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Meanings of habitual expression in English

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Usage of habitual expression in English
1
His round, fresh-coloured face maintained its habitual expression of rather prim gravity.
The Ffolliots of Redmarley
2
He took his duties very seriously and wore an habitual expression of set determination.
Second to None
3
His eye gleamed unprofessionally for a moment before resuming its habitual expression of quiet introspection.
The Man Upstairs and Other Stories
4
Upon her sunken face there was a curious sardonic smile that was her habitual expression.
The Best British Short Stories of 1922
5
He could scarcely comprehend how he had ever deemed her habitual expression to be forbidding.
Clayhanger
6
The habitual expression of his face was not that of sadness; and yet it was pensive.
Authors and Friends
7
His face was grave with its habitual expression, but it lighted as the two looked up.
Red Pepper's Patients / With an Account of Anne Linton's Case in...
8
Among the girls was one to be especially remarked, from her face and its habitual expression.
Old Mission Stories of California
9
Her habitual expression was one of calm melancholy.
Paul Patoff
10
But M. Plantat speedily resumed his habitual expression.
The Mystery of Orcival
11
Yet her natural temperament was grave and earnest, and her habitual expression, as we have said, pensive.
The Fugitives: The Tyrant Queen of Madagascar
12
But it vanished quickly, and the artist saw that her habitual expression was sad, and even dejected.
A Face Illumined
13
For only a moment his habitual expression of wariness vanished, as did the lines around his mouth.
For my Country’s Freedom
14
Her mouth was rather thin-lipped, but would have been sweet except for a seemingly habitual expression of pain.
Donal Grant
15
The habitual expression of her face was a sweet pensiveness, but sometimes she was irritable and a little petulant.
The Cloister and the Hearth
16
His habitual expression was of discontent, and he was too critical of life, endeavor, character, to be easily satisfied.
The Way of Ambition
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