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  • They stood, without any respect for regularity, on each side of a straggling kind of unpaved street, where children, almost in a primitive state of nakedness, lay sprawling, as if to be crushed by the hoofs of the first passing horse. The Waverley
  • Palpation of the nasal structures should be done to elicit any crepitus, indentation, or irregularity of the nasal bone.
  • This in some degree corresponds with Captain Cook's record of the irregularity of his compass when he passed near this part of the coast, in consequence of which he called the peaked island to the westward of the cape, Magnetical Island: this irregularity, however, was not noticed by me in my observations near the same spot; and the difference observed by him may very probably have been occasioned by the ship's local attraction, which in those days was unknown. Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 1
  • Sclavonic blood, or from the descendants of Rurik's companions, differ little in regularity of feature and expression of countenance from the handsomest races of Europe. Glimpses of Life and Manners in Persia
  • The company is filled with superb technologists who are prepared to obsolete products in their prime and to churn out new ones with clockwork regularity.
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  • Depending on the irregularity of the terrain, the operator can adjust both the ground clearance of the machine and height of each step.
  • Perhaps worse still was the monotonous, mechanical regularity imposed on the worker by the factory system. Property and Prophets: The Evolution of Economic Institutions and Ideologies
  • I haven't watched series television with any kind of regularity since… I don't remember when.
  • Let's begin with two conversations I have with alarming regularity. Times, Sunday Times
  • Regularity in habits was impossible to a student who had prolonged fits of what he called his mathematical trances. Great Astronomers
  • Sons followed their fathers 'trade with a high degree of regularity.
  • Up here in Northern Illinois it has to be shoveled from the barns with regularity. Think Progress » FLASHBACK: McCain Said Of Himself And Palin, ‘What Do You Expect Of Two Mavericks?’
  • A grey mental gloom settles over them with clockwork regularity as soon as the days draw in and the mornings get darker. Stay Well This Winter
  • It appalls me that I need a “standing” tag with such regularity. Archive 2009-02-01
  • Perhaps you have observed careless practices or unlabeled containers, or maybe you have questioned an order or a clinical irregularity.
  • A cheerful wood-fire blazed in the capacious hearth; a little at one side an old-fashioned table, with richly-carved legs, was placed -- destined, no doubt, to receive the supper, for which preparations were going forward; and ranged with exact regularity, stood the tall-backed chairs, whose ungracefulness was more than counterbalanced by their comfort. The Purcell Papers, Volume II
  • In recent times, the roulette wheels have not been spinning with such regularity and the casinos have lost a little of their lustre. Times, Sunday Times
  • A structure may be called fractal if it presents the same irregularity at all scales.
  • Beyond, a party had scaled the wall, and there the fight was hand to hand -- with gruntings, thrustings of spears, slashings of long knives that dripped red and cut again and rose and fell with hideous regularity! Darkness and Dawn
  • Enforcing regularity in morphophonemics is like trying to clean sand off the beach.
  • While this doesn't happen all the time, it does happen with monotonous regularity.
  • Sabbatarianism, with the Lord's Day Alliance, a Canadian invention, in the van; then the gradual tightening of the laws against sexual irregularity, with the unenforceable New York Adultery Act as a typical product; and lastly, the general ploughing up and emotional discussion of sexual matters, with compulsory instruction in "sex hygiene" as its mildest manifestation and the mediaeval fury of the vice crusade as its worst. A Book of Prefaces
  • When a standpat Republican politician abandons a lifetime of party regularity at 70 to come out in hearty praise of a Democratic President," the paper noted, "it is time for connoisseurs of the unusual to stand by and take notes. Greg Mitchell: Dispatches From Incredible 1934 Campaign: Upton Sinclair Fights Back Against Hollywood Scare Tactics
  • Amateur boxing's ruling body said the Cuban protest was rejected because there was no evidence of serious irregularity.
  • Would you have me believe that this regularity is due to coincidence rather than design? My Take of Milton Friedman, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
  • Its door swung open and shut with the regularity of a bass drum complementing the splash and cymbal of the crashing waves. THE MANANA MAN
  • Villagers in Bishopton and the surrounding area started to complain because they were annoyed by the irregularity of the service.
  • Irregularity of menstruation and certain other uterine troubles, the peculiar condition called greensickness or chlorosis, and general debility may lead to some skin lesions.
  • But as the term taught nothing to him who knew, said nothing to him who did not know, understand, and feel, Chopin afterwards ceased to add this explanation to his music, being persuaded that if one understood it, it was impossible not to divine this rule of irregularity. Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician
  • Constructing harmonious schoolyard is a necessary requirement of befitting the times tideway, meanwhile it also is a objective request of following the educational regularity.
  • In recent times, the roulette wheels have not been spinning with such regularity and the casinos have lost a little of their lustre. Times, Sunday Times
  • The oozy goo of reproduction and decay impinges darkly on the tidy geometrical regularity of a bogus suburban milieu.
  • First, get somebody behind center who can complete the forward pass with some regularity.
  • While some irregularity may be termed normal, it must be understood that frequent periods, heavy bleeding are not due to menopause.
  • Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts.
  • That kind of financial irregularity would be inconceivable today, even in Motherwell and Wishaw.
  • None of the lights seemed to work with any regularity.
  • Anyhoo, the sequence finds a new pattern in the regularity of two "couplets" of sonnets (1122), the opening sonnet marking the shift with assonant rhymes (I did reckon those rhymes gave a sense of instability and tension, pushing against the constraints, which ... fitted here; it kinda makes sense now why I felt that way). Still Lives
  • The variation regularity of nugget diameter is shown in the spectrum charts of the current signal.
  • None of the lights seemed to work with any regularity.
  • A handful of newsletters have outguessed the market with some regularity. Time To Time The Market?
  • The former reflects the positive effects of rhetoric, while the latter violates the regularity of language itself, or disobeys the social code of ethics.
  • Two names in particular are mentioned with alarming regularity: Margaret and Bridget.
  • However, Aro and Wimmer further show that reading fluency or automaticity for pseudoword reading is affected not only by the regularity of orthographies but also other factors.
  • The missing two points are accredited to the high cost and the irregularity of overclockability (which may result in disappointed enthusiasts).
  • But a high nose, a full, decided, well-opened, quick grey eye, and a sanguine complexion, made amends for some coarseness and irregularity in the subordinate parts of the face; so that, altogether, Montrose might be termed rather a handsome, than a hard-featured man. A Legend of Montrose
  • Mired in allegations of financial irregularity during his time in government, which he has rejected as a Labour smear, he is one of the least favoured in the party membership, where he is regarded as, at best, hypocritical and two-faced.
  • The San Gabes were a scrubby desolate range northeast of the city, from which bears and mountain lions emerged with regularity to attack the inhabitants of tract houses gouged from the hills. Excerpt: The Jasmine Trade by Denise Hamilton
  • Seiffmilts, in his great work concerning the divine order and regularity in the destiny of the human race, has a chapter entitled a confutation of this idea; I read it with great eagerness, and found therein that this idea militated against the glory and goodness of God, and must therefore be false, -- but further confutation found I none! Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey
  • The headache was still there, pounding against the back of his forehead with some regularity.
  • A cheerful wood-fire blazed in the capacious hearth; a little at one side an old - fashioned table, with richly-carved legs, was placed — destined, no doubt, to receive the supper, for which preparations were going forward; and ranged with exact regularity, stood the tall-backed chairs, whose ungracefulness was more than counterbalanced by their comfort. The Purcell Papers
  • Painting classes with Camlin and cooking lessons with renowned chefs are held with unfailing regularity.
  • He turned on chief executives with alarming regularity and would often speak for just a few minutes before heading for the door, leaving embarrassed party officials to try to explain away his ungracious behaviour.
  • The type and irregularity of fracture bears a complex relation to the breaking of bonds in directions that cut across crystallographic planes.
  • He discovered the Schottky effect, an irregularity in the emission of thermions in a vacuum tube and invented the screen-grid tetrode tube.
  • This exercise also offers a very evident control of error, for the regularity of the decreasing length of the stairs along the hypothenuse will be altered if the rods are not properly placed. The Montessori Method
  • Frequency of use, length of time using, and regularity of use are all significant and strong discriminators of cessation versus continued use.
  • If my Latin teacher had misted up with the regularity Kline does in this film, we wouldn't have respected him, either.
  • Life causes distress, it turns our feelings upside-down with monotonous regularity. Know Your Own Mind
  • Doctors themselves try to let patients down easy by avoiding the c-word, or even “tumor”: instead, what is discovered is a “slight growth,” an “unusual polyp,” “a lesion,” an “irregularity that should be checked.” In the Valley of the Shadow
  • Before long, profit warnings from companies in the sector were delivered with depressing regularity. Times, Sunday Times
  • In most areas these winds blow with great regularity, and weather in the trade wind regions is usually fine and quiet. Geography Basic Facts
  • Traditionally, governmental audit has been concerned with the financial and regularity audit.
  • The captive had broken off the stalagmite, and upon the stump had placed a stone, wherein he had scooped a shallow hollow to catch the precious drop that fell once in every three minutes with the dreary regularity of a clock-tick — a dessertspoonful once in four and twenty hours. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
  • Glory apart, I could think for a long time without hitting on anywhere beastlier to be except perhaps just the other side of a breastwork thirty yards off where the Bosch has been dropping heavy crumps in threes with monotonous regularity since an indecent hour this morning. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 150, February 2, 1916
  • Its slight irregularity could be either intentional or an accident due to the hard-edged woman's discomfort with the beads of meaning.
  • But then he's a legendarily ill-tempered fellow whose wrath erupts with metronomic regularity. Times, Sunday Times
  • Over the years that followed, our paths crossed with alarming regularity. Times, Sunday Times
  • Learners like hand-outs, but they should not be used with monotonous regularity to echo everything the teacher says.
  • I enjoy the games and find them challenging even requesting them with some regularity.
  • A total of 417 cases of this irregularity were noted - a small minority - but ‘a serious breach of regulations’.
  • Sixty-seven percent of women included in the sleep study were classified as premenopausal (no change in menstrual bleeding regularity) and early perimenopasual (menses in the preceding three months with an increase in bleeding irregularity), 21 percent were identified as late perimenopasual (menses in the previous 12 months, but not in the previous three months), and Medlogs - Recent stories
  • You really do not expect a fellow human being to wantonly attack your livelihood with such punishing vigour and regularity.
  • In broad terms, the border between moral influence and supernatural transformation was a porous one in Victorian culture, one that was crossed and re-crossed with regularity.
  • There was a tendency to de-personalize this divine being, and with this came an absence of caprice, that is, the regularity of natural phenomena was made to depend on a regularity in the operation of their cause or causes. CAUSATION
  • The spokesman, however, said that although the vote tally affected by such an irregularity is over 3 million, "it has yet to be determined whether the amount is decisive in the election results," reported Khabaronline. Iran Election Live-Blogging (Sunday June 21)
  • Indeed, so far as its physical aspect is concerned, with its flat, unvaried surface, covered chiefly with wooden houses, few or none of which pretend to architectural beauty — its irregularity, which is neither picturesque nor quaint, but only tame — its long and lazy street, lounging wearisomely through the whole extent of the peninsula, with Gallows The Scarlet Letter
  • Its basic objective was to stimulate the regularity and safety of international air transport.
  • Many projects have been listed and caught out, but they have not been involved in any irregularity or fraud.
  • Our shocking pictures show how reckless drivers around the country are endangering lives by phoning and texting with alarming regularity. The Sun
  • New Jersey, while it did not disapprove of some of the changes, yet had ‘to recognize the unseasonableness and irregularity of them.’
  • The service will notify passengers of flight delays and cancellations in case of flight irregularity.
  • Waiters looked after kids and pinched babies' cheeks, laughter flooded from the open kitchen and plates of food shuttled back and forth with incredible regularity.
  • Yet press stories about data breaches keep appearing with monotonous regularity because too many businesses both large and small still take a half-hearted approach to data protection. Computing
  • Also charged with burglary and handling stolen property, Irvine was refused bail because of an irregularity in his visa.
  • The great number of windows in the ends of the houses, and their irregularity in size and position, here and elsewhere on the Cape, struck us agreeably, -- as if each of the various occupants who had their cunabula behind had punched a hole where his necessities required it, and, according to his size and stature, without regard to outside effect. Cape Cod
  • The newly enacted Fiscal Code adds some regularity to the process of funding Russia's military establishment in the course of budget execution.
  • Fire belched from dragon maws; huge clubs thudded to the earth with monstrous regularity, each blow signifying another walker crushed. A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
  • He had even locked the front door and was sunk down on a chair, his teeth clappering with vigour and regularity. Gänsemännchen. English
  • The irregular appearance and vanishing of these small parties of horsemen, as well as the confusion occasioned by those who endeavoured, though generally without effect, to press to the front through the crowd of Highlanders, maugre their curses, oaths, and opposition, added to the picturesque wildness what it took from the military regularity of the scene. Waverley
  • The youthful morainal landscape has significant surface irregularity and high concentrations of wetlands. Ecoregions of North Dakota and South Dakota (EPA)
  • The unremitting regularity of the electronic pulses allowed little natural ebb and flow. Times, Sunday Times
  • The natural world, despite disruptions, displays a striking degree of order and regularity.
  • Our teacher believed in the traditional drill-style method, which in the case of Latin with it's absence of irregularity, was probably the best approach.
  • If menstrual irregularity occurs in the adolescent with bulimia, a limited evaluation is necessary.
  • Conclusion Objective, complete and precise conclusion should based on the characteristics and regularity of sudden death in medicolegal expertise.
  • By studing, gross firing energy of combustibility primer have an assignable the regularity was seekd.
  • Smooth enlargement suggests benign hyperplasia; roughness and irregularity suggest the possibility of cancer.
  • Yet press stories about data breaches keep appearing with monotonous regularity because too many businesses both large and small still take a half-hearted approach to data protection. Computing
  • I've seen, as have we all, theft, fraud, intimidation, malversation - and seen it with such regularity that its absence provokes not comment but mute wonder.
  • The poem's iambic pentameter is frequently excellent: occasionally perfect regularity becomes a musical metaphor for stateliness, as in line 2. Commentary on "Verses" by L.E.L.
  • The paint will cover any irregularity in the surface of the walls.
  • People are studying the maps with a sick kind of fascination and discussing projected paths and low pressure and millibars and such delights with a fair amount of regularity.
  • Pulmonary as well as bronchial arterial angiography did not identify any irregularity.
  • A grey mental gloom settles over them with clockwork regularity as soon as the days draw in and the mornings get darker. Stay Well This Winter
  • Therefore, all bony structures of the face, including the malar eminences, orbital rims, zygomatic arches, mandible, and teeth, should be carefully inspected and palpated for irregularity or tenderness.
  • The unremitting regularity of the electronic pulses allowed little natural ebb and flow. Times, Sunday Times
  • The west of the island is famous for the irregularity of its coastline.
  • The reason I picked 'exhibitions' is because it's a defined type of thing, and has a certain regularity with the type of facets you might pick to build the service around (dates, subject, venue, type of exhibition, and so on). Final thoughts on open hack day (and an imaginary curatr)
  • Once diagnosis neonatal hyperammonemia, should interfere to decrease mortality and complication, and detect plasma amino regularity to judge prognosis.
  • A host of stabilities which provide a background of regularity within which life can be rationally and prudently led are jeopardized ... Archive 2009-02-01
  • I got rid of the car in 1996 and haven't driven a stick shift with any regularity since.
  • The X-ray showed a slight irregularity in one lung.
  • In their ruling yesterday, delivered by Lord Mance, the law lords found there were material irregularity and unfairness in the trial process and ruled against a retrial.
  • The terms "maximalism" and "minimalism" are used with great regularity in biblical studies Stop The ACLU
  • Constructing harmonious schoolyard is a necessary requirement of befitting the times tideway, meanwhile it also is a objective request of following the educational regularity.
  • Investigators found no evidence of financial irregularity.
  • The regularity presented practical and theoretical significances for bone char defluoridation of drinking water.
  • His chief discovery was an irregularity of the lunar motion, called the '_evection_.' The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost'
  • In extremity, they rebelled and rioted with regularity and enthusiasm.
  • This does not mean that every deviation from procedural regularity and legal correctness vitiates a jury's verdict of guilty.
  • The different local councils coordinate their activities with varying regularity and a number of national meetings have taken place.
  • When we find an anomaly, which defies the notion of some regularity, corresponding to our sense-perception of the world around us, we have struck upon the possibility of discovering a universal physical principle, like gravity.
  • Climate change is disrupting the regularity of the seasons.
  • I don’t see how one can infer from the possession of a marijuana card that the possessor is using marijuana “with regularity and over an extended period of time.” The Volokh Conspiracy » 2010 » March
  • And then there are the horrific stories of abuse in old people's homes that pop up with depressing regularity. Times, Sunday Times
  • Voter irregularity, which is something that, as a network, we have been on top of and talking about. CNN Transcript Oct 17, 2008
  • From his first scene, he's swilling liquor and dispensing snide remarks with such regularity that he's obviously evil.
  • Shelley's "modern eclogue" is prefaced by a disclaimer similar to that of "Christabel" and possibly influenced by it: "the impulse of the feelings which moulded the conception of the story," says Shelley, "determined the pauses of a measure, which only pretends to be regular inasmuch as it corresponds with, and expresses, the irregularity of the imaginations which inspired it 'Put to the Blush': Romantic Irregularities and Sapphic Tropes
  • This was an example of what I (with brain numbing regularity) term a "least worst" option. Snoop Elsewhere Mate
  • The only caller who paid visits with regularity was Eaton Foster, though he did not come of his own accord.
  • Miss Anderson, who claimed a collateral Dutch ancestry by the Van Hook, tucked in between her non-committal family name and the Julia given her in christening, was of the ordinary slender make of American girlhood, with dull blond hair, and a dull blond complexion, which would have left her face uninteresting if it had not been for the caprice of her nose in suddenly changing from the ordinary American regularity, after getting over its bridge, and turning out distinctly 'retrousse'. April Hopes
  • At last, in the conclusion, several qualities of the rhetoric application of musical genre, such as its rationality, fertility, validity, universality and regularity, are explained.
  • We hear many tales of goalscorers being in a rich vein where they hit the back of the net with almost monotonous regularity. Great Sporting Failures
  • The dental engine and the nickelled trimmings of the operating chair had been furbished till they shone, while on the movable rack in the bay window McTeague had arranged his instruments with the greatest neatness and regularity. McTeague
  • The west of the island is famous for the irregularity of its coastline.
  • Passes went astray with a monotonous regularity while players often ran down blind alleys. The Sun
  • He investigated how vowels and consonants alternated in the opening chapters of the long story and the poem and discovered a fascinating regularity.
  • The first help which she may give is that of ruling the blackboard, so that the child may be led to maintain regularity and proper dimensions in his writing. The Montessori Method
  • He appeared with regularity at both ends of the field, won quite a few aerial battles and most importantly, a lot of breaks.
  • This division was so diligent that in 1940, when a Congressional subcommittee investigated the W.P.A., it couldn't find a single serious irregularity that the division had missed.
  • To date, however, there have been no formal complaints of irregularity apart from one where a child (not children) received a voters' pack.
  • The six forwards, both midfielders and two defenders all hit the target with great regularity.
  • It should follow that February will have a level of regularity to its rainfall pattern.
  • Seiffmilts, [2] in his great work concerning the divine order and regularity in the destiny of the human race, has a chapter entitled a confutation of this idea; I read it with great eagerness, and found therein that this idea militated against the glory and goodness of God, and must therefore be false, -- but further confutation found I none! Biographia Epistolaris, Volume 1.
  • When a standpat Republican politician abandons a lifetime of party regularity at 70 to come out in hearty praise of a Democratic President," the paper noted, "it is time for connoisseurs of the unusual to stand by and take notes. Greg Mitchell: Dispatches From Incredible 1934 Campaign: Upton Sinclair Fights Back Against Hollywood Scare Tactics
  • He was a working astronomer, and he made at least one original discovery of some significance -- namely, the observation of a hitherto unrecorded irregularity of the moon's motion, which came to be spoken of as the moon's evection. A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume I: The Beginnings of Science
  • Already the handcar was a hundred yards away, flitting into distance like some big, wonderfully fast bug, the figures of the men at the pumps rising and falling with a walking-beam regularity. The Escape of Mr. Trimm His Plight and other Plights
  • It is very difficult to judge the age of horses that have deformed mouths or that are in the habit of crib-biting, because of the irregularity in the wear of the incisors. Common Diseases of Farm Animals
  • I don't think right now it's a question of fraud but rather. irregularity, which is a little bit different. CNN Transcript - Special Event: Election 2000: The Florida Recount - November 9, 2000
  • They worship with great vigor and devotion, with unstinting regularity and constancy.
  • Objective:To investigate the developmental regularity of Meissner's corpuscles in redundant prepuces.
  • The paint will cover any irregularity in the surface of the walls.
  • The overdraft arrangements had been generous because of the regularity of the half-yearly payments.
  • he was famous for the regularity of his habits
  • They were quiet for the rest of the short trip, rocking gently on the waves, as the boat headed for the growing island ahead, the light fading, the darkness rising; the waves lapping at the hull like the thuds of a war drum, in syncopation, with regularity. Wyrd Progress Update X « The BookBanter Blog
  • New museums open with regularity, attracting more audiences.
  • At Ohio State, Pace flattened defensive line men with regularity.
  • There is a monotonous regularity in life, as well as these anomalies. Christianity Today
  • Think of the striking regularity of alternating light and dark stripes on a zebra's coat, or the reticulations on the surface of the fruiting body of a morel mushroom.
  • We hear many tales of goalscorers being in a rich vein where they hit the back of the net with almost monotonous regularity. Great Sporting Failures
  • I have been assured by my office that there was no irregularity in the process
  • The result is that I rarely purchase things for myself, have a reputation with my wife as a cheapskate, and am the only person in the house that can say ‘No’ to my son with any regularity.
  • On the other hand, my cannula was well positioned and my antibiotics were given intravenously with great regularity, and my cardiac monitor was interrogated and monitored regularly.
  • In extremity, they rebelled and rioted with regularity and enthusiasm.
  • A little bit of a holiday from myself, and a pleasant change of pace from the monotonous irregularity of shift work.
  • The rest of the outfit may be essentially a uniform, but these accessories express individuality, add a pop of colour and can be changed with regularity. Times, Sunday Times
  • Consequently, it is required to know the variation regularity of temperature field in the structural member and thermal stress in order to make thermal crack controlled.
  • The general regularity for mutual effect of some parameters and effect of the main parameters of the driving parts on"wow and flutter"are presented to find the best parameter matching.
  • It would appear, then, that there are at least three schools of criticism: the refluent sea-music school; the line-irregularity school, and the school that bids one not criticise but cry. The Common Reader, Second Series
  • It's always more complicated than that, as annoying people are known to say with exasperating regularity.
  • Constructing harmonious schoolyard is a necessary requirement of befitting the times tideway, meanwhile it also is a objective request of following the educational regularity.
  • At last, in the conclusion, several qualities of the rhetoric application of musical genre, such as its rationality, fertility, validity, universality and regularity, are explained.
  • All around us are towering, glowering peaks rising with perfect irregularity from the flat, green waters of the fjord.
  • His features were marked, prominent and irregular, and this irregularity was increased by a "cheekful" of half-chewed tobacco. The Hunters' Feast Conversations Around the Camp Fire
  • To the schists succeeded gneiss, partially stratified, remarkable for the parallelism and regularity of its lamina, then mica schists, laid in large plates or flakes, revealing their lamellated structure by the sparkle of the white shining mica. Journey to the Interior of the Earth
  • We have to distinguish -- (_a_) the effects of the introduction of machinery as a disturbant of regularity of labour; The Evolution of Modern Capitalism A Study of Machine Production
  • It will allow for a greater fermentation without breaking, give more volume, and is much more desirable when you are looking for irregularity of the interior crumb.
  • But it isn't a question so much of fraud, but it's a question at this point of irregularity, which is a little bit different. CNN Transcript - Special Event: Election 2000: The Florida Recount - November 9, 2000
  • He continued to appear in the office with unfailing regularity thereafter.
  • But irregularity is even more prominent in Wordsworth's prosody. 'Put to the Blush': Romantic Irregularities and Sapphic Tropes
  • Soon the regularity of inhalations and exhalations allows our fearless captain to bring his thoughts into cohesion.
  • They take place with clockwork regularity all the year round.
  • We have seen director after director - a virtual game of musical chairs in terms of directorships - move on and off the board, with alarming regularity.
  • Bullets are flying with alarming regularity in Vancouver these days.
  • Investigators found no evidence of financial irregularity.
  • The few planets maintain their orbits with great regularity, and we can make very good predictions where they will be at some time in the future.
  • Passes went astray with a monotonous regularity while players often ran down blind alleys. The Sun
  • A cough is simply an effort of the lungs or bronchiæ to remove some offending intruder that ought to be doing duty elsewhere; and may we not call neuralgia _a cough of a nerve_ to get rid of a disagreeable oppression -- nature's legitimate _coup d'état_ to put down and transport those "_red socialist_" particles that would interfere with the regularity of its constitution? Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 442 Volume 17, New Series, June 19, 1852
  • However, its circular nature, and the regularity of its rectangular western extension, indicate that it served more than a functional purpose.
  • While I am out at work, a neighbour's dog defecates on my doorstep with alarming regularity.
  • Aircraft passed overhead with monotonous regularity .
  • With a regularity attributable to Therrien's use of templates, the forms share a richness and density and, often, a halation at each figure's thin edge.
  • A council statement added: ‘One concerns a petty cash irregularity and the other concerns the use of council funds.’
  • The Metro North commuter trains disturb the local fauna with clockwork regularity.
  • Tidal schemes have the advantage of regularity, an integrated electricity system could organise itself according to high and low water.
  • He has the chalk-stones in his understanding, and from being used to long confinement, cannot bear the slightest jostling or irregularity of motion.
  • He says: ‘What a farce when there is so much voting irregularity with postal voting.’
  • The combination of verbs with intransitive prepositions is one of the many pseudopods of morphological quasi-regularity that extend into the phrasal domain in English.
  • Punctuality and regularity at work are two of Cole's other strong points.

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