lieu commun

Shaykh Mohammed declared that of old a chain stretched from the Pharaohnic island-castle to the Jebel el-Burayj or Kasr el-Bedawi on the Midianite shore: this chain is a lieu commun of Eastern legends.

No wonder that the first Hand who moulded the man-mud is a lieu commun in Eastern thought.

Or if you are a physician the "lieu commun" will be, "Little-learn'd doctors the body destroy: Little-learn'd parsons the soul destroy."

No wonder that the First Hand who moulded the Man-mud is a lieu commun in Eastern thought.

This is another lieu commun amongst Moslems; and its unfact requires only statement.