27893 examples of common in sentences

You heard them, murmuring together, as they passed out of sight, going forward to share the common and ineffable experience.

It must be something out of the common that won't keep a couple of days.

There was, it is true, a something deprecating in John Saltram's manner that had not been common to him of old, and in Gilbert Fenton a deeper gravity than was quite natural; but that was all.

The steward was much concerned by his feeble condition, especially as it was no common case of sea-sickness; for John Saltram had told him that he was never sea-sick.

" "I've no common patience with her," said the stewardess with acrimony; "the cold-hearted creature!flaunting about like that, with a sick husband within a stone's throw of her.

The creature clinging to Percival Nowell's arm was a pretty woman enough, with rather red hair, and a common face.

But such falsehoods and contradictions are common enough amongst men of miserly habits; and Stephen Whitelaw would hardly be so anxious about those western rooms unless something of value were hidden away there.

Such things have been too cruelly common in our fair free country.

He told me how his daughter had gone against him, and was likely to go against him, and how some property that ought in common justice to have been left to him, had been left to her.

He was not articulate, but occasionally he expressed an idea and the most common was that he "liked his things as he liked them"; his eggs, in other words, boiled just so long, no moreafter sixty years of inner debate on the subject he had apparently arrived at the conclusion that boiled eggs were the only kind of eggs permissiblehis life punctual and serene.

So the Pine Rat vindicates his claim to a common humanity with all the rest of us men and women; for have not we all our secret and most approved method of springing the arch,of palming off our three short pecks for a full and bounteous imperial bushel?

The grape which is most common is that of the vineyards of Los Angeles.

The only wild animals common in the country of the Utahs are the hare, or "jackass-rabbit," the wild-cat, the wolf, and the grizzly bear.

They therefore contribute to its coffers not merely their tithing, but heavy exactions also for grazing their cattle on pastures to which they themselves have just as much title as the nominal proprietors, and for grinding their grain and purchasing their lumber at mills on streams which are of right common to all the settlers on their banks.

Living up to life; a book of courage, common sense and compassion.

ROSENTHAL, RICHARD S. French self taught; Rosenthal's common-sense method of practical linguistry.

Spanish self taught; Rosenthal's common-sense method of practical linguistry.

RUSSELL, JAMES E. The new common sense.

RUSSELL, ROBERT B. The new common sense.

SEE Russell, William F. RUSSELL, WILLIAM F. The new common sense.

WILLIAM F. The new common sense.

The new common sense.

There are five 'shepherds' among the dramatis personae of Mydas, but they appear in one scene only (IV. ii), and merely represent the common people, introduced to comment on the actions of the king.

Lyly may very possibly have known the story of Hesione cited by R. W. Bond (ii. 421), but it presents no particular points of similarity, and the outline of the legend was of course common property.

[280] The sense in the original is defective. i.e. Tethys, a very common confusion.

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