Commonness vanished before Ewart, at his expository touch all things became memorable and rare.
There was something extraordinarily fine about her, something simple and high, that flickered in and out of her ignorance and commonness and limitations like the tongue from the mouth of a snake.
Your example inviteth them to do the like: and sins which are common, are easily swallowed, and hardly repented of: men think that the commonness justifieth or extenuateth the fault.
Observe well the commonness of this sin of backbiting, that it may make you the more afraid of falling into that which so few do escape.
Still his first sense of repulsion at the commonness of these people was beginning to be tempered with kindlier feeling.
But the outstanding feature of the age, as contrasted with previous periods, was the increasing commonness of the skeptical or rationalistic attitude in general society.
The phrase unrolled a vista of commonness and attrition.
She had looked like a Messalina petrified with the complications and commonness of the modern world; possibly with the burden of years, Isabel had added, in girlish intolerance of the wiles of which youth is independent.
How could there be any commonness in a man so well-bred, so ambitious of social distinction, so generous and unusual in his views of social duty?
She had not seen deeply enough his inner beauty and integrity; too accustomed had she become to the myriad-flaring commonness of daily life.
He had been mercifully spared from moving among the infinitudes of small men who hold such a large estimate of the incapacity and commonness of women.
So many testimonies had come to her of the world's commonness that she had become flexible in judgment.
Did the Destiny Master fall asleep for a century at a time, that such a genius for motherhood should be denied, while the earth was being replenished with children of chance, branded with commonness and forever afraid?
This would affix him eternally to commonnessin her mind.
She felt an ignoble satisfaction in it, for a certain measure of commonness clung to the girl like a cobweb.
Yet mistake not what I have said, as if all the affection furthered by novelty, and abated by commonness and use, were a sign that the person is but a hypocrite.
Also he would imbolden the sinner, because of the commonness of the sin, and the multitude that commit either that or worse, as if it were not, therefore, so bad or dangerous.
But this is but to think that the commonness of liars, and their malice and impudence, will warrant you to follow them, even because they are so bad.
Is it, then, true that love's inmost life is rooted in the senses, are its keenest aspirations to be tamed like caged birds, to be merged in the commonness of every day content?
This commonness of mind and tone is often one of the penalties of fellowship.
Take that commonness of mind and tone, which friendly foreign critics, from De Tocqueville to Bryce, have indicated as one of the dangers of our democracy.
It is a lofty ideal that redeems the life from the curse of commonness and imparts a touch of nobility to the personality.
Yet the commonness of such sentences prevents in a great measure too early an expectation of the end.
Yet the commonness of such sentences prevents in a great measure a too early expectation of the end.
Proofs of the commonness of the habit of circulating literature in manuscript abound.
Still less was there any touch of pride or vulgarity in his nature Meanness and commonness of mind were as far from him as from any man I have ever known.
Further, there was an element of commonness in his mental attitude as in his style.
The belief in the exceptionality and the loneliness of vice is a restraint from it; the belief in its commonness is a demoralizing provocative to it.
With such, the venal commonness of affection first profanes, then destroys it.
Commonness will prevail," as De Candolle said in speaking of the graminaceous plants.
It is a phenomenon whose commonness alone prevents it from being most impressive, that departure of the night-express.
He would not have detracted anything from the commonness and cheapness of the 'mise en scene', for that, he reflected drowsily and confusedly, helped to give it an air of fact and make it like an episode of fiction.
There is, therefore, a difference to be put betwixt the commonness of a thing and its presence.
What can more fully declare thecommonness of a thing?
His commonness rose into the uncommon, the extraordinary, but without any hint of the exclusive or specially favored.
Only it would grieve him still more if Duncan had heard of him," said Father Payne; "there would be a commonnessabout that!
But then he began to detect the commonness of my mind and taste, and, one by one, all the avenues of communication became closed.
It caresses the prevailing commonnessand ugliness, and coaxes it into a semblance of beauty in spite of itself.
The Germanic genius has steadiness as its main basis, with commonness and humdrum for its defect, fidelity to nature for its excellence.
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