The four just mentioned are the commonest forms of the mask; but we have seen masks cut in the shape of oak leaves, bottles, and other forms, though these latter were used merely to obtain novel effects.
There are, first of all, facts which are so obvious, to put it paradoxically, that they escape notice; and these facts are the commonest and most frequent in their occurrence.
The sweet sop is the commonest of the Anonas, and is grown throughout a considerable part of coastal Queensland.
The commonest topics in his letters, however, related to the practical details of life.
But for three weeks he had lain there, declaring the position dangerous, and predicting attack; yet absolutely without making the slightest preparation for the commonest means of defense.
He should pinch and screw the family, even in the commonest necessaries,' until he gets 'a week's wages to the fore.
One of the commonest forms, known as the Bourdon gauge, depends on the fact that a curved tube tends to straighten itself if the pressure within it is greater than that outside it.
Every trade was fenced round with secrets; and the commonest trade, as we know from the language of an apprentice's indenture, was called an "art and mystery.
It is impossible to have a more vivid picture than this of the sudden impediment which the commercial enterprise of one country receives from the want of the commonest means of communication in another.
The introduction of figures, therefore, was an immense saving of time in the commonest operations of arithmetic.
The commonest house built in England has hinges, and locks, and bolts.
The power of production, in its greatest developments of industry, is really addressed to the satisfaction of the commonest wants.
To no branch of human knowledge can this remark be more fitly applied than to that which relates to the commonest things of the world,--namely, the Wants of Man and the Means of satisfying them.
The Scotch carpet is the cheapest of the produce of the carpet-loom; and it may be sufficient to show the connection of machinery with the commonest as well as the finest of these productions by an engraving of the loom.
The commonestwords and associations of men are bans to them.
His delivery of the commonest matters of fact was Ciceronian.
Deductions from the full tariff for the use of special equipment owned by shippers, has been one of the commonest means of building up great monopolies.
The commonest exemplification of this is found in the circuitous transportation of goods, instances of which will be given later.
One of the commonest petty complaints is of misrouting of freight.
Here we have been under such a fear of mentioning the word "Jew" or anything pertaining to it, that the commonest facts have been kept from us--facts which even a superficial knowledge of Jewish writing would have given us.
It us probably true that the commonest real cause of anti-Semitism is the action of the international Jew who is often unknown and always secure, but the innocent victim of it is the poor Jew.
Pricklypear is the commonest cactus in the park and also the easiest to identify.
Probably commonest was the duckbill dinosaur, an enormous reptile that walked on huge hind legs.
By far the commonest and the most beautiful of floral designs are those made up of lotus buds and flowers and palmettes.
The Doric peplos is worn as an over-dress over the Ionic chiton, even by one of the “Maidens” of the Acropolis, and later on the commonest form of outdoor dress for women was the Ionic chiton with the Doric himation over it.
Examination of the stock of any importer of high grade rugs will convince one who knows moths, that many of our commonestor their near relatives native to the Orient are really used as models for colour combinations in rug weaving.
No luck was too good for me, no butterfly or moth too rare, except forever and always the coveted Cecropia, and by this time I had learned to my disgust that it was one of the commonest of all.
But what of these students from the great representative colleges of the United States, to whom a jumbled string made from the names, of half a dozen moths answered for one of the commonest of all?
I began with Cecropia, the commonest of all and one of the most beautiful for the spinners, and ended with Regalis, of earth--and the rarest.
Though most of the Equidae can be crossed and some of the hybrids are among the commonest of domesticated animals there is no certain record of a fertile mule.
At the time of Ober's visit the type was already in a minority, but now it is nearly or perhaps actually extinct, though the black form is one of the commonest birds on the island.
The dark medium has become the commonest form in Huddersfield district, where the very dark variety is now about 20 per cent.
The species is thecommonest British freshwater shell, but left-handed specimens are exceedingly rare.
I am aware that most genera have more affinities than in two ways, which latter, perhaps, is the commonest case.
What you hint at generally is very, very true: that my work will be grievously hypothetical, and large parts by no means worthy of being called induction, my commonest error being probably induction from too few facts.
This stone closely resembles some of the commonest varieties in the Uspallata chain.
On the surface and embedded in the superficial parts, there are numerous shells, partially retaining their colours, of three or four of the now commonest littoral species.
One of the commonest stratified porphyries is of a green colour, highly amygdaloidal with the various minerals described in the preliminary discussion, and including fine tabular crystals of albite.
Captain King) are now the commonestshells in the adjoining bays.
These species are the commonest now living on this coast.
The next commonest variety is a rubbly, rarely well characterised pitchstone (fusing into a white glass) which passes in the most irregular manner into stony grey lavas.
The commonest variety is a dull-red, compact, finely brecciated stone, containing much iron and innumerable white crystallised particles of carbonate of lime, and minute extraneous fragments.
The commonest lava is blackish-grey or brown, either vesicular, or amygdaloidal with calcareous spar and bole: most even of the darkest varieties fuse into a pale-coloured glass.
Crystallised carbonate of lime is one of the commonest minerals in the matrix of the Chilean veins.
The commonest form of this double alliteration of the whole line is represented by the formula a b | a b, as hwæt!
The following examples serve to show that the same extended types of line which were found to be the commonest in Layamon's Brut (cp.
The commonest rhythmical licences are inversion of accent and initial truncation.
The commonest variation of the type occurs in the first thesis, which may be polysyllabic.
In some places wooden booths were erected along each side of the street for the sale of the commonestnecessaries of life and articles of food, and these places were dignified by the name of "bazaars.
The commonest man, too, would never think of offering an insult to one of the opposite sex.
Oranges and lemons are seen here in great numbers, like the commonest of our fruits.
The complexion of this picture is much darker than that of the commonest women I have seen in Syria.
To particularize: the average American's simplest and commonest form of breakfast consists of coffee and beefsteak; well, in Europe, coffee is an unknown beverage.
In the intercourse of life the commonest and most important of all the contracts are unquestionably the four styled Consensual.
The commonest sample of the class is the relation subsisting between two persons one of whom has paid money to the other through mistake.
But the higher class of property in the ancient world comprised not only land but several of the commonest and several of the most valuable moveables.
I mean that probability or vraisemblance which is so highly esteemed, but which the commonest workers are able to substitute for the true.
Among the many forms taken by the Arethusan leaf, one of the commonest is long and gradually tapering,--much broader at the base than the point.
But this is not the only, nor the commonest way in which the sons of God are tempted to return to bondage.
From this supreme gift we can argue down to the humblest necessities, the commonest trials of our daily lot.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "commonest" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
