Quotes About Irregular

No poet is required to write in stanzas, or indeed in regular forms at all. Coleridge's 'Dejection: An Ode' has a rhyme scheme and sequence of long and short lines that goes without regular pattern, following the mood and whim of the poet. Such a form is known as an irregular ode.

The reason that most sea salts have large, irregularly shaped crystals is that that's what slow evaporation produces, whereas the rapid vacuum-evaporation process used in making shaker salt produces tiny

Around this time, Mark Twain belonged to a small, irregular Confederate company and later claimed for comic effect that he had been pursued by Grant's troops. As he said facetiously, "I did not know that this was the future General Grant or I would have turned and attacked him. I supposed it was just some ordinary Colonel of no particular consequence, so I let him go."35 In fact, Twain had been in the vicinity weeks earlier.

The West is in for a long, irregular confrontation - not with terrorism, which is simply a tactic, but with radical Islam.

The widow tells me that her monthly moon water is irregular. She has trouble sleeping and is plagued by bouts of sweating. She says she's always taken humble pride in being sharp of mind. "But now I can't remember a thing!" she complains.

Occasionally

Gerçek hemen her zaman istisnai, acayip, beklenmediktir ve neredeyse her zaman kurals?zd?r, soÄŸukkanl? hesaplarla önceden tahmin edilemez.

After that dark woman you search for someone who will fit into the irregular corners of your heart.

and was built into the shape of a balcony at the top, with insecure, irregular battlements, crumbling as if drawn by an anxious or careless child as they stood out, zigzag fashion, against the blue sky.

out·li·er -,l()r noun 1: something that is situated away from or classed differently from a main or related body 2: a statistical

In Kali yuga, duration of life is shortened not so much because insufficient food but because of irregular habits.

It is not the irregular hours or irregular diet that makes the romantic life.

There's nothing regular about my life at all, really. I don't keep a regular schedule and every day is different. It's all rather chaotic.

Seacliff, as one of the smaller fiefs, was required to field half a dozen knights, ten Battleschool warrior apprentices, and an infantry force of twenty-five men-at-arms. An irregular force of fifteen archers was also available if needed, its members drawn from among the villagers and farmers living nearby.

Think off center.

In short, woman was a problem which, since Mr Brooke's mind felt blank before it, could be hardly less complicated than the revolutions of an irregular solid.

T]he Meyricks, whose various knowledge had been acquired by the irregular foraging to which clever girls have usually been reduced...

ESSAY -- A loose sally of the mind an irregular indigested piece not a regular and orderly composition.

Well, sir, it has come through on the pipes that a consignment of cocaine has arrived by irregular means and that a cell somewhere along Tier 5 is to be the centre of distribution.' I made all that up as I went along, like I made up so many of these stories, but the prison charlie was very grateful, saying: 'Good, good, good. I shall pass that on to Himself,' this being what he called the Governor

The house looked on to other tenement-like structures, experiments in architectural insignificance, that intruded upon a central concentration of buildings, commanding and antiquated, laid out in a quadrilateral, though irregular, style. Silted-up

Cuando escribes te fugas, entras en trance: estás en la Zona. Te gustaría, si pudieses, pedir perdón por esos cuentos. Por faltar a tu obligación de ser un ciudadano de provecho. En tu entorno, escribir es una pérdida de tiempo: lo urgente es ganarse la vida. El pánico de cualquier familia ante la perspectiva de un hijo descarriado por la tarea inútil de una vida irregular (cierto), socavada por ingresos irregulares (más cierto aún). Lo prudente es no escribir.

I am not quite sober you know. In fact, I am drunk, but I cannot help feeling this is all a trifle, shall we say, irregular?

I have no special regard for Satan; but I can at least claim that I have no prejudice against him. It may even be that I lean a little his way, on account of his not having a fair show. All religions issue bibles against him, and say the most injurious things about him, but we never hear his side. We have none but the evidence for the prosecution, and yet we have rendered the verdict. To my mind, this is irregular. It is un-English; it is un-American; it is French.

A 2014 New York Times profile of a Starbucks barista so clearly demonstrated the serious negative consequences of her frequently changing work schedule (especially on her ability to find quality child care), and how common irregular and volatile schedules were for Starbucks workers, that the company announced changes to its scheduling policies within forty-eight hours.46