In this we discover traces of the good accomplished by John's mission, which was "to make ready a people prepared for the Lord;" and this people was the common people.
Ramses XIII," said Pentuer, interrupting, "wishes to improve the lot of common people.
Common people, Eunana, and laborers always go naked; great persons only when it may please them.
Common people, their language logical; progressive and conservative elements.
But the epitaph deals with the common people, whom history is apt to forget, and gives us a glimpse of their character, their doings, their beliefs, and their views of life and death.
But what do you mean by common people, Mrs. Marygold?
Verily, Walter, you are a monomaniac on the subject of common sense; but, as for me, I will leave common sense to common people.
Common people do not pray, my lord: they only beg.
Suitable to common people; easy to be comprehended; not abstruse; familiar; plain.
This, he says, is only a misrepresentation by "common people" of what is really meant.
Swarms of idle ecclesiastics had set such a pernicious example that the indisposition among common peopleto work had become quite a formidable difficulty.
The "common people" who withstood Alhazen have representatives among us, themselves the only example in the Fauna of the world of that non-development which they so loudly affirm.
Common people, who in those ancient times were in dependent positions, seem to have had no money at all; they did their business by barter.
The church was losing its hold upon the consciences of princes and rich and able people; it was also losing the faith and confidence of common people.
They were the sacred literature of a people, the Jews, who, except for a small remnant of common people, had recently been deported to Babylonia from their own country in 587 B.
That is plain: and it is equally plain, that the very large body of the Jews that adopted his doctrines, were neither Pharisees nor Sadducees, but the humble, common people.
There are not two moral laws, one for geniuses and one for common people.
First, that it was a Book for the people, for the people of the middle level of language; a work by scholars, but not chiefly for scholars, intended rather for the common use of common people.
The discontent ofcommon people at their treatment by constituted authorities was never greater than during the last twenty years of the fourteenth century.
But the love of books, and the culture that comes only from their study, were not firmly rooted in the life and habits of common people.
The attempts of early printers to furnish these poor substitutes for books to common people, so far from receiving any encouragement from scholars, met with their disdainful neglect.
He must commune with the yeomanry the common people, and closely scrutinize their daily life and habits.
By their casuistry and perverted explications of scripture they confused and misled the "common people," and so stood as obstacles at the entrance to the kingdom of God, refusing to go in themselves and barring the way to others.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "common people" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
