The investigating District Commissioner, W. Price Jones, called it "a pernicious habit of handing girls over to the fetish," but for economic reasons, decided not to interfere.

The Spanish Treasury takes in colossal revenues, direct and indirect, thanks to this pernicious habit.

A soldier of the New York 114th wrote: "The men soon learned the pernicious habit of slyly leaving their places in the ranks when opposite a planter's house.

At Morris High School, he said, "my bashfulness and diffidence had become pernicious habits."

All depends upon breaking through a pernicious habit resolutely and at once.

I trust you have not formed the pernicious habit of speaking slightingly of your birthplace.

Such characters had pene- trating, unmilitary minds, and pernicious habit of destroying a good story by exhibiting its own contradictions.

Indeed we do, and well we may, many of us having suffered from this pernicious habit.

The question infuriated Abner, symbolizing as it did the world's pernicious habit of rejoicing over the downfall of sanctimonious men.

But it took Bill Clinton to make "executive privilege" a pernicious habit.