After every successful trade he generally passed a longer or shorter term in jail; for when a poor man without goods or chattels has the
inveterate habit of swapping, it follows naturally that he must have something to swap; and having nothing of his own, it follows still more naturally that he must swap something belonging to his neighbors.
The
inveterate willfulness and caprice of his proceedings in these particulars defied every effort to reduce them to a system, and baffled all attempts at calculating on them beforehand.
I shall confine myself to correcting a few misapprehensions which have, I am told, arisen among readers who from
inveterate habit cannot bring the persons and events of a novel into any relation with the actual conditions of life.
Let the most scrupulous expositors of delegated powers; let the most
inveterate objectors against those exercised by the convention, answer these questions.
An
inveterate Bonapartist; took an active part in the return from the Island of Elba.
So it is with all other dispositions also, unless through lapse of time a disposition has itself become
inveterate and almost impossible to dislodge: in which case we should perhaps go so far as to call it a habit.
These savages are the most dangerous banditti of the mountains, and the
inveterate foe of the trappers.
Yet the poet and his wife, Penelope, were
inveterate nickname givers, calling their son "It".
Jailing the two men, Judge James Pyke told them: "You are both very experienced criminals, and in particular have shown yourselves to be
inveterate burglars."
That hardly sounds like incompetent riding, but when Buckskin's then trainer Peter Walwyn stuck up for Eddery, Wildenstein, whose family was once described by Lester Piggott as "
inveterate bad losers", moved all his horses away from Lambourn and sent them to Henry Cecil.
Humpback whales, too, are "
inveterate composers," says Roger Payne of the Ocean Alliance in Lincoln, Mass., after 3 decades of oceanic listening.
An
inveterate animal lover, Heppner-Gamble dedicated this work to "the social and gentle nature of the wolf." The Floor-hugging wolf movement seemed to capture the essence of a wolf pack's solidarity, and a dancer's hand curved high over her head eloquently suggested the wolf's howl to the moon.
Dr Malcolm Smith (42) stood just feet away from Dr Alanah Houston in a London courtroom and accused her of being a "cunning" woman and an "
inveterate liar", out to ruin him.
In a captivating if too brief documentary video, it's exhilarating to watch big-time fashion watchers and
inveterate smokers Bernadine Morris (of the New York Times) and Nancy White (former editor of Harper's Bazaar) hold forth on "Jimmy's" superbness, noting subtle, often unphotographable details: "Smocking that will change its size as it goes down the garment to make you look broader or smaller or just to please the eye" and (my favorite) "He revived chiffon." Galanos would revive it by innovation: he "tailored it into flat pleats" rather than draping it.
The book became a gay staple, and the subsequent titles in what became known as the Buddies trilogy (Bud dies in 1986 and Everybody Loves You two years later) revisited Mordden's queer world of curious man-children (Cosgrove and Virgil, formerly Little Kiwi) and original cast recordings (Mordden is an
inveterate audiophile).
