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Sentences starting with common

Common delicacy would prevent him from saying that he did not get his faith from his father, but from somebody else, perhaps from his grandmother Lois and his mother Eunice, like the young man whom the Apostle cautioned against total abstinence. [6]
Common sense at once points out the remedy. [7]
Common green cocoanut--and not only eat the meat, but drink the milk. [5]
Common report says it killed 1,200 in Port Louis alone, in half an hour. [5]
Common report attributed his unwillingness to be seen to a disfiguring malady with which he was said to be afflicted. [6]
Common sense told her not to refuse it. [6]
Common kindness should have prevented this intrusion-- by you! [11]

Sentences ending with common

But of course you know her already," he said, evidently trying to entertain a visitor with whom he now found nothing in common. [2]
The afternoon had worn away into a beautiful evening, when they arrived at a point where the road made a sharp turn and struck across a common. [12]
His large hands with the square-pointed fingers had obtrusive veins, but they were not common. [11]
It's the little white house across the Common. [9]
I will remember what you say and not make my yarning too common. [5]
At the table we were graver than common. [6]
A new sense was opened up in her, and she felt somehow that the ultra-marine blue was not right, that the over-mantel had been spoiled, that the new walnut table was too noticeable, and that the American rocking-chair looked very common. [11]
He met her walking, and thought she seemed a little more distant than common. [6]
Thus we can understand how it has come to pass that man and all other vertebrate animals have been constructed on the same general model, why they pass through the same early stages of development, and why they retain certain rudiments in common. [1]
You are afraid to say things that are common. [4]

Short sentences using common

Lincoln had common sense. [9]
He was a common sailor. [11]
It was a common occurrence. [4]
It was no common joke. [5]
That is the common experience. [4]
Peach-trees are common, and champagne-orchards. [6]
She's common. [11]

Sentences containing common two or more times

Moreover, of the young birds hatched from the eggs of the common geese, only four were pure, the other eighteen proving hybrids; so that the Chinese gander seems to have had prepotent charms over the common gander. [1]
A common bee will sting and kill another common bee, for cause, but when it is necessary to kill the queen other ways are employed. [5]
My understanding is, when a common job is done, or a common enterprise prosecuted, if I put in five dollars to your one, I have a right to take out five dollars to your one. [7]
The common school was well enough, but to the common nursery they had grave objections. [6]
We talked our trouble over together, which was natural, for rivals become brothers when a common affliction assails them and a common enemy bears off the victory. [5]
I should have thought common gratitude, common decency, would have brought him after--after all we did for him. [8]
Another branch of this activity is the so-called syndicating of the author's products in the control of one salesman, in which good work and inferior work are coupled together at a common selling price and in common notoriety. [4]
Every now and then some of its members seem to lose common sense and common humanity. [6]
When Burns, in the midst of the sulphurous orthodoxy of Scotland, dared to say, "The fear o' hell 's a hangman's whip To haud the wretch in order," he was only appealing to the common sense and common humanity of his fellow-countrymen. [6]
I'm a common sailor, and I wear the common sailor's clothes. [11]

More example sentences with the word common in them

And so, many youthful poets have written as if their hearts were old before their time; their pensive morning twilight has been as cool and saddening as that of evening in more common lives. [6]
He was a young man of one-and-twenty or thereabouts; well made, and certainly handsome, though the expression of his face was far from prepossessing, having in common with his manner and even his dress, a dissipated, insolent air which repelled one. [12]
Miss Clara Browne wrote home to her mother in the same terms as Miss Florence Smythe,--that the school was getting dreadful common, and they were letting in very queer folks. [6]
To read and write were still rare accomplishments in the country, and Dogberry expressed a common notion when he said reading and writing come by nature. [4]
But a naturalist would undoubtedly have ranked as an ape or a monkey, an ancient form which possessed many characters common to the Catarrhine and Platyrrhine monkeys, other characters in an intermediate condition, and some few, perhaps, distinct from those now found in either group. [1]
Of course it would not do to copy a model, raw, like' that, but he fell to studying his traits, trying to see the common humanity exhibited in him. [4]
Tom and I would have preferred to sleep in the woods near by, with our feet to the blaze; this was partly from motives of economy, and partly because Tom, in common with other pioneers, held an inn in contempt. [9]
A nicer analysis would detect many alien elements mixed with his individuality, but the family traits predominated over all the external influences, and the personality stood out distinct from the common family qualities. [6]
But no, that would be common sense--and out of place in a government. [5]
This common labor would be a sort of bond between them, a bond of charity purified from all personal alloy. [4]
The President, the worthy rector, was good at plain sailing in the track of the common moralities and proprieties, but was liable to get muddled if anything came up requiring swift decision and off-hand speech. [6]
I mark these words because, notwithstanding their common use, they involve so much that is not true. [6]
But what a wonderful motherliness and impulsive sympathy steadied by common sense did Al'mah the singing-woman show! [11]
She would first wonder, then doubt, and then believe at last that he was a common criminal. [11]
Perhaps you would wonder to see how some very common sights impress me. [6]
A guard is without to take Captain Moray to the common jail. [11]
Rostov, in common with the whole army from which he came, was far from having experienced the change of feeling toward Napoleon and the French--who from being foes had suddenly become friends--that had taken place at headquarters and in Boris. [2]
The circumstances connected with the very common antipathy to cats were as remarkable in many points of view as the similar circumstances in the case of Maurice Kirkwood. [6]
To me, preoccupied with the knowledge that the tug would soon be upon us, there seemed nothing strange in the attitude of these two, but Miss Trevor remarked something out of the common at once. [9]
That would serve with the common soldier, but I knew well it would not with Gabord or with the commandant of the citadel. [11]
It often pairs with the common kind, yet intermediate gradations have never been seen; nor is this surprising, for variations which appear suddenly, are often, as I have elsewhere shewn (42. [1]
Incidentally, in common with his neighbours, he had taken no interest in the war, which had seemed as remote to him as though he had lived in North Dakota. [9]
After an interview with Bigot he was being taken to the common jail. [11]
The oration began with a lengthy tribute to the resources and history of his state, and ended by a declaration that the speaker was in Congress at no man's bidding, but as the servant of the common people of his district. [9]
But the west windows gave a broad outlook across the common, beyond which the historical "Washington elm" and two companions in line with it, spread their leaves in summer and their networks in winter. [6]
I shall never win over this soldier's son to our peaceful handicraft, but he shall not remain on the mountain among these queer sluggards, for there he is being ruined, and yet he is not of a common sort. [10]
A common bee will sting any one or anybody, but a royalty stings royalties only. [5]
Head of Common wild boar, in prime of life (from Brehm). [1]
The wench to whom he plighted his love was the daughter of a common craftsman, Pernhart the coppersmith, and when this came to my ears it angered me greatly; nay, and cost me bitter tears, as I told it to Ann. [10]
Some kind friend, who could challenge a nearer interest than the curious strangers into whose hands the book might fall, at last claimed it, and I was glad that it should be henceforth sealed to common eyes. [6]
The Alexandrian fellow-artists who belonged to his party would gratefully welcome this special work; for what grew out of it would have nothing in common with the fascination of superhuman beauty, by which the older artists ensnared the hearts and minds of the multitude. [10]
Many of them, Whigs and Democrats are my constituents and personal friends; and I thank them,--more than thank them,--one and all, for the high imperishable honor they have conferred on our common State. [7]
The rose-bush to which Xanthe went grew on the dike that belonged in common to her father and uncle, beside a bench of beautifully-polished white marble. [10]
The many characters which they possess in common can hardly have been independently acquired by so many distinct species; so that these characters must have been inherited. [1]
The common distress, which afflicted them and so many starving people, oppressed his soul with a thousand-fold greater power. [10]
In the town where she lived was a lady of honorable condition, somewhat past middle age, who was possessed of pretty ample means, of cultivated tastes, of excellent principles, of exemplary character, and of more than common accomplishments. [6]
One bitter day, when the sun smiled mockingly on the powdered common, a horseman was perceived on the Fort Chartres road. [9]
I managed, somehow, when the commotion had subsided, to regain my poise, and ended by uttering the conviction that the common sense of the community would repudiate the Citizens Union and all it stood for.... [9]
The time came when she had learned to listen for his step, when her eyes glistened at meeting him, when the words he uttered were treasured as from something more than a common mortal, and the book he had touched was like a saintly relic. [6]
Two of these were supposed to go into the common fund, but there were clothes to buy; Lise loved finery, and Hannah had not every week the heart to insist. [9]
At last they were roused by the sound of a horn, and, looking down, they saw a four-in-hand drawing smartly down the road to the village over the gorse-spread common, till it stopped at the Cloistered House. [11]
If two languages were found to resemble each other in a multitude of words and points of construction, they would be universally recognised as having sprung from a common source, notwithstanding that they differed greatly in some few words or points of construction. [1]
Curiosity, inquiry, expectation, were common to them all, but with each was a different personal feeling. [11]
I remember very well when it was common for people to mistake Bixby for your grandson. [5]
She knew quite well that she was doing a large and generous thing to pay for that lad, and that I ought in common fairness to come out with something handsome about it, but I couldn't--my mouth refused. [5]
He did not wear the sheepskin leggings so common among the ranchmen of the West, but a pair of yellowish corduory riding-breeches, with boots that laced from the ankle to the knee. [11]
Why mourn that we, the favored few Whom grasping Time so long has spared Life's sweet illusions to pursue, The common lot of age have shared? [6]
When we entered, we were assailed with yells in many languages, and howls in the common tongue, as if all the fiends of the pit had broken loose. [4]
Else why do we take pleasure--a pleasure so deep that it touches the heart like melancholy--in the common drama of the opera? [4]
In common life we shirk it by forming habits, which take the place of self-determination. [6]
The captain said we ought to shorten sail anyway, out of common prudence. [5]
Granting all this, we must not expect too much from "science" as distinguished from common experience. [3]
We believe that we may promise him as warm a welcome among ourselves as he will receive even in America; that his place will be at once conceded to him among the first historians in our common language. [6]
At this point we have an episode: Beside the shore of the brook sat a young man, about eighteen or twenty, who seemed to be reading some favorite book, and who had a remarkably noble countenance--eyes which betrayed more than a common mind. [5]
One by one we all had yielded to ceaseless intrigue and common distrust of each other, until no honest man was left; till all were intent to save their lives by holding power; for in this land to lose power is to lose life. [11]
In the same way, that other realist, M. Zola, has painted a patient suffering from delirium tremens, the disease known to common speech as "the horrors. [6]
In a small way we were the same sort of simpletons as those who climb unnecessarily the perilous peaks of Mont Blanc and the Matterhorn, and derive no pleasure from it except the reflection that it isn't a common experience. [5]
This is the way the common sort of people will talk:--'You have got your ticket to the feast of life, as much as any other man that ever lived. [6]
The whole house was, in the common language of the newspaper reports, "a perfect tinder-box," and would probably be a heap of ashes in half an hour. [6]
Now when I was your age..." I knew his history by heart, a common one in this country, although he made an honourable name instead of a dishonourable one. [9]
Near as he was to her now, he very often saw her in his mind's eye as she passed over Ridley Common, looking towards him, her eyes shaded by her hand. [11]
The man who was to have had a packed church to hear him expose and denounce the common enemy had but a handful to see him buried. [5]
No, for that was the common custom on both sides, and not open to criticism. [5]
Their common suffering was the bond which again united them in affection. [10]
More likely she was only making a common friendly visit, though Hamor says she went to trade at an Indian fair. [4]
The evening itself was not so hot as common, and there was an extra array of distinguished guests. [11]
Money, he said, was needed, for Clark and all were very poor, and common necessaries were now at exorbitant prices in the country. [11]
But as she was honest and clear-sighted, she could not accept a statement which seemed so plainly in contradiction with his common teachings, without bringing his flattering assertion to the test of another question. [6]
Though their drum was heard, yet that was a common occurrence. [5]
Mine you, I was down on sich doin's; beca'se my place was wid de officers, an' it rasp me to have dem common sojers cavortin' roun' in my kitchen like dat. [5]
The third, I was doing tin roofs; the forth, common signs; the fifth, statuary to stand before cigar shops. [5]
Their common destiny was but for a moment, and that moment had come and gone. [10]
At bottom he was a little surprised at this, because although his theories had been all in that direction for some time, he was not prepared to find himself actually eager to measure strength with quite so common a man as this ruffian. [5]
Serapis himself indeed was a divinity introduced from Asia into the Nile valley by the Ptolemies, in order to supply to their Greek and Egyptian subjects alike an object of adoration, before whose altars they could unite in a common worship. [10]
Within the fort was a big common dotted with forest trees, where such cattle as had been saved browsed on the scanty grass. [9]
A voice within warned him against making common cause with those who had robbed the family of which he had become a member, yet he again used the remembrance of his innocent darlings to palliate his purpose. [10]
The other quarter wants science and common sense too. [6]
We did not want to waste the time on any common thing. [4]
There was a vision of a woman flying across the common, and we saw the dauntless Mrs. Harrod snatching her husband's gun from his resisting hands. [9]
Sometimes I think Victoria has a common streak in her--and no wonder. [9]
A common and very simple reason for this disappointment is that most of us overrate our capacity. [6]
The obelisk is very common, and when in just proportions and of respectable dimensions is unobjectionable. [6]
Talent is a very common family-trait; genius belongs rather to individuals;--just as you find one giant or one dwarf in a family, but rarely a whole brood of either. [6]
The partnership was very common among our British ancestors. [3]
She has a very ardent nature, but at the same time a great deal of what we call common sense. [4]
The more common version of the trouble at the mansion-house was this: Elsie was not exactly in her right mind. [6]
The common people usually shirked the trouble of filtering it, and it was among them that the greater number died of a mortal and infectious pestilence, till then unknown. [10]
She has the usual defect, the common defect, the universal defect, the defect that has never been missing from any ship that ever sailed--she has imperfect beds. [5]
On Sundays we used to go into the Common and feed them, before Daddy got sick. [9]
But now let us suppose we take one single drop of the Tincture of Camomile, and that the whole of this were to be carried through the common series of dilutions. [3]
The zodiac promises us a good star, and the figures representing it are not the common emblems, but each deeply significant. [10]
Four apartments opened upon each landing, in which was the common hydrant and sink. [4]
When they grew up, both married common laborers. [5]
But"--and she held up the lovely head--"this is not quite so common, and--and--I think I'll take the Macedon one. [4]
When he stood up he was much taller than common, and he walked with princelike dignity. [10]
Reading is so universal, even with the uncultivated, that it is common to hear people mispronounce words that you did not suppose they had ever seen. [4]
The common Yellow Under-wings (Triphaena) often fly about during the day or early evening, and are then conspicuous from the colour of their hind-wings. [1]
Nor did it understand that Carmen was the more venturesome gambler of the two, and that gradually, for the success of promising schemes, she had thrown one thing after another into the common speculation, until practically all the property stood in Mavick's name. [4]
We did this under the single impulse of resistance to a common danger, with every external circumstance against us. [7]
Yet it was undeniable that the artist and Marion had a common taste for hunting out picturesque places in the wood-paths, among the rocks, and on the edges of precipices, and they dragged the rest of the party many a mile through wildernesses of beauty. [4]

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