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  • Irregularity, that is to say their potential Irregularities as regards possible offspring.

    Flatland: a romance of many dimensions 2006

  • Women are straight, and therefore visibly Regular so to speak, one has to devise some other means of ascertaining what I may call their invisible Irregularity, that is to say their potential Irregularities as regards possible offspring.

    Flatland: a romance of many dimensions (Illustrated) Edwin Abbott Abbott 1882

  • Women are straight, and therefore visibly Regular so to speak, one has to device some other means of ascertaining what I may call their invisible Irregularity, that is to say their potential Irregularities as regards possible offspring.

    Flatland: a romance of many dimensions Edwin Abbott Abbott 1882

  • Irregularity and confusion will continually prevail among us,” he charged on the 12th, “till the companies are formed, and the proper officers appointed to each,” which could not happen “unless your Honour will take the trouble upon yourself, or invest me with power and blank commissions to do it.”

    George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

  • Irregularity of rhythm can, for example, as often as not be a virtue as a fault.

    2009 June 27 | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS 2009

  • Irregularity and confusion will continually prevail among us,” he charged on the 12th, “till the companies are formed, and the proper officers appointed to each,” which could not happen “unless your Honour will take the trouble upon yourself, or invest me with power and blank commissions to do it.”

    George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

  • Irregularity and confusion will continually prevail among us,” he charged on the 12th, “till the companies are formed, and the proper officers appointed to each,” which could not happen “unless your Honour will take the trouble upon yourself, or invest me with power and blank commissions to do it.”

    George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

  • Irregularity of rhythm can, for example, as often as not be a virtue as a fault.

    How to Write about Poetry 2009

  • Irregularity and confusion will continually prevail among us,” he charged on the 12th, “till the companies are formed, and the proper officers appointed to each,” which could not happen “unless your Honour will take the trouble upon yourself, or invest me with power and blank commissions to do it.”

    George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

  • Parents, much less young Gentlemen; that being an Irregularity misbecoming my Sex and Station, and the Character of a dutiful Daughter: This I desir'd her to tell him, with my Service; which Answer I utter'd with a little Sharpness, that the Woman could not but see her Errand was disobliging, as it was, and ought to be; such a Message looking more like

    A Patch-Work Screen for the Ladies 2008

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