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Meanings of old habit in English

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Usage of old habit in English
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Now the Taiwanese government is taking action to curb this centuries- old habit.
BBC
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Disappointment angered Mrs. Davis beyond the power of old habit to control.
Rainbow Valley
3
Denry paused an instant, and an old habit rose up in him.
The Card, a Story of Adventure in the Five Towns
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The old habit of respect for my unaccountable temper still swayed her.
In the Days of the Comet
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He had resumed the old habit of eating before he washed himself.
The Prussian Officer
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It was not long before he began to follow his old habit.
McGuffey's Third Eclectic Reader
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Her old habit of early rising had of course to be abandoned.
Excellent Women
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But, following old habit, he didn't tell her what he was thinking.
Magic seeds
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Yet I go on writing-notwithout fatigue-frominner necessity and old habit.
Letters of Franz Liszt -- Volume 2 / from Rome to the End
10
What have I found to fill the place of the old habit?
The Altar Fire
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But the old habit of a healthy paranoia wouldn't leave him alone.
Night of Knives
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Another time, a poor man came to ask for an old habit.
The Life and Legends of Saint Francis of Assisi
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He'd tried to avoid them-brawlinghad been an old habit of Dockson's.
Arcanum Unbounded
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The remembrance stirred in him some old habit of the senses.
The Valley of Decision
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The old habit of mind instinctively resisted the new, the strange.
The Call of the Canyon
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Moreover, the old habit of obedience was still strong in him.
The Far Horizon
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