Lexicographical Neighbors of Habituals
Literary usage of Habituals
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. "The Jukes": A Study in Crime, Pauperism, Disease, and Heredity : Also by Richard Louis Dugdale (1877)
"It is also noticeable that although the occasional drunkards and the temperate
make an aggregate of 16, or nearly one-third as many as the habituals, ..."
2. The Twentieth Century by Caroline Farrar Ware (1908)
"Sir Alfred's classification of criminals is : first, the young and the first
offenders; second, petty offenders who are not ' habituals' ; third, ..."
3. Annual Report by Correctional Association of New York (1870)
"Separate Bleeping cells for a fair proportion of the worst " habituals," if not
for all, ... If this is done — as " habituals " should always receive larger ..."
4. General Principles of the Structure of Language by James Byrne (1892)
"... neuters, reciprocals, and habituals by prefixes, verbs of becoming by a suffix,
and habituals by an inserted or subjoined vowel ; and it combines these ..."
5. The Independent Review (1905)
"Among all except the habituals, there was a strong dislike of oakum-picking,
because it is so much a matter of acquired knack that the habituals have an ..."
6. Outdoor Labor for Convicts: A Report to the Governor of Illinois by Charles Richmond Henderson (1907)
"While the effect on the colonists is not permanent, since 90 per cent, are
habituals and addicted to drink, yet further deterioration is prevented by ..."
7. Outdoor Labor for Convicts: A Report to the Governor of Illinois by Charles Richmond Henderson (1907)
"While the effect on the colonists is not permanent, since 90 per cent. are habituals
and addicted to drink, yet further deterioration is prevented by ..."
8. Official Reports by Poor law conferences (1906)
"(2) In order to weed out the " habituals " some probationary period must be fixed.
To start with, all suspected " habituals " should be placed under ..."
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