1
Most assuredly he was not, in the common acceptation of the term.
2
Her eyes had no beauty, in the common acceptation of the term.
3
I dare assert, that in the common acceptation, this is pure flattery.
4
She was not "religious" in the common acceptation of the word.
5
And the word ILLITERATE, in its common acceptation, means a man who is ignorant of those two languages.
6
Virtue, in the common acceptation of the term, as applied to the sex, is confined to that particular, you know.
7
Thus, to speak strictly, nothing in Nature is either born, or dies, according to the common acceptation of those terms.
8
There are no accidents-asI have often heard you say-inthe common acceptation of the term; therefore this was no accident.
9
For it was owing to a series of accidents-inthe common acceptation of that term-thatPhilip governed so mighty a realm.
10
Her judges might have taken the sentimental view that she was abnormal, though not mad in the common acceptation of the word.
11
Of the last, there was certainly very little, in the common acceptation of the word; but our hermit was not without it altogether.
12
And let me admit, in the first place, that there is such a thing as luck, using the word in its common acceptation.
13
I thought philosophers might be allowed to speak more accurately than the vulgar, and were not always confined to the common acceptation of a term.
14
I wish them to rise, but I have no desire to transform them into gentlemen or ladies, according to the common acceptation of these terms.
15
"Not a governess, according to the common acceptation of the term," the gentleman returned, in a sad tone.
16
"No, not manuscript according to the common acceptation of the term; and yet, in reality, I suppose it is."
