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Their out-of-pocket costs are consistently higher than men’s, primarily due to non-coverage or limits on sexual and reproductive health services, and they are often prevented by law or
custom
from obtaining care.
He then tried to regard it all as a meaningless, empty custom, like making a round of calls, but felt equally unable to do that.
CHAPTER IION HIS WEDDING-DAY Levin, according to
custom
– the Princess and Dolly insisted on his strictly conforming to
custom
– did not see his bride, and dined at his hotel with three bachelors who happened to drop in.
'This
custom
of taking leave of celibacy is not without its reason,' said Sergius Ivanich.
Koznyshev was talking to Dolly, jokingly assuring her that the
custom
of going away after the wedding was spreading because newly-married couples always felt rather uncomfortable.
He knew many persons whom he could invite to dinner, could ask to take part in anything he was interested in or to use their influence for some petitioner, and with whom he could frankly discuss the actions of other men and of the Government; but his relations with these persons were confined to a sphere strictly limited by
custom
and habit from which it was impossible to escape.
She sweated, panted, her joints cracked, but without a complaint, with the indifference of custom, as if it were the common wretchedness of all to live thus bent double.
He centralized merchandise, and the considerable
custom
of the settlements enabled him to sell more cheaply and to give longer credit.
"No, it is not our
custom.
She had ceased to hasten, and resumed her old
custom
of doing up her hair at the edge of her bed, while her arms, raised in the air, lifted her chemise to her thighs, and he, without his trousers, sometimes helped her, looking for the hairpins that she had lost.
For a moment they thought themselves saved, for the small retail shopkeepers of Montsou, killed out by Maigrat, had offered credit to try and get back their custom; and for a week Verdonck, the grocer, and the two bakers, Carouble and Smelten, kept open shop, but when their advances were exhausted all three stopped.
The subsoil, like the soil, belonged to the nation: only an odious privilege gave the monopoly of it to the Companies; all the more since, at Montsou, the pretended legality of the concession was complicated by treaties formerly made with the owners of the old fiefs, according to the ancient
custom
of Hainault.
And, contrary to custom, it executed such a maneuver several times during that day of January 19.
Then, contrary to custom, he ordered that both panels in the lounge be opened, and going from the one to the other, he carefully observed the watery mass.
He also noticed that Monsieur Binet had not been present, and that Tuvache had "made off" after mass, and that Theodore, the notary's servant wore a blue coat, "as if one could not have got a black coat, since that is the custom, by Jove!"
But, obeying the provincial custom, he continued to speak for a long time, harked back to every argument in turn; his wife allowed him to speak, there was still anger in his tone.
The danger compelled the peddler to abridge even the short period that American
custom
leaves the deceased with us; and, aided by the black and Katy, his painful task was soon ended.
The hour had arrived when American
custom
has decreed that the vows of wedlock must be exchanged; and Sarah, blushing with a variety of emotions, followed her aunt to the drawing-room.
The surgeon of dragoons approached the former, and as he handed her to a chair, observed,-"It appears, madam, that untoward circumstances have prevented Colonel Wellmere from providing all of the decorations that custom, antiquity, and the canons of the church have prescribed, as indispensable to enter into the honorable state of wedlock."
The black turned in quiet submission to the surgeon, who commenced as follows:-"Caesar, your mistress has already acquainted you with the important event about to be solemnized within this habitation; but a cincture or ring is wanting to encircle the finger of the bride; a
custom
derived from the ancients, and which has been continued in the marriage forms of several branches of the Christian church, and which is even, by a species of typical wedlock, used in the installation of prelates, as you doubtless understand."
She endeavored to reply, but could only whisper something that was inaudible, but which her lover, with the privilege of immemorial custom, construed into assent.
He hoped that Mary would forget his shoes, but the hope was blighted; she coated them thoroughly with tallow, as was the custom, and brought them out.
Mr. Sprague turned himself into a bulletin-board, and read off "notices" of meetings and societies and things till it seemed that the list would stretch out to the crack of doom--a queer
custom
which is still kept up in America, even in cities, away here in this age of abundant newspapers.
Often, the less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it.
Tom took his whipping and went back to his seat not at all broken-hearted, for he thought it was possible that he had unknowingly upset the ink on the spelling-book himself, in some skylarking bout--he had denied it for form's sake and because it was custom, and had stuck to the denial from principle.
It was not the
custom
for elderly people to mar the picnics with their presence.
And then I remembered that if I hastened I might be in time for her, for it was her
custom
to go out with the sunrise.
Had this been the
custom
in our country, I had not been left a poor desolate girl without friends, without clothes, without help or helper in the world, as was my fate; and by which I was not only exposed to very great distresses, even before I was capable either of understanding my case or how to amend it, but brought into a course of life which was not only scandalous in itself, but which in its ordinary course tended to the swift destruction both of soul and body.
Upon serious consideration, for indeed now I began to consider things very seriously, and never till now; I say, upon serious consideration, I resolved to tell him of it first; and it was not long before I had an opportunity, for the very next day his brother went to London upon some business, and the family being out a-visiting, just as it had happened before, and as indeed was often the case, he came according to his custom, to spend an hour or two with Mrs. Betty.
As to what she had, she told him plainly, that as he knew her circumstances, it was but just she should know his; and though at the same time he had only known her circumstances by common fame, yet he had made so many protestations of his passion for her, that he could ask no more but her hand to his grand request, and the like ramble according to the
custom
of lovers.
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