habitan
Americannoun
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habitans
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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
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
Hence salmon fishermen are universally termed "officers," and a habitan will describe the sportsmen who have rented a certain river as "les officiers de la Moisie" or "les officiers de la Romaine."
From The Man Who Rocked the Earth by Robert Williams Wood
By them, I know, all beauty comes To me, a habitan of slums.
From The Mountainy Singer by Seosamh MacCathmhaoil
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
Swift was anima Rabelaisii habitans in sicco,—the soul of Rabelais dwelling in a dry place.
From Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Henry Nelson Coleridge
However, I suspect you may be on the look-out for a visit from them in spring—au temps des sucres, as the habitans say.'
From Cedar Creek From the Shanty to the Settlement by Elizabeth Hely Walshe
Much eloquence has been wasted in attempting to prove that the French Canadian habitans refused on principle to rally at this juncture.
From The Canadian Portrait Gallery - Volumes 1 to 4 by John Charles Dent
At the period when Hiram Holt expressed himself so strongly on the subject, a grinding vassalage repressed the industry of the habitans.
From Cedar Creek From the Shanty to the Settlement by Elizabeth Hely Walshe
Everything was marked by stagnation and retrogression: the people are habitans, the clergy curés.
From The Englishwoman in America by Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird
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