Gallantry is a weakness of the heart, or perhaps a constitutional defect; coquetry is an irregularity of the mind.
Let him remain even in this bad position, and I shall succeed in portraying his irregularity of heart and mind so that he will be known; but another fashion is in vogue, and again he becomes devout.
Laugh, Zelia,[741] be gay and frolicsome as you used to be.
The very essence of politeness seems to be to take care that by our words and actions we make other people pleased with us as well as with themselves.
This kind ofirregularity may clearly be present in a degree surpassing the usual limits, without loss of definition, when the telescope is focused so as to secure the best effect.
The irregularity of spacing has thus the effect of a convex lens, which accelerates the marginal relatively to the central rays.
This singular degree of regularity en masse, combined with the extreme of irregularity in the cases composing the mass, is a felicitous verification a posteriori of the law of causation in its application to human conduct.
An inquiry, which of the bodies of the solar system causes by its attraction some particular irregularity in the orbit or periodic time of some satellite or comet, would be a case of the second description.
There will be a guttering round about it because of the irregularity of the stream of air and the badness of the cup which is formed thereby.
The machine-gun fire died down into spiteful irregularity until the line wheeled again toward the crest.
Maintaining liaison on the heights of the east bank with the 28th astride the river was fraught with the same elements of confusion as with the 77th in the monstrous irregularity of the escarpments on the Forest's edge.
Its slopes were irregular, with every irregularity seeming to favor the defender, who at every point looked down-hill upon the attacker.
Doubtless the bombardment of Kagoshima contributed not a little to this measure, but the ostensible cause was the irregularity of the edict.
It is more than probable that Yoritomo would have made his influence felt on this occasion had any irregularity furnished a pretext.
Undoubtedly; the inequality of the ground may give it a new direction; which, when combined with the original force which it received from your hand, will fully explain the irregularity of its course.
This construction is employed for correcting the irregularity in the flight of balls from smooth barrels, by imparting to the balls a rotatory motion perpendicular to the line of direction.
The extent of his conquests, and the ability he had displayed, effaced the censure which he had incurred by the irregularity of his operations; and public opinion having declared in his favour, Charles V.
When the current coin of the kingdom became wholly debased by clipping and other knaveries, there ensued both irregularity and inflation of nominal prices, and the producers and consumers of corn found themselves equally ill at ease.
It is rare to find among them any symptoms of irregularity or decay.
There is no irregularity afterwards at the point of fracture, the new matter that is not required being absorbed soon after deposition; the bone is smooth and even as before.
It is occasioned by the sawing process for making the second flap, and when this is commenced at the same height as for the first, irregularity of incision at the upper part is unavoidable.
Every mound and irregularity was examined as we passed by it in the snow-storm, but all were too small.
Lanes, ridges, and endless rough ice, it looks like an endless moraine of ice-blocks; and this continual lifting of the sledges over every irregularity is enough to tire out giants.
I saw that, given passable snow and passable country to work on, we could make some progress during the day, though as soon as there was the slightest irregularity in the ice the sledges stood perfectly still.
The drawing of Coventry may be particularized as a farther example of this fine suggestion of irregularity and fitfulness, through very constant parallelism of direction, both in rain and clouds.
The East Cliff, Hastings, is another very fine example, from the exquisite irregularity with which its squareness of general structure is varied and disguised.
The Militia of the Equilaterals was at once called out; and every Triangle suspected of Irregularity on reasonable grounds, was destroyed by Court Martial, without the formality of exact measurement by the Social Board.
The art of healing also has achieved some of its most glorious triumphs in the compressions, extensions, trepannings, colligations, and other surgical or diaetetic operations by which Irregularity has been partly or wholly cured.
Such ill-judged marriages are, as might be expected, barren, if they do not result in positive Irregularity or in diminution of sides; but none of these evils have hitherto proved sufficiently deterrent.
Irregularity of Figure" means with us the same as, or more than, a combination of moral obliquity and criminality with you, and is treated accordingly.
The state of being deformed; want of proper form or symmetry; any unnatural form or shape; distortion; irregularity of shape or features; ugliness.
Irregularity of form; diversity of form; want of uniformity.
He is the point of support on which hangs the balance of the world, and the slightest irregularity on his part may overthrow the delicate equipoise.
The machines cut so perfectly true as to require no wood to be removed in the finishing; but as they cut without regard to the irregularity of the grain, knots, &c.
This irregularity seldom fails to appear when the goods are bleached or dyed by the common routine of work.
Do you find any irregularity or difficulty in settling their accounts, in consequence of the want of pass-books?
If that system were introduced, it would knock the whole irregularity on the head.
There is pain, swelling, irregularity in the outline of the bones and crepitus.
The symptoms are irregularity in the line of the teeth and the outline of the lower margin of bone; inability to move jaw.
In the forty-two generations only five mothers are named,--all associated either with sexual immorality or some kind of irregularity in their matrimonial relations.
Irregularity of succession and of birth in princes appeals to popular superstition.
In a certain number of times another will break there again; presently one will encroach the merest trifle; after a while another encroaches again, and the apparent irregularity is really sternly regular.
