| 1. | Like everything else, we must habituate the senses to a fresh impression, gentle or violent, sad or joyous. - from The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, Pere |
| 2. | "Yes, I understand that and how would you habituate yourself, for instance, or rather, how did you habituate yourself to it. - from The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, Pere |
| 3. | "Well," returned Morrel, "it is a cruel thing to be forced to say, but, already used to misfortune, I must habituate myself to shame. - from The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, Pere |
| 4. | "And you really believe the result would be still more sure with us than in the East, and in the midst of our fogs and rains a man would habituate himself more easily than in a warm latitude to this progressive absorption of poison. - from The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, Pere |
| 5. | "Once habituated to his distrustful manner," said I, "I have done very well.. - from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens |
| 6. | The action was more frank and fearless than any I was habituated to indulge in somehow it pleased her. - from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte |
| 7. | Excepting a few provincialisms of slight consequence, you have no marks of the manners which I am habituated to consider as peculiar to your class. - from Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte |
| 8. | I suppose, because it is his ordinary talk you think nothing of it you are habituated to his baseness, and, perhaps, imagine I can get used to it too. - from Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte |
| 9. | Gavroche, habituated to facing the unexpected in all quarters, had everything about him. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 10. | As if long habituated to such profane talk from his old shipmate, Bildad, without noticing his present irreverence, quietly looked up, and seeing me, glanced again inquiringly towards Peleg. - from Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville |
| 11. | But Hester Prynne, with a mind of native courage and activity, and for so long a period not merely estranged, but outlawed from society, had habituated herself to such latitude of speculation as was altogether foreign to the clergyman. - from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| 12. | Flattery and meanness again arise when the spirited element is subjected to avarice, and the lion is habituated to become a monkey. - from The Republic by Plato |
| 13. | He, on his side, habituated as he was to have women consider him handsome, retained no more recollection of Cosette than of any other woman. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |