Denning is an inveterate punster who frequently uses humor to get points across.

Capriciously, in a last-ditch effort to keep Bender from leaving, Vorobyaninov flings the remains of the last chair into the air, and collapses to the ground feigning an epileptic seizure as an unspoken invitation for Bender, the inveterate swindler, to rip off the crowd, a reprise of an earlier event in the story.

Frank Costello helped encourage this view by feeding Hoover, " an inveterate horseplayer " known to send Special Agents to place $ 100 bets for him, tips on sure winners through their mutual friend, gossip columnist Walter Winchell.

:" To extirpate inveterate abuses ; to reform a court which thrived on corruption, and detested the very name of reform ; to hold in leash young and warlike princes, ready to bound at each other's throats ; to stem the rising torrent of revolt in Germany ; to save Christendom from the Turks, who from Belgrade now threatened Hungary, and if Rhodes fell would be masters of the Mediterranean -- these were herculean labours for one who was in his sixty-third year, had never seen Italy, and was sure to be despised by the Romans as a ' barbarian '.

He was doomed, however, to disturbance in his studies, first from the death of his mother, next from his inveterate tendency towards poetry, and finally from the First Battle of Copenhagen in April 1801, which, however, inspired a dramatic sketch ( April the Second 1801 ) which is the first thing of the kind by Oehlenschläger that we possess.

The inveterate enemy of the Olympian gods is described in detail by Hesiod as a vast grisly monster with a hundred serpent heads " with dark flickering tongues " flashing fire from their eyes and a din of voices and a hundred serpents legs, a feature shared by many primal monsters of Greek myth that extend in serpentine or scaly coils from the waist down.

One of Albert Victor's instructors said he learnt by listening rather than reading or writing and had no difficulty remembering information, but Prince George, Duke of Cambridge, had a less favourable opinion of him, calling him " an inveterate and incurable dawdler ".

Shortly afterwards, Pezza was recalled to Sicily to gather more forces, and in April joined an expedition to reinforce Gaeta that was led by the British admiral Sir Sydney Smith, one of Napoleon ’ s most inveterate foes.

The concept of nationalism continued strong, however, and sporadic outbreaks led by such inveterate reformers as Giuseppe Mazzini occurred in several parts of the peninsula down to 1848 – 49.

It was kept going for many decades by its Director, Enid Lakeman, an inveterate pamphleteer, public speaker and writer of letters to newspapers about STV.

After the disaster of the Berry tour, Stigwood took on David Shaw, an ex-City banker, as his partner, giving him access to previously unavailable funds and expertise, and he gained some extra cashflow by subletting his offices to The Who's managers, Chris Stamp and Kit Lambert, although he reportedly became the butt of the pair's inveterate and often cruel practical jokes.

An " inveterate globetrotter ," Hill visited Japan nine times between 1897 and 1922 and made at least fifty separate trips to Europe in the course of his lifetime, all of this in an era when travel was entirely by surface transportation.

In the late 40s he was moving between a London home and a caravan in a field on the bank of the River Kennet at Midgham, then a cottage in Bagnor in Berkshire by the Winterbourne running into the River Lambourn, then at Lower Pennington and Walhampton near Lymington as well as at Minstead and East Boldre in The New Forest, and, he spent his final years at Raven Cottage, near Belchalwell in Dorset which he-an inveterate commuter to and from the places from where he worked-was wont to bless for being ' just out of range of London '.

Even when the patrons were prominent, the churches in which the monuments were installed often lay deep in the English countryside: the monument of the Duke of Montagu ( 1752 ), soon followed by his duchess ( 1753 ), are in the church at Warkton, Northamptonshire ; Horace Walpole, an inveterate country house visitor, noted them: " well-performed and magnificent, but wanting in simplicity " was his verdict.

Of all the animosities which have existed among mankind, those which are caused by difference of sentiments in religion appear to be the most inveterate and distressing, and ought most to be deprecated.

" The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown " is a short story by Damon Runyon telling of the improbable-but eventually triumphant-love between an inveterate gambler ( Sky Masterson ) and a missionary girl ( the Miss Sarah Brown of the title ).

: It is worth mentioning that one William Hunter, a collier ( residing in the parish of Tillicoultry, in Clackmannanshire ), was cured in the year 1738 of an inveterate rheumatism or gout, by drinking freely of new ale, full of harm or yeast.

Penetrated by the conviction that ignorance was the worst of the inveterate evils of old Russia, a pitiless enemy of superstition of every sort ; a reformer by nature, resourceful, Prokopovich continued to be a reformer after the death of Peter the Great.

Fitzwilliam said he was " the inveterate enemy of all innovation " and " though a friend to popular privileges on ordinary occasions, and having no dislike to the check on public men by popular discussion ... I had rather see a bad Minister go uncorrected than a good constitution stabbed in its vitals ".

David Lewis asserts that a " wave of flesh-eating that spread from inveterate cannibals like Bakusa to Batetela, the Mangbetu, and much of the Zande " resulted from ongoing political disorder caused by Swahili raids in the 1880s.

His gambling attracted some criticism and Collins was seen by many, including some cricket administrators, as an inveterate gambler.

He is an inveterate gambler and is having his bets placed by Mick ( Harry Locke ), the orderly.

It is to say rather, I believe, that he has brought to bear on the history, the traditions, and the lore of his region a critical, skeptical mind -- the same mind which has made of him an inveterate experimenter in literary form and technique.

The one intelligible theory of the universe is that of objective idealism, that matter is effete mind, inveterate habits becoming physical laws ( Peirce, CP 6. 25 ).

Meanwhile his son and successor, the reform-minded Crown Prince Friedrich ( in English, " Frederick "), an inveterate smoker, had for several months been undergoing treatment for a throat ailment ; the foreign press had written of a dire situation, but only on November 12 did the official German press announce that he in fact had throat cancer.

James was an inveterate gambler, and a largely unsuccessful one, losing tens of thousands of pounds over his lifetime.

Cecil King himself was an inveterate schemer but an inept actor on the political stage.

Macarthur objected to Atkins being fit to sit in judgement of him because he was his debtor and inveterate enemy.

Nevertheless, it was inveterate in the history of political philosophy, echoing that of Edmund Burke.

The remains as we see them give evidence of the artist's power both of imitating natural detail with minute fidelity and of spacing his figures in a landscape with a large sense of air and distance ; and they amply verify two separate statements of Vasari concerning him: that " he delighted in drawing landscapes from nature exactly as they are, whence we see in his paintings rivers ; bridges, rocks, plants, fruits, roads, fields, cities, exercise grounds, and an infinity of other such things ," and that he was an inveterate experimentalist in technical matters.

His southern temperament gave him great influence among the students of the Quartier Latin, and he was soon known as an inveterate enemy of the imperial government.

Loti was an inveterate collector and his marriage into wealth helped him support this habit.

" A century later, an English historian asserted that the reason Jane had testified against them was based purely on her " inveterate hatred " of Queen Anne, which sprang from jealousy at Anne's superior social skills and George's preference for his sister's company to his wife's.

In addition to his career as a surgeon, he was also a champion golfer and inveterate practical joker.

On the ground, Malan was remembered as an inveterate gambler and often owed his subordinates money.

Rosten was an inveterate Anglophile.

Bennett died in 1918, and his paper was sold to Frank Munsey, an inveterate collector of publications, who developed a reputation for selling or merging newspapers to the animus of the newspapermen around the country.

Hearst was an inveterate tinkerer, and would tear down structures and rebuild them at a whim.

An inveterate traveller, Kavan spent twenty-two months of World War II in New Zealand, and it was that country's proximity to the inhospitable frozen landscape of Antarctica that inspired the writing of Ice.

He was also an inveterate enemy of the Pre-Raphaelites and of the Aesthetic Movement, which he satirised in his painting A Private View at the Royal Academy ( 1883 ), in which Oscar Wilde is depicted discoursing on art while Frith's friends look on disapprovingly.

Edward Lasker in his book Chess Secrets I Learned from the Masters recalled that Janowski was an inveterate but undisciplined gambler who would often lose all of his chess winnings at the roulette wheel.

Neily Vanderbilt was an inveterate tinkerer with all things mechanical and during his lifetime he patented more than thirty inventions for improving locomotives and freight cars, including several which brought him a significant royalty income.