Literary notes about Irregular (AI summary)
The term "irregular" is employed in literature to capture departures from the expected or conventional in both form and behavior. It designates physical deviations, whether in architectural forms that appear uneven or nonuniform, as when a structure is described as built according to the varied needs of its inhabitants [1] or when a building’s winding design conveys disorder [2]. Equally, it characterizes human and natural actions that stray from routine, such as unusual habits [3] or erratic movements [4], and even signifies anomalies in phenomena like respiration [5]. Moreover, "irregular" serves a technical purpose in grammatical discussions, marking verbs and adjectives that do not follow standard patterns [6, 7, 8]. In all its usages, the word enriches narrative and technical discourse by highlighting divergence and contrast in both physical and abstract realms [9, 10].
- It was an irregular pile, built evidently according to the wants of the different families who had lived in it.
— from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson - It is built in a most irregular shape, and is encircled by a castellated mud wall with round turrets.
— from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson - He and his mule were so irregular in their habits.
— from The Gay Cockade by Temple Bailey - His gray clothes and jerky, zigzag, irregular progress made him not unlike some huge moth himself.
— from The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle - But soon, her senses being very acute, she became conscious of an irregular respiration in an obscure corner of the room.
— from The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne - As irregular verb-forms are introduced with special frequency, it would be well to keep the list of irregular verbs at hand for reference.
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón - The verb to be is irregular in Latin as in English.
— from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson - The Nine Irregular Adjectives 46-47 XVII.
— from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson - All is gray shadow—a weak and irregular remembrance—an indistinct regathering of feeble pleasures and phantasmagoric pains.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 by Edgar Allan Poe - His language was perhaps more irregular than Ippolit Kirillovitch's, but he spoke without long phrases, and indeed, with more precision.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
