In the pits there is nothing uncommon in the construction; they are, in general, sunk deep in the ground, which being dry at bottom, is a great saving of heat.
In some the passage and flue are in front, and in others a passage and flue are conducted round the house, leaving the pit in the middle; but this is rather an uncommon form, and chiefly to be met with in pits or stoves for ornamental plants.
Kitchener and some further poems, including the important work, Lycus the Centaur--after the publication of which, there could not be much doubt of the genuine and uncommon powers of the new writer.
A herbaceous plant of fine and distinct port, bearing purplish–blue blossoms, rather uncommon among its kind.
On the Saturday holiday it is no uncommon thing to see a boy of eight or nine pushing up the hill a little truck loaded with coal or coke, which he has been sent to buy at the railway yard.
Accordingly, those relations of mutual approval which were not uncommon of old between master and man cannot now be maintained.
How it all happened would be too long, too old, and by no means uncommon a story.
Here was an open door for Moses; and here he displays uncommon grace, and similarity of spirit to that Prophet whom the Lord was to raise up like unto him.
All these circumstances he could, with uncommon sagacity, put into the scale; but it never once occurred to him that God could have anything whatever to do in the matter.
There is uncommondepth and power in the expression "very small.
No uncommon circumstance, we may suppose; and yet, this very circumstance was a link in a great chain of providences at the end of which you find the marvelous deliverance of the oppressed seed of Israel.
I suppose delusions are not uncommon to patients in his condition.
Where the former exists, it is not uncommon for patients to burn themselves dreadfully, from mere insensibility to the action of fire.
He should not seem like a common applicant for a position, but should suggest to the prospective employer that he is a man of uncommon characteristics and especial capability.
In recording my youthful impressions of so uncommon a personage, I may, therefore, hope to be thought to speak not altogether without knowledge, though it should be with enthusiasm.
Tyler had peculiarly clear and discriminating views of the doctrines of the gospel, and an uncommonfacility in explaining and defending them; and I have often remarked in years past, that with the exception of my friend, Dr.
She was a person of uncommonexcellence and loveliness, a favorite with her brothers, who always spoke of her with great affection.
He early discovered an uncommon taste for the study of the languages, insomuch that his instructor predicted, while he was yet in his preparatory coarse, that he would attain to eminence in that department.
From his early childhood he evinced great inquisitiveness of mind, and an uncommon thirst for knowledge; in consequence of which, his parents consented to aid him in acquiring a collegiate education.
Being still quite young, and already showing uncommonaptitude for study, he went with his instructor and friend, Rev.
He writes to a friend of being 'in a state of great and very uncommon debility, undoubtedly to be attributed to the protracted operation of distressing causes, both on mind and frame.
At that time the college was visited by a revival of religion of uncommon power, and my reverend president suddenly awoke (at least to my view) in an entirely new character.
Quarrels between husband and wife were not uncommon and were not stopped by a husband's assertion of authority.
Venereal disease was not uncommon among the well-to-do in London.
Not on account of two men being found dead, there is nothing uncommon in that, especially as they have been recognized as two notorious ruffians; but the whole circumstances of the affair puzzle them.
There is nothing uncommon about that; but they say there are no wounds on them, except that their skulls are stove in, as if they had both been struck by a beam of wood at the back of the head.
All the prisoners left us with the strongest assurances of their grateful remembrance of his uncommon treatment.
Certainly in himself this was the feature which first attracted notice; for his eye had uncommon alertness and intelligence.
If in ways so uncommon his clinging nature, cut off from domestic opportunity, went out to children and unresponsive creatures, it may be imagined how good cause of love he furnished to his few intimates among mankind.
It embraced the history of much of Clavering’s life, which was in itself a long succession of uncommon episodes.
She rose inuncommon majesty over the sea, slowly ascending through the clouds.
It is no uncommon thing in the best inns of Scotland to have shutting-up beds in the sitting-rooms.
We should have been glad to have seen either man, woman, or child at this time, but there was something uncommon and interesting in this man's appearance, which would have fixed our attention wherever we had met him.
The Vale looked very beautiful in excessive simplicity, yet, at the same time, in uncommon obscurity.
By no uncommon process of the mind, Mr. Southey seems willing to steady the extreme levity of his opinions and feelings by an appeal to facts.
A captivity among the Moors was by no means an uncommon circumstance even in the lives of Englishmen down to the eighteenth century, and pious persons frequently bequeathed sums of money for the ransom of the poorer captives.
Thus he persuaded the whole nation to take on itself the guilt of his sons, a want of true self-devotion uncommon among the old Romans, and which was severely punished.
To these circumstances we are, perhaps, to attribute the uncommon progress he made in every branch of knowledge to which he afterwards applied himself.
It is found in Scotland, but only rarely, and the same remark applies to Ireland generally, although the species is not uncommon in some parts of Wicklow, Cork, and Kerry.
Not uncommonin Yorkshire, principally in the West Riding, and an odd specimen has been recorded from Durham.
The moth is out in July and early August, and although local, is not uncommon in bushy places on downs, etc.
Perhaps the most frequent form of variation in the spots of the fore wings is that in which the outer pair run together, and so form a blotch; but union of the middle pair is not an uncommon occurrence.
Clare, Ireland, not uncommon in parts of Galway, and once recorded from Wicklow.
In Scotland it is said to be uncommon in Clydesdale, but has not been noted from Ireland, or from Wales.
The range of the species in England extends to Durham, but it seems to be rather uncommon from the Midlands northwards.
In Ireland it is widely distributed, and is not uncommon in Co.
The species is not uncommon in most southern English counties, but becomes less frequent or more local northwards from the Midlands to Cumberland, Northumberland, and South Scotland.
The species is not uncommon in most of the southern English counties, but in the northern ones its occurrence is more casual.
It 'ud suit me uncommon to come acrost one,' murmured Chippy.
Surely he must have uncommon good luck if he escapes a bullet from one side or the other.
Yes, it is she I mean, and you need not affect such an air of uncommon nonchalance.
