To spend this one evening at his favorite club had been his custom for years-ever since he had been elected to full membership-a date so far back in the dim past that the oldest habitue had to search the records to make sure of the year, and this custom he still regularly kept up.
"Peter A Novel of Which He is Not the Hero"
F. Hopkinson Smith
Some of my customers knew him by sight, told me that the man's name was Rateau, and that he was an habitue of the 'Liberte,' in the Rue Christine.
"The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel"
Baroness Orczy
But, to relieve you, my dear, permit me to observe that I have two daughters of my own, and one young son, besides Charles, who is old enough to take care of himself; and, though I am very glad to ask a young man to dine in my house who has, as you observe, very good manners, and is neither a fool nor a coxcomb, I am not at all willing that he should become what you call an habitue, until I know something of his character and principles.
"Valerie"
Frederick Marryat