battle, to the end that the scop's poem might be true to the outer world of fact as well as to the inner world of ideals.
Again, most of our Colonial and Revolutionary poetry was strongly (or weakly) imitative, and Bryant shows the habit of his American predecessors.
Then, thehabit of a lifetime catching him by the throat, he stayed motionless.
IV Gyp was in the habit of walking with Winton to the Kochbrunnen, where, with other patient-folk, he was required to drink slowly for twenty minutes every morning.
Then came a curious change of feeling; and for three years before his return to England, he had been in the habit of sending home odds and ends picked up in the bazaars, to serve as toys.
But she had some free hours in the morning, for he had the habitof lying in bed till eleven, and was never ready for practise before twelve.
She had a habit of going to St. James's Park in the late afternoon and sitting there by the water.
It was his habit to sit by her at the piano corner, but to-day he stood as if prepared to be exceptionally severe.
Now that the leaves were off, one could see the other houses of the road, each different in shape and colour, as is the habit of London houses.
It bores into flesh very much after the manner of a circular punch, and when it starts, its habit is to go to the bone.
There is no way to do this better than to give them honest and productive work while in jail, so that they may acquire the habit of such work, and be encouraged to pursue it when they get out.
On his return to his studio Gregg began to pace the floor, his habit when anything worried him.
But I suppose it had become habit with him to talk to the enemy in German by that time, and as the words we could not understand passed back and forth even I began to hate him.
Every man in the squadron recognized him now, and I knew every eye had watched to see Colonel Kirby draw saber and cut him down, forhabit of thought is harder to bend than a steel bar.
But it is when we come to study the working of the principle in the religious sphere there we discover the full extent of the ravages which the parasitic habit can make on the souls of men.
The habit of parasitism clearly acts upon animal organization in this way.
It has persisted in the downward course for so many generations that the young forms even have acquired the habit and usually begin life at once as parasites.
Had an organization been specially designed, indeed, to induce the parasitic habit in the souls of men, nothing better fitted to its disastrous end could be established than the system of Roman Catholicism.
The difference between the Hermit-crab and a true parasite is, that the former has acquired a semi-parasitic habit only with reference to safety.
Compelled in the first instance, perhaps by stress of circumstances, to rob its host of a meal or perish, it gradually acquires the habit of drawing all its supplies from the same source, and thus becomes in time a confirmed parasite.
There is no doubt, to begin with, that, as has been already indicated, the habit is an acquired one.
Its ancestors doubtless were more or less perfect crustaceans, though what exact stage of development was reached before the hermit habit became fixed in the species we cannot tell.
One of the things in the religious world which tends most strongly to induce the parasitic habit is Going to Church.
In the Mistletoe the parasitic habithas reached a stage in some respects lower still.
Two poor fellows who were not much in the habit of making their toilet squeezed me into a corner, while the hot sun drew from their garments a villanous compound of smells made up of salt fish, tar, and molasses.
This reminds me of a habit which was common in Scotland,--"keeping the clock half an hour forward.
We are in the habit of saying glibly that any year divisible by four is a leap year, but this is far from correct.
For all he had lived three-fourths of his life in our town, his command of English remained faulty and broken, betraying by every other word his foreign birth; and his habit of mixing his metaphors was proverbial.
Billy, did you ever make a habit of imbibin' these here milk punches?
He was not exactly pale, but he was as pale as a person of Mr. Reeves' habit of life could be and still retain the breath of life.
Some went so far as to intimate that Mr. Montjoy made a habit of serving hams upon his table for a certain and especial purpose.
I'm not going myself--seems as though I'm getting more and more out of the church habit here lately.
The stranger, Gillon the Furtive, was in the habit of traversing long distances on horseback in the capacity of "flying messenger", carrying the correspondence of important personages.
If it succeeds, the consequences of a first victory, by rekindling the fire of an army demoralized by the habit of defeat, are incalculable.
The conservative habit of the English had left the constitution of the House of Commons untouched for so many years that it had lost all but the semblance of a representative body.
He was warned by the Queen's personal memorandum that this habit must cease, but an unpardonable case occurred in 1851.
Or if you prefer a habitstill more bizarre, you might put a hammock in a tree, and always write your most exciting scenes during a rain-storm, and under the shelter of a dripping umbrella.
Charles Reade and Anthony Trollope "Charles Reade's habit of working was unique.
A] Hawthorne had a habit of cutting some article while composing.
Their habit was not to attempt to conceal these sectional differences, but to recognize them frankly with a view to finding the remedy.
The habit of personal attack was further illustrated in the charge, frequently made by Mr. Brown's enemies, that he had been a defaulter in Scotland.
The habit of dressing so as to be comfortable and reasonably clean.
A habit of doing this will make cleaner proofs and save a great deal of time and expense.
This habit is one that will have to be learned with some effort, but it will mean much to his health and comfort.
The habit of not putting anything in the mouth with soiled hands.
Many compositors have a habit of wide-spacing a line which happens to have a few words in it, with the evident aim to make these few words fill the line as much as possible.
Fumbling for a type, picking it up and turning it over several times to find the nick before it can be put in the line is a habit that should be guarded against as a positive handicap.
It is long since I indulged in my old habit of castle-building; and yet now, at every instant, some new notion strikes me, and I fancy some new field for active labour and exertion.
Engadiner beard them he crossed himself twice on the forehead and the breast; which devout exercise, I am constrained to say, had in his case more of habit than true piety, as the sequel proved.
Again, this waiting for conviction--this habit of listening to the arguments on each side, however excellent in general life, is inapplicable in politics.
The young monk embraced the culprit as a priest is in the habit of doing when he gives absolution to the sinner, and he then alighted from the cart and mingled with the crowd.
The reader, who has doubtless noticed how invariably servants of long standing acquire a certain tone from that of their master, may observe that honest John Sampson had caught from the squire the habit of parenthetical composition.
There is perhaps no danger more carefully to be shunned by the student of literature than the habit of resting satisfied with opinions at second-hand.
Drunkenness was a habit familiar to the fine gentlemen of the town and to men occupying the highest position in the State.
She was a high-tempered and somewhat dissatisfied person, who had conceived the idea that her husband was in the habit of giving too much time to the church, and too little to the acquisition of corn-bread and pork.
Therefore a number of us were in the habit of spending our early evenings with him.
Talbot Ward and Yank took it with the philosophy of old campaigners; but Johnny and I had not had experience enough to realize that things have a habit of coming to an end.
Water weighs a great deal; is fearfully inert, or at least feels so; and has a bad habit of promptly slopping in again.
Their habit was to go off on a grand hunt, gather as much meat as they could, and then come home to feast and rejoice with their families until scarcity again obliged them to hunt.
This speech was received with marks of decided approval by those of the party who were in the habit of siding with Eemerk, but the rest were silent.
He pulled out a pocket-compass about the size of an ordinary watch, which instrument it was his habit to guard with the most anxious care.
