His hearing has adjusted to that long habituation of foot to ball to wall.

He was singularly reserved; not by nature, but from his long habituation to be the depositary of important secrets.

Indeed, long habituation to the dissecting-room and the amputation-table had made him seemingly impervious to the ordinary emotions of humanity.

But I suspect that the sterility is not caused so much by any particular conditions as by long habituation to conditions of any kind.

That sense of rooted attachment which comes from long habituation to one set of physical images is practically a lost emotion to Americans....