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Meanings of mere commonplace in English

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Usage of mere commonplace in English
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A mere commonplace creature like me will soon be turned out again.'
A Pair of Blue Eyes
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That the spy will fabricate his information is a mere commonplace.
The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale
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And it is not mere commonplace men that the Negro Race has produced.
Froudacity; West Indian Fables by James Anthony Froude Explained...
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Yet this phrase is a mere commonplace in our speech.
The Daughters of Danaus
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One is Ducos, Minister of Marine, a man of mere commonplace talents and character.
Correspondence & Conversations of Alexis de Tocqueville with Nas...
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Such difficulties were mere commonplace on the long road upon which I had been journeying.
English passengers
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They shall see Trishka is no mere commonplace fellow.
The Talking Beasts: A Book of Fable Wisdom
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How can you tell which phases of it deserve expression, and which are mere commonplace?
Modern American Prose Selections
9
And no mere commonplace language, either, but rattling, out-and-out book-talk-andbristling with metaphor, too-justbristling!
The Entire Project Gutenberg Works of Mark Twain
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When one did speak it was to utter a mere commonplace or perhaps to greet some newcomer.
Helen of the Old House
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Purse-snatching from women by white and black ruffians is sunk to a mere commonplace in the daily newspaper reports.
The Complete Works of Brann, the Iconoclast — Volume 10
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That was the scrum-half, and I gathered that that sort of thing was a mere commonplace in his existence.
The Adventures of Sally
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There is not one sentence in this little essay which may not be justly set down as mere commonplace.
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 430 / Volume 17, New Series, M...
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For I trust that so far as regards a mere commonplace life God will always deliver me from that.
Recollections of My Youth
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You must not underrate the difficulties of my undertaking, or imagine that a mere commonplace assassination would meet the case.
Tales of Terror and Mystery
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It used to be a mere commonplace to say that no one should venture into the fishermen's quarter after dark.
A Dream of the North Sea
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