commonplaceness
Example Sentences
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The Paston Letters are simply genuine family correspondence—of a genuineness all the more certain because of their commonplaceness.
From A Letter Book Selected with an Introduction on the History and Art of Letter-Writing by George Saintsbury
I was not disposed to beat about the bush, and the commonplaceness of their talk irritated me.
From Neighbours by Robert J. C. Stead
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
She reread the story and blushed for her commonplaceness.
From Molly Brown's Junior Days by Nell Speed
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 A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson
