The part about her being a vixen was laughed at by the few that heard it, but was soon left out as immaterial to the story, and incredible in itself, though afterwards it came to be remembered and its significance to be understood.

Dr. Douglas observed, that this was founded upon ignorance; for that the Bishops have sufficient power to maintain discipline, and that the sitting of the Convocation was wholly immaterial in this respect, it being not a Court of judicature, but like a parliament, to make Canons and regulations as times may require.

He had become for her as remote, as immaterial as the gaudy picturesqueness of the scene in which he stood.

18-23); more correctly in Correspondence respecting the European Crisis, No. 4, Count Berchtold to Count Mensdorff, July 24; but the differences between the two versions are immaterial for our present purpose.]

What she said was the thing, though even that is immaterial from a legal point of viewwhich is the only view of any importance to you or to me, at this juncture.

Taken as a whole, there is something impalpable and immaterial about him, which I will not venture to call effeminate, but which is scarcely manly.

Whether her expressions are quite sincere, is, perhaps, immaterial under the circumstancesshe knew her father's disposition too well to make complaints.