This was the ordinary habit of the Tahitians.

The ordinary people could seldom afford the fees demanded by the priest, and had to be satisfied with a denial of this Mussulman Eden reserved for the festive and devil-may-care Arioi, as ordinary people perforce abstain from intoxicants in America while the rich drink their fill.

The ordinary people could seldom afford the fees demanded by the priest, and had to be satisfied with a denial of this Mussulman Eden reserved for the festive and devil-may-care Arioi, as ordinary people perforce abstain from intoxicants in America while the rich drink their fill.

The high priest and his assistants, the latter ordinary priests.

The oripou or haerepo were youths, neophytes, intended for the priesthood, and assisted the ordinary priests; but their special duties were singular and interesting.

A good deal, of course, can be done by any ordinary householder.

In the ordinary way, short of desperate impulse and decisionunless by some happy chance I had relinquished the burden of this pen and taken happy service with one of the wine merchants who store their treasure thereI should never have entered Lower Robert Street at all, for it goes nowhere and runs under the earth, and it is damp and mouldy, and the only doors, leading to this vault and that, are locked.

"You don't seem to realise," I said, "that in the ordinary way people pay me for writing.

The proprietor is endeavouring to serve ordinary purchasers, answer questions, punch holes in straps and give change simultaneously.

When he came to the door of wold-hut he would give the postman's knock as though he came on ordinary rounds to a house of every day, although no path led up to it, although the skins of weasels hung thickly from upper windows.

Yet as the days wore on and the old coat grew no younger, nor any more wonderful, nor the least useful, but more and more like an ordinary old coat, Peters began once more to doubt his astuteness.

He had been on its tracks for weeks with suspicions growing all the time that it was no ordinary coat, and at last he had run it to earth in that auction room but would not bid for it more than twenty pounds for fear of letting every one into the secret.

It's not like ordinary things.

Ordinary people always begin with this topic.

What perplexed me most was the sight of thousands of men, not in uniform, but in ordinary civilian dress.

Nor could even the news that Aldrich, over on the Blue Ribbon division, was allowing that once proud bit of rail to degenerate into an ordinary portion of a railroad bring even a passing cheer.

The sermon struck me as a very ordinary affair, though it was delivered by a lord.

Of cargo, strictly speaking, the Rancocus had very little in weight, but she had a great many water-casks, four or five times as many as would have been put into her in an ordinary voyage.

In the end, it will be found that little will be taken that Mexico could keep; and had that nation observed towards this, ordinary justice and faith, in her intercourse and treaties, that which has so suddenly and vigorously been done, would never have even been attempted.

His ordinary aspect was severe, almost saturnine; but he was wont to destroy this effect with his thin-lipped smile that broke winningly over small white teeth and surprisingly hinted an alert young man behind these flickering shadows of age.

He was alive to the fact,uncomfortably alive to the fact,that the ordinary life of gentle-folk in England does not admit of direct clerical interference.

Does not St. Paul say, "Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands as unto the Lord"?' 'Certainly; and you cannot suppose that in any ordinary case I would interfere between you and him.

The gates were old, and were opened and closed at ordinary times by an ordinary ancient lock.

The gates were old, and were opened and closed at ordinary times by an ordinary ancient lock.

"But then, you're a Camp Fire Girl," he added, as if it were not so much of a defeat to be beaten by a Camp Fire Girl as by an ordinary girl.