1 The correspondence flourished famously, and letters flew to and fro with unfailing regularity all through the early spring.
2 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.
3 For a fortnight, the Professor came and went with lover-like regularity.
4 I believe she was happy in her way: this routine sufficed for her; and nothing annoyed her so much as the occurrence of any incident which forced her to vary its clockwork regularity.
5 He only laid on the whip with regularity.
6 Shootings and cuttings went on here with such regularity that the authorities seldom troubled to investigate and generally left the Shantytowners to settle their own dark affairs.
7 The holes were several yards apart, and were disposed with a good deal of regularity, almost as if the town had been laid out in streets and avenues.
8 With serene regularity, as if controlled by a schedule, bullets buffed into men.
9 The deadly statistical recorder in the Gradgrind observatory knocked every second on the head as it was born, and buried it with his accustomed regularity.
10 The elegance, propriety, regularity, harmony, and perhaps, above all, the peace and tranquillity of Mansfield, were brought to her remembrance every hour of the day, by the prevalence of everything opposite to them here.
11 His life was irregular, but in one respect he was regularity itself.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In IX. The Adventure of The Resident Patient 12 The Silent Man seemed even more clumsy than usual, and drank champagne with regularity and determination out of sheer nervousness.
13 Her lips were slightly parted, and her breast rose and fell with the regularity of a pendulum.
14 I must say it was paid with a regularity worthy of a large and honorable trading company.
15 And I remember I confounded the beat of the drum with the beating of my heart, and was pleased at its calm regularity.