common sort
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“I do think that the board and the mayor have a common sort of goal of ... trying to solve some of these problems that the electorate seems to still be quite upset about.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 12, 2025
The common sort tie only a string round their middle, and pass a piece of cloth or skin round between their thighs, which they turn at each end over the string.
From The History of Virginia, in Four Parts by Robert Beverley
Still, Harrison took more kindly to the common sort than Shakspere did in his plays.—F.
From Elizabethan England From 'A Description of England,' by William Harrison by William Harrison
I am the most usual, common sort of woman, who must have someone in love with her and be in love.
From The Nest, The White Pagoda, The Suicide, A Forsaken Temple, Miss Jones and The Masterpiece by Anne Douglas Sedgwick
Glass beads are now the most common sort; they form a considerable item in the African trade.—In architecture and joinery the bead is a small round moulding.
From The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 3 Atrebates to Bedlis by Various
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