Hamlet means that it is more honorable to breach, or violate, the custom of carousing than to observe it.
Instead, observing the custom of the era, he stayed home, kept working and let his record speak for itself.
But many families, I was told by my teachers, still observe the custom of visiting seven churches on the evening before Good Friday, a task that requires devotion but not much walking in the churchy center of the city.
As the horses loaded into the gate for the Belmont Stakes, we observed the custom of climbing onto our clubhouse seats, one foot perched on the seatback in front of us.
He said the impetus for putting up the sukkah came from Jews in TriBeCa who wanted a convenient way to observe the custom of sitting and eating in a sukkah.
For instance, in a study of hypertension in western Kenya, my colleagues and I observed the custom of using salt instead of refrigeration to preserve food.
For instance, in an ongoing study of hypertension in Kenya, led by Rajesh Vedanthan, M.D., MPH, Assistant Professor of Cardiology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, we have observed the custom of using salt (instead of refrigeration) to preserve food and then cooking that food with additional salt.
And while Della Casa was unfamiliar with bridal and baby showers, he stresses the necessity of observing prevalent customs and even fashions, and he devotes a chapter to the importance of ritual.
It survived further in the custom, also observed in Germany, of placing a Yule tree at an entrance or inside the house during the midwinter holidays.
THE CUSTOM OF THE ARMY, by Diana Gabaldon.
