389 Verbs to Use for the Word habit

You would, moreover, be a gainer by the amount of the labour of these thirty boors, whom you keep in this employment, and who very probably acquire habits of ferocity, licentiousness, and waste, which are not very favourable to their obedience or fidelity.

It may assist them to know and love the official prayers of the Church, and may help to form devout habits of recitation, so that, when the obligation of the daily office is imposed on them, they may recite it digne, attente et devote.

Would to God it were so easy to break through all the old bad habitsperhaps the habits of a whole life-time.

It was not that they did not give me their custom; that I did not expect, for gunpowder alone would change the habits of a Virginian Tory.

German authors dwell at length on the fact that many priests, very early in their career, contract the habit of faulty vocalisation of liturgy, and that they never seem to notice their fault, or at least never seem to attempt an amendment.

"Congress started that there Relief Expedition all right," the josher went on, "only them blamed reindeer had got the feed habit, and when they'd et up everything in sight they set down on the Dalton Trailand there they're settin' yit, just like they was Congress.

"I thought that you would know my habits.

There was nothing for them to live upon unless they adopted the habits of civilization and worked like white men.

Punch up the men a little in the matter of cultivating cleanly habits, etc.

She wore a habit stained by use and weather, and so short that it was little better than a skirt, and left her almost as absolute a freedom as that enjoyed by the opposite sex.

There should be a series of boxes or shelves where such waste products of the home, or of the woods, or of the seashore, or of the shop, might be stored in some classified order: the collective instinct is stronger than the more civilised habit of orderliness: here is an opportunity for developing a habit from an instinct.

The soldier was almost losing the habit of marching.

All my first day was pure pleasure; simply mountaineering indulgence, crossing the dry pathways of the ancient glaciers, tracing happy streams, and learning the habits of the birds and marmots in the groves and rocks.

While engaged in the work of exploring high regions where they delight to roam I have been greatly interested in studying their habits.

When a dog assumes the cozy habits of the cat without laying off his nobler nature, he is my friend.

And although it has taken on a few extra dissolute habits, they are of the genteelest kind and will make it feel at home in the upper circles.

He brought into play all the keenness of his intellect, and abandoned his lazy habits.

He retained his warlike habits, and in great national crises he headed his own troops in battle.

His Saxons have long since given up their seafaring habits.

Then he would resume his normal habits and among other things would put on his glovesif he had them.

For even if Nelly wished, she could not teach her eyes new habits, and she would ceaselessly play on the heart of the wounded man.

Humorists, for they were of all descriptions; and, not having been brought together in early life (which has a tendency to assimilate the members of corporate bodies to each other), but, for the most part, placed in this house in ripe or middle age, they necessarily carried into it their separate habits and oddities, unqualified, if I may so speak, as into a common stock.

He could not overcome the drink habit, and probably did not try very hard to overcome it.

Hunt, the tattler, who observed his lordship's habits in Italy, with the microscope of malice ensconced within the same walls, makes it a charge against his host that he would not drink like a man.

She still kept up her youthful habit of avoiding the sick-rooms of her kindred, but how magnificently she mourned them when they died!

389 Verbs to Use for the Word  habit