The regulars were certainly not ideal troops with which to oppose such foes; but they were the best attainable at that time.

The regulars have been gettin' mighty uneasy these two days, an' somethin' has got to be done, different from ditch-diggin', to keep 'em in good spirits.

"When the regular or the irregular verb is to be preferred, p. 107."Murray's Index, Gram., ii, 296.

I'm sure I've never asked for them, nor troubled her; but I'll own it's now near on to twelve months since she paid me; and she was as regular as clock-work till then.

He took his walk as regular as clockwork every afternoon, and she bought just the same things every week; her books must have tallied almost to a penny every month, Mrs. Naylor!

Her repasts were as regular as clockworknever too late, never too early.

But it is only by deliberate effort that I recall the long morning hours of toil, as regular as sunrise,toil on both sides equal,by which, year after year, my mother forced me to learn these paraphrases, and chapters, (the eighth of 1st Kings being onetry it, good reader, in a leisure hour!)