commonplaceness
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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 Henry Childs Merwin
As a young girl she had a transparent complexion and a thin sort of American prettiness that unfortunately quickly faded, under the influences of the Church Street house, into a sallow commonplaceness.
From Clark's Field by Robert Herrick
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 Bliss Perry
But the most curious thing, after all, is the want of delight in any of the principal figures, and the comparative meanness and commonplaceness of even the folds of the drapery.
From The Stones of Venice, Volume III (of 3) by John Ruskin
But Max had this advantage of Drummond: he was not his own dupe; whereas Drummond would go to his grave believing himself bored to extinction by the commonplaceness of his fantastical self....
From The Destroying Angel by Louis Joseph Vance
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