He was big and broad-shouldered, with brown eyes and brown hair; and his very face was so deeply tanned from his inveterate habit of going about bareheaded in merciless sunshine, that it was brown, too.
After every successful trade he generally passed a longer or shorter term in jail; for when a poor man without goods or chattels has the inveterate habit of swapping, it follows naturally that he must have something to swap; and having nothing of his own, it follows still more naturally that he must swap something belonging to his neighbors.
"A most inveterate man-hater!
In that manner Hareton, who should now be the first gentleman in the neighbourhood, was reduced to a state of complete dependence on his father's inveterate enemy; and lives in his own house as a servant, deprived of the advantage of wages: quite unable to right himself, because of his friendlessness, and his ignorance that he has been wronged.
To suppose that Wakem had the same sort of inveterate hatred toward Tulliver that Tulliver had toward him would be like supposing that a pike and a roach can look at each other from a similar point of view.
A prevalent feature in these compositions was a nursed and petted melancholy; another was a wasteful and opulent gush of "fine language"; another was a tendency to lug in by the ears particularly prized words and phrases until they were worn entirely out; and a peculiarity that conspicuously marked and marred them was the inveterate and intolerable sermon that wagged its crippled tail at the end of each and every one of them.
She was an inveterate experimenter in these things.
The Problem of Two Flounders Simon was an inveterate fisherman, well known for exaggerating the size of "the one that got away".
Simon was an inveterate fisherman, well known for exaggerating the size of the one that got away.
The inveterate pipe smoker didn't drink much alcohol but like celery punch.
Being an inveterate stickler for the rules, I tried to point out to the accommodating cop that what we were doing was against the law.
They both enjoy gossip, are inveterate news hounds and love to involve themselves in all aspects of the production of the news.
Lately I've been wondering what makes someone an inveterate nail-biter like me.
The Problem of Two Flounders Simon was an inveterate fisherman, well known for exaggerating the size of the one that got away.
