Regularity

Examples

• The line between the two colours preserved no sort of regularity. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Except in the one grand case of Captain Lennox's offer, everything went on with the regularity of clockwork. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• They'll make you sick, says Mamma to the young person who offers his services in the kitchen with unfailing regularity on plum-pudding day. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Human nature is too inconstant to admit of any such regularity. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• The famous geyser shown in the illustration is called Old Faithful because of the clock-like regularity of its eruptions. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The employment of a high-pitched musical note in the telephone is also an advantage because its extreme regularity distinguishes it from the marked irregularity of the stray waves. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• I fondly explained to Dora that Jip should have his mutton-chop with his accustomed regularity. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Accordingly I laid out for myself a course of studies to be pursued in garrison, with regularity, if not persistency. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• His life was irregular, but in one respect he was regularity itself. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• It is empty and thin: a stifling of living currents in the interest of a mediocre regularity. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• This apparatus is exterior to the building, and is said to afford a continuous blast of great regularity; the air, when it passes into the furnace, is, however, saturated with moisture. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The long travel of the carriage back and forth, and the simultaneous twisting and drawing of the yarns, produced threads of great fineness and regularity. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• It had a precision of action that resulted in a much greater regularity in the spun thread than by the earlier process. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• I do not take my meals now, with any sort of regularity. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• In the case of Sa turn there was such regularity in the rings that the annular form was maintained; as a rule from the zones abandon ed by the planet-mass satellites resulted. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.

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