Even students who said they were annoyed by the constant repetition acknowledged that the mental habits had probably kept them out of trouble.

He was trembling, but a hundred mental habits forbade him to consider this possibility.

It wasn't easy to lose the mental habits of the convent.

"Too locked in to their mental habits to be taken seriously," Judy said with a perfectly straight face.

But Doc had one mental habit he could not get over.

Early interpretations depended almost wholly on the mental habits of their proponents.

Environmental determinism is the theory that a people's physical, mental and moral habits are directly due to the influence of their natural environment.

Watson, I know it is a hard thing when the mental habits of a lifetime must be discarded.

But these are only the mental habits acquired in an evil time.

All the habits of the patient, both mental and bodily, are still in our favour.