1 In passing the garden to reach the road, at a place where a bridle hook is driven into the wall, I saw something white moved irregularly, evidently by another agent than the wind.
2 In the left pocket were two black pillars irregularly shaped: we could not, without difficulty, reach the top of them, as we stood at the bottom of his pocket.
3 It was at this point that she began to pay the Thenardiers irregularly.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER IX—MADAME VICTURNIEN'S SUCCESS 4 It was, then, a mind which had unfolded itself there, sigh by sigh, irregularly, without order, without choice, without object, hap-hazard.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER V—COSETTE AFTER THE LETTER 5 With little ripples that were hardly the shadows of waves, the laden mattress moved irregularly down the pool.
6 The whales had irregularly settled bodily down into the blue, thus giving no distantly discernible token of the movement, though from his closer vicinity Ahab had observed it.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 48. The First Lowering. 7 The chief of the party were now collected irregularly round the fire, and waiting the final break-up.
8 His stick struck the ground less emphatically and his breath, issuing irregularly, almost with a sighing sound, condensed in the wintry air.
9 Between the two ran the irregular track, so narrow in places that they had to travel in Indian file, and so rough that only practised riders could have traversed it at all.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER IV. A FLIGHT FOR LIFE 10 ALL night their course lay through intricate defiles and over irregular and rock-strewn paths.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER V. THE AVENGING ANGELS 11 Further ahead were dimly visible an irregular dwelling-house, garden, and outbuildings, backed by a clump of firs.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 1: 6 The Figure against the Sky 12 Beyond the irregular carpet of grass was a row of white palings, which marked the verge of the heath in this latitude.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 2: 1 Tidings of the Comer 13 Behind the white palings was a little garden; behind the garden an old, irregular, thatched house, facing the heath, and commanding a full view of the valley.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 2: 1 Tidings of the Comer 14 The dance had come like an irresistible attack upon whatever sense of social order there was in their minds, to drive them back into old paths which were now doubly irregular.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 4: 3 She Goes Out to Battle against Depression 15 His gray clothes and jerky, zigzag, irregular progress made him not unlike some huge moth himself.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In Chapter 7. The Stapletons of Merripit House