In the middle of the afternoon, I telephoned the switchboard operator at the office and asked if there were any messages for me, as I customarily did when I was out, and she immediately switched me to the receptionist, who said that a man had been sitting in the reception room for an hour or so waiting for me to return.
In addition to meditating on a flame within his heart, as he customarily did, he imagined himself breathing in light and expelling fatigue.
On that day, Fernando Antonio Nogueira Pessoa (1888-1935) took a sheet of paper, went to a tall chest of drawers in his room and began to write standing up, as he customarily did.
I didn't know what he was getting at, but took it to mean that the formalities of a closing were superfluous to the old-time handshake with which Oren Johnson customarily did business.
As the Arabs customarily did not campaign during winter, Asad demobilized his men.
The siege continued through the autumn, and the Arabs, who customarily did not take along many provisions, began suffering from lack of supplies.
She had been referred by another family, the police said, and did not come through an agency, which customarily does background checks.
Bonhams, as it has customarily done, is holding an auction in conjunction with the event.
Nikos's door stood open, as it customarily does in mild weather.
He imposes personality upon paper rather than deriving, as novelists more customarily do, a paper work from personal sources.
