1 It revived my utmost indignation to find that she was still pursued by this fellow, and I felt inveterate against him.
2 In my honeymoon, too, when my most inveterate enemy might relent, one would think, and not envy me a little peace of mind and happiness.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 4. I FALL INTO DISGRACE 3 The gentleman with the gray whiskers was obviously an inveterate adherent of serfdom and a devoted agriculturist, who had lived all his life in the country.
4 It is only indispensable with an inveterate running whale; its grand fact and feature is the wonderful distance to which the long lance is accurately darted from a violently rocking, jerking boat, under extreme headway.
5 He was an inveterate gambler, though a poor loser.
6 He passed the groups of dead with a steadiness of purpose, and an eye so calm, that nothing but long and inveterate practise could enable him to maintain.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 18 7 The royal policy had long been to weaken, by every means, legal or illegal, the strength of a part of the population which was justly considered as nourishing the most inveterate antipathy to their victor.
8 She was an inveterate watercolour painter, and the house was full of rose-coloured palaces, dark canals, swaying bridges, medieval facades, and so on.
9 But I don't envy Sir Malcolm his inveterate mortal carnality.
10 He spoke upon all subjects except the sciences, alleging in this respect the inveterate hatred he had borne to scholars from his childhood.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In 7 THE INTERIOR* OF THE MUSKETEERS 11 But what was clearest in all this was that the true hatred, the profound hatred, the inveterate hatred of Milady, was increased by his not having killed her brother-in-law.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In 33 SOUBRETTE AND MISTRESS 12 The minister and the king exchanged numerous caresses, felicitating each other upon the fortunate chance which had freed France from the inveterate enemy who set all Europe against her.
13 She was an inveterate experimenter in these things.
14 An inveterate Bonapartist; took an active part in the return from the Island of Elba.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 28. The Prison Register. 15 Mr. Hubbard was a florid, red-whiskered little man, whose admiration for art was considerably tempered by the inveterate impecuniosity of most of the artists who dealt with him.