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Example sentences for "uncommon thing"

  • It is no uncommon thing for an Arab to buy a horse in partnership with another.

  • It is no uncommon thing to see a wearied child placed on the back of an ostrich.

  • Should a horse, after a long journey such as the horsemen of the desert not unfrequently make, require to be shod, it is no uncommon thing to place a morsel of felt between the shoe and the foot.

  • It is no uncommon thing to find teachers of this description scattered over the country.

  • It is no uncommon thing to find scars upon the forearm, which have been made by bits of burning charcoal.

  • It was no uncommon thing to find skilled artisans among them, practicing the art of skinner, tailor, or blacksmith, while the women were expert mat and rope makers.

  • It was no uncommon thing to find five and six miles of continuous street.

  • But Europeans are less elastic and less ambitious, and it is no uncommon thing to find one of such an origin remaining a long time in the same service.

  • Indeed, it was no uncommon thing to see the country boats, as they passed the ships, throw in a shower of oranges amongst the people.

  • It is no uncommon thing to see a woman yoked to the plough with an ass, while her husband guides it.

  • In England and America it is not an uncommon thing for a wife to take up the business of her deceased husband and carry it on with success.

  • It is no uncommon thing to have a child of seven jump three to five inches in height, six to twelve pounds in weight, and one to three grades in his schooling, within the year following the operation.

  • Until within the last ten or fifteen years it was no uncommon thing to hear the expression: "Well, I suppose we might just as well let Willie and Susie go on to school and get the measles and have done with it.

  • It is no uncommon thing to find one of our men stationed as safeguard over the property of a most bitter Rebel--property which, in our judgment, ought to be confiscated to the use of the Union, or utterly destroyed.

  • In many instances where goods could not be plundered through the connivance of watchmen, it was no uncommon thing to cut lighters adrift, and to follow them to a situation calculated to elude discovery where the pillage commenced.

  • It is said to be no uncommon thing to pay 300l.

  • It was no uncommon thing for a man to bring in two barrels of salted buffalo tongues, without another pound of meat or a solitary robe.

  • Hardships, no doubt, did exist in some districts from the excessive number of the toll gates, especially in Wales, where it was no uncommon thing to be called upon to pay at three gates in a distance of ten or twelve miles.

  • It is no uncommon thing to encounter in the bush a Catholic priest who has been on continuous service there for fifteen or twenty years without a holiday.

  • It is no uncommon thing for a pound of prime plumes to fetch £100.

  • During a single season it is no uncommon thing to see a small plant grow into a large cushion 2ft.

  • Sometimes also called the Lenten Rose, as it may often be seen in flower during Lent, though it is no uncommon thing for it to bloom in January in favoured situations and mild winters.

  • In those days it was not an uncommon thing to see six or eight deer in the field any morning during the summer season--the same as you will see them in parts of California today.

  • It was not an uncommon thing for my older brother to kill a deer at this lick any morning or evening, but that was not making a nimrod of me.

  • I remember that at this time we had a good snow to hunt on, and that it was not an uncommon thing for us to cut wood for the camp long after dark, and sometimes it was pretty scant at that.

  • At such times when bear are on a migratory tramp it is not an uncommon thing to find a bear track near your house or barn on going out in the morning when there was snow on, so that the track is plain to be seen.

  • We had brown army blankets, and it was no uncommon thing to find black earth beetles and earwigs crawling among them!

  • As we had a French Archie battery near us it was no uncommon thing, when a raid was in progress, for our souvenirs and plates, etc.

  • In time I got fairly hardened to the stares from passers-by, and it was no uncommon thing for an absolute stranger to come up and ask, "Have you lost your leg?

  • It is not an uncommon thing to find whole handfuls of nuts carefully packed away in one of these cracks, and a sharp stroke with an ax in the trunk of one of these trees will often dislodge numbers of the nuts.

  • In strolling through the woods and on the banks of streams in the country, it is not an uncommon thing to stumble against a contrivance resembling in general appearance our next illustration.

  • It is no uncommon thing to find that the drunkenness has masked some more serious condition; but even although there should be nothing behind his intoxication, the man is more liable to contract illness than a sober person.

  • It is no uncommon thing to see a woman who has been assaulted by her husband plead with the court to let him go, and make all sorts of excuses or tell the most incredible story to account for her injuries.

  • At present it is no uncommon thing to find men who have been in the country for years and are yet unable to engage in the simplest conversation in English--or Scotch if you like.


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