habitan
Americannoun
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habitans
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Her lithe figure had none of the squareness of the ordinary habitan, and every movement was grace itself.
From A Little Girl in Old Detroit by Amanda Minnie Douglas
Pardon, Reverend Father de Berey!" replied a smiling habitan, "it was not we, but the sacrilegious canaille of St. Anne who boiled the Easter eggs!
From The Golden Dog by William Kirby
The old habitan had the eye of a soldier—he had been one.
From The Golden Dog by William Kirby
Even here they could catch sounds of the music from the river parties, for the violin and a young French habitan were almost inseparable.
From A Little Girl in Old Detroit by Amanda Minnie Douglas
But if it had a repellent effect on the habitan, it exerted a strong attractive force upon other of the passengers.
From Cedar Creek From the Shanty to the Settlement by Elizabeth Hely Walshe
There are iron window-shutters, convents with grated windows and long dead walls; there are narrow thoroughfares, crowded with strangely-dressed habitans, and long processions of priests.
From The Englishwoman in America by Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird
Add to this that I'm at present habitans in sicco, and you will conclude, with the swift logical subtlety so proverbially yours, that as a latter-day hermit I may compare favourably with St. Anthony.
From The Crooked Stick or Pollies's Probation by Rolf Boldrewood
Amidst the confusion and hazard of this feat a procession of other habitans marched aboard, each one bearing under his arm a coffin-shaped wooden box.
From A Chance Acquaintance by William Dean Howells
The few tourists and returning habitans settled themselves in the bow and made ready for their voyage.
From The Man Who Rocked the Earth by Robert Williams Wood
He had not Papineau's marvellous Gallic eloquence, nor were the farmers of Upper Canada composed of such inflammable material as the habitans of the Lower Province.
From The Story of the Upper Canada Rebellion by John Charles Dent
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