1 From long habit the train of thoughts ran so swiftly through my mind, that I arrived at the conclusion without being conscious of intermediate steps.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION 2 He continued to walk up and down the room with his head sunk on his chest and his brows drawn down, as was his habit when lost in thought.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER VII. LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS 3 If he could but once set eyes on him, he thought the mystery would lighten and perhaps roll altogether away, as was the habit of mysterious things when well examined.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis StevensonContext Highlight In CHAPTER SEARCH FOR MR. HYDE 4 It was, at least, a ticklish decision that he had to make; and self-reliant as he was by habit, he began to cherish a longing for advice.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis StevensonContext Highlight In CHAPTER INCIDENT OF THE LETTER 5 Since you have been in the habit of visiting here, he has wanted in one sum as much as a hundred pounds.
6 She reclined, propped up, from mere habit, on a couch: as nearly in her old usual attitude, as anything so helpless could be kept in.
7 In virtue thereof, it had become her habit to assume a woful look, which woful look she now bestowed upon her patron.
8 His countenance bore as little the marks of self-denial, as his habit indicated contempt of worldly splendour.
9 This excuse she stated before a great council of the clergy of England, as the sole reason for her having taken the religious habit.
10 We have the habit of each other.
11 And habit, to my thinking, is more vital than any occasional excitement.
12 But her love was somehow only an excursion from her marriage with Clifford; the long, slow habit of intimacy, formed through years of suffering and patience.
13 It is really only the mechanism of the re-assumed habit.
14 Their marriage, their integrated life based on a habit of intimacy, that he talked about: there were days when it all became utterly blank and nothing.
15 For Connie had got into the habit of sitting still by the fire, pretending to read; or to sew feebly, and hardly going out at all.