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Example sentences for "common things"

  • Speak of him as if you saw him, and you dare not take his name in vain, nor talk of God with a common frame of mind, nor in a common manner, as of common things.

  • These are the commonest of common things, and yet they are of the most essential importance.

  • Among the "common things" which educators should teach the rising generation, this ought certainly not to be overlooked.

  • Were anything like a proper attention given to common things, there would not be such an amount of discomfort, disease, and mortality amongst the young.

  • To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably.

  • I feel the need of a little gentle household merriment and talk of common things, to indulge which I have devised the following.

  • It is the same inattention to common things as that which leads people to build houses with stone fronts and window-caps and expensive front-door trimmings, without bathing-rooms or fireplaces or ventilators.

  • The struggle after so-called delicacies comes from the poorness of common things.

  • For myself, I am always grateful to the writer of it for calling my attention to common things.

  • Then tell me, how would you treat of common things?

  • There is a school of Poets (I cannot read them myself) who treat of common things, and their admirers tell us that these men raise the things of everyday life to the plane of the supernatural.

  • It proved to be a weak statement of common things, a labored effort to prove what all admitted at the start.

  • And since at eight or nine years of age they are not as yet ready for specialization, what they need to know is the evolution of culture as it has affected common things.

  • These are being published in the form of teachers' handbooks, in a series designated "The Evolution of Common Things," the first numbers of which have been published.

  • The Evolution of Common Things" is the chief enrichment project growing in our classes.

  • I like it because it has so many wonderful, valuable, common things in it.

  • I find my greatest pleasure," Smith would reply, "in common things.

  • But I cannot reconcile myself to such methods because of the confusion they introduce into the world of common things.

  • It named the world afresh--the world of common things.

  • So upon this day of festival it was quite useless to talk of common things, and even the holidays acquired a very remote importance.

  • It is a Fairyland that thought has created out of common things.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    common carriers; common fire; common form; common government; common impulse; common justice; common knowledge; common land; common measure; common parent; common parlance; common plant; common practice; common purpose; common roads; common salt; common temperatures; common with; commonly called; commonly termed; commonly understood; hand shall; her voice; less extensive; moment before; pure silver