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• You call that ordinary? (8)
• She is too ordinary for me. (18)
• Nothing out of the ordinary, sir. (8)
• Ordinary friction one can put up with. (8)
• The ordinary reckoning is based on calms. (10)
• He tried to make his voice sound quiet and ordinary. (8)
• For an ordinary household the choice is not difficult. (10)
• He came to the house, and went, like an ordinary visitor. (10)
• She does not cry the cry of ordinary maidens in like cases. (10)
• An ordinary site will have stones and weeds scattered over it. (17)
• The one he projected bore no resemblance to an ordinary letter. (10)
• It has much in common with the ordinary public-utility monopoly. (16)
• This house is an ordinary frame dwelling upon a stone foundation. (17)
• Suppose we had an ordinary person up before us for striking a woman? (8)
• His departure was mentioned with the ordinary commonplaces of regret. (10)
• Not genius or talent sets the standards, but ordinary good workmanship. (16)
• The ordinary costume of both sexes at Monostorszég is simplicity itself. (20)
• It does not pass from seller to buyer in the way ordinary commodities do. (16)
• Nature and he attempted no other concealment than the ordinary mask men wear. (10)
• How could she manage the most wayward when she has not an idea of ordinary men! (10)
• Just dull, ordinary people you never meet except on the street or in the train. (13)
• They rattle them in public, and never realize what very ordinary stuff they are. (12)
• If we go backward in our research we reach a point at which ordinary records fail. (3)
• She knew how much stronger than ordinary men the woman who can put them in motion. (10)
• The feller that designed that church has got something out of the ordinary in him! (13)
• Subconsciously, he knew that he looked better thus than in an ordinary black overcoat. (8)
• The meeting of these two was very like the ordinary meeting of a mistress and her maid. (8)
• Why was he not just an ordinary animal of a man that could enjoy what the gods had sent? (8)
• And the nightmare went on for both of them, under the calm surface of an ordinary Sunday. (8)
• Her judgement upon ordinary matters he agreed with my grandfather in thinking consummate. (10)
• We demanded of our camp grounds more and at the same time less than the ordinary cruiser. (20)
• What he gave her was more, far more, than even a prince bestowed upon an ordinary mendicant. (5)
• She wrote thrice in the week, and the same addition of one to the ordinary number next week. (10)
• Alice, if she is a fine fencer at all, will expect to meet the ordinary English squire in me. (10)
• He rides, in one exhibition, down an ordinary ladder which stretches to the dome of the tent. (21)
• The chorus of cavaliers was a lamentation: the keynote being despair: ordinary libretto verses. (10)
• Lady Camper came to his gate unexpectedly, rang the bell, and was let in like an ordinary visitor. (10)
• He argued as modern men do who think the hero, the upsetter of ordinary calculations, is gone from us. (10)
• Gower had gone headlong into happiness, where philosophers are smirkers and mouthers of ordinary stuff. (10)
• Temple and I contemplated these proceedings as matters belonging to the ordinary phenomena of feasting. (10)
• This open ground looked hardly larger than an ordinary door-yard, but was really several acres in extent. (1)
• But she went forward quietly, and greeted him with cast-down eyes, as if nothing were out of the ordinary. (8)
• For ordinary light traffic the road itself may be built with a foundation of stones to a depth of 2 feet. (17)
• Ordinary men might say or think it inoffensively; Captain Baskelett, for instance: but not Nevil Beauchamp. (10)
• He wears quite ordinary clothes, as if that department were in charge of someone who knew about such, things. (8)
• His favorite exploit is to spread his extended fingers from edge to edge of the top of an ordinary waterpail. (21)
• But a letter sent, upon special request, by railway, should not, I thought, be couched in the ordinary strain. (10)
• Behind the wooden erection, by which he was fenced from more ordinary mortals, the learned Judge leaned forward. (8)
• The deeply-afflicted creature was, as the doctors had said of her, too strong for the ordinary modes of killing. (10)
• The deeply-afflicted creature was, as the doctors had said of her, too strong for the ordinary modes of killing. (22)
• The captain was as brief, in ordinary words, whose quick run to the stop could be taken for a challenge of the eye. (10)
• Nor, on the charitable pretext of employing two old fellows past ordinary work, did he omit to treble his night-watchman. (8)
• He owned he might have been mistaken, as the brilliant fellow flew swift and high between leaves, like an ordinary fritillary. (10)
• The first impulse of an ordinary woman would have been to reproach and scold; but Mrs. Amble succumbed only to the first impulse. (10)
• In the preparation of the ordinary slate roof, the rafters should be covered with ⅞-inch thick, tongued-and-grooved roofing-boards. (17)
• The earlier work was an opera pure and simple, in the ordinary acceptation of the term, characterized by pomp, brilliancy, sonority. (3)
• For ordinary mass concrete the size of aggregate should vary from ¼ inch to 2 inches, and in reinforced work should not exceed 1¼ inches. (17)
• He saw Irene take her finger from before her lips, heard her say something in her ordinary voice, and began to speak before he reached them. (8)
• The pitch of wooden-shingle roofs should not be less than 8 inches rise per foot for the ordinary weathering shown in the above statements. (17)
• Outwardly the Italians conducted themselves with the air of ordinary heedless citizens, in whose bosoms the music set no hell-broth boiling. (10)
• We hereafter limited our belief in water-proof receptacles to the ordinary well-corked glass bottle of commerce in which we kept our matches. (20)
• The local newspapers stated the facts, but withheld the names of the firms—a consideration they are not likely to show to the ordinary culprit. (16)
• The first half of the Battle of the Bull-dogs was as peaceful as any ordinary pic-nic, and promised to the general company as calm a conclusion. (10)
• A delightful overture, masterfully executed; ended too soon; except that the programme forbids the ordinary interpretation of prolonged applause. (10)
• At nineteen he had commenced one of those careers attractive and inexplicable to ordinary mortals for whom a single bankruptcy is good as a feast. (8)
• The letter showed evidence of cultivation and good breeding, but it was an ordinary love letter, if a love letter can be ordinary. (1)
• Tresten saw that he supposed himself to be perfectly master of his acts because he had not spoken, and had managed to preserve the ordinary courtesies. (10)

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