EMPTY THE MINI-BAR Years ago a friend who had recently gotten sober mentioned his habit of phoning hotels ahead with instructions to empty the mini-bar.
Not to mention the habits of perseverance and attention to detail I learned by painstakingly parsing Horace or Thucydides in the original.
You may have guessed my state before I did, if you had seen my weight and the unhealthy diet of a reporter on the road, grabbing meals between deadlines; not to mention the habits of a comfort eater.
Letter X: "On snakes and on the humming-bird" — Extensive detailing of a wide variety of snakes, including the cultural practices surrounding them; it also mentions their habits and stories that have been told in America, warning people about certain ones.
I held my increasingly shaky ground, battling for the honor and virtue of the whole world of mature womanhood until I was finally forced from the place by a ballyhoo of barking reminiscent of the social faux pas of mentioning toileting habits while fine dining.
12.27pm BST Munro's career as a writer began six decades ago and her writing habits, mentioned in the recent book Daily Rituals, are an object lesson for all aspiring authors.
They also mentioned regular eating habits, and avoiding pesticides and antibiotics in food as healthy food behaviour.
Ben Hogan played to win in cuffed trousers, argyle cashmere and bespoke spats; Arnold Palmer was the Marlon Brando of golf in tight, bicep-revealing shirts; and Payne Stewart's plus fours and tam-o'-shanter -- not to mention his habit of wearing the N.F.L. team colors of whichever club he was playing nearest -- made him stand out almost as much as a woman at Augusta.
But his rigid fanaticism, not to mention his habit of foaming at the mouth when he grandstands, or the revelation that he has written an unsavory article on "Ireland's Jewish problem," makes one reach for a figure more like Hitler than Quixote as the true analogy.
Smith had already mentioned Finn's habit of knocking off the bails to the Australian official, with the law stating that any distraction to the batsman should make the delivery void.
