Both Uses of
erratic
in
The Chrysalids
- You could now go some thirty miles to the south or south-west before you came to Wild Country — that is to say parts where the chance of breeding true was less than fifty per cent. After that, everything grew more erratic across a belt which was ten miles wide in some places and up to twenty in others, until you came to the mysterious Fringes where nothing was dependable, and where, to quote my father, 'the Devil struts his wide estates, and the laws of God are mocked.†
Chpt 2erratic = irregular or unpredictable
- We went on by the erratic route that Rosalind had picked to hide the trail.†
Chpt 12 *