With its bougainvillea draping walls and porches in rich purple clusters, its pretty patio and outside kitchen garden, it was just such a home as would fit the dreams of a common man.
His huge frame quivered with indignation as righteous as ever animated the best of the race in the defense of a common cause.
The irritability, blind individualism, offensive conceit, treachery, toocommon to Mexicans, lay hidden under the usual veneer of Spanish courtesy.
In one sentence Jake countered heavily on the commonview of things.
Over the desert, vague as its shimmering heat, invisible but real, settled that atmosphere of fear in which primitive man, in common with all animals, lived and moved and had his being.
She expressed the feeling common to new-made wives in looking back on the place where they have left their girlhood.
Even at the distance, almost a quarter-mile, they could see the difference in size and condition between them and the common Mexican scrubs.
In addition to these knightly accomplishments, Richard learned to read and write,--not such common acquirements in those days as now.
He with his whole family never raged so much against religion as they do now, he never came to common prayer for this quarter or this year, as I hear, neither doth any of the family, except five or six persons.
Instances are very common that credulity is not confined to the ignorant or uneducated classes.
We inherit all such popular notions as these in common with the German and Scandinavian nations; but more especially with those of the Saxons and the Danes.
In the country the more common celebration is confined to huge bonfires, and the firing of pistols and fireworks.
Linked by a species of infernal compact to an imaginary imp, she was shunned as a common pest, or caressed only on the same principle which leads some Indian tribes to pay homage to the devil.
Many of the customs attending child-bearing, churching, and christening are not peculiar to Lancashire, but common nearly all over England.
It is a common opinion in that part of the country that the roots have to be moistened with milk on certain occasions, in order to prolong its existence, and also to preserve the power of the spell under which the goblin is laid.
It has become a common enough margin of dreams to him; and he does not attend to its phantasies.
She had learnt to be content with her share--no more--in common security, and to be pleased with her part in common hope.
And yet Shakespeare confessed the participation of man and woman in theircommon heritage.
She had learnt also the lowly and self-denying faith in common chances.
From the legacies of an unlessoned mind, a woman's heirs-male are not cut off in the Common Law of the generations of mankind.
To what degree have the fallacies which are more or less common in reasoning entered into my thinking?
The question by the pupil should be as common as the question by the teacher.
Probably the most common kind of question is the one that calls for facts as answers.
The morecommon the particular responses are to all sorts of life situations, the greater the possibility of transfer.
The American Indians have physical traits in commonwhich differentiate them from other races; the same thing is true of the Negroes and the Mongolians.
Name the characteristics commonto all playful activity.
Because of the very common use of this measure in the current literature of education, it may be worth while to discuss carefully the method of its derivation.
A common occurrence in school administration bears out this conclusion reached by experimental means.
One mental function or activity improves others in so far as and because they are in part identical with it, because it contains elements common to them.
This last error is very common in studies of human nature.
The extension of the interior area of a building (square or octagonal) by means of niches at the angles or in the sides, or both at the angles and in the sides, was a common practice.
The stone ogee, cavetto, or cavetto and bead cornice is common, but seems in every case to be Turkish work and is very common in Turkish buildings.
The western arch is joined to the eastern arch of the western bay, thus forming a short barrel vault common to both bays.
In churches of the 'four column' type the full triple division is common but with a change in purpose.
Architectural Features As it stands the Pantokrator is a combination of three churches, placed side by side, and communicating with one another through arched openings in their common walls.
Once a week, however, the body was exposed to public view, and all strife seemed hushed in a common devotion to the memory of the saint.
Beside it and united with it, Justinian built also a church dedicated to the Apostles Peter and Paul,[86] so that the two buildings formed a double sanctuary, having a common court and a continuous narthex.
The little irregularities of setting out so common in the other churches of the city are here almost entirely absent.
Sophia were here seen converging towards the point of their union, like two streams about to mingle their waters in a common tide.
To retire thus from the troubled sea of secular life to the haven of a monastery, and there prepare for the voyage beyond earthly scenes, was a common practice in the fashionable world of the men and women of Byzantine days.
Such a plan is common to both the domed basilica type and the domed cross type, the difference depending upon the treatment of the cross arms above.
They insult the common sense and shock the moral nature of mankind.
It has been the common practice for Southern men to get up on this floor, and say, 'Touch this subject, and we will dissolve this Union as a remedy.
Fifty years ago it was common to find the number of ranks of mixtures in an organ largely exceed the total number of foundation stops.
It was common to omit notes from the lower octave for economy's sake, and many stops were habitually left destitute of their bottom octaves altogether.
Other ranks added sounded the 12th, 19th, and so on, until it was possible to obtain not only the full common chord, but also some of the higher harmonics dissonant to this chord, from a single key.
It is now becoming more and more common to arrange for the transference of stops from one keyboard to another.
He made the practice common in England, and the Austin Company adopted it on his joining them in this country.
Speaking generally, all the stops are commonto all four manuals, and to the pedals, and can be drawn at various pitches.
On listening intently, the 3d, 5th, and 8th (the common chord) of the note struck will be heard sounding all the way up for several octaves.
In common with other European governments, Portugal had issued a proclamation of neutrality, and all her subjects had been warned to conform to the international law governing neutrals.
It lay about a mile from the cove, high up on the windy common among the furze bushes, and was a capital place for a good think.
Also he has failings and vices, and he is lazy, being too fine a gentleman to work like a common Flemish burgher, and all the rest of it.
Ramiro briskly, "I perceive I have to do with a woman of business, one who has that rarest of gifts--common sense.
The place was not large nor very strong, merely a drawbridge across the narrow arm of a moat, a gateway with a walled courtyard beyond, and over it a three-storied house built in the common Dutch fashion, but with straight barrel windows.
So, that an example might be made, although he writhed and fenced his best, the noble captain, Count Juan de Montalvo, was sent to serve for fourteen years in the galleys as a common slave.
But then in those strange days prayer, now socommon (and so neglected) an exercise, was an actual luxury.
Was it not common for them even to dissolve marriages in order to give heretics to new husbands who desired their wealth?
The pressure was returned, and thenceforward brother could not have trusted brother more completely, for now between them was the bond of a common and burning faith.
In the eyes of the common people they had become heroes, and some local poet had made a song about them which men were singing in the streets.
Yet all the while she knew that the fancy was ridiculous, for what could these two men have in commonwith each other?
The wealth of Hendrik Brant, the goldsmith, was a matter of common report, and glorious would be the fortune of him who could secure its reversion.
Is that a common thing or does it happen only once in a while?
Now, when this country has been helped by us and its great King to do the same, we must, willy-nilly, remain allies against the common enemy.
It seems that nothing helped more to take him out of himself and his morbid introspection than a study of the life of the common people.
A farm labourer who has killed a bailiff; a common thief and incendiary, who is now writing to me with a demand of answer.
The fact that we two, as mere boys, formed ties of friendship that were nursed by common sufferings, has been ignored or tolerated by our fathers so far.
They have much in common with the old New England stock, but possess, in spite of their unmistakably Puritanical outlook, a great store of spontaneous and pleasant joy in life.
Although the tales read differently, they are all strung on a common thread, and the dominant theme recurs constantly.
One of the beauties of the play is that so many of the extranatural figures and elements introduced are common to the whole country.
But it is a common fault of princes that they won't listen to anybody but themselves.
He moved a little way across the stretch of common land, and stood at the side of the caravan so that he was concealed from any one crossing the bridge from Neuilly.
It meant that one of the demi-gods with whom, as it seemed, they were warring, was now no more than common clay, and that there was good hope of ending the other.
The only point in common with his predecessor was that he, too, swung at his side a monstrous rapier.
He rose, and, passing the door of the Inn, crossed the space of common land to where the caravan stood, a deserted monument of green and red.
They were commonrogues enough, that handled their swords like broom-handles.
On the whole, nothing in the entire range of English literature could have been found that better met the demand for a text shorn of the most common difficulties.
Their common admiration for Ossian was no small factor in cementing the friendship between the poet and the artist.
In methods Giotto was more knowing, but not essentially different from his contemporaries; his subjects were from the common stock of religious story, but his imaginative force and invention were his own.
By choosing incidents like these from real home life, Giotto, through his painting, humanized the mysteries of faith, and brought them close to common feeling.
The chemical composition of all the common food materials can be seen from tables of analyses.
FOOD TABLE The following table exhibits the percentage chemical composition of the principal vegetable food materials; also of dairy produce and common flesh-foods for comparison.
First, then, we will consider the nutritive properties of the common food-stuffs.
He had been for several years an associate judge of the court of common pleas for Geauga county, and had an extensive acquaintance and influence.
Poor old Cole, an object of derision, was barely within common sympathy; and living remote, few knew of, and fewer cared for his misfortunes.
I had a boy's sincere liking for you; but when I failed to secure the good-will of anybody, it is certain that there were radical defects in my character, and you but entertained the common feeling towards me.
Everybody was drawn to her; and so approachable was she, that the lower and more common declared that she was no lady at all.
Wise men had taken the best of the old common law practice, and with the aid of judicious legislation and intelligent courts, had got about the best it was capable of.
Argument and logic were out of place; appeals to honor could not be comprehended by men shameless by nature, abject by instinct, and infamous by habit, and who cared nothing for the fame of their common State.
Very naturally Barton and his last performance was the common theme of conversation in the region round about for many days.
Common prudence inhibits the use on my part of all narcotics and stimulants, if principle did not.
I believe the appetite for the two is a common symptom of the habit.
I may be, as your dear friends assert, a small man married to a great woman, but I am credited by others with a modicum of common sense and discretion.
In common with the mighty majority of husbands, he resented Mrs. Gamp the more virulently because impotent against her tyranny.
His quick eye had perceived that he was well dressed and no common tramp in figure, also that he had lain, not fallen, where he was found.
Perhaps, with fatuity common to mothers, she reasoned that with such a home as his he was not likely to be tempted by visions of domestic bliss under a vine and fig tree yet to be planted.
But it is advisable at these exhibits to use only fine Teas, using the common grades only by way of comparison.
But to obtain a good cup of Tea, in the first place the consumer should purchase only the best Tea, it requiring much less of the finer grades to make good Tea than of the common kinds, and will prove the most economical in the end.
He was not a common coward, but he feared bodily pain as only such sensitive organizations can, and the vision of the rack and the boot had been before him since he had seen Philip's face at supper.
I feel," he said, "that we are united by a common calamity, my dear.
The writer was attached to the King's person, or the letter might have been composed, and even written in an assumed hand, by the King himself, for Philip was not above using the methods of a common conspirator.
There was but a small following on either side, that neither party might be alarmed, and many fine speeches were made upon the necessity of concord and mutual aid to repress the common enemy.
In this there is nothing wonderful, nothing out of the common course of nature, which is prone to make every indictment more bitter than the facts that prove it.
There was no evening paper in those days, and had there been it was very unlikely it would have penetrated into all the common stairs and crowded tenements.
This," Knox adds, "is the form of my common prayer as yourselves were witness.
This is a drawback perhaps common to every struggle so important and fundamental as was the strife which began to rage in Scotland.
He was one of the chaplains to the boy-king Edward, for whom he had the amiable prejudice common to those who secure the favour of very young princes, expecting from him everything that was great and good.
He has always maintained a freedom of independence which has nothing of the obsequiousness of more common traders, and which gave the greater value to the sly compliment which he would insinuate between two jests.
To Shakspeare the great ideals whom he almost alone has been able to make into flesh and blood; to Scott all the surrounding world, the men as we meet them about the common thoroughfares of life.
By this doing the King heard the common brute (bruit) of himself.
But when they went before a white audience in this particular district he urged Mr. Washington as a matter of common prudence to "soft pedal" what he had to say about lynching.
I believe most profoundly in the work of this convention because it represents the common masses of all our people, those who are the foundation of our success as a race.
He also began to emphasize at this time his familiar dictum that learning to do thecommon things of life in an uncommon way was an essential part of real education.
Beautiful to behold, to remember forever; there was no race and no class in the Tuskegee chapel on Wednesday morning, November 17th; heart went out to heart that a common friend had gone.
It is the fact that they all share in this condition which creates a cause of common sympathy and binds the members of the race together in spite of all differences.
There is enough wisdom, patience, forbearance, and common sense in the South for white people and black people to live together in peace for all time.
What strikes you first and last is his constant common sense.
He was unselfish and generous to a fault; he was modest yet masterful; he was quiet yet intense; his common sense and sagacity seemed uncanny, such was his knowledge of human nature.
Probably the reverse of this dictum, namely, learning to do the uncommon things of life in a common way--would have more nearly corresponded to the popular conception of education among most Negroes and many whites.
In the long run, no individual and no race can succeed which sets itself at war against the common good; for in the gain or loss of one race all the rest have equal claim.
The common diet of these Negroes was fat pork, corn bread, and molasses.
In the view below, taken in front of one of these common graves on the plateau, appears the then English premier, Mr. Asquith, who was anxious to make the Ourcq pilgrimage during one of his visits to Paris.
Hang it all, man, I'd get more sound out of a common shell.
To say that they were poetry would, perhaps, be to place a fictitious value upon them; but they certainly had one feature in common with the noblest poems ever written in English: every line began with a capital letter.
But I think that common charity should make us--well, should make us do our best to mitigate their unfortunate position.
Has no dietist written a paper on the dietetic value of the common or garden nut, Koomadhi?
The deadly pale, worn woman who greeted him silently, had nothing in common with the brilliant daughter of the Commissioner who, a few months before, had been as exquisite as a lily in the midst of a jungle.
Books and pamphlets, although no longer burned by thecommon hangman, are forbidden the mails by somewhat undiscerning officials.
Doubtless our crowded cities have contributed to a growing sense of the importance of the common man, for all must now share the street car, the public park, the water supply, and contagious diseases.
Before considering this new phase through which the human mind was to pass it is necessary to guard against a common misapprehension in the use of the term "Middle Ages".
Philosophers, scholars, and men of science exhibit a commonsensitiveness in all decisions in which their amour propre is involved.
In the beginning, too, man did not know how children came about, for it was not easy to connect a common impulsive act with the event of birth so far removed in time.
Turning to the existing industrial system, its nature, defects, and recommendations for its reform, I may say that I think that relatively little is to be derived from the common run of economic textbooks.
As one follows the deliberations of these bodies it is pathetic to observe how little the learning of previous centuries, in spite of its imposing claims, had to contribute to a fruitful knowledge of common things.
They all have thecommon purpose of overthrowing existing society and "general strikes and sabotage are the direct means advocated".
Miracles were of common occurrence and might be attributed either to God or the devil; the direct intervention of both good and evil spirits played a conspicuous part in the explanation of daily acts and motives.
Neither the socialist nor the common run of Intellectual appears to me to be on the right track.
These differ greatly in their habits and myths, but some salient common traits emerge which cast light on the spontaneous workings of the human mind when unaffected by the sophistications of a highly elaborate civilization.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "common" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
