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Meanings of ordinary persons in English

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Usage of ordinary persons in English
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That the shopkeepers were not exactly ordinary persons had been felt all along.
The Pleasant Street Partnership: A Neighborhood Story
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And what interested me, was her talking about them just like ordinary persons.
A Little Girl of Long Ago; Or, Hannah Ann / A Sequel to a Little...
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Quite ordinary persons you perceive, both of them, outside their science.
The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth
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Lenstchka liked dukes and counts in novels, not ordinary persons.
Note-Book of Anton Chekhov
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In what manner would it operate in the case of ordinary persons, for example?'
The Wallet of Kai Lung
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A stout lady, who took up more room herself than three ordinary persons, exclaimed:
My Double Life: The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt
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They can remember, see and hear things that ordinary persons would be entirely ignorant of.
Complete Hypnotism, Mesmerism, Mind-Reading and Spiritualism / H...
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Thus the prophets received a greater portion of it than ordinary persons in their own times.
A Portraiture of Quakerism, Volume 2 / Taken from a View of the ...
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Well, on a high-power wave length probably ordinary persons would not be able to listen in.
Walter and the Wireless
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The Mother Superior, in fact, soon towered into a greatness far beyond the reach of ordinary persons.
The True Woman / A Series of Discourses, to Which Is Added Woman...
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You must not expect such an exceptional experience as yours to be believed in by ordinary persons.
Ardath: The Story of a Dead Self
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The Brahmin and his wife, who were the master and mistress of the queen, were not ordinary persons.
Tales from the Hindu Dramatists
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He seemed to have the working power of half a dozen ordinary persons and everything received his attention.
The Story of Wellesley
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He knew at once that they were not to be treated just as if they were ordinary persons.
Everychild / A Story Which The Old May Interpret to the Young an...
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Really ordinary persons probably can't tolerate irradiation of their brain, which was done to catalyze the core consciousness.
Hard-boiled wonderland and the end of the world: a novel
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The eccentricity, so to speak, of ordinary persons shows itself peculiarly at such times, and they say the queerest things.
Harvard Classics Volume 28 / Essays English and American
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