As no two people, probably, ever did, or ever will, pursue the same routine in play-making, it is manifestly impossible to lay down any general rules on the subject.

W. was not very likely to consult me in his choice of nominationsand in fact the small appointments, secretaries, were generally prepared in the Chancellerie and followed the usual routine of regular promotion.

Nature has done all she can to break up routine.

After a while, however, affairs assumed their usual aspect, and business took its regular routine.

We continue our routine.

For many weeks he kept up this trying routine till he reached his furthest west, and again till he had returned to his starting-point, whose latitude and longitude he had previously determined.

"They also serve," who patiently endure the dull routine of existence largely spent in a stifling fort on the blistering and dust-swept plains, and find relief in the smallest incident that breaks the monotony.

Colonel Fry at one time taught mathematics at William and Mary, but found the routine of the class-room too humdrum, and so sought a more exciting life.

Let us consider the ordinary routine of his day's work during the session of Parliament.

Parade in the early morning, rackets and billiards during the day, a drive or ride along the Mall in the cool of the evening, and the usual mess dinnerthese constituted the routine of our uneventful existence.

Finally, however, the law of routine mercifully reasserted itself; their lives, in habit and in thought, readjusted, conformed to the new conditions, as human lives will, however chaotic has been the havoc that demolished the old routine.

CIRCUMLOCUTION OFFICE, a name employed by Dickens in "Little Dorrit" to designate the wearisome routine of public business.

" This is God's management for destroying routine within the law of stated revolution, and for bringing the mind constantly into contact with fresh influences.

Working with a never flagging constancy, she carried the indoor keys, directed the household routine and the various domestic industries, served as head nurse for the sick, and taught morals and religion by precept and example.

The Treasury has its finger in every departmental pie except the Indian one, for no Minister and no department can carry out reforms or even discharge its ordinary routine without public money, and of public money the Treasury is the vigilant and inflexible guardian.

With a wife, young enough to be one of his children, disorganizing the routine of his villa, would it be any more comfortable than he now found it?

At that point they left their homes, exchanged ordinary clothes for uniforms, laid down the implements of peace, picked up the weapons of war and prepared, under very expert leadership and direction, a series of mass movements designed to disrupt the ordinary life routine of other human beings on the other side of lines drawn on a map, but having little relation to customary life activity and even less to geography.

Apparently, Sir Chaps had been disinclined to disturb the routine of camp by telling Firio anything about the duel.

I see clearly that in such work we cannot take too much pains: dinner at Lord Medwyn's to-dayvery pleasantrather an exception this to dinners: how dull the routine!

And just such a voluntary devotion to a cause can ennoble the routine of the humblest daily business, in the office, in the household, in the school, at the desk, or in the market place, if one only finds the cause that can hold his devotionbe this cause his business firm or his profession or his household or his country or his church, or all these at once.

She execrated the insidious lazy routine which had betrayed her into accepting so insignificant a bridegroom.

As a crowning stamp upon his dignity he had a clerk who handled the ordinary routine of work in the front room, while Hardy set himself up in state in a little rear office whose walls were decorated by two brilliant calendars and the coloured photograph of a blond beauty advertising a toilet soap.

She grew to hate the hospital routine, the fixed hours, the regulated food.

One instance will suffice to illustrate the everyday routine of the class-war (Klassenkampf) in which the whole energies of the Social Democrats have been absorbed for a quarter of a century.

Not that the student should mechanically imitate even Ibsen's routine of composition, which, indeed, varied considerably from play to play.