He looks misplaced in his black custom suit against the desert dust clouds and sweaty blue-collar workers at the construction site.
Fogg returned on board to resume his former habits while Passepartout, according to custom, sauntered about among the mixed population of Somalis, Banyans, Parsees, Jews, Arabs, and Europeans who comprise the twenty-five thousand inhabitants of Aden.
He had been shut up in the Custom House, and he was to be transferred to London the next day.
Fogg, Aouda, and Passepartout left the Custom House without delay, got into a cab, and in a few moments descended at the station.
Thence it had been their custom, time out of mind, to migrate annually to some portion of the earth.
If anyone, at this moment, had entered the Custom House, he would have found Mr.
Aouda and he had remained, despite the cold, under the portico of the Custom House.
As was the custom, most of the other gang kids followed his lead.
I reflected that man is the veriest slave of custom, and that many points in the routine of his existence are deemed essentially important, which are only so at all by his having rendered them habitual.
He knew nothing of Mormonism except the custom of polygamy, which is its foundation.
