habituee

So…I am not so habituee with Paris…as a little girl that will be a woman soon I am having fun feeling pretty…experiencing with every occasion the midnight laughing that cleanses me and the love…at HOME!

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Virgilia, surely; by reason of her age -- she was some six or eight years the senior, by reason of her stature -- she was several inches the taller, and by reason of her standing as an habituee -- surely she must know how to behave in a studio.

Under the Skylights Henry Blake Fuller 1893

She wore an odd piece of red coral for a brooch, and by looking steadily at this he brought the rest of the figure into focus and saw, without surprise, -- for every commonplace seemed strange to him now, and everything peculiar quite a matter of course, -- that she was distinctly not an _habituee_ of the place, and looked more like a lady's maid than an adventuress.

Gallegher and Other Stories Richard Harding Davis 1890

She wore an odd piece of red coral for a brooch, and by looking steadily at this he brought the rest of the figure into focus and saw, without surprise, -- for every commonplace seemed strange to him now, and everything peculiar quite a matter of course, -- that she was distinctly not an _habituee_ of the place, and looked more like a lady's maid than an adventuress.

Gallegher and Other Stories Richard Harding Davis 1890

She wore an odd piece of red coral for a brooch, and by looking steadily at this he brought the rest of the figure into focus and saw, without surprise, -- for every commonplace seemed strange to him now, and everything peculiar quite a matter of course, -- that she was distinctly not an _habituee_ of the place, and looked more like a lady's maid than an adventuress.

Gallegher and Other Stories Richard Harding Davis 1890

Now as chamberlain to the queen my Lord Chesterfield had, apartments in the palace, by reason of which the countess became an habituee of the court.

Royalty Restored 1883

Received as a habituee of the establishment, thanks to the numerous orders she had given within the past few days, she was even allowed to enter the mysterious saloon in which the illustrious ruler of Fashion served such of his clients as had a predilection for absinthe or madeira.

Baron Trigault's Vengeance ��mile Gaboriau 1852

"Select Committees," that he rose into consequence; and Mrs. Avenel, courted for his sake, more than her own, obtained the wish of her heart, and was received as an acknowledged habituee into the circles of fashion.

My Novel — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

The interest manifested by the master -- I beg his pardon, the boss of the store -- and the agitation among the clerks, very plainly proved that much was expected from the visit of this young lady, who was addressed, with a certain air of shop-familiarity, as Miss Halfacre -- a familiarity that showed she was an habituee of the place, and considered a good customer.

Autobiography of a Pocket-Handkerchief James Fenimore Cooper 1820

An affable character around Westminster, McWilliam was a habituee of the old Annie's Bar and on good terms with the press gallery.

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