Word: irregularities
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Sutphin, is very irregular, pulls with his arms, hurries his seat and does not reach far enough...
...Campbell, Jr., is very irregular in his time, handles his slide poorly on catch and finish, meets his oar, feathers his oar too flat, fails to get around the water on catch, too long on the finish and swings out of the boat...
...very little wine be poured into a cupful of water it will at first penetrate in irregular streaks without mingling, but will gradually give a color and flavor to the whole. This was really the case with the Norman-French brought into England at the time of the Conquest. At first the French and the Anglo-Saxon existed side by side, the one as language of the Court, the higher clergy and the nobles; the other of the people. Gradually as the connexion with Frence grew weaker and at last ceased altogether, and the realm of England began to develop...
...which was not very different from that of the verses in the play, was entirely different from any which we have in English. Very much of the effect of English speech depends upon slurring unemphatic words and dwelling upon those more important. This tends to produce a jerky and irregular utterance not customary in other European languages. In Latin, as well as in all other languages that have quantity, the length of syllables is determined beforehand and even common speech has a measured cadence, a musical quality, to which rhetorical composition carefully attends, so that certain sequences are approved...
...Irregular and slow on first part of recover...