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He was five feet ten inches in height, of a very erect, clean limbed, and athletic form admirably fitted in structure, muscle, temperament, and habit, for the endurance of the labors, changes, and sufferings he underwent.
"I'm giving you the grey. He's got enough in him for any woman even for you: And besides, I don't think the black ever felt a side saddle, or any other kind, until last week." "I've got another habit," she said eagerly. "I'd rather ride him astride. I'll match you to see who has him." Chiltern laughed. "No you don't," he repeated. "I'll ride him to-day, and consider it to-morrow."
"The resolutions," said he later, "were the result of a consultation among the deputies of the State; the whole number, seven, being present. Mr. Randolph was made the organ of the occasion, being the governor of the State, of distinguished talents, and in the habit of public speaking."
It has often been asked of me if I will not follow in the steps of my good uncle here; but I have never felt the wish. It seems to me that the habit of the monk or the cassock of the priest too often seems to separate betwixt him and his fellow man, and that it were not good for the world for all its holiest men to don that habit and divide themselves from their brethren.
Desire is therefore a far greater force in the astral life than in the physical, and if the man has not been in the habit of controlling it, and if in this new life it cannot be satisfied, it may cause him great and long-continued trouble. Take as an illustration the extreme case of a drunkard or a sensualist.
But, again the same incorrigible medical forefinger pointed out another passage in the evidence, showing that the dead men had been examined after death, and that they, at least, could not possibly have been habitual drunkards, because the organs within them which must have shown traces of that habit, were perfectly sound.
If the habit being formed is that of writing, the appropriate movements are made with no hesitation, and the chances that certain ones will be made the first time increase in probability. This means a saving of time and an increase in confidence as to the results. A consideration of these characteristics of habits makes clear its dangers as well as its values.
He was no more interested in these heathen cities of a heathen East than in an ash-pile through which he might have to rake for a hidden coin. By the time he reached Brindisi he had recovered his lost weight, and added to it, by many pounds. He had also returned to his earlier habit of chewing "fine-cut."
I replied, that I considered it a beverage well adapted for a sort of draught wine, but that it certainly had not the body that foreign wines have that we are in the habit of drinking in England.
She had seen clearly enough from her father's face that his interview with the lawyer had been of a most serious character, but she knew that the chances were that she would never be able to get its upshot out of him, for the old gentleman had a curious habit of keeping such unpleasant matters to himself until he was absolutely forced by circumstances to reveal them.
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