An other frequent irregularity in the construction of participles, is the practice of treating them essentially as nouns, without taking from them the regimen and adjuncts of participles; as, "Your having been well educated will be a great recommendation.

The pavement of the streets is bad, and their irregularity is a considerable drawback from the internal appearance.

The only irregularity noticeable in his mode of life was the hour of retiring, which varied from 11 p.m. to four o'clock in the morning, according to the amount of work which he felt himself in the mood for.

The only irregularity upon them is a slight elevation on the south end of the latter.

The posts of the stalls grew into vast, shadowy images; the irregularities of the floor became high places and pits alternately.

'In an enlightened and improving age, much perhaps is not to be apprehended from the inroads of mere caprice; at such a period it will generally be perceived, that needless irregularity is the worst of all deformities, and that nothing is so truly elegant in language as the simplicity of unviolated analogy.