I'm not in the habit of cheating, nor of being told that I do, so I was not prepared with an answer. |
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His uniform was generally yellow, and he was in the habit of ambushing in yellow flowers. |
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The asphodel was a favourite plant among the ancients, who were in the habit of planting it round their tombs. |
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He told me he was in the habit of steaming past the spot on his way from Finsch-hafen to the Bismarck Archipelago. |
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Only in moments of emotion was Mr. Jackson in the habit of booting the basket. |
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The children were in the habit of calling each other by that means in bygone years. |
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They will have no black-mail to pay, either to Master Nevis or to any other cateran who is in the habit of levying it on the road. |
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He was in the habit of appearing at concerts both as violinist and 'cellist. |
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He was, it had been said, in the habit of inventing lies, and challenging other folks to stick to 'em. |
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They were not in the habit of flattening the head, and the origin of their cognomen is unknown. |
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She was not a woman in the habit of reasoning, and had no conception of the difficulties in his way. |
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Another similar account is of a citizen of Ferrara, whose wife was in the habit of attending the Sabbat. |
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My friends are in the habit of amusing themselves with my diffidence and my timidity. |
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She published, in 1805, a volume of doggerel rhymes, and was in the habit of satirising in verse those who had offended her. |
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I am very bad with the ague, as people must be in the habit of saying in these fenny districts. |
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We flung them into the water at a place where we knew the animals were in the habit of frequenting. |
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The former, I was in the habit of often seeing, until I reached my fifth or sixth year. |
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It must not be inferred from this that Lincoln was in the habit of slopping over. |
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Women were in the habit of sniffing when Mrs. Tremain's name was mentioned. |
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The women are in the habit of enjoying the hubble-bubble, in groups, in a similar manner. |
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They have a launch they're in the habit of using to carry stuff across from Huddleston, but Mr. Richard Carey blocks the way! |
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Men in the habit of drinking kawa neither stagger about, nor speak thick and loud, when under its influence. |
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The inmates of lazar hospitals were in the habit of begging in the market-places. |
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Captain lote was not in the habit of taking his women-folks on his voyages with him. |
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I recognised it as belonging to Macpherson, of Hobart, who was in the habit of letting it out. |
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Persons sleeping with others infested are liable to infection, especially if they are uncleanly and in the habit of eating in bed. |
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We are told that they were in the habit of playing with the children of a wigmaker who lived in the adjoining house. |
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He had been in the habit of washing out the preputial cavity by the aid of a flat-nozzled syringe. |
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He wrote as a believer and he wrote for a community in the habit of sharing the Lord's supper. |
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She was in the habit of waking them early in the morning, at cockcrow. |
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He was in the habit of condoning her cruelty by the thought of her stupidity. |
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He fell in love, as men are in the habit of doing, and pressed his suit with an earnestness and an ardor which left nothing to be desired. |
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Articled clerks have been in the habit of fleshing their legal wit upon it. |
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This nurse was a masseuse in the habit of Weir Mitchelling patients. |
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I'm not in the habit of trucking with other people's belongings. |
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It is not as though Miss eldon was in the habit of sending for me. |
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The young ones were in the habit of laughing at old Fareham. |
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As Marjory was not in the habit of fibbing, she didn't know what to say. |
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Then you are not in the habit of bolting your door every night before you get into bed? |
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I forewarn you that people are not in the habit of fighting duels here. |
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The milkman was in the habit of bringing milk to the door in the morning. |
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Has Lady Maitland not been in the habit of employing you, then, Geordie? |
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There is something servile in the habit of seeking after a law which we may obey. |
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Mr Dorrit was in the habit of receiving this old man as if the old man held of him in vassalage under some feudal tenure. |
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Were his friends in the habit of talking in hexameter verse? |
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The duchess dismounted, and with a sharp boar-spear in her hand posted herself where she knew the wild boars were in the habit of passing. |
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He was in the habit of sitting on the wharves and watching the ships. |
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Degas was in the habit of calling him the Bouguereau of naturalism. |
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Yet I suppose he was in the habit of absenting himself from home? |
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Are you in the habit of going on sprees with that colored man? |
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Peter was not in the habit of making her presents of flowers. |
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Scrooge was not much in the habit of cracking jokes, nor did he feel, in his heart, by any means waggish then. |
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Mr. Seward was not in the habit of impugning the courage of any man. |
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I am in the habit of boarding at a quiet house kept by a widow. |
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Thornbury remarked that she was still in the habit of saying Queen instead of King in the National Anthem. |
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Which I ain't in the habit of bein' took lightly by no catamount. |
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Tom Loker was soon carefully deposited in a much cleaner and softer bed than he had, ever been in the habit of occupying. |
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For all he knew, Owen was in the habit of hobnobbing with the great man every night. |
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The nutmeg, with which they are in the habit of stuffing their crops, flavours their flesh and renders it delicious eating. |
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To the material alone we are in the habit of ascribing power. |
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One letter indeed had been procured, but the finder was later found dead by the roadside in the habit of an Arab trader, as E, taking up the work, duly reported. |
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My Lord Southdown, her late husband, an epileptic and simple-minded nobleman, was in the habit of approving of everything which his Matilda did and thought. |
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I told him I wasn't in the habit of fertilising my back yard with cream. |
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Before gobbling it up, as most dogs are in the habit of doing, I bowed my head and wagged my tail, in token of thanks, and he understood, and smiled pleasantly. |
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I observed, here and there, many in the habit of servants, with a blown bladder, fastened like a flail to the end of a stick, which they carried in their hands. |
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He was not a remarkably fluent reader, and was in the habit of reading in a sort of recitative half-aloud, by way of calling in his ears to verify the deductions of his eyes. |
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It was a perfectly natural question, for these people are and were in the habit of proffering favors and services and then expecting and begging for pay. |
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Jennings was in the habit of spending a large portion of the year at the houses of her children and friends, she was not without a settled habitation of her own. |
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