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Sentences starting with ordinary

Ordinary fire is forbidden; there is no money in it. [5]

Sentences ending with ordinary

The glance by which she measured him in turn momentarily veiled the divine in the ordinary. [13]
Several of his principles were out of the ordinary. [5]
Patience says she hopes it will not become common; it is too fine to be nosed about by the ordinary. [4]
They have warned him, yes, that the expenses may be a little greater than ordinary. [9]
I've put the barber in prison, and given the sarraf twenty lashes for certifying that the death of the son of the Mamour was el aadah--the ordinary. [11]
El aadah----The ordinary. [11]

Short sentences using ordinary

This is no ordinary case. [5]
Three very ordinary liars. [5]

Sentences containing ordinary two or more times

He was of the ordinary stature, and had the ordinary aspects; yet in him were hidden such strange contradictions and disproportions! [5]
Here he was--that one man-standing just as I am among you, and round him were the men who followed him, all ordinary men, with ordinary curiosity. [11]
No, she was not afraid of any ordinary death, and an ordinary death was what she believed the prophecy of deliverance meant, I think, for her face showed happiness, not horror, when she uttered it. [5]
This provision plainly attests the understanding of those who made the Constitution that ordinary courts of justice are inadequate to "cases of rebellion"--attests their purpose that, in such cases, men may be held in custody whom the courts, acting on ordinary rules, would discharge. [7]
The "fountain" was an ordinary well, it had been dug in the ordinary way, and stoned up in the ordinary way. [5]

More example sentences with the word ordinary in them

My existence, as you know, is an uncertain quantity, and may be cut short at any moment in the ordinary course of things. [11]
These describers are writing for the "general," and so, in order to make sure of being understood, they ought to use words in their ordinary sense, or else explain. [5]
An ordinary man would have no chance at all. [9]
The ordinary citizen would have accomplished nothing--the brother-in-law of a directory can accomplish anything he wants to. [5]
In payment he would accept nothing save the ordinary fees, as though it were some petty case in a county court. [11]
A very lovely woman, dressed like a queen, lay on silken cushions in the middle of the vessel; by her side sat a man of larger stature than that of ordinary mortals. [10]
She spoke English with no perceptible accent, as she spoke Spanish, Italian, French, Hungarian and Greek; and there was nothing in her speech marking her as different from the ordinary Western woman. [11]
Suddenly the prisoner, with an abrupt motion of the hand towards two chairs, said with an assumption of ordinary politeness: "Will you not be seated? [11]
Lali was moving with a little touch of grandeur in her manner and a more than ordinary deliberation. [11]
Any ordinary man will find that the story's strength is in its middle, and that there is apparently no way to transfer it to the close, where of course it ought to be. [5]
So now the whole council is French, and in all ordinary matters of legislation they vote together and in the French interest, not the English. [5]
The same people, who know each other perfectly well, will enjoy themselves together without restraint in their ordinary apparel. [4]
His ordinary councils were stale water--his spirit was drinking wine, now, and the taste of it was good. [5]
The two houses were separated by an ordinary yard, with a low fence running back through its middle from the street in front to the lane in the rear. [5]
Some of them were nearly as large square as an ordinary parlor. [5]
And that afternoon we had a two-shilling bottle of port for dinner, which we shared with a broken-down parson who had been chaplain in ordinary to my Lord Wortley, and who had preached us an Easter sermon the day before. [9]
Yet, when one was used to him and to them, their potency seemed greater than polished speech and ordinary phrase. [11]
And yet it was nothing but an ordinary suit of fifteen-dollar slop-shops. [5]
But Ruth Leigh was not an ordinary woman. [4]
And the tableware was much above ordinary, too. [5]
Another reporter, who was assigned to inform the public of the results of a difficult archeological investigation, frankly confessed his inability to understand what was going on; for his ordinary business, he said, was cattle. [4]
If Kochel, who was a very ordinary man, should not keep the secret, what might not Moor suffer from his treachery! [10]
I think I was a little surprised to find that the grand Sultan of Turkey was a man of only ordinary size. [5]
In short, he was a decidedly ordinary looking person; you would meet a hundred like him in the streets of Far Harbor and Beaverton. [9]
The tides of wakening consciousness roll in upon them daily as we unclose our eyelids, and keep up the gentle movement and murmur of ordinary mental respiration until we close them again in slumber. [6]
A twelve months' voyage at sea would make of an ordinary man a very miracle of meanness. [5]
Said he--and his voice was low and impressive: "This is no ordinary case. [5]
In their immediate vicinity, indeed, might have been found all the variety of type seen in the ordinary street car. [9]
It is his very image, and, as Papa said when he saw it, scarcely in the least like the ordinary portraits; not only the expression, but even the form of the head is different, and of a far nobler character. [14]
It was a vacuum where sensation was suspended, and the million facts of ordinary existence disappeared into inactivity. [11]
We are getting used to ice frozen by artificial process in ordinary bottles --the only kind of ice they have here. [5]
Next they took us into a little mean, shabby back room; they got two ordinary sitting-room chairs and placed us in them with our coats on. [5]
I cannot stand upon the footing of ordinary acquaintance. [6]
Keep it out until a vote is taken, and a vote in favor of it cannot be got in any population of forty thousand on earth, who have been drawn together by the ordinary motives of emigration and settlement. [7]
One of the unavoidable consequences of the present insurrection is the entire suppression in many places of all the ordinary means of administering civil justice by the officers and in the forms of existing law. [7]
Mr. Cooke chartered two cars to carry guests from the East, besides those who came as ordinary citizens. [9]
From twenty-two to twenty-three feet is the ordinary maximum of the very largest trees. [6]
The ordinary chalet turns a broad, honest gable end to the road, and its ample roof hovers over the home in a protecting, caressing way, projecting its sheltering eaves far outward. [5]
Whatever was the trade of the occupant, the tastes were above those of the ordinary dweller in the land. [11]
Forty pounds apiece--equal to three years' wages of an ordinary recruit of the army. [11]
It never occurs to them; it's just their natural ordinary condition, and so it does not excite them at all. [5]
Then he turned to the ordinary seamen. [11]
Then Nebsecht proceeds to state how these are distributed in the different members, and shows--is it not so?--that the various mental states, such as anger, grief, aversion, and also the ordinary use of the word heart, declare entirely for his view. [10]
Though a desire to meet and talk with quality pushed him hard, he would not go a step to the ordinary, and gave orders to be served in our room, thus fostering the mystery which had enveloped us since our arrival. [9]
I should like to know how much food it took at one time to make an impression on him; I should like to know what effect an idea of ordinary size had in his capacious head. [4]
It needs genius to import into literature ordinary conversation, petty domestic details, and the commonplace and vulgar phases of life. [4]
They are good to have, of course, for the ordinary exigencies of life, but they are no use in professional work. [5]
On Mark's return to Hartford, Wood received a letter asking if he would do Mark a great favor by printing something he had written, which he did not care to entrust to the ordinary printer. [5]
It is easier to dose with these than to exercise ordinary prudence about our health. [4]
It was hard to come down to humdrum ordinary life again after being a General Superintendent and the most conspicuous man in the community. [5]
And this leads to a remark upon the shocking indifference of some novelists to the ordinary comfort of their characters. [4]
We have a thousand proofs of this in the colossal character of their personal acts and the acts of ordinary men to whom they have given supernatural qualities. [5]
I might have thought it only a freak of my fancy, but there by the fireplace sat a stout, red-faced, puffy-looking man, in the ordinary dress of an English gentleman, whom I had no difficulty in recognizing as my uncle from India. [4]
He would behave this way, Mr. Carvel, if he were being shriven by the Newgate ordinary before a last carting to Tyburn. [9]
An hour after this I was marching, with two other men and Gabord, to the Convent of the Ursulines, dressed in the ordinary costume of a French soldier, got from the wife of Jean Labrouk. [11]
You can alter this by muscular power, as you can take hold of the pendulum of a clock and make it move faster or slower; but your ordinary gait is timed by the same mechanism as the movements of the solar system. [6]
The Moa stood thirteen feet high, and could step over an ordinary man's head or kick his hat off; and his head, too, for that matter. [5]
I do not think one could have seen where two particles joined each other with eyes of ordinary shrewdness. [5]
In ordinary course, they might have known each other for five years and not have come to this sensitive and delicate association. [11]
More than once they had beaten him, and more than once they had made him drunk on champagne and Madeira, which he loved; and he knew more than one thing about each of them which would long ago have sent an ordinary man to Siberia. [2]
The nature of these differences is unknown, but they relate more especially to the reproductive system, and much less so to external structure or to ordinary differences in constitution. [1]
Something of tenderness there was, perhaps, in her tone towards him; she would not have sent for him, had she not felt more than an ordinary interest in him. [6]
In the meantime there was the public: to permit the other fellow to capture that was to be lacking in ordinary prudence; if its votes counted for nothing, its savings were desirable; and it was fast getting into a state of outrage against monopoly. [9]
The investigator might then call a dead silence in the assembly, and request each person to talk in a natural voice, then divide the total noise as before, and see what chance of being heard an ordinary individual had in it. [4]
Citizens said that their largest spiders could not more than spread their legs over an ordinary saucer, and that they had always been considered honest. [5]
The rest of the year life pursued its unbroken routine with its ordinary occupations, and its breakfasts, lunches, dinners, and suppers, provided out of the produce of the estate. [2]
The man in the window had been his lifelong enemy: more than this, Jethro Bass, was not like ordinary men--his ways were enshrouded in mystery, and when he struck, he struck hard. [9]
In ordinary times the thief and the horse would soon be captured. [5]
Under ordinary circumstances the sound of wheels on the gravel would have aroused her, for Hugh scarcely ever drove. [9]
In such conditions the smallest brain was bound to expand, to take on qualities of judgment and temperateness which would never be developed in ordinary circumstances. [11]
They are twice the size of ordinary mortals. [10]
But I have the right to ask, and I do ask now, Did you not put it in such a form that an ordinary reader or listener would take it as an expression from me? [7]
The ordinary reverence, the reverence defined and explained by the dictionary costs nothing. [5]
He also accepted the raised seat, which the president quitted in his honor while he himself took one of the ordinary chairs at his side. [10]
In such cases the purposes of men are much more easily understood than in cases of ordinary crime. [7]
He would retain the primitive instincts, which are cultivated out of the ordinary, commonplace man. [4]
It's new, unlike the ordinary propaganda of--" "Of agitators," he supplied, with a smile. [9]
Do you mean the ordinary octavo, or the family illustrated? [5]
They were not the ordinary gossipers; in the faces of some were the marks of furtive design, of sinister suggestion. [11]
We simply want the ordinary civil rights, under which we can live and make our way in peace and amity. [4]
The passage across the Nile had been accomplished but slowly, and thus the royal personages had experienced for the first time some of the many difficulties and delays which ordinary mortals must conquer to attain objects which almost fly to meet their rulers. [10]
At luncheon, in the midst of a general conversation, Mr. Spence made a remark sotto voce which should, in the ordinary course of events, have remained a secret. [9]
This will weaken the men physically, but if there are any diseases of an ordinary sort left in them they will disappear. [5]
The exhilaration of the long spring-board, the necessity of holding on to something or somebody to prevent being tossed overboard, put occupants in a larkish mood that they might never attain in an ordinary vehicle. [4]
The secret of the game is to pitch the voice one or two octaves above the ordinary tone. [4]
He had not the free and lazy seat of the ordinary prairie-rider. [11]
I knew that the faces of each were about the width of a very large dwelling-house front, (fifty or sixty feet,) and that they were twice as high as an ordinary three-story dwelling, but still they looked small. [5]
He suspected that the doctors were concealing it in his ordinary medicines and in his water--so he ceased from putting either to his lips. [5]
The events of the day were interrupting the ordinary run of thought, and I felt at a miserable disadvantage. [11]
The interior of the cottage was more tasteful and ambitious than that of the ordinary two-story dwellings. [6]
At several of the chapels, services were being conducted; and there was a large congregation, an ordinary church full, about each of them. [4]
But, to take the case away from ordinary examples, in which habit and a thousand circumstances influence liking, what is it that determines the world upon a personal regard for authors whom it has never seen? [4]
In front of the building veterans of the twenty-first legion paced up and down in the place of the ordinary gate-keepers, who were sufficient protection in times of peace. [10]
Ingolby, on founding the brigade, had equipped it to the point where it could deal with any ordinary fire. [11]
He had enraged the Abbe as much as he had delighted the Abbe's brother; for nothing gave the Seigneur such pleasure as the discomfiture of the Abbe Rossignol, chaplain and ordinary to the Archbishop of Quebec. [11]
Jim can do that; and when he wants to send any little common ordinary mysterious message to let the world know where he's captivated, he can write it on the bottom of a tin plate with a fork and throw it out of the window. [5]
I almost think that, with one of these in the hands of an ordinary day-laborer, you might see at night where he had been working. [4]
There descended from that train of which we have heard the whistle a lady with features of no ordinary moulding, with curls and a string bonnet and a cloak that seemed strangely to harmonize with the lady's character. [9]
It is true that the safe was not open, but there was an ordinary cashbox on the table, with three thousand dollars in it. [5]
It was evident that the more lifeless he seemed at ordinary times, the more impassioned he became in these moments of almost morbid irritation. [2]

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