Word: habited
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...doesn’t have a name; she is just referred to over and over again as “the daughter.” Throughout the first half of the novel, this visit, the image of Walter riding in on his buggy and the daughter’s habit of holding onto her father’s gun and staring lovingly at his paintings of birds are repeated over and over again. It is as though Jorge thinks that the reader doesn’t understand that these events all symbolize the daughter’s longing...
...wake up. When I ran past him on my morning run, I assumed he was sleeping in, a thought that made me smile to myself. I don’t know how the construction worker knew to call the police, as most citizens don’t make a habit of approaching sleeping homeless people burrowed in blankets. But he called at 3 p.m. on his cell phone, and the University police came. Donning gloves, they shook the homeless man, paused a moment and rolled him over. As his body turned, his arms remained locked above his head in rigor...
...fire ants to bombardier beetles, I retreated from this tower. The dread of oncoming cold quickly squeezed out any scientific haughtiness I may have harbored, and I marched to CVS to buy my first bottle of Echinacea. For my entire sophomore year I supplemented my vitamin-C (a habit I could justify by appealing to the “anti-oxidant” powers of ascorbic acid) with little capsules filled with what looked like old grass clippings...
...Brenda, who, after being wronged by a man, disappeared for good. She is diametrically opposed to swearing, drinking and smoking, frequently breaks out into irrationally impassioned monologues about the vicious boys who stoned to death four of the last seven birds of an endangered species, and has an odd habit of collecting men’s sweaters for mementos...
Staying in on a weekend night happens to every Harvard student, but there’s no need to make a habit...