1 But when the weeks crawled by and Ashley did not come or any news of him, Tara settled back into its old routine.
2 Fifth Avenue had become a nightly torrent of carriages surging upward to the fashionable quarters about the Park, where illuminated windows and outspread awnings betokened the usual routine of hospitality.
3 If one were not a part of the season's fixed routine, one swung unsphered in a void of social non-existence.
4 She was not, she worried, strong enough to endure the routine, and she could not picture herself standing before grinning children and pretending to be wise and decisive.
5 Carol wondered why Guy Pollock went on digging at routine law-cases; why he remained in Gopher Prairie.
6 Kennicott was as fixed in routine as an isolated old man.
7 She discovered that in the afternoon, office routine stretches to the grave.
8 Because you told me yourself that you are only dull when your regular routine is broken in upon.
9 The old man made a departure from his usual routine in honor of his son's arrival: he gave orders to admit him to his apartments while he dressed for dinner.
10 The old prince, not altering his routine, retired as usual after dinner.
11 Natasha was evidently pleased to be dealing with new people outside the ordinary routine of her life.
12 All else was to him only life's customary routine.
13 To such customary routine belonged his conversations with the staff, the letters he wrote from Tarutino to Madame de Stael, the reading of novels, the distribution of awards, his correspondence with Petersburg, and so on.
14 The rest of the year life pursued its unbroken routine with its ordinary occupations, and its breakfasts, lunches, dinners, and suppers, provided out of the produce of the estate.
15 The Consul is away, and the Vice-Consul sick; so the routine work has been attended to by a clerk.