I am an inveterate homemaker, it is at once my pleasure, my recreation, and my handicap....being a woman, my work has had to be done between bouts of homemaking. From LearnThat.org. [Pearl S. Buck (1892-1973), U.S. author.]
Heck, even if you have been there and if you're the kind of inveterate. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to Pick Your Barcelona Team To Face Real Valladolid] Reference
Heck, even if you have been there and if you're the kind of inveterate animal whose existence is defined by what happens. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to Pick Your Barcelona Team To Face Real Valladolid] Reference
Some habits rest upon us lightly; some are inveterate. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Ethical Theory] Reference
It shall be judged an inveterate leprosy, and grown into the skin. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 03: Leviticus The Challoner Revision] Reference
Even inveterate gamblers need to check their e-mail once in a while. From Wordnik.com. [GAMBLER'S LINK] Reference
SIMON: His father is a retired schoolteacher and inveterate tinkerer. From Wordnik.com. [Ruben Blades: In 'Spoken Word,' A Certain Wisdom] Reference
The habit of industry can become as inveterate as habits of pleasure. From Wordnik.com. [Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness] Reference
And inveterate archivists will appreciate the new Notebook function in Word. From Wordnik.com. [Software: Need An Office?] Reference
I am an inveterate old Londoner, but while I am among your choice collections. From Wordnik.com. [Life and Remains of John Clare "The Northamptonshire Peasant Poet"] Reference
It is now inveterate, the complaint commenced last March, a twelvemonth past. From Wordnik.com. [A Sketch of the Life of the late Henry Cooper Barrister-at-Law, of the Norfolk Circuit; as also, of his Father] Reference
The act may be repeated until inveterate masturbation results, even at an early age. From Wordnik.com. [Sex Avoided subjects Discussed in Plain English] Reference
They were thought to preserve from all evils and to cure the most inveterate diseases. From Wordnik.com. [Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing] Reference
Sheriff Morgan sums up Gonzalez this way: he is "an inveterate liar" and "a psychopath.". From Wordnik.com. [Murder in the Panhandle] Reference
He was one of the most indefatigable and inveterate letter-writers within my experience. From Wordnik.com. [Fifty Years of Public Service] Reference
Because they are all inveterate (and deft) storytellers, even when they're just talking shop. From Wordnik.com. [The Write Stuff] Reference
"Do the words 'hate, loathe, despise, mean anything to you?" snaps inveterate mini-wearer Rivers. From Wordnik.com. [The Long And Sport Of It] Reference
Well, she must have been a paragon to make the conquest of two of the most inveterate bachelors in all. From Wordnik.com. [Edmond Dantès] Reference
This disease may end in chronic cough, a bad discharge from the nose, and in inveterate cases in glanders. From Wordnik.com. [Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets] Reference
Who wishes to have the inveterate habit of cracking the joints of his fingers or of biting his finger-nails?. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Ethical Theory] Reference
But for simplicity and ease of use, the new Mint is a good option, even for us inveterate checkbook-balancers. From Wordnik.com. [Review: Mint.com reveals what's really left in your bank account] Reference
He was a kindly man at heart, but an idle existence and his inveterate love of gossip had made a poor creature of him. From Wordnik.com. [Peter and Jane or The Missing Heir] Reference
Subsequently had inveterate constitutional symptoms, for which he was under medical treatment both here and in Europe. From Wordnik.com. [The Electric Bath] Reference
This was promising more than Mrs. Robertson was able to perform perhaps, for she was a chronic and inveterate grumbler. From Wordnik.com. [Katie Robertson A Girls Story of Factory Life] Reference
The first thing we experienced on reaching Naples was the inveterate habit of begging and cheating among the lower classes. From Wordnik.com. [Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta] Reference
Especially against the doddering dairymaidens of surrender like that inveterate sleazehound KXF who so rapaciously libeled me!. From Wordnik.com. [Excerpt from Urdoxa 2.0] Reference
Much like fans who follow rock stars, one might call these inveterate travelers "groupies" because of their loyalty to the line. From Wordnik.com. [Dr. Irene S. Levine: Discovering Victoria's Secrets] Reference
Tête Rouge, however, was sometimes rather troublesome; he had an inveterate habit of pilfering provisions at all times of the day. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7] Reference
GM insiders depict Eaton as an inveterate car enthusiast who was disappointed if he didn't have a different GM car to test-drive every day. From Wordnik.com. [At Chrysler's Wheel: A 'Car Guy'] Reference
Many came from right-wingers and inveterate Clinton-haters: talk-show hosts Bob Grant and Michael Reagan repeatedly broadcast the Defense Fund's 800 number. From Wordnik.com. ['I Want Him To Admit What He Did.'] Reference
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