Thus the view of what excited the greatest curiosity, was not intercepted by the means so judiciously arranged to preserve that regularityand order which so essentially contribute to the effect of all ceremonies.
We ought here to remark that the procession, on its return to the Hall, was not conducted with any thing like the sameregularity which had distinguished its departure.
It is very bad for a young girl to have nothing to occupy her time with--my sister considers some regularity so essential.
What is the intelligent and secret power which presides over the astonishing regularityof movements so complicated--a regularity in which each one has a faith so undoubting, though comfort and life are at stake.
Does it therefore follow that the rains which are bestowed upon the soil with such rule and average regularity were not designed to support vegetable and animal life?
I should think the only superiority of a small school over home was forced regularity in their work, which your boys perhaps get at your home, but which I do not believe my boys would get at my home.
It was a sure sign that he was not well when he was idle at any times other than his regular resting hours; for, as long as he remained moderately well, there was no break in the regularity of his life.
Great regularity of epidemics in the tropical world: Humboldt, N.
It is said that the regularity of meal times was introduced among the Greeks by Palamedes.
Without extreme regularity of features, the face was one that would never have passed unobserved.
A remarkable pallor distinguished her; her features had neither regularity nor expression; neither were her eyes fine; but her brow impressed you with an idea of power of no ordinary character or capacity.
The walls remaining do not show that geometrical regularity of arrangement described by Herodotos, Strabo, Diodoros, and Pliny, but a really labyrinthic aggregate of small chambers, the destination of which is not clear.
The irregular orientation of the palace plan is also incompatible with the conception that the city was divided up into squares with the regularity of a chess-board.
The convulsions returned every ten minutes with the regularityof labor pains, and then the poor baby writhed and twisted, now white, now violet.
If a man made a profession of philosophy, whatever his sect was, they always expected to find more regularity in his life and manners, than in those of the ignorant and illiterate.
The law of likeness; similarity of structure; regularity in form and arrangement; orderly and similar distribution of parts, such that an animal may be divided into parts which are structurally symmetrical.
To fail in distinctness or regularity of exercise; -- said of the mind or of thought.
A low style of comedy; a dramatic composition marked by low humor, generally written with little regard to regularity or method, and abounding with ludicrous incidents and expressions.
A raising or upheaval of strata so as to disturb their regularity and uniformity, and to occasion folds, dislocations, and the like.
After a while its cries will cease, it will learn to submit to the rule imposed, and the taking of pleasure in regularity and the sense of discomfort when the usual order is interrupted become thenceforth a part of its mental life.
I do not maintain that regularity itself is moral, but that it is favorable to morality because it curbs inclination.
Even the management of machines requires that sort of alertness which comes from regularity and punctuality.
Of how or where he was ordained to preach I know nothing; but as he was in good standing with the Methodist conference there is no question as to the regularity of his commission.
Superintendent of the Northwestern Line, he prided himself upon the regularity with which his boats arrived at or departed from landings on schedule time.
The point for the committee to decide," he said, "was the regularity of the election.
Their differentiation from prose consisted solely in the numerical regularity of the syllables in consecutive lines; the alternation of phrases of five and seven syllables each.
The strings were twisted of a vegetable fibre, extremely resisting, and eminently suitable by its softness and regularity of diameter.
The entire sky had become of a deep violet colour and Indian red, relieved here and there by golden tints, with blue cloudlets of wonderful regularity in a line.
I was interested in observing the wonderful regularity of the sky-line along the forest.
One could not help being particularly struck by the wonderful regularity and strong similarity of the curves on the parallel hill ranges, as if all had been turned out of the same mould.
Nothing calls forth the enterprize and the energies of mankind, equal to the rapidity and regularity of correspondence: and without this, no country can either improve or advance in cultivation or civilization.
If the steamers are allowed to become mere vessels of freight, or for carriage of goods, no regularity in their voyages could be expected.
Even Government itself, from the want ofregularity and frequency of transmission, lose, in their money transactions in the West Indies, above 8000l.
Mails never can be carried either with regularity or certainty in vessels, the chief object and dependence of which is to carry merchandize.
The West Indies everywhere want a little European energy and regularity infused into them,--and this is one efficient, perhaps the simplest and most efficient way to do it.
A judicious and proper combination and regularity in all movements can, with the same machinery, and with but little additional expense, perform, in some instances double, and in many instances nearly double work.
It is sensibly acknowledged in the peace, the happiness, the virtue of the component parts; in the order, regularity and beauty of the whole system, of which she is the moving spring.
The grounds were laid out with the angular regularity which Sir William had admired in the flower-beds of Haarlem and the Hague.
They accompany every action which can be done in equal time with an appropriate strain, which has, they say, not much meaning, but its effects are regularity and cheerfulness.
Joseph combined, with a regularity of features and a brilliant complexion, an air of the noblest dignity; all which contributed to render him one of the most amiable men in Egypt.
I cannot meditate with much regularity on one subject; I am too fond of change.
If, then, so great uniformity of action as nothing can exceed is manifested by atoms to which no one will impute memory, why this desire for memory, as though it were the only way of accounting for regularity of action in living beings?
As I have said, there is a chapel, but I doubt whether it is attended during this season with the regularity with which the parish churches of Ronco, Altanca, &c.
We attribute this regularity of action to what we call the necessity of things, as determined by the nature of the atoms and the circumstances in which they are placed.
The result is that our days and nights and seasons follow one another with nearly perfect regularity from year to year, and have done so for as long time as we know anything for certain.
The happy days had gone by with the regularity of some slow-turning wheel.
He did his hideous work with the regularity of a machine, and with as little pity.
In every new Parliament he makes his appearance, if not quite so early, yet with the same regularity as the Queen's Speech, or the Debate on the Address.
Other roles are equally familiar, and with the same undeviatingregularity are forthcoming.
