used to

I used to keep it lying carelessly on the table in my room, and whenever a friend took it up and asked what it was about, I would say: "Oh, it's rather a remarkable book. 🔊

Was this the very door-step that the old De Quincey used to revisit in homage? 🔊

Butwell, one is so used to nodding and smiling in the street to anybody whom one knows that the action becomes almost independent of oneself; 🔊

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