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Sentences starting with habit

Habit has made them draw a social circle with a small radius. [4]
Habit had long made him so much hypocrite, that he was sentimentalist and hard materialist in one. [11]
Habit of years is strong as life itself. [13]
Habit of years is strong as life itself! [13]
Habit in us is so strong. [11]
Habit had so crystallized in Euphrasia that no news, however amazing, could have shaken it. [9]
Habit is formed by repetition of any action. [4]
Habit is the approximation of the animal system to the organic. [6]
Habit reasserted itself. [9]

Sentences ending with habit

It is merely unthinking and mechanical exercise of inherited habit. [5]
All the old tricks of Bigot and his La Friponne, which, after the outbreak the night of my arrest at the Seigneur Duvarney's, had been somewhat repressed, were in full swing again, and robbery in the name of providing for defense was the only habit. [11]
The note of this reform is discipline, and its success rests upon the law of habit. [4]
Herbert seems to think there is safety in a man's being anchored, even if it is to a bad habit. [4]
Such social qualities, the paramount importance of which to the lower animals is disputed by no one, were no doubt acquired by the progenitors of man in a similar manner, namely, through natural selection, aided by inherited habit. [1]
That should cure the drinking habit. [5]
We propose to submit him to influences that will change that habit. [4]
Six days of sordid and plodding fact life at home on the ragged edge of Lakeside and straitened means, the seventh in Fairlyand--such had been their program and their habit. [5]
Many mammals and some few birds are polygamous, but with animals belonging to the lower classes I have found no evidence of this habit. [1]
Ultimately our moral sense or conscience becomes a highly complex sentiment--originating in the social instincts, largely guided by the approbation of our fellow-men, ruled by reason, self-interest, and in later times by deep religious feelings, and confirmed by instruction and habit. [1]

Short sentences using habit

The tyrannous habit was broken. [6]
What originated the habit? [5]
What miracles habit can do! [5]
Because it is a habit. [11]

Sentences containing habit two or more times

Ah, Jasmine, habit, the habit of enduring me, is not fixed, and in my exit there would be the agony of the moment, and then the comforting knowledge that I had done my best to set things right. [11]
But he has the habit of coming, and with Mr. Beaton habit is everything--even the habit of thinking he's in love with some one. [8]
Is the habit of good living mere habit and mere acting, in which the real man never lives his real life, or is it the real life? [11]
It was always my habit to write to Sandy every day, whenever we were separate, and now I kept up the habit for love of it, and of her, though I couldn't do anything with the letters, of course, after I had written them. [5]
From this low motive he might acquire the habit of aiding his fellows; and the habit of performing benevolent actions certainly strengthens the feeling of sympathy which gives the first impulse to benevolent actions. [1]
I don't think it a bad habit, though some people say that civilization is only exchanging one bad habit for another. [4]
It was a habit, and it was a habit that he enjoyed. [4]
There is no habit so powerful as the habit of care of others. [11]
Superstition, sentiment, the habit of wrong thinking or of not thinking at all have struck in too deep, the habit of unreasoning acceptance of authority is too paralyzing. [9]
He had to grow into the habit of passing from one dreamy pleasure to another, like a bee going from flower to flower in the valley, and he found this wandering habit likely to extend to his labors. [13]

More example sentences with the word habit in them

Oh, I implore you to crush out that fatal habit while it may yet be time! [5]
Although we struggle, yet by habit, by self-indulgence, by lack of a sustained purpose, we have formed a character from which escape seems hopeless. [9]
The habit of years is strong. [9]
His lifelong habit would have made him defend Heth to any one but Cynthia. [9]
Or, in other words, what effect is popular education having upon the general intellectual habit and taste? [4]
She had been wont to dislike this habit in him; he had been glad that she did; it answered to the ideal he had formed of what the woman he loved should be. [10]
He fell to wondering, but, even as he wondered, his habit of observation made him take in every feature of the governor's house and garden, so that he could have reproduced all as it was mirrored in his eye. [11]
And then I wondered if it was not the disagreeable habit of some night-patrol or other to beat round the garden before the Sire went to bed for good, to find just such characters as I was gradually getting to feel myself to be. [4]
Now, if you will do this, you will be soon out of debt, and, what is better, you will have a habit that will keep you from getting in debt again. [7]
It was a wild night, for winter was come again for a moment, after the habit of this region in the early spring. [5]
And Nelson Langmaid, who had fallen into the habit of dropping into Hodder's rooms in the parish house on his way uptown for a chat about books, had been struck by the rector's friendship with the banker. [9]
But Philip wondered what would be the effect on his own character and on his intellect if he indulged much in the habit of making the worse appear the better cause, and taking up indifferently any side that paid. [4]
They had forgotten what grass was like, and the velvety green meadows seemed paradise to their surprised and happy eyes after the long habit of seeing nothing but dirty lanes and streets. [5]
Sometimes--not too frequently--we were in the habit of going out into the country in one of her motors, a sort of landaulet, I believe, in which we were separated from the chauffeur by a glass screen. [9]
I think that we may fairly claim a superiority in our journals over the English dailies in our habit of making brief, pointed editorial paragraphs. [4]
That is the way Number Five was in the habit of dealing with the explosions of Number Seven. [6]
Some said it was the softened climate, but others believed it was owing to the habit of keeping their ears open whenever they were walking through the grass or in the woods. [6]
His loose grammar was the fruit of careless habit, not ignorance. [5]
But it never was our author's habit to stroke the world the wrong way: "When I cannot get a dinner to suit my taste, I endeavor to get a taste to suit my dinner. [4]
That the habit was most extensively practised during former times, even by the ancestors of civilised nations, is clearly shewn by the preservation of many curious customs and ceremonies, of which Mr. M'Lennan has given an interesting account. [1]
Miss Cynthia Badlam was in the habit of occasionally visiting the Widow Hopkins. [6]
Mercifully, Mr. Beckwith was in the habit of coaching his words beforehand. [9]
The band itself was half asleep, but by sheer force of habit it kept on, the fiddlers drawing the perfunctory bows, and the melancholy clarionet men breathing their expressive sighs. [4]
But something more was done under this pressure, something more than creation of a habit of physical exertion to productive ends. [4]
The maternal instinct was at the very core of her nature, and care for others was as much a habit as an instinct with her. [11]
But his religion was a central habit, followed as mechanically as his appetite or the folding of his master's clothes. [11]
The entry stove warmed it but imperfectly, and she looked pinched and cold, for the evenings were still pretty sharp, and the old house let in the chill blasts, as old houses are in the habit of doing. [6]
I could have walked the broad way with a laughing heart, though, in truth, habit of mind and desire have kept me in the better path. [11]
The greater intellectual vigour and power of invention in man is probably due to natural selection, combined with the inherited effects of habit, for the most able men will have succeeded best in defending and providing for themselves and for their wives and offspring. [1]
It is a very bad thing for the memory and the judgment to get into a habit of reading carelessly or listening with distracted attention. [4]
The habit of using it differs totally from that of the chewing of tobacco or the dipping of snuff. [4]
The rector, not unfeeling by nature, but inveterately professional by habit, had already recovered enough to be thinking of a text for the funeral sermon. [6]
In the night Ulrich heard him groaning louder than usual, and starting up, raised him, as he was in the habit of doing when the poor little man was tortured by difficulty of breathing. [10]
If it lasts too long, habit comes in to make it tolerable. [6]
He had used tobacco for nearly a century, and the habit has very likely been the death of him. [4]
Jethro Bass--Eben testifies to us--is in the habit of visiting him once a month, perhaps, when he goes to Amos Cuthbert's. [9]
It is easy to recall the names of brilliant men whose fine talents have been eaten away by this habit of unveracity. [4]
The Club seems to have shaped itself around him as a nucleus of crystallization, two or three friends of his having first formed the habit of meeting him at dinner at "Parker's," the "Will's Coffee-House" of Boston. [6]
I was sorry to have my name mentioned as one of the great authors, because they have a sad habit of dying off. [5]
He took pains to cure a Macacus rhesus, which he had kept for five years, of this indecorous habit, and at last succeeded. [1]
It seemed impossible to break Georgie of this bad habit, but the Brants managed it at last by hiring him, with apples and marbles, to stay in. [5]
For a long time it had a habit of trembling, as if in an earthquake spasm, but with a shivering motion very different from that produced by an earthquake. [4]
In the brief time in which he had seen her and this other man, Austen's quickened perceptions had detected tacit understanding, community of interest, a habit of thought and manner,--in short, a common language, unknown to him, between the two. [9]
His habit of thought, his knowledge of life, made him a power. [11]
The Widow Rowens, though not of the mansion house set, was among the most genteel of the two-story circle, and was in the habit of visiting some of the great people. [6]
I was at this time of spare habit, and nervous, excitable temperament. [4]
The habit of this sort of invention is certain to destroy the writer's quality, and if he attempts a legitimate work of the imagination, he will carry the same unveracity into that. [4]
The enduring of this habit will have a confirming influence on her purposes, and help to keep her up to them. [4]
For the last thirty years I have been in the habit of receiving a volume of poems or a poem, printed or manuscript--I will not say daily, though I sometimes receive more than one in a day, but at very short intervals. [6]
The habit of thinking you would shoot somebody some time-- somebody you had injured--might become too much for you to-day, and then I should have to kill you, and for your wife's sake I don't want to do that. [11]
Mr. Upham says they--that is, some of them--were in the habit of attributing their want of success to the fact, that an "evil hand" was on their patient. [3]
Entering the house they sat before the fire, holding their hands to the warmth from force of habit, though the night was not cold. [11]
In both cases they flowed in ruts worn deep by time and habit, and the man who should have proposed to divert them by reason and argument would have had a long contract on his hands. [5]
The habit of these deadly seizures has become a second nature. [6]
Questionings no doubt there were, and, later, serious questionings; for habit is almost as strong as love, and the old ways of life and of thought will reassert themselves in a thoughtful mind, and reason will insist on analyzing passion and even hope. [4]
At any rate there is evidence that in the Turkish Empire as late as 1616 tobacco was still somewhat a novelty, and the smoking of it was regarded as vile, and a habit only of the low. [4]
If he were then told that hundreds of similar specimens could be brought from the same countries, he would assuredly declare that they were as good species as many to which he had been in the habit of affixing specific names. [1]
Here we have the two necessary traits in the character of a great people: the love and the habit of civil liberty and religious conviction and independence. [4]
With these were the titles of novels and now and then of books of poems; but it may be taken for granted that his own shelves held the works he was most frequently in the habit of reading or consulting. [6]
Everybody smoked in the streets, for one thing, they noticed; everybody "took a drink" in an open manner whenever he wished to do so or was asked, as if the habit needed no concealment or apology. [5]
On this night the same old loneliness beset Venters, the old habit of sad thought and burning unquiet had its way. [13]
With respect to the origin of the habit, Von Fischer remarks that his monkeys like to have their naked hinder ends patted or stroked, and that they then grunt with pleasure. [1]
The sisters retained the old habit, which was begun in their aunt's life-time, of putting away their work at nine o'clock, and beginning their study, pacing up and down the sitting room. [14]
Speaking generally of the mass of business men--and the mass are business men in this country--have they any habit of reading books? [4]
She went into the kitchen to find Dido; for she, according to her invariable habit of postponing evil as long as possible, had fled to the hearth. [10]
At the nuptials the king, in a Roman habit, occupied a seat lower than hers, while she sat on a throne habited as a Roman empress, and received homage. [4]
But whatever renders the imagination more vivid and strengthens the habit of recalling and comparing past impressions, will make the conscience more sensitive, and may even somewhat compensate for weak social affections and sympathies. [1]
I would extend the hospitality of these shelves to a class of works which we are in the habit of considering as being outside of the pale of medical science, properly so called, and sometimes of coupling with a disrespectful name. [3]
I'm "boss" of the habit, now, and shall never let it boss me any more. [5]
I gave up the habit years ago. [5]
Hence, running became the habit of the French troops, and no wonder. [5]
He was in the habit of talking and laughing pretty loud in school-hours, of throwing wads of paper reduced to a pulp by a natural and easy process, of occasional insolence and general negligence. [6]
I fell into the habit of taking supper in Gloucester Street. [9]
Amasis was in the habit of observing most faithfully these daily-repeated ceremonies and hours of work; the remaining portion of the day he spent as it pleased him, and generally in cheerful society. [10]
I got into the habit of locating them in the interior of Pennsylvania as the safest place, though Jersey seemed equally probable to the public. [4]
I still have the habit of keeping unfinished books lying around years and years, waiting. [5]
I fell into the habit of dropping in on Nancy at least twice a week on my way from the office, and I met her occasionally at other houses. [9]
The criminal has the habit of doing wrong. [4]
I early got the habit of coming on watch with dread at my heart. [5]
He was in the habit of casting aside whatever displeased him unless it appeared advantageous to impose restraint upon himself; and who would ever have dared to resist the expression of his indignation? [10]
They then had the habit of assembling very early in the spring at particular spots, where they could be seen in flocks, chattering, sometimes fighting, bustling and flying about the trees. [1]
We are in the habit of allowing a certain arrogant assumption to our Roman Catholic brethren. [6]
This habit is the greatest danger of the newspaper press of the United States. [4]
After dinner, when the footman handed coffee and from habit began with the princess, the prince suddenly grew furious, threw his stick at Philip, and instantly gave instructions to have him conscripted for the army. [2]
Better not take the first step, which may lead to a habit of altering it. [7]
The habit of the English "general practitioner" of making his profit out of the pills and potions he administered was ruinous to professional advancement and the dignity of the physician. [6]
These actions of the elephant and bear can hardly be attributed to instinct or inherited habit, as they would be of little use to an animal in a state of nature. [1]
It should be the duty of the town-clerk, by a battery, or by some means to be discovered by electricians, to find out the galvanic habit of the parties, their prevailing electric condition. [4]
Everybody is in the drawing-room in the evening, and although, in the freedom of the place, full dress is not exacted, the habit of parade in full toilet prevails. [4]
The castle-building habit, the day-dreaming habit--how it grows! [5]
The Clerk of the Court, from sheer habit of his profession, watched human faces as other people watch the weather, or the rise or fall in the price of wheat and potatoes. [11]
But, to take the case away from ordinary examples, in which habit and a thousand circumstances influence liking, what is it that determines the world upon a personal regard for authors whom it has never seen? [4]
Every lynching-account unsettles the brains of another set of excitable white men, and lights another pyre--115 lynchings last year, 102 inside of 8 months this year; in ten years this will be habit, on these terms. [5]
He had found the antidote to his great temptation, to the lurking, relentless habit which had almost killed him the night John Brown had sung Champagne Charlie from behind the flaring lights. [11]
We also know that this is not accomplished by suppressing that habit, but by putting a good one in its place. [4]
We know also that there is a habit, physical and moral, of doing right as well as doing wrong. [4]
Now he believed that the habit of the ancients was to collect several milkings in a teacup, pour it into the Great Tun, fill up with water, and then skim off the cream from time to time as the needs of the German Empire demanded. [5]
Can you prove that the habit exists? [5]
Lucky for me that in Mexico I got into the habit of carrying a pop-gun. [11]
There was something terrible in this repetition of sensation--the law of habit answering to the machine-like throbbing of memory, as, a kaleidoscope turning, turning, its pictures pass a certain point at fixed intervals--an automatic recurrence. [11]

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