All through their girlhood she had felt that she could act on her sister by a word judiciously placed—by opening a little window for the daylight of her own understanding to enter among the strange colored lamps by which Dodo habitually saw.
The quick vision that his life was after all a failure, that he was a dishonored man, and must quail before the glance of those towards whom he had habitually assumed the attitude of a reprover—that God had disowned him before men and left him unscreened to the triumphant scorn of those who were glad to have their hatred justified—the sense of utter futility in that equivocation with his conscience in dealing with the life of his accomplice, an equivocation which now turned venomously upon him w
It was a strange reversal of attitudes: Fred's blond face and blue eyes, usually bright and careless, ready to give attention to anything that held out a promise of amusement, looking involuntarily grave and almost embarrassed as if by the sight of something unfitting; while Lydgate, who had habitually an air of self-possessed strength, and a certain meditativeness that seemed to lie behind his most observant attention, was acting, watching, speaking with that excited narrow consciousness which
The terror of being judged sharpens the memory: it sends an inevitable glare over that long-unvisited past which has been habitually recalled only in general phrases.
Mawmsey, who habitually gave weight to her speech by loading her pronouns.
Casaubon habitually went to rest, she opened her door gently and stood outside in the darkness waiting for his coming up-stairs with a light in his hand.
" said poor sister Martha, whose imagination of hundreds had been habitually narrowed to the amount of her unpaid rent.
I am sorry to add that she was sobbing bitterly, with such abandonment to this relief of an oppressed heart as a woman habitually controlled by pride on her own account and thoughtfulness for others will sometimes allow herself when she feels securely alone.
" One of Lydgate's gifts was a voice habitually deep and sonorous, yet capable of becoming very low and gentle at the right moment.
All her eagerness for acquirement lay within that full current of sympathetic motive in which her ideas and impulses were habitually swept along.
She had never tried it before, and did not know whether Barney habitually kept it locked or not.
The study notes, "Further, nightshift workers, who habitually sleep fewer hours than day workers, face higher morbidity due to breast cancer and all-cause mortality than day workers.
While most people lie or at least bend the truth occasionally, pathological liars do so habitually.
Sure enough, the group that had habitually bit their nails and/or sucked their thumb as kids were less likely to have developed allergies.
The survey of 984 adults, published in the journal Sleep, found a link between people who habitually went to bed and rose late on weekends and an increased rate of cardiovascular disease and fatigue.
"Individuals who habitually consume caffeine on a daily basis are less likely to benefit from caffeine's performance advantages without upping the dose," Brunye says.
In the developing world and behind the iron curtain, he was habitually greeted as though he was a head of state.
Along with colleagues, she studied 207 students who habitually slept for at least six hours per night.
Maybe you habitually tell yourself: "Today I [action] and everyone laughed.
Along with colleagues, she studied 207 students who habitually slept for at least six hours per night.
