Word: habitant
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They don't realize that he may look at the stock tables in the paper from habit, without understanding them. They don't realize how deeply this language difficulty cuts into the receptive as well as the expressive faculties...
...most strictly command that nowhere in the provinces of the Indies may there ever be received to the holy habit or profession of our order those who are begotten on the side of either one of their parents of Indian or African blood," read the statute of the Dominican order in 17th century Peru. Thus, the lowly Martin de Porres, offspring of a dalliance between a Peruvian grandee and a freed Negro slave girl, could never aspire to full priestly status in the Dominican Convent of the Most Holy Rosary in Lima. He took this mortification humbly, and gave...
...course Harvard students, internationally minded as they are, have speedily responded to the new offer. Brookline sends as many telegrams in one Sunday night as Cambridge does in two weeks, he observed. A frequent habit of Harvard students, he added, is for three or four of them to send some "silly poem" to the President. By the time they said all they wanted to say, even after leaving off the salutation, they had gone so far over the 15 word limit that they didn't save money anyhow...
Once, when the Chaplins were indulging their habit of flickering a Chaplin film on the portable screen, ten-year-old Victoria asked: "Is that my grandfather?" Victoria herself never stops acting. If Charlie tells her to laugh, she can howl uproariously; when he tells her to cry, tears well and flow...
...seal and "the human heart was like wax that receives the imprint of the seal." Another early teacher, Samuel Miller, endlessly lectured students on such matters of etiquette as why they should not spit tobacco juice on the carpet. "I have known a few tobacco chewers in whom this habit had reached such a degree of concentrated virulence," he wrote, "that they even compelled persons of delicate feelings, especially females, to leave the room, or the pew, and retire in haste to avoid sickness of stomach...