commonplaceness

Example Sentences

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Afterward, when I heard Maida Odell's story, I knew what strange surroundings she had given herself in the rich commonplaceness of that old home which had been hers since childhood.

From Lord John in New York by Williamson, A. M. (Alice Muriel)

His Army and Navy girls are better, because they are redeemed from commonplaceness by their patriotism.

From The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers by Merwin, Henry Childs

And it almost distressed him to see the touch of genial commonplaceness expressing itself pervasively in the big bowls and jars and vases of pink roses that burgeoned everywhere.

From The Nest, The White Pagoda, The Suicide, A Forsaken Temple, Miss Jones and The Masterpiece by Sedgwick, Anne Douglas

One who has never seen Rome is thus led to imagine that those of his country-people who have lived here for years have become in a manner purged of all natural commonplaceness.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 26, July 1880. by Various

Over vast sections of our prosperous and intelligent people of the Mississippi Basin to-day the very genius of commonplaceness seems to hover.

From The American Mind The E. T. Earl Lectures by Perry, Bliss