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Sentences starting with habits

Habits are the crutches of old age; by the aid of these we manage to hobble along after the mental joints are stiff and the muscles rheumatic, to speak metaphorically,--that is to say, when every act of self-determination costs an effort and a pang. [6]

Sentences ending with habits

Very likely nothing would come of all this espionage; but, at any rate, the first thing to be done with a man you want to have in your power is to learn his habits. [6]
Mr. Fenton contrasts with astonishment the decrease in New Zealand with the increase in Ireland; countries not very dissimilar in climate, and where the inhabitants now follow nearly similar habits. [1]
The best people, who are determined to broaden all their 'a''s, will forget in moments of excitement, and fall back into old habits. [4]
Those Pompeiians were very luxurious in their tastes and habits. [5]
These musty Memorials told us when Man lived, and what were his habits. [5]
They were sitting together on a bench before a country tavern, in the free converse permitted by our democratic habits. [5]
For the first time, he took certain precautions with reference to his diet, such as were quite alien to his common habits. [6]
The school and the workshop are both primarily for discipline and the formation of new habits. [4]
You have no such hindrance, if we may judge by your aspect and habits. [6]
This is not so very difficult a matter if one begins in good season and forms regular habits. [6]

Short sentences using habits

Their habits make it unnecessary. [5]

Sentences containing habits two or more times

I think it confuses us; for as a rule it applies itself to habits and impulses which had a far-off origin in thought, and now and then breaks the rule and applies itself to habits which can hardly claim a thought-origin. [5]

More example sentences with the word habits in them

To high moral worth and irreproachable habits were joined gentleness of manner, an ingenuous disposition, and vigor of understanding. [4]
The story has won the attention and enjoyed the favor of a limited class of readers, and if it still continues to interest others of the same tastes and habits of thought I can ask nothing more of it. [6]
He never meddled with any other town, for he was afraid to venture into houses whose ins and outs he did not know and the habits of whose households he was not acquainted with. [5]
We can see why it is that aborigines, who have long inhabited islands, and who must have been long exposed to nearly uniform conditions, should be specially affected by any change in their habits, as seems to be the case. [1]
Like all bachelors who have lived a lonely life, Master Byles Gridley had his habits, which nothing short of some terrestrial convulsion--or perhaps, in his case, some instinct that drove him forth to help somebody in trouble--could possibly derange. [6]
We know as well what differences to expect in the habits of a mucous and of a serous membrane, as what mineral substances to look for in the chalk or the coal measures. [3]
We compare the weakened impression of a past temptation with the ever present social instincts, or with habits, gained in early youth and strengthened during our whole lives, until they have become almost as strong as instincts. [1]
In common life we shirk it by forming habits, which take the place of self-determination. [6]
From what Mr. Wallace has observed of the habits of certain gallinaceous birds in the East, he thinks that such slight differences are beneficial. [1]
It was a very insufficient and unsatisfactory reason to assign for the young man's solitary habits that he was the subject of an antipathy. [6]
By inheritance, by tradition, by habits of thought, Austen Vane was an American,--an American as differentiated from the citizen of any other nation upon the earth. [9]
So far as tones and expressions and habits which belonged to the idiosyncrasy of the original are borrowed by the student of his life, it is a misfortune for the borrower. [6]
My rest is to watch the habits of insects, those that I do not pretend to study. [6]
It is painful to relate that the irregularity and deceit of the life the Vicomte was leading amused her, for existence at Silverdale was plainly not of a kind to make a gentleman of the Vicomte's temperament and habits ecstatically happy. [9]
It seemed strange to Lawless that this old man beside him should be thus peaceful in his habits, the most primitive and arcadian of farmers, and yet one whose trade was blood--whose one purpose in life was destruction and vengeance. [11]
But she trusted to his habits of courtesy; he had no small meannesses--he was no spy or thief. [11]
It was not to be expected that these habits would be overcome without a long struggle and many back-slidings. [4]
The inhabitants of Tierra del Fuego, the Cape of Good Hope, and Tasmania in the one hemisphere, and of the arctic regions in the other, must have passed through many climates, and changed their habits many times, before they reached their present homes. [1]
The hordes would thus be exposed to slightly different conditions and habits of life, and would sooner or later come to differ in some small degree. [1]
At any rate, this was not a time in which professional habits could keep down certain instincts of older date than these. [6]
He manifestly owes this immense superiority to his intellectual faculties, to his social habits, which lead him to aid and defend his fellows, and to his corporeal structure. [1]
Mr. Bernard kept these strange creatures, and watched all their habits with a natural curiosity. [6]
It seems idle, therefore, for the moralist to indulge in a homily about annual good intentions, and habits that ought to be dropped or acquired, on the first of January. [4]
The foot was then prehensile, judging from the condition of the great toe in the foetus; and our progenitors, no doubt, were arboreal in their habits, and frequented some warm, forest-clad land. [1]
His knowledge of the world, his habits of directness, his eager but not hurried speech, his unconventional but original statements of things, his occasional literary felicity and unusual tact, might have made him distinguished in a more cultured community. [11]
I shall treat the Ten as a whole because they did not materially differ from one another in dress or habits or ambition or general usefulness on this earth. [9]
It has all the tastes there are except refined ones, it has all the habits there are except good ones. [5]
Wood gives in the 'Student' (April 1870, p. 116) an excellent account of the attitude and habits of this bird during its courtship. [1]
They have lost the power of distinguishing right from wrong; they commonly lack will-power, and so are incapable of changing their habits without external influence. [4]
He willingly accepted the office of "champion at the tea-parties;" he was one of a knot of young fellows of literary tastes and convivial habits, who delighted to be known as "The Nine Worthies," or "Lads of Kilkenny. [4]
The habits of the military class are the absence of freedom, that is, discipline, idleness, ignorance, cruelty, debauchery, and drunkenness. [2]
You must know the intimate habits of anything you paint or write about. [4]
They talked by the hour upon all sorts of themes, the growth of the tree, the habits of wild animals, the migration of seeds, the succession of oak and pine, not to mention theology, and the mysteries of the supernatural. [4]
Every observer of the habits of animals will be able to call to mind instances of this kind. [1]
How surely do the habits of a lifetime become second nature to us! [5]
Or was it that the singular change which had come over her had involved her passionate fancy for him and swept it away with her other habits of thought and feeling? [6]
Philip learned afterwards that temperance and the strict observance of Sunday and a certain gravity of deportment are geographical habits, which people do not usually carry with them away from home. [5]
We thus learn that man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits, and an inhabitant of the Old World. [1]
One journal protested that it was not possible to believe in Dyck Calhoun's guilt; that his outward habits were known to all, and were above suspicion, although he had collogued--though never secretly, so far as the world knew--with some of the advanced revolutionary spirits. [11]
I cannot deny that I had seen something of the world, and had contracted about the average bad habits of young men who have the sole care of themselves, and rather bungle the matter. [4]
I soon observed that her habits of order were such that she could not go on with the conversation, if a chair was out of its place; everything was arranged with delicate regularity. [14]
It was possible that Cynthia might take him, and Deacon Ira Perkins made a note the next time he went to Brampton to question Silas Wheelock on Mr. Worthington's origin, habits, and orthodoxy. [9]
In less than ten minutes Mrs. Glow had learned the chief points in the family history, the state of health and habits of pa (Mr. Benson), and all about Cyrusville and its wonderful growth. [4]
His habits and tastes were simple, and little would have sufficed for his individual needs. [4]
It was a strange medley, in keeping, perhaps, with the incongruously furnished mind of the master of it all; it was expressive of tastes and habits not yet settled and consistent. [11]
The degrees of sterility do not coincide strictly with the degrees of difference between the parents in external structure or habits of life. [1]
It was not so easy to give up daily luxury, and habits of ease at the expense of attendants, or the ostentation which had become a second nature. [4]
He was orthodox, so Deacon Ira had discovered, of good habits, and there was the princely four hundred a year--almost a minister's salary! [9]
The habit of snake and spider, the snap of the tiger and other leapers and bloody jumpers, the crackle of the bones of his prey in the coil of the anaconda,--these are in the system, and our habits are like theirs. [6]
Her temper was singular, her tastes were anomalous, her habits were lawless, her antipathies were many and intense, and she was liable to explosions of ungovernable anger. [6]
It is a significant fact, that the more the habits of any particular animal are studied by a naturalist, the more he attributes to reason and the less to unlearnt instincts. [1]
When she arrived, she was possessed of habits of economy and not possessed of money; now she dressed elaborately, gave but little thought to the cost of things, and was very well fortified financially. [5]
This expression, as she used it in her thoughts, seems rather foreign to her habits, but there was room in her large brain for a wide range of illustrations and an ample vocabulary. [6]
At the proper season these birds seem all day long to be impressed with the desire to migrate; their habits change; they become restless, are noisy and congregate in flocks. [1]
For the solid sciences I had no particular fancy, but with mental modes and habits, and especially with the eccentric and fantastic in the intellectual and spiritual operations, I was tolerably familiar. [4]
What shall I say of the personal habits you must form if you wish for success? [3]
It cannot be said that he was intimate with that rather formidable personage, although the Judge, being a man of habits, had formed that of taking tea at least once a week with Mrs. Brice. [9]
Science names and registers the ills of life; and yet it is a gain to know the names and habits of our enemies. [4]
The whole passage quoted gives us a curious picture of the mind and of the habits of the time. [4]
Quicker than thought, quicker than the lightning's flash, fifty monkish habits disappeared, and fifty knights in splendid armor stood revealed! [5]
Having been taken prisoner and allowed his beard to grow, he seemed to have thrown off all that had been forced upon him--everything military and alien to himself--and had returned to his former peasant habits. [2]
A ship in port at such a time was not a scene of evangelical habits. [11]
At this somewhat pointed reference to his ancient habits, Chiltern laughed. [9]
Many of our physical habits have become automatic. [4]
We have no permanent habits until we are forty. [5]
He invested his own personal habits with the millinery. [11]
Nomadic habits, whether over wide plains, or through the dense forests of the tropics, or along the shores of the sea, have in every case been highly detrimental. [1]
How much of our virtue do we owe to inherited habits? [4]
Another symptom of our excited condition is seen in the breaking up of old habits. [6]
In some cases, organs have been reduced by means of natural selection, from having become injurious to the species under changed habits of life. [1]
Why, even one or two little bad habits could have saved her, but she was just a moral pauper. [5]
It is possible, or as we shall hereafter see, even probable, that the habit of self-command may, like other habits, be inherited. [1]
He brought back one or two new habits with him, one of which he rather openly practiced--tippling--but concealed another, which was gambling. [5]
It was always on the basis of my earthly habits, experiences, and limitations. [6]
Old theories, and old men who cling to them, must take themselves out of the way as the new generation with its fresh thoughts and altered habits of mind comes forward to take the place of that which is dying out. [6]
Both were old; old enough to have been moulded by their habits of thought and life; old enough to have all their beliefs "fretted in," as vintners say,--thoroughly worked up with their characters. [6]
But it is often accompanied by a misconception, namely, that it is necessary for woman to be like man, not only in habits, but in certain physical characteristics. [4]
Such a pitch of virtue does not occur often in real life, especially in such natures as Harry's, whose generosity and unselfishness were matters of temperament rather than habits or principles. [5]
But the habits of these three moths are unknown; so that no explanation can be given of their unusual style of colouring. [1]
Teachers and students of theology get a certain look, certain conventional tones of voice, a clerical gait, a professional neckcloth, and habits of mind as professional as their externals. [6]
Like the rest of the world, she had not in earlier years seen the furtiveness in his handsome face; but at last, as his natural viciousness became stereotyped, and bad habits matured and emphasized, she saw beneath his mask of low-class comeliness. [11]
For the habits of the snipe, Macgillivray, 'History of British Birds,' vol. [1]
In his associations of the past year his spendthrift habits had increased, and he had been humiliated by his inability to keep pace with the prodigality of those with whom he was most intimate. [4]
The whole theory of the Elmira system is to keep men long enough under a strict discipline to change their habits. [4]
The social habits of our people have undergone an immense change within the past half century, largely in consequence of the vast development of the means of intercourse between different neighborhoods. [6]
In various corners of Moscow there still remained a few people aimlessly moving about, following their old habits and hardly aware of what they were doing. [2]
With my turn of mind, and with the preposterous habits which I had been daily acquiring, I could not fail to make as gross mistakes in the pursuit of this as of other branches of knowledge. [6]
Under the influence of a great mental and moral upheaval, his character and his habits had taken on the appearance of complete change, but after a while with the subsidence of the storm, both began to settle toward their former places. [5]
His body was oblong and particularly capacious at bottom; which was wisely ordered by Providence, seeing that he was a man of sedentary habits, and very averse to the idle labor of walking. [4]
For Mr. Fletcher not to walk into his shop on the stroke of ten would have been such a reversal of his habits as to cause him as much annoyance as it caused Jack to be bound to a fixed hour. [4]
Happily, Madame was not proof against the habits of the climate, and she retired for her siesta. [9]
He had absolutely no bad habits, and his disposition was perfect. [4]
Such habits almost necessitate the cultivation of the ground; and the first steps in cultivation would probably result, as I have elsewhere shewn (8. [1]
It may be necessary to break through our usual habits of reserve to do this, but this is the fault of the position in which others have placed us. [3]
It was so natural, yet so unnatural, to be thus in touch with the habits of far-off times. [11]
My habits protect my life, but they would assassinate you. [5]
Some of the most interesting facts ever published on the habits of ants are given by Mr. Belt, in his 'Naturalist in Nicaragua,' 1874. [1]
See Mr. Warington's most interesting description of the habits of the Gasterosteus leiurus in 'Annals and Magazine of Nat. [1]
Natural history--generally the most fascinating of subjects--can be taught; interest in flowers and trees and birds and the habits of animals can be awakened by reading the essays of literary men on these topics as they never can be by the dry text-books. [4]
He was growing more and more solitary in his habits, more and more negligent of his appearance. [6]

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