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Nor will I press the question What is the nature of the effect registered in the reproductive elements, and which is subsequently manifested by variations? Is it an effect entirely irrelevant to the new requirements of the variety? Or is it an effect which makes the variety less fit for the new requirements? Or is it an effect which makes it more fit for the new requirements?
Whatever reasons the deceased might have had for bringing forward another heir of entail were quite irrelevant.
Dundee remarked aloud to the parrot, who croaked an irrelevant answer: "Bad Penny! Bad Penny!" "I'm afraid, 'my dear Watson, that those words will not be so helpful in this case as they were when your mistress was murdered," Dundee assured his parrot absently, for he was studying the peculiar situation from every angle.
After a while the subject of Mela's hoarse babble and of Christine's high-pitched, thin, sharp forays of assertion and denial in the field which her sister's voice seemed to cover, made its way into the old man's consciousness, and he perceived that they were talking with Mrs. Mandel about it, and that his wife was from time to time offering an irrelevant and mistaken comment.
Your blushes are quite beside the point, Stairs; they are wholly irrelevant; so is your modesty. Why, my dear fellow, you couldn't help it if you tried. You two men are the mouthpiece of the hour. The hour having come, you could not stay its Message if you tried, nor check the tide of its effect. I know my London.
Naturally, or by any direct process, the machinery set in motion would seem irrelevant to the object: if one hundred men unite to elevate the standard of temperance, they can do this with effect only by improvements in their own separate cases: each individual, for such an effort of self-conquest, can draw upon no resources but his own.
Agar shuffled before it, her eyes glittering with suppressed communicativeness. She was obviously bubbling over with talk relevant and irrelevant, but the Rector had the chivalry to check it by his cold silence. After a pause it was he who spoke, in a quiet, unemotional voice which aggravated while it cowed her. "When did you hear this news?" he asked. "Oh, last night.
Never should that wide sweep of brow and those deep set eyes, the whole noble thoughtfulness of such a head," you mustn't think me vain, little mother, he positively said all these things and was so angry "have been combined with the rubbish, in this case irrelevant and actually harmful, that goes to make up the usual pretty young face.
The two young men inspected every jacket, went into ecstasies over each of them, and then asked me all sorts of irrelevant questions until it dawned upon me that I was being made game of. It appeared that the father of the two young men, the proprietor of the store, manufactured his own goods, for wholesale as well as for retail trade
"It may rank high as repartee, but as a comment upon my statement that you do not know what you are talking about, it savors of irrelevant impertinence. You do not know that I am compelled to haunt this place year after year by inexorable fate. It is no pleasure to me to enter this house, and ruin and mildew everything I touch. I never aspired to be a shower-bath, but it is my doom.
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