But this method of carrying on the campaign was soon brought into disrepute, owing to the fact that certain juveniles, seeing in this new idea of bill-posting a fresh field for practical joking, began to adorn the walls of the "grub-room," and other spaces which did not often come under the eye of a master, with placards exhibiting inscriptions which had no bearing on the electionssuch irrelevant remarks as, "nooks Two wants kicking !"

Real things were troublesome, uncontrollable, over-complicated and largely irrelevant.

It would have been irrelevant for me, perhaps, to suggest to my colleagues the extinction of that committee.

" "We will see," said the judge, "that no harm comes to you or to your cause from irrelevant matter interjected by counsel.

Riles claimed that they prolonged life by rendering stress inoperable and irrelevant.

Instead of "the Doctor" they now spoke of him habitually as "the Professor," and presented him with a finely befrogged but somewhat irrelevant professor's gown for use in the pulpit at Wallace Green.

But it is impossible to conceive of the suffrage as a right dependent at all upon such an irrelevant condition as sex.

She did not know why, after having worried about it so much, Ann's having paid back the missionary money should seem so irrelevant now.

Ellis talked steadily, about the hotel, the furnishings, all sorts of irrelevant subjects, to which Miss Pemberton paid little attention.

The inquiry whether these acts of cession were consistent or inconsistent with the United States' constitution, is totally irrelevant to the question at issue.

To copy these advertisements entire would require a great amount of space, and flood the reader with a vast mass of matter irrelevant to the point before us; we shall therefore insert only so much of each, as will intelligibly set forth the precise point under consideration.

[Footnote 35: The objection that the examination questions are irrelevant to the work of the office is often made the occasion of gross exaggeration.

Here, however even these considerations are irrelevant; we are sufficiently well off to be able to provide for more children than one, and it is neither right nor kind to accumulate so large a property on a single head.

"Much of what you are saying is entirely irrelevant, Mr. Hunnicott.

The child listened to what his father said, and appeared to think it irrelevant, for he still insisted, "But, please, explain!"

But we interrupt the flow of our author's bile by these irrelevant remarks.

There the men meet the most disconcerting situationsas, for example, the problem of spending a night in a flooded meadow occupied by a thunderstormwith irrelevant songs or fantasias on the mouth-organ.

As long as he is so engaged, the maxim that it is wrong to appeal to anything but the severest process of logical thought in his constituents will seem to him, if he has time to think of it, not so much untrue as irrelevant.

The only thing for the dependent individualist in a village to do is to go somewhere else, to some place where a man may at the same time hold his job and his opinions, a place too big to keep track of its units, too busy to ask irrelevant questions, and so diverse in its constituents as to have generated tolerance and free operation for all.

On the contrary, they are apt to welcome any disparity between them and their neighbours which tends to safeguard their leisure and protect them against the social inroads of irrelevant persons.

Because of this purpose much is introduced into the story which is irrelevant to the plot itself.

Much which seems quite irrelevant to the plot has its place in this larger purpose, and serves to bring out the final unity of impression which the author sought to produce.

"They seem rather irrelevant at times," he admitted, with a smile.

More than that, the foreman had passed certain strictures upon his features which, however true they might be, were quite irrelevant to the fact that Mr. Blows had been discovered slumbering in a shed when he should have been laying bricks.

We do not indeed profess to know what moral and morale mean in French, but then that knowledge is irrelevant.