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Example sentences for "commonly called"

  • Of this border laird, commonly called Auld Wat of Harden, tradition has preserved many anecdotes.

  • Another form is called the pelote, which is merely a ball of scraped lint tied up in a piece of linen rag, commonly called a dabber.

  • Commonly called Purple of Cassius.

  • Pieces of hard wood bolted to the outer end of the bowsprit, to reeve the fore-topmast stays through, the bolt, serving as a pin, commonly called bees.

  • But the great theodolite, with its vertical circle and telescope adapted to the observation of the heavenly bodies, as used by nautical astronomers, commonly called an alt-azimuth instrument, is almost an observatory per se.

  • Ran away from the subscriber, his negro man Pauladore, commonly called Paul.

  • The facts were these: A bill came from the Senate, commonly called the Wolf Bill.

  • In Florida the wood ibis is commonly called gannet.

  • It is commonly called fix in the United States.

  • It is commonly called by Europeans the Peepul tree, by which name, it is known to the natives of the Upper Provinces.

  • The large corporations, commonly called trusts, though organized in one State, always do business in many States, often doing very little business in the State where they are incorporated.

  • In the same spirit the compromise bill, as it is commonly called, was adopted at the session of 1833.

  • Without any depreciation of other departments, preaching to the heathen--what is commonly called in India Bazar preaching--ought ever to hold a prominent place.

  • I have already mentioned that on my voyage from Calcutta to Benares I spent much of my time in the study of the Hindustanee language, commonly called Urdu.

  • The style of his smaller works in Hindustanee, or Urdu, as it is commonly called, is remarkably idiomatic and pleasing.

  • Its European representative, similarly tinted, and found in garden mould, is commonly called the "Little red pillion.

  • They belong to a family intermediate between the serpents and that Saurian group-commonly called Slow-worms or Glass-snakes; they in fact represent the slow-worms of the temperate regions in Ceylon.

  • Singing in the Mask In recent years a method of instruction has been developed in France, which is commonly called by its advocates "singing in the mask.

  • This state of tension is commonly called "muscular stiffness," but the term is open to objection.

  • He who sows seed should be careful not to lay it on a table, otherwise it will not grow.

  • When the giant's daughter runs away with the king's son, she cuts an Apple into a mystical number of small bits, and each bit talks.

  • Witch-ointments, to be effective, must contain seven herbs.

  • The Burmese Buddhists surround their Pagodas and religious houses with trees, for which they entertain a high regard.

  • Singly, they are every one a Representation or Apparence, of some quality, or other Accident of a body without us; which is commonly called an Object.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    commonly applied; commonly believed; commonly call; commonly called; commonly found; commonly known; commonly made; commonly regarded; commonly supposed; commonly termed; commonly understood; deep wound; goodly heritage; gracious sovereign; great magician; life were; long face; made possible; maternal impressions; our state; pastoral life; rubbed smooth; that were; took orders; wild fruits; will call