The small farmer in Lithuania was accustomed to an irregular cash income at harvest time.
Certainly the increase has been irregular and uneven, affecting the workers in some industries much more than in others.
It is about half-a-mile long and quarter of a mile broad It is an irregular oval in shape, and has two distinct and different sides.
After all, he was no bad fellow, but as harmless as a child, and as honest and honorable, and as much of the gentleman which Nature meant him for, as an irregular life and depressed circumstances will permit any man to be.
At last, and always with an unexpected sensation, the bell turns in the steeple overhead and throws out an irregular clangor, jarring the tower to its foundation.
Some youths and maidens were of soberer garb, yet well maintained their places in the irregular throng by the expression of wild revelry upon their features.
However capricious and irregular may have been the primitive curve given over to them, they have worked so much toward making it regular that finally they deliver over to us a continuous curve.
Who knows whether it is not due to some complicated mechanism, to the impact of some subtile matter animated by irregular movements, and whether it has not become simple only through the action of averages and of great numbers?
The biologist, armed with his microscope, long ago noticed in his preparations irregular movements of little particles in suspension; this is the Brownian movement.
But we neglect these variations in laying the foundations of geometry, because, besides their being very slight, they are irregular and consequently seem to us accidental.
A minute or two after, his voice, far sweeter than any sounds which could be brought from the lute, joined in, and he sang some irregular verses, which he seemed to improvise.
So we shall smoke the old fox out of his own earth at last," is saying a sturdy young fellow in the ranks of the Irregular Horse.
This is a corps of Irregular Horse, frontiersmen all of them.
Even, in some cases, pretence that the pictures had been cut from the frame and presumably stolen was carried out by a knife-slashed and irregular ridge where the canvas had actually been so cut and then sewed to a modern toile.
He thought for a while, then, carelessly: "I take it that there was nothing irregular in your conduct?
In Spain journalism began in the 17th century by the publication, atirregular intervals, of sheets called "Relaciones.
In the evening I got to Perleberg, and walking wearily up the old, irregular High Street, established myself at the Londoner Schenke—the London Tavern.
An irregular mass of sheds, brick buildings, and tall chimneys, present themselves.
I leave the gloomy precincts of Little Churchyard, and descending a slight incline over a pebbly, irregular pavement, with scarcely a sign of footpath, arrive at the lower end of the Brühl.
We descend, and make our way through irregular streets and dingy canals till we reach the church of St. Jacobi.
The little crowd are on their feet, and amid a pretty tinkling of glasses, an irregular shout arises, a small hurricane of voices, wishing him good speed.
She was a magnificent girl of good figure, superb carriage, and striking thoughirregular features.
In January, 1837, his friend Lousteau had him come especially to upbraid him, Lousteau, on account of the latter's irregular ways with Mme.
No water enters the vent-pipe from the holder, and therefore no gurgling or irregular pressure is produced.
But on examination the carbide in question was found to be very irregular in composition, and some lumps produced acetylene containing a very high proportion of phosphorus and silicon compounds.
Similarly, an acetylene generator might be charged once a week or once a day without likelihood of being forgotten; but the operation of charging at irregular intervals would certainly prove a nuisance.
On the other hand, unless made up into balls or cartridges of some symmetrical form, calcium carbide exists in angular masses of highly irregular shape and size.
The Circassian chieftains had chosen for the encampment of their irregular but numerous army, a picturesque spot, of which the beauty was much encreased by the wild and warlike bands now filling it.
The man hastened to obey the order, the Khan continuing his irregular and agitated walk as before, every now and then turning his glance down the glen, then shouting to his watchman to learn if he had caught sight of any one approaching.
The quaint, irregular stone-built houses are touched with the sober hues of antiquity, and seem to take their character from the great baronial relic of feudal times.
It was that she was markedly irregular in her hours of rising.
Stockdale did the same, and followed her in the dusk across the irregular ground till they came to the tower door, which, when they had entered, she softly closed behind them.
It was at one time supposed that typhoid fever was a disease exclusively confined to adult life; but it is now known to occur frequently in children, though often in such a mild and irregular form as to escape recognition.
This uncertainty as to how many joints in the body may be attacked, is, in fact, one of the chief elements in making the duration of the disease so irregular and incalculable.
A couple of years ago it was discovered by Murray and Bashford, of the English Imperial Cancer Research Commission, that the cells of cancer, in their swift and irregular reproduction, showed an unexpected peculiarity.
The somewhat irregular metre of the original has been preserved in this ballad, as in other poems; although the perfect anapaestic metre is perhaps more familiar to the English ear.
A guitar lies on the table, she seizes it as by a sudden emotion, and after she has played awhile an irregular and melancholy symphony, she falls gradually into the music and sings.
If its highest aim be to reveal to the human consciousness the highest interest of the mind, it is evident that the substance or contents of the representations are not given up to the control of a wild and irregular imagination.
The soliloquy of Thekla consists in the original of six-and-twenty lines twenty of which are in rhymes of irregular recurrence.
The cough may continue; but it more often ceases, or is only heard at irregular and distant intervals.
This will accustom him to take his beat right through to the fence, and not in irregular zigzags, as he otherwise would do.
It is an irregularcup about 2½ inches in diameter and 2 inches in depth.
Besides this, about the large end there is an indistinct irregularzone of faint inky purple spots and small blotches, and a few spots of this same colour may be observed on other parts of the egg.
In one egg the markings may be almost exclusively confined to a broad, very irregular zone of bold blotches near the large end.
The ground-colour is white, here and there suffused with a faint pinkish tinge, and it is spotted and blotched with purplish red and pale lilac, most of the spots being gathered into an irregular zone about the large end.
In these eggs the specklings are most dense, as a rule, throughout a broad irregular zone surrounding the large end, and this zone is thickly underlaid with irregular ill-defined streaky clouds of dull inky purple.
The markings have a strong tendency to form a bold, irregular zone or cap at the large end, and in some specimens the markings are entirely confined to this portion of the egg's surface.
In one egg the markings are all of one colour, a sort of chocolate-brown, a dense almost confluent mass of mottlings in a broadirregular zone round the large end and elsewhere pretty thickly set over the entire surface of the egg.
In all cases the markings are most dense towards the large end, where they generally form an irregular and ill-defined mottled cap or zone.
Near the top one side was not quite close to the trunk, and by this irregular opening the bird entered.
Such is the triumphant language with which a critick exults over the misery of an irregular poet, and exults commonly without resistance or reply.
We are fairly well inured, for instance, to hard work and irregular meals.
It had rather the effect of a patch of dark mist, with an irregular and changing outline, that obscured to a certain extent the furnishings of the room immediately behind it.
Nevertheless, the sound continued; a soft, irregular fluttering that suggested the intermittent struggle of some feeble winged creature.
Suddenly, as The Gruffin (considerably more cheerful than I had seen her for some days) was passing up her cup for the third time, a faint and irregular sound came pulsing and vibrating across the moor.
The rest of the front and second lines lay in an irregular ring, and behind it the assault, which had swept so close up to the wall, melted clean away.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "irregular" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
