His lips were closed in that firm straight line which I had already seen once or twice, and which during years of trial became habitual to him.

She took off her glovesa gesture habitual with her whenever possible.

Factory faces have a look of their own,not only their common dinginess, and a general air of being in a hurry to find the wash-bowl, but an appearance of restlessness,often of envious restlessness, not habitual in most departments of "healthy labor."

The voter as he reads his newspaper may adopt by suggestion, and make habitual by repetition, not only political opinions but whole trains of political argument; and he does not necessarily feel the need of comparing them with other trains of argument already in his mind.

* APPENDIX GTO CHAPTER X. It has been so habitual among American writers to praise all the deeds, good, bad, and indifferent, of our Revolutionary ancestors, and to belittle and make light of what we have recently done, that most men seem not to know that the Union and Confederate troops in the Civil War fought far more stubbornly and skilfully than did their forefathers at the time of the Revolution.

He shook his head with a sober air, which at once gave way to the satisfied smile habitual on his round, contented face.

So sponsored, in the pages of Punch and the composition of Mr. Max Beerbohm, it has become an accepted convention too habitual for remark.

rudeness;and then what becomes of that blissful state, where like you, every body expects, and so veryvery few find happiness?to secure which the most perfect union of taste and feelingthe utmost kindliness of manner, and a politeness as habitual as motion itself, are absolute requisites?Have

The Imperf. denotes an act as going on, but incomplete or habitual at some time past: "was doing," etc. § 48.