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.
Hence Quasimodo's gratitude was profound, passionate, boundless; and although the visage of his adopted father was often clouded or severe, although his speech was
habitually curt, harsh, imperious, that gratitude never wavered for a single moment.
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.
He gorged himself
habitually at table, which made him bilious, and gave him a dim and bleared eye and flabby cheeks.
You say that everyone is laughing at you, that every one has learnED of the bond which exists between us, and that your neighbours
habitually refer to me with a sneer.
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.
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.
So, almost every twenty-four hours, when the watches of the night were set, and the band on deck sentinelled the slumbers of the band below; and when if a rope was to be hauled upon the forecastle, the sailors flung it not rudely down, as by day, but with some cautiousness dropt it to its place, for fear of disturbing their slumbering shipmates; when this sort of steady quietude would begin to prevail,
habitually, the silent steersman would watch the cabin-scuttle; and ere long the old man would emerge, griping at the iron banister, to help his crippled way.
If in training soldiers commands are
habitually enforced, the army will be well-disciplined; if not, its discipline will be bad.
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.
Never, on any previous occasion, had he practiced more successfully the social art which he
habitually cultivated -- the art of casting himself on society in the character of a well-bred Incubus, and conferring an obligation on his fellow-creatures by allowing them to sit under him.
An ill-made, high-shouldered man, with lowering brows, and his features crushed into an
habitually sour expression, he contrasted most unfavourably, even in his mongrel dress, with the great body of his hearers in their plain working clothes.