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  • "Irregular" is a polite adjective for the methods of the North-West Company; and the "gentlemen adventurers" of the Hudson's Bay Company, who followed, were not much better.

    Canadian Cities of Romance 1922

  • The representation of female intimacy in Irregular

    'Put to the Blush': Romantic Irregularities and Sapphic Tropes 2006

  • Occasionally, even the harsh force of fashion criticism fails to kill-off a trend - Buffalo boots the towering stacked shoes loved by the Spice Girls, spring to mind, as does the monstrous, "quirky" shoe label Irregular Choice.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2012

  • The legend known as the Irregular Blogger, the linguanaut or plain old Damon Lord is coming to visit Prague next week.

    Good Lord Praguetory 2007

  • The legend known as the Irregular Blogger, the linguanaut or plain old Damon Lord is coming to visit Prague next week.

    Archive 2007-07-01 Praguetory 2007

  • Singular Instances, which I also call Irregular or Heteroclite, to borrow a term from grammarians.

    The New Organon 2005

  • About the middle of the seventeenth century, Cowley, misunderstanding the structure of Pindar's verse, invented another sort of Pindaric ode, which is called Irregular because, as he himself explained, "the numbers are various and irregular," and there was no formal stanzaic repetition.

    The Principles of English Versification Paull Franklin Baum

  • The English drama has been called Irregular in contrast to the Regular drama of Greece and that of modern France, founded upon the Greek, by the

    Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities Anne C. Lynch Botta 1853

  • * "Irregular" expenditure of R6 081 000 * Unauthorised expenditure of R674 640.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2008

  • VIEW FAVORITES yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'Report Details "Irregular" F.D.A. Rejection of Next-Day Pill'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'Congressional investigators found irregularities in the decision against over-the-counter sales of the morning-after pill.

    OpEdNews - Quicklink: Report Details "Irregular" F.D.A. Rejection of Next-Day Pill 2005

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