Henshaw was in the hall, bulking big in a fur coat and complaining in a masterful tone of the unpunctuality of his fly.

"'When you can bear with any discord, any annoyance, any irregularity or unpunctuality (of which you are not the cause),that is victory.

It had been framed under Miss Tewksbury's guidance, who knew Julia's unpunctuality and lack of system, and read as follows: Syllabus Rise at 6.45.

On Christmas-eve the theatres were opened gratuitously, but these ladies, who, with their friends, the coal-heavers, selected the most aristocratic theatre, La Comédie Française, for the honor of their visit, arrived with aristocratic unpunctuality, so late that the guards stopped them at the doors, declaring that the house was full, and that there was not a seat vacant.

If the two gentlemen had faults, unpunctuality was certainly not one of them, for the clock upon the mantelpiece had scarcely finished striking the hour of four, when I heard footsteps in the office outside, and next moment they were shown into my own sanctum.

Irregularity of recurrence N. irregularity, uncertainty, unpunctuality; fitfulness &c adj.; capriciousness, ecrhythmus^. Adj. irregular, uncertain, unpunctual, capricious, desultory, fitful, flickering; rambling, rhapsodical; spasmodic; immethodical^, unmethodical, variable.

Thus he made a habit of long walks after dark on week-days and of unpunctuality at meals.

The correspondence of this date is full of remonstrances from Murray against the financial unpunctuality of his Edinburgh correspondents.

It is time that you started now, for the Emperor never forgives unpunctuality.'

"] The performances generally began at 5 o'clock, but that there were occasional lapses into unpunctuality, may be inferred from the following advertisement in the Daily Courant of October 5, 1703: "Her Majesty's Servants of the Theatre Royal being return'd from the Bath, do intend, to-morrow, being Wednesday, the sixth of this instant October to act a Comedy call'd 'Love Makes a Man, or the Fop's Fortune.'[A]

It amused him that at his age he should still fear the silent rebuke with which his uncle punished unpunctuality.

In proof of the wrongs inflicted on them by the non-trading classes, they might instance the well-known cases of large shopkeepers in the West-end, who have been either ruined by the unpunctuality of their customers, or have been obliged periodically to stop payment, as the only way of getting their bills settled.

I am speaking of faults which are not criminalthings like unpunctuality, laziness, small excesses, mild untrustworthiness, and so forth.

I believe in trying to give people a real motive for self-discipline: take unpunctuality, for instance.

I contrasted his punctuality, when he came to see "King Lear," with the unpunctuality of Lord Randolph Churchill, who came to see the play the very next night with a party of men friends and arrived when the first act was over.

But even if you did understand uswhich you don'tthe real point is that we don't want you, any of you, patronising, patting us on the shoulder, explaining us to ourselves, talking about our souls, our unpunctuality, and our capacity for drink.

3 Stoppages on the Line = 1 Late Arrival. 24 Late Arrivals = 1 Day's Unpunctuality.

365 Days' Unpunctuality = 1 Patient Public's Useless Grumble.

If we did but know the consequences which may ensue, in very weak patients, from ten minutes' fasting or repletion (I call it repletion when they are obliged to let too small an interval elapse between taking food and some other exertion, owing to the nurse's unpunctuality), we should be more careful never to let this occur.

In very weak patients there is often a nervous difficulty of swallowing, which is so much increased by any other call upon their strength that, unless they have their food punctually at the minute, which minute again must be arranged so as to fall in with no other minute's occupation, they can take nothing till the next respite occursso that an unpunctuality or delay of ten minutes may very well turn out to be one of two or three hours.