In postwar Greece enlargement of the male breast was a common accompaniment of periods of starvation. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Zlata and I seem to have a lot in common because while Zlata was living though a war in Sarajevo, I was living through a different kind of war—the L.A. riots. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Indeed, there were several eminent linguists of the opinion that this was how the common noun had originated. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Our separate gene libraries have many pages in common, another reminder of our common evolutionary heritage. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

As they crossed the line, Bobby Moch, defying the laws of physics and common sense, suddenly stood bolt upright in the stern of his twenty-four-inch-wide shell, triumphantly thrusting one fist into the air. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The best thing to do was to ignore this leaden feeling about the heart and rely on their common sense, their daylight sanity. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

There are several ways to say it, but the most common is also the most obvious: BONE-uh-fied. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is common among the Dinka for a man to have more than one wife. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bran never told me much about Tina except to say that she had a lot in common with his father. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Nor will this boy be a common man,” the other answered. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Here on Maxwell Street, weeping was as common as bawling babies, quarreling, and laughter. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

He says that the things that move in are common weeds, and cockroaches and rats: soon all flowers will be dandelions. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

But a mispronunciation, SKIZZ-em, became so common that it’s now standard English and preferred by most people. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jon had dragged himself to the common hall to sup with his friends, and the failure of the rangers' search had been all the men had been talking of. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Her common sense told her that her prayers could not possibly have killed the master. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rather than create a central political body to direct all the various movements, they agreed to cooperate on matters of common interest. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

An editorial pleaded for the exercise of common sense as Wilson moved to declare war; another celebrated the recent extension of ferry service to the leeward side of the island. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Jon could hear it skirling against the Wall and over the icy battlements as he went to the common hall for the evening meal. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

All of us being Indians in a white man’s Marine Corps meant we had a lot in common. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Electricity wasn’t so common and the night was dark out there. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thus according to the common Greek idea he would himself become defiled and have a part in Hercules’ guilt. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

We spent the next hour talking about other things we had in common—he liked Hawaiian-ish pizza too! From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Ron pulled his copy of Advanced Potion-Making out of his bag and handed it over; Harry sprinted off past him and back to the common room. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

In nature, such high temperatures and attendant high pressures are common only in the insides of the stars. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Conwy and his charges had brought the news north with them,, and the talk in the common room had been of little else. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

But then, as I got to know everyone a little better, I realized that maybe I didn’t have as much in common with them as I would have liked. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

What is it that soccer, darts, chess, backgammon and Scrabble have in common? The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Harry didn’t have a clue what was going on, and neither Ron nor Hermione explained anything until they had dragged him all the way up to the empty Gryffindor common room. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

The dragon kings had wed brother to sister, but they were the blood of old Valyria where such practices had been common, and like their dragons the Targaryens answered to neither gods nor men. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Next thing he knew, he was being wrenched inside the common room by about a dozen pairs of hands, and was facing the whole of Gryffindor House, all of whom were screaming, applauding, and whistling. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

In 1959 several British and French research teams found their independent studies pointing to a common conclusion — that some of humanity’s ills are caused by a disturbance of the normal chromosome number. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“Okay, Curtis, here’s my question. What do these authors have in common?” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

He’s clearly smart, but lacks basic common sense in the strangest of ways. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

The houses consisted of two square rooms joined together by a common floor and roof with a porch in between. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Karhiders do not read much as a rule, and prefer their news and literature heard not seen; books and televising devices are less common than radios, and newspapers don’t exist. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Two of the other survivors had made common cause. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

It was quite common for any white person to call on any black person to perform a chore. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mack was the elder, leader, mentor, and to a small extent the exploiter of a little group of men who had in common no families, no money, and no ambitions beyond food, drink, and contentment. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You’d think people had better things to gossip about,” said Ginny, as she sat on the common room floor, leaning against Harry’s legs and reading the Daily Prophet. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

It is a matter of common experience that one can describe the position of a point in space by three numbers, or coordinates. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

But here in Sachsenhausen, death was so common, so ordinary, that the dead were like fallen trees in the forest—so unremarkable that they were only moved when they got in the way. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

If he knew much about Bast, I was in for trouble—unless orange coaches were common there. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

After supper, Tali, Con, Pol, and Shae went upstairs, but Kaede lingered behind in the common room waiting for Taisin, who had taken their empty bowls to the innkeeper in the kitchen. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

But now have woken is just as common here as have waked. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the black community, as well as the white, extended families were common. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Another common response of ours is to mobilize our immune system. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

You are no better than a common hoodlum. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

“This is no common delight, but a true and lasting love ,” countered a voice from a book of courtly ideals. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

This enterprise required that certain social and technical preconditions be met: the existence of reliable methods of communication, a common body of expert knowledge and an acknowledged group of experts able to adjudicate disputes. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Their bodies were dumped into an enormous common grave. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

If that doesn't seem to work for your piece, try a transposition that makes the most common chord an easy chord. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

The Gryffindor common room was always very crowded these days, because from six o’clock onward the Gryffindors had no where else to go. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

“And Oliver,” Mr. Daniels says, “I think you have to cut Shay a break here. It’s pretty common for people to step on ants.” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

They sat on folding chairs outside and ate halwa with their fingers from a common bowl. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Elizebeth and William knew enough about cryptography to guess that “V” might stand for “E,” the most common letter in the English language. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

It was one more thing we had in common. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

A small treasure of a book hidden inside a big common one—like...spells printed on dragonfly wings, discovered tucked inside a cookery book, right between the recipes for cabbages and corn. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

He would be speaking to him in just over twelve hours, for tonight was the night they were meeting at the common room fire — assuming nothing went wrong, as everything else had done lately. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

One of the most common uses of early stone tools was to crack open bones in order to get to the marrow. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The inn was full of people moving south, and the common room erupted in scorn when Yoren said they were traveling the other way. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The citizen of Oceania is not allowed to know anything of the tenets of the other two philosophies, but he is taught to execrate them as barbarous outrages upon morality and common sense. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Cotton was known in Europe by the thirteenth century but not common until the eighteenth; Columbus and his men wore sturdy flax and coarse wool.* 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

My friends tell me that I look like Ma, but I think I have more in common with Aunt Sonia. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She discovered that all the different animals shared one common language; they just spoke the language in different ways. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

She should have realized that, but her anxiety to get the money and get going had fuzzed her common sense. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

The chink of beer mugs in pubs infested by men; the casual bonhomie of men discussing science in their male-only common room at King’s. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

“Where have all the black men gone?” is a common refrain heard among black women frustrated in their efforts to find life partners. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Walking around the other way, I was startled to hear a hollow, tinny music coming from the common rooms. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

For repeated sections of medium length — usually four to thirty-two measures — repeat dots with or without endings are the most common markings. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

“Of course we are all alike, we all have white oppression in common,” Miss Adebayo said dryly. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The one quality they all have in common is an informed love of works of art—an attitude at once discriminating and enthusiastic that lends particular weight to their judgments. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

He shrugged, a funny little one-shouldered shrug, a mannerism he and his sister had in common. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Or is it we as human beings who share a certain capacity for common sense with all other human beings? The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Disappointed, Harry emptied the cauldron, packed up his things, left the dungeon, and walked slowly back upstairs to the common room. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

The starting point for our discussion is the common view expressed in the saying “Necessity is the mother of invention.” Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The question of team preference was common in our part of North Carolina, and the answer supposedly spoke volumes about the kind of person you either were or hoped to become. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

With messages in English, for example, the pairing that turns up most often may well represent “TH,” the most common digraph in ordinary English. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The beetles, at first unrecognized, were finally identified as a common inhabitant of the main islands of Japan. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

And after a moment, a voice from on high says, "Love is the most common miracle." Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

The only sound was the crackle and hiss of the log burning in the hearth at the end of the long, drafty common room. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Given the inheritance rules for mitochondrial DNA, the conclusion that Indians and Siberians share common ancestry seems, to geneticists, inescapable. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Such buildings are almost always important public places that require the marshaling of significant resources and serve the purpose of bringing people together to share common goals, pursuits, and values. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Water-wheels were known to the ancient Greeks and Romans but were far from common; thanks to an early medieval proto-industrial Revolution, they quickly became widespread around the end of the first millennium CE. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Mary made common cause with the black employees working at Langley and at other places in the industry. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Karl put me wise to this trick when I saw him using a stone boat to bring his supplies out to our common boundary. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

The common room was long and drafty, with a row of huge wooden kegs at one end and a fireplace at the other. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

In November, after saying Mass in the middle of the cemetery for the Day of the Dead, he leads a crowd over to a common grave in the corner of the cemetery. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

“Your immune system hasn’t been exposed to a lifetime of common viruses and bacterial infections. It hasn’t had time to get experience with fighting these infections. It hasn’t had time to get strong.” Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was no more than a foot high—one of those artificial falls, common on the chalk streams, made to attract trout. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Let them worry about how to communicate with us was the more common attitude. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And more important than that, they had Quake Lake in common. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

They built this castle together, far from prying Muggle eyes, for it was an age when magic was feared by common people, and witches and wizards suffered much persecution.” Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

And just like you we have a function: providing comfort and meaning to the common folk. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Harry and Hermione left in a hurry before the noise attracted Filch, and went back to the Gryffindor common room, which was now mercifully empty. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

This was and still is common in the rural areas of Mexico. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

He was becoming increasingly edgy, and gave very severe punishments to anybody who disturbed the quiet of the common room in the evenings. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

If we were ever to put all our brains together in fact, to make a common mind the way the ants do, it would be an unthinkable thought, way over our heads. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was hard work, but it was exhilarating—the kind of feeling that comes from being alive and taking part in some great common enterprise. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stand at the toilet bowl firing away and wonder what I’d need at a time like this and if this is a common thing in America, women waiting outside while you take a splash. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Harry returned to the Gryffindor common room one evening after training, cold and stiff but pleased with the way practice had gone, to find the room buzzing excitedly. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Davos was a slight man, his low birth written plain upon a common face. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

In the years leading into World War II, and during the war, it was much more common for women to be involved in aviation than it is even now. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

A similar calculation using 23 rather than 5 yields V2, or 50 percent, as the probability that at least two of twenty-three people will have a common birthday. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Cursed Toads—Spares whom she’d sympathized with, had tried to learn about, who she thought shared a common fate—had tricked and bested them. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

But despite these common characteristics he was different, very different from those who surrounded him—in background, in what he believed in and what he did not. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jack Allen and I have more in common than I ever would have guessed. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

This master-slave arrangement is the common view of full-grown biologists, eukaryotes all. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The positions of trust were given only to the common criminals, especially the gangsters and the murderers, who formed a sort of aristocracy. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Although many poor African Americans rejected the philosophies, tactics, and strategies of the black elite, ultimately moral uplift ideology became the new common sense. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

What do we have in common, besides the fact that our moms are both immigrants? A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

This is the most common method for teaching more complicated or lengthy songs. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Every now and then she would look into the shop window just to make sure the hat was still there and that the pink roses on it had not turned into common flowers like marigolds. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know him well, but we had some friends in common and often ran into each other at the crags or at climbers’ parties. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

But in the other sense, her sense, she thinks 1 am common. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Three things they all had in common: faith in themselves, great determination, and endurance. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

The common perception had always been that Burnham managed the business side of the firm, while Root did all the designs. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Wearily they made their way out of the woods and back to the common land. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

When Lord Renly climbed to his feet, the commons cheered wildly, for King Robert's handsome young brother was a great favorite. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

"It's Arabic for Alexander. Pretty common in the Middle East." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Though their college plans led them in different directions, their common goal remained the same. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

By the time Shoemaker came along, a common view was that Meteor Crater had been formed by an underground steam explosion. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

So common you weren’t even surprised when they happened. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“They were quite common in the Fifties. They were so sour that it set your teeth on edge even to smell them.” 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

We don’t have much in common, but we have enough. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

A correct understanding of who the Japanese people really are, and how they diverged from the closely related Korean people, will be essential to finding that common ground. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was like a punch to the gut, knowing that a girl born there could end up a common pickpocket in the slums of the Levee. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Light skin was a definite plus in our community, and it was common to talk in a negative manner about a person with very dark skin. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Today only tertiary remains as a common designation everywhere, even though it no longer represents a third period of anything. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

A common way of earning a living gives them a common attitude toward life. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

All they had in common was foraging—and me. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Couple is probably the most common of the two-faced words. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or at least, they didn’t until they spotted a notice pinned up in the Gryffindor common room that made them all groan. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

All cats, for example, from the smallest house kitten to the most ferocious lion, share a common feline ancestor who lived about 25 million years ago. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

He clambered through the portrait hole into the common room and hurried straight for the corner where Ron and Hermione were sitting, to tell them what had happened. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

All usual pursuits were abandoned in the Gryffindor common room the night before the match. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

“Oh, no. Some never find a bat to bond with. I became one with Aurora when I was quite young, but this is not common,” said Luxa. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He lost two of his toes and I jus’ lost one, but that do give us something in common. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

In fact, the preferences expressed by online daters fit snugly with the most common stereotypes about men and women. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

“She has a point. Do you have a story in your head for us common folk?” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

You can say this with or without the t sound, but the more common pronunciation is OFF-en. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Salmoneus, according to this view, was a magician trying to bring on a rainstorm by imitating it, a common magical method. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once Peeves had vanished, there was silence in the corridors; with only fifteen minutes left until curfew, most people had already returned to their common rooms. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

According to concepts common to all people, he has completely disqualified himself. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The new nation brought together groups of people who had little in common. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“For you and Paula, fried chicken is battered. For me, fried chicken has no batter. I just thought about how you both have a lot in common.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Architect, utility worker, maid: heart attack is the great leveler, and in those first fearful moments, three New Yorkers with little in common faced a single common threat. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

But I guess the Bureau and Jeanine shared a common goal. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Andrews most special friend was more than common, he was a Byword. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

Matt was delighted he and Maria had something in common. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Under the most common of circumstances I knew it did no good to argue with Momma. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“All strength is born of association,” wrote Beaumont, “and 30 individuals united through perpetual communication, by ideas, by plans in common, by concerted schemes, have more real power than 900 whose isolation makes them weak.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Einstein says common sense is just habit of thought. It’s how we’re used to thinking about things, but a lot of the time it just gets in the way.” When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

It was clear that something out of the common had happened. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

After interviewing numerous firefighters and other eyewitnesses, the inquiry found that there had been drinking following the Saturday night fire, a ritual that was common not only in Chicago, but in all cities back then. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

The tea shop which he used to enter timidly, feeling himself but a common country fellow, now seemed dingy and mean to him. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

What they all had in common was poverty. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Far more common are examples of ridiculous misunderstandings made by male soldiers, or men treating the airwomen like children or inferiors. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Inside the first bag was common everyday trash—soda bottles, soup cans, potato chip wrappers, apple cores. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kim nodded along with those in the little audience; inlay work was common enough in other arts, but no one there had ever seen it used in ceramics before. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

The shameful death of a common criminal was not for him. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

All this way, just to be stopped by something as common as a broken ankle? The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“The only thing Thoreau and I have in common is that we’re both hungry,” he says. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

I looked again at the cover of the Masses and I knew that the wild cartoon did not reflect the passions of the common people. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

We share a common enemy, but does that make us friends? Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

And when our instinctive reactions are involved, that view is all too common. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

“Shady and Jinx share something in common. They both have dealings they are reluctant to reveal,” Miss Sadie said, not telling me if I’d win my bet. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

"Hitler's just huffing and puffing about the Jews. He knows how to play up patriotism by giving people a common enemy." The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

Bongo says she’s too classy for a label as common as “crow.” Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Of course, auditory hallucinations were also the most common kind of hallucinations. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Like, if you want to see the common characteristics between mammals, reptiles, and fish, for instance, you draw a Venn diagram and list all the attributes of each one inside a circle. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Wednesday afternoon meant Herbology, in the greenhouses under a baking-hot sun; then back to the common room once more, with sunburnt necks, thinking longingly of this time next day, when it would all be over. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

“I have heard him lamenting her having no instrument repeatedly; oftener than I should suppose such a circumstance would, in the common course of things, occur to him.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

“If you’d like to see what the diadem’s supposed to look like, I could take you up to our common room and show you, Harry? Ravenclaws wearing it in her statue.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Horses and donkeys have a recent common ancestor and share many physical traits. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ser Jaime tossed a kiss to some woman in the commons, gently lowered his visor, and rode to the end of the lists. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Those big cartons were a common sight in the spring of 1942. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

A crackling fire warmed the circular common room, which was full of squashy armchairs and tables. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

It was a common phenomenon, she’d been told, among parents who had lost their children. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

The others were still in the common room when Jon returned, alone but for Ghost. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The initial gases, and the energy sources, are common throughout the Cosmos. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Some histories repeat; some events are unique. There is regional, statewide, and national history. We share all of it in common as Americans.” Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

I received mail from all over the world, from common people and from kings, from a few people I knew and from thousands I did not know. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

For as long as I could recall, my mother had simply called me “Son,” and, since her name was Asta, “Asta’s son” became my common name. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

It turned out they had other things in common, too. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

So far only the common white ducks had been introduced into the waters. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

But what all this chant had in common was that it was one memorised, meandering tune with no accompaniment and no harmonising, the Greek term for which is monophonic: one voice. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

One thing trees and crows have in common—in fact, one thing all the natural world has in common—is the rule that we’re not supposed to talk to people. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The other way is to simply give a name to a form that is very common. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

It was a common belief at the time, and one that William probably shared. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

But cooperation is merely proof of a common goal — in this case the removal of white supremacy — and is not proof of a complete community of interests. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We weren’t alike, Dante and I. But we did have a few things in common. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

Every two species that evolved from a common ancestor, such as horses and donkeys, were at one time just two populations of the same species, like bulldogs and spaniels. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Legends of prediction are common throughout the whole Household of Man. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Three times, though, cultures rose to dominate the Andes, uniting previously separate groups under a common banner. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

If you’re tempted to use it to show that you have the common touch, make clear that you know better: Now, ain’t that a shame! Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

When danger suddenly approached, he needed only to protect himself from a few of his subjects, but if he had had the common people hostile, this would not have been sufficient. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

"Oh, I get it, you're putting the blame on me. If you had given her a good talking to about kicking people when I asked, she might not have ended up a common criminal." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once again drawing from the pool of most common names among white children, here are the top picks of highly educated parents versus those with the least education. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Probably the commonest explanation involves implicitly or explicitly assuming biological differences among peoples. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

People all over the country seemed motivated to connect from a common place of tremendous compassion. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“White Harbor is not strong enough to stand alone. You need His Grace as much as he needs you. Together you can defeat your common enemies.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

What could I possibly have in common with these kids? Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The vicar was a hundred yards off at least, walking quickly away across the common with arms swinging freely. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The process—their job, their mission—was the thing they had in common. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Something that is small and common like a whisper, but monumental and rare at the same time. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Trenches, hospitals, the common grave—there are no other possibilities. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

So common is confinement among the older brothers of young minority-group men I have met in New York City that a prison term seems practically inevitable to many, almost a rite of passage. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Absent an apology, he said, “common decency is thrown to the wayside.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Her hair was not the orange or strawberry color of common red-haired men, but a deep burnished copper that shone in the light of the torches. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Circuit Judge William Bradford, after hearing a number of stories about Rush’s bravery and cures, wrote, “He is become the darling of the common people & his humane fortitude & exertions will render him deservedly dear.” An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Was there a common set of rules, he wondered, that governed the facial expressions that human beings made? Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Descartes and Beeckman chatted away in Latin and discovered that they had interests in common. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“You need to find a friend you have something in common with,” said Judy. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Johannesburg, I moved in circles where common sense and practical experience were more important than high academic qual-ifications. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I searched for some logic, some binding motif the collection had in common, but I found nothing in my hasty examination. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

But I had precious little in common with any of them, and there was no forgetting that I had been brought along as Jann’s hired help. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

“A box in the ocean—what kind of a start is that? What, really, did we have in common? We didn’t even know each other.” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

A common thread to the talk was that he’d gotten too big for his britches—again. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

My father, in his old age, had taken to traveling in disguise to enjoy the pleasures of common life. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

The panic had been justified, for accidents were common and deadly. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

The strings felt strange against my fingers, like reunited friends who have forgotten what they have in common. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

But what if the structure of DNA was so simple—so elegant—that it could be deduced by “common sense,” by model building? The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

It wasn't so common in Marshall, but I had picked it up from mill workers and farm workers that were Mexican. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

His voice was harsh and loud, and the common room fell silent. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

That evening I gathered up my things and made my way down to the common room. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

When the nobles appropriated the commons, they created a peasant class that had little choice but to work for the landowners. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

“Okay,” said Harry, wishing he could just stay in the common room. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Before he dealt with that problem there was still the common land to be crossed. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Instruments of this general sort were common in the early seventeenth century, but Galileo’s were made especially for him and were perhaps the most sophisticated. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Themselves, they had covered twelve hundred miles with two days’ rest, and in the nature of reason and common justice they deserved an interval of loafing. The Call of the Wild 1903-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sentiment delights Celia so that she cannot properly respond in any of their common languages, and only smiles at him over her wine. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Yet another common suffragist strategy was the presentation of pageants, which the dictionary defines as “an elaborate public dramatic presentation that usually depicts a historical or traditional event.” 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

After breakfast, we keep the common cook fire going so we can warm ourselves while Captain Smith tells his story. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

It’s not a common occurrence, but I don’t give it much thought until I see Mr. Ram’s daughter-in-law coming out of the doors to the stairwell. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Logic wasn’t on my side, or common sense. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

More common, however, were those faculty members who simply passed their provisional students. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it was a common car, and it would be awfully embarrassing if I was wrong. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Studies have shown that Maclin’s common sense is correct: the overwhelming majority of people who are confronted by police and asked questions respond, and when asked to be searched, they comply. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The situation became divorced from common sense, so that atrocity stories were accepted by the atrocious people. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The common room was crowded, full of whispers, murmured questions, and broken sobbing. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Well, get back to your common room where you belong!” snapped Filch, and he stood glaring until Harry had passed out of sight. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Ending all diseases and the common cold with a single song. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

“Same thing, I eat the common food, always have. Growing up, my mother always cooked just regular food.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

For work flow to keep advancing along these lines, though, and deliver the productivity enhancements we want, “we need more and more common standards,” said IBM’s strategic planner Cawley. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

That ain’t the only thing Daddy and me got in common. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

“My common sense is telling me to make new friends.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Indian bondage was more common still in the southern colonies. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Burying him in a common grave would cost three times as much. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Harry dressed and went down the spiral staircase into the common room. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

In those days, guns were common, especially for white men. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We broke our fast in the commons,” said Marsh. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“There’s a possibility Sir Fig Newton has an allergy to one of these common ingredients,” Dr. Spires said. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, that’s better. They went down the marble staircase. All they needed now was a Slytherin that they could follow to the Slytherin common room, but there was nobody around. “Any ideas?” muttered Harry. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

‘Which would you rather be, a common person like your sister or a fine lady?’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t common for women to drink, of course, but it wasn’t unheard of. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

A tongue-in-cheek story made the rounds, in which a black man complained, “My master is a great tyrant. He treats me as badly as if I was a common Irishman.” A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

It too, when partially restored, had the common story to tell of being lured away by the “bloofer lady.” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

The result of such an approach, which looks to us just like common sense but was revolutionary at the time, was a transformation in the reliability of knowledge. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Mini had no idea how much they had in common…. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Nehemia replied in the common tongue, without a hint of her accent. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Word processors have dictionaries, but not common sense—at least not yet. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

What you will find here is a short list of the most common articulations: their names, what they look like when notated, and a vague description of how they sound. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

All that the Sophocles’s have in common is that they fill the determiner slot in the tree and help you determine which play, which nose, and so on, the speaker had in mind. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

It was the common property of us all. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I think men of common sense will prevail. Nobody wants rebellion except fools and hotheads.” My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Carlisle was born in London, in the sixteen-forties, he believes. Time wasn’t marked as accurately then, for the common people anyway. It was just before Cromwell’s rule, though.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

But it turned out that goiters are fairly common in bonobos, and harmless. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

In South Africa back then, it wasn’t common to find a white person or a colored person who spoke African languages; during apartheid white people were always taught that those languages were beneath them. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The ocean nymphs who visited Prometheus on the crag in the Caucasus spoke only the most ordinary common sense when they said to him:— Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her support and Papa’s resistance had one point in common: too much exposure was unbecoming. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jaxim had the haggard look common to most artificers in the middle of large projects, as if he were putting off sleep until it was entirely finished. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

After break, she went off to Arithmancy while Harry and Ron returned to the common room, where they grudgingly started Snape’s homework. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Throughout all the colonies and most of the early United States, one of the most common drinks was hard cider made from fermented apples. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

They didn't have anything in common—like, nothing—and it wasn't the kind of nothing that can be exotic and exciting. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

And in the 586th, every couple of weeks the regiment could get a truck ride to the nearest town so they could bathe in a public bathhouse, common throughout the Soviet Union. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

You and I have something in common, besides the Wright blood. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Harry and Ron met up with Hermione in the common room, and they went down to breakfast together. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Over by the hearth in the centre of the common, Percy was grinning at something Annabeth had just told him. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Then he noticed that each page had one thing in common—a central section. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Origin narratives, or “stories about how this all began,” help a group of people feel that they belong to a community with a common past and shared ideas about what is important. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

“That was my dad’s name. It’s pretty common. He died.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Still and all, common sense tells you this much: everwhat makes a wheel run over a track will make it run over a boy if’n he’s in the way. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“The melon shape is common enough now—I see it often,” Kim said. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Claudia didn’t know that this sentence was a common one used in practice typing. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t want to be friends that way. I just meant regular friends. I mean, you and I, we have a lot in common.” The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

A functional circuit of genes was switched on and off, as if operated by a common spool or a master switch. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Both are employed in European technology, but the former is more common—the arch is a classic example of compression. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“A more common variety—they haunt the Malaysian Peninsula,” Maddox said. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Wooden stables and other storage buildings were common, and trees lined the streets and filled the yards. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

One of the most common arguments espoused by the antisuffrage forces was that women were not emotionally strong enough to handle the responsibility of voting and were thus incapable of making sound political decisions. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

As Harry had suspected it would be, the common room was jam-packed. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Much of this art, to be sure, is pretty shoddy—art at third- and fourth-hand, worn out by endless repetition, representing the lowest common denominator of popular taste. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The number of possible ragas is practically limitless, and there are hundreds in common use. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

There were lots of common little shops like grocery stores or poultry markets and wooden tenement houses, some four stories high, into which the poor demons crowded. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

This type of signal was a common form of communication in the wild. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

Califor-nia Chinese, Boston Irish, Wisconsin German, yes, and Alabama Negroes, have more in common than they have apart. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were like soul mates, he says, like twins or something, they had a whole lot in common. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was common in the early morning, when the water sprinklers misted the cool air next to the soil. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

One had used them to grow a vaccine for a common- cold-like virus, which he’d injected—along with bits of HeLa—into more than four hundred people. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

He mentioned Fela casually, intimately, as though it was something they had in common, a secret they shared. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Mam tells Dad I’m bleeding through my bottom and he says I might have a case of the runs, which is common with the growing pains. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

I can’t believe that someone I don’t even know, who lives thousands of miles away, could have so much in common with me. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Where the circles intersect is what they have in common. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

As a half-moon crept up the sky, they staked their horses out in the village commons and supped on salted mutton, dried f apples, and hard cheese. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

And when they had such a place, it was only common courtesy in anyone else who knew of it to keep his knowledge to himself. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

I figured weekends had to be a common bond. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

Judy Poovey lived a couple of doors down from me and seemed to think that because she was from Los Angeles we had a lot in common. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

But I never imagined the common disease of the mine could affect my dad. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Wallace and Neel had focused on the three haplogroups that are also common in Asia. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“And who’s common now, Florence?” he asked, quietly, in the immediate and awful silence in which she recognized her error. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Blindness was common when the stone reached the face. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Entering the common room, Harry looked around, and to his surprise he saw Ron sitting ashen-faced in a distant corner. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Sean and I have a lot in common—we love graphic novels, Stephen King, the Celtics; we both have jet-black hair; neither of us has a dad—but we differ in some ways too. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

About eighty-five years ago they were told that they were free, united with others of our country in everything pertaining to the common good, and, in everything social, separate like the fingers of the hand. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

In English, apart from a couple of occurrences in a text of 1589, ‘scientific’ does not appear until 1637, after which date it becomes increasingly common. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

"I guess it's one more thing we've got in common. You want to talk about it? Or something else?" Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

The Nairobi Hilton, some suite of high-ceilinged rooms in Cairo or Khartoum: these are the places his people recall when gathered at a common table. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

While the Gryffindor common room and the Great Hall had roaring fires, the drafty corridors had become icy and a bitter wind rattled the windows in the classrooms. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Jim was playing not to individual egos but to a common sense of humanity, purpose, and urgency. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

“Thus you see,” he wrote to Julia, “that I have proved upon my own body that the yellow fever when treated in the new way, is no more than a common cold.” An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

The others all walked around Dragonwings while Father explained things between bites of meat dumpling, trying to convert the jargon of aeronauts into common speech. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first floor was absolutely quiet, and since it felt like I might be missing some meeting I was supposed to attend, I swung downstairs to the common room. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Breakfast is in the common area, at one of the round tables with checkerboard patterns in the center. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, we had collard greens, too, which were common and cheap. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

“Well, for just that moment, I felt we had something in common, our love of the Lord. I think they felt it, too, because some of them smiled and spoke to me.” Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Enabling virtually all citizens to experience noteworthy events simultaneously and in entertaining form, radio created a vast common culture in America, arguably the first true mass culture the world had ever seen. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s all there is to it. And we tried to use common sense in training him and in racing him.” Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wallace’s discovery initially seemed to confirm the three-migrations model: the haplogroups were seen as the legacy of separate waves of migration, with the most common haplogroup corresponding to the Clovis culture. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Fires were common in all cities back then, and Chicago was no exception. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

As by common accord, they all rose to their feet. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

Three of the four Indian haplogroups are common in southern Siberia. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

In short, there would be a multiparty democracy based on universal adult suffrage on a common voters’ roll. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of the most common poor decisions made by pilots is to continue flying into bad weather. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

There was a witch buried at the edge of the graveyard, it was common knowledge. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

By now Big Ma had worn herself out scolding me in the names of our family and my lack of good common sense. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

The common room erupted in laughter, and the man with the yellow hair turned red. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

She couldn’t ’bide having nothing so common in her home and sold the curtains to George’s cousin for next to nothing. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

The term concordance refers to the fraction of twins who possess a trait in common. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

It was common knowledge that Snape wanted the Defense Against the Dark Arts job, but even Harry, who hated Snape, was startled at the expression twisting his thin, sallow face. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Both Barbara and John were coming of age in a society in which antisemitism was common. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Shipping live cells in the mail—a common practice today—wasn’t done at the time. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

So I went on my zigzag way across the common, thinking about time, black holes, Einstein’s Theory of Relativity and storm warnings. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

We heard news — which word could not but quicken the blood—of common men rising in the thousands to empty the rural law courts of corruption and expel the un-elected favorites of government. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The first one, which is embarrassingly obvious, is that ESP runs afoul of the fundamental common- sense principle that the normal senses must somehow be involved for communication to take place. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was perhaps the only thing they had in common, their admiration for Churchill. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

"I hear that a good many rangers have vanished of late," Lannister said as they mounted the steps to the common hall. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I had become ... so unused to the sports and games of boys, that I knew I was awkward and inexperienced in the commonest things belonging to them. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sleep became elusive, a common symptom of minor altitude illness. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

That was a lot to have in common. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

Do I have anything in common with that past Maddy except a strong resemblance and a shared name? Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Reynie had no idea what a common vetch was, and the possible answers offered no helpful clue—it might be an antelope, a bird, a rodent, or a vine. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

I smiled at her, happy we had something in common. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Yet wild peas of Pisum fulvum taste good, either fresh or dried, and are common in the wild. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

In a field report, an agent from the bureau observed, “It is a matter of common knowledge that Rose...was of a violent and jealous disposition.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

It’s strange to think we have that in common when everything else is so different here. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Other common determiners include articles, as in the cat and this boy; quantifiers, as in some nights and all people; and numbers, as in sixteen tons. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Hermione, who remained convinced that she had acted for the best, started avoiding the common room. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

He saw that it was true there was not beauty of any kind in her face—a brown, common, patient face. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

I brighten and cling tight to the fact that we have something in common. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

More than 40 percent of the white babies are given names that are at least four times more common among whites. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

In reviewing these titles, I can’t help but notice a few common themes. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

The Sixers gave gunters a common enemy, and Sixer bashing was a favorite pastime in our forums and chat rooms. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

A pair of common freeriders would have served if all that Stannis had in mind was scouting, Jon Snow reflected, but knights are better suited to act as messengers or envoys. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

If I was still Abnegation, her comment would be rude and out of place, but among the Dauntless, challenges like that seem common. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

There are no gods in the universe, no nations, no money, no human rights, no laws, and no justice outside the common imagination of human beings. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

As they marched to the Holy Land, Christians noticed “certain ripe plants which the common folk called‘honey cane’ and which were much like reeds.... Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

As they were playing they began to talk, and they realized they had many things in common and that playing Russian roulette to settle a beef between their gangs was stupid. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

But since gravity would draw primordial black holes toward any matter, they should be much more common in and around galaxies. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“By invoking the ‘treasure trove’ notion of common law,” said Jake. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

There is only one common exception to this rule. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

"Certainly not for a common swindler who'd have to steal the ring he put on her finger." The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

In common with other sheets like this by him, Michelangelo’s focus here is on the torso. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Amity would not allow a schism; no one in Abnegation would be so selfish; Candor would argue until they found a common solution; and even Erudite would never do something so illogical. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

The cooks served up great slabs of fresh horse- meat, charred outside and bloody red within, with roast onions and neeps ... and for once, the common soldiers ate as well as the lords and knights. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I could feel their feeds shifting toward a common point, some kind of banner they were pulling up. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The whole common room fell silent, staring, petrified, at the entrance. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Fights were common in the Barrel, but not on the floor of the Crow Club. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

And he opened his mouth, feeling, as he watched his father, the darkness roar behind him, and the very earth beneath him seem to shake; yet he gave to his father their common testimony. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

We had several friends in common, and we’d recently started tweeting each other back and forth every day. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Mom says, “Money doesn’t alter human rights, common equality.” Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Dad says, You shouldn’t be picking up coal off the road like a common beggar. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Beyond the city walls, a hundred pavilions had been raised beside the river, and the common folk came out in the thousands to watch the games. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

It would have been easy for each of them to look past the other, to see the outside and assume that they could have nothing in common. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

He put it all to boil in a pot of castor oil until he got a thick and pestilential syrup which was more like common caramel than valuable gold. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

We said we’d be back together again soon and that everything would be fine, and at that moment, everyone in the family was united toward the common goal of getting Jeffrey well. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one’s heart have a common provenance in pain. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

If the fifth- century Aegean Greeks resented the Athenians for similar policies despite a common language and culture, the Egyptians probably hated the Macedonians even more. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

Many of the commonest usage errors are the result of writers thinking logically when they should be mindlessly conforming to convention. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

A common theme in the press was that the nation—once divided by war—was now unified in hoping that Garfield recovered. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

I picked it because it had a rather stylish embossed dragon on the cover, but when I started reading I discovered it was an educated investigation into several common myths. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

A bit of common sense is overdue in public discussions about racial bias in the criminal justice system. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

When I was only four years old, Still babyish and unsteady, I tried to play with common folk— They hated me already. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

I gave a hesitant nod, trick questions were fairly common around lesson time. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

You need to stress the identity of their interests with yours, to create unity in a common purpose. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

By 1980 she received a name that was twenty times more common among blacks. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

And yet even then something might be done, if only the common people would arise and put down rulers that oppress them. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But pride, venal pride, got the better of you. And to think, all this time we could’ve been working together toward a common good!” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

The Gryffindor common room was much quieter than it had been lately, many yawns punctuating the lazy conversations. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, they left Andy there all day to sit in the common room, where the residents played bingo or cards. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Experiments show that under the most common cosmic conditions the molecular basis of life is readily made, the building blocks of molecules able to make copies of themselves. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

This objection rests on a common tendency to confuse an explanation of causes with a justification or acceptance of results. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Television is like a strain of the common cold that can spread like lightning through a population, but only causes a few sniffles and is gone in a day. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When it is my turn, I ride with several of the common men and most of the chicken crates. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

It became common to state that it was easier to get booze under Prohibition than it was before 1919 when the Volstead Act was passed. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Therefore, when an embassy arrived from Aeneas asking for a narrow resting place upon the coast and the common liberty of air and water, Latinus received them with great good will. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wise persuader starts from one or two commonplaces he knows he has in common with his audience—and, where possible, arrives at one too. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

“We have fried chicken in common? Do you realize how loaded fried chicken is as a metaphor here?” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Once Captain Smith is gone, though, the gentlemen stop working and even the common men shirk their chores. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

I’m glad we have that in common, at least. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Martin went on to list all the holidays he celebrated and I was relieved to learn that many were the same as ours—another thing we had in common. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Artemis scanned the pages for some other common factor. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

On the land taken from the commons, landowners were able to employ laborers from the peasant class to raise large herds of sheep and to send the wool to factories to be processed. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

The common bond of just being young together in that household was strong enough for that. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

The first step, again, is to create a common yardstick, perhaps a tiny ruler half an inch long. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Viola and I glare at each other but we get up and follow Hildy into a large common room. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

So he sat down and, in his free evenings and weekends, wrote an eight-hundred-page textbook on the subject, painstakingly reviewing the available evidence for the most common problems a general practitioner might encounter. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

To which he and the stars were common satellite. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Every Saturday night in “the Ritz,” as the common room of the ship was known, a ration of grog was issued to all hands. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Similarly, a boatload of quiet but strong introverts may never find the common core of fiery resolve that causes the boat to explode past its competitors when all seems lost. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I had fewer friends than ever, having lost anything of common interest with the boys on my block who were my age. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Most common in drama, by far—and least common in real life—is forcible sex. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

"How many times must I swear to that? Lady Stark, whatever you may believe of me, I am not a stupid man. Only a fool would arm a common footpad with his own blade." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Outside, men were working in an open trench, up to their knees in muck—a common sight in the months to come. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are no physical laws common to both spheres. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The teachers always had an eye out for pregnant girls—it was very common. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

In fact, the use of these traditional rules for Western music is now so widespread that it is sometimes called common practice. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

"We don't have too much in common any more." The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

The book met with mixed reviews—some people were, of course, angry at the argument that humans and animals have a common ancestor. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was true that prickly heat was common during the rainy season. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

There are some common terms used in discussions of melody that you may find it useful to know. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Each block was built to the same design, just as each of the ten camps, from California to Arkansas, was built to a common master plan. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s common today to explain anything and everything as the result of climate change, but the truth is that earth’s climate never rests. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

An hour later they reluctantly left the sunlit common room for the Defense Against the Dark Arts classroom four floors below. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Shorty throws out names, and I know some, but we don’t have friends in common. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

My initial instincts, conjured up by my visit, seemed to have been correct: Dean O’Neill had graciously made time for me and heard me out, and then common sense had prevailed. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Behave well all day and you can stay an hour later in the common areas instead of having to return to your room at eight p.m. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

That was the one thing I had in common with them, and they understood that. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

“I am frequently mistaken for the god of love. Death has more in common with Love than you might imagine. But I am Death. I assure you.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“We have a friend in common,” the tall man said. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Yet elsewhere in the Army, antisemitism was common, and sometimes extreme. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Until he knew how matters stood here, it was more prudent to play the common sailor, not the lord. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Your arguments will tend to prosper if they are founded on the common assumptions of your audience—or, in special cases, if the audience is minded to defer to your authority. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

Kirk and Spock had much in common, e.g., their interest in astronomy and their concern for the ship and its crew. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is also likely that many of the chords in the progression will be chords that are common in the new key. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

“Simply that there is some cause in common. Whatever it was that injured her has injured them.” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

I've never known him to swear, yet he and my brother seem to have found a common language that eludes the rest of us. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

They share common customs and a common faith and they have been consistently victorious against superior members. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only thing all of them seemed to have in common was fear. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

It is surely easier to give an uncommon phrase a new meaning than a common phrase. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

A pair of economists who heard of this dilemma—it turned out to be a rather common one—offered a solution: fine the tardy parents. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

What Tony didn’t notice, of course, was the factor that they all had in common. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

The more common your tongue, the less likely you are to learn others. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

With the most common spelling of the name, Brittany, at number eighteen among high-end families and number five among low-end families, it is surely approaching its pull date. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t a common question in the Garner house. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

After dinner, the students hurried back to their common rooms, not to relax, but to start studying for Care of Magical Creatures, Potions, and Astronomy. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

He was a newcomer, a black man in what was historically a white man’s business, surfacing from obscurity with a weird name and odd backstory, hoping to strike a chord with the common Democrat. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Final Trial scores are common knowledge, but the actual Trial documents are never revealed—not even to criminal investigators. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

The Mujahideen, armed to the teeth but now lacking a common enemy, had found the enemy in each other. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Having established some common ground, Adams then veered off in a direction that had always gotten him into political trouble—namely, the inevitable role that elites play in making history happen. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Since they’d begun their lessons, the princess had greatly improved her fluency in the common tongue, though the girls still spoke Eyllwe. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“It would also explain the behavior we saw last night. And their tendency, more and more common, to join up into a horde, as they clearly have in Baltimore County. It’s instinct.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

My dad thankfully had the common sense to send me to the bank after I turned eighteen so I could get a debit card. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I thought about the dozens of stories I’d heard my father collect over the last year, trying to pick out the common threads. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Judicial systems are rooted in common legal myths. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The less common compare to is used to show a resemblance: Compared with Oscar, Felix is a crybaby. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Exactly. You were listening carefully. That’s why words common in the theatre now, like ‘crew,’ ‘deck,’ and ‘rigging,’ all come from the sea. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Most common were the crisp nguka caterpillars, favorite snack of Anatole’s schoolboys, which resembled small twigs and were impossible to see until I learned to sense their particular gray curve. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had been slow at first, one line at a time, until seeing the letters and understanding the most common words had become easier and easier. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

She would point to people, call them out by their first names, sometimes throwing in a last name if it was too common, and she seemed to know who everyone was. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Harry and Ron went back to the common room. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

“Dilligrout,” he said darkly to the Fat Lady, and they climbed through the portrait hole into the common room. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

In England scientists and clergymen still inhabited a common culture, and there was no division between them when it came to belief or disbelief in magic and witchcraft. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“When we get back to the common room tonight, we’ll both have partners — agreed?” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Fires were extremely common back then and thought to be as exciting and dramatic as a night at the theater. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

The guilt she feels at Gogol’s deflated expression is leavened by common sense. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The city man looked faint, but Honor and Hunter had not only watched the common and counted-on birthings farm people see, but had tugged and twisted newborns from all sorts of canals. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Jon arrived at the common hall, the Lord Steward himself led him to the bench near die fire. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

There is one common exception to this rule. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

However, unlike Bede, he lived in a Europe where Arabic numerals were common, so he started counting with zero. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

I have mentioned that one of the things that Branwell and I have always had in common is that both of our fathers work at the university. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally sheer wish and hope prevailed over common sense and facts. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The common room and the library were lit by anbaric power, but the Scholars preferred the older, softer naphtha lamps in the Retiring Room. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

I stood talking to him, asking him about his work, about common friends. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sound of the car changing gear as it turned the corner, and then even that sound merging into the common traffic, and being lost, and so absorbed forever. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

She wonders if they’re half siblings with only a mother in common too. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Ankle sprains are very common in soccer, she says, talking fast like she’s in a hurry to show you the x-rays on her iPad. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

It was so common that out on the corner we had a sign for it, a shorthand, clapping your wrists together like you were being put in handcuffs. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Bowing deeply, the eunuch hurried from the common room on soft slippered feet. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The Klansmen shared a similar past of poverty and failure, were haunted by the same familiar demons, and hated a common enemy. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Garfield's supporters emphasized his rise from poverty, presenting him as a common man who could relate to the everyday lives of voters. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

I don’t want to spend time with Nita and Tobias together, knowing that her supposed genetic damage gives her something in common with him that I will never have. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

The effect is even more pronounced when the sample is widened beyond the most common names. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Basil ducked and weaved, drawing Cluny further out on to the common. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Windmills, art, their shared history—they still have a lot in common. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The only element of uniform that we had in common was the small, black skullcap which we, too, wore. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

But with things that are numbers, like height and weight, I could throw those into the equation if I wanted to calculate the odds of those kids having so much in common with us, and…. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Renly was beloved of the commons, but he had never before led men in war. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

One encyclopedia had a sentence of praise for us: “The common rat is highly valued as an experimental animal in medical research due to his toughness, intelligence, versatility and biological similarity to man.” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Queens may see further ahead than common men, but there seems to be a limit to their vision. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Usually, guys would hang out in the common areas, where we didn’t have to wear uniforms—we could just wear T-shirts if we wanted to—watching television until bedtime. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The guards, too, treated the common criminals with a certain forbearance, even when they had to handle them roughly. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Alas, the sense of community that a common faith brings to a people spelled trouble for me. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

A common enough name in County Galway, and not so unusual in the Irish tenements in New York, but certainly not acceptable anywhere the train might take me. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

That, in combination with the advent of the euro as a common currency, has created a single economic zone out of a region once divided by an Iron Curtain. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

It was a common practice for chemists of the time to use the sense of taste as an analytic tool. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He did not meet another soul until he turned into the passage leading to the Gryffindor common room. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

I think we were unofficially trying to find some common musical ground or something, because we ended up going back to all the stuff we’d grown up on, all the songs we knew by heart. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

It won’t necessarily be more correct than those that follow, but it may be more common. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, all that is cool, but I want my common African blood in my common African veins,” Peewee said. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Penn tried to make her play the Do-You-Know game, but the only person they had in common was Henry Ford, whom Engel had met at a charity dinner. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

The happy end brought about by a divinity, the deus ex machina, is a common device with Euripides alone of the three tragic poets. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

A common tenant complaint concerned invasive attempts by officials to prove that single women were living with men—a violation of both housing and welfare rules. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Yes, and when she returns to the States, she'll find herself suddenly going blank over some word in English or, like her mother, mixing up some common phrase. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

One of the most unquestionably hot-button issues dealing with the balance of common good and personal freedom in America is gun control. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

“There is not one decisive break saying that the people below this all have this common experience,” Kingston said. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

The Slytherin common room was a long, low underground room with rough stone walls and ceiling from which round, greenish lamps were hanging on chains. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

The third R of the physiology of genes is a word that lies outside common human vocabulary, but is essential to the survival of our species: recombination—the ability to generate new combinations of genes. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

We both know that all Cindy Brady and my sister have in common is curly hair, and there's nothing I can do to change that. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

This last is by far the commonest reaction to stigma. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Through the portrait hole and across the common room, the girls and boys divided toward their separate staircases. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

After the war, the Norkus grave site memorial was destroyed and his body moved to a common grave. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Across the alley behind our house, there was a mini housing community called Euclid Parkway, where about fifteen homes had been built around a common green space. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“This is symbolic of our common African blood. ” Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the course of common speech, ’tis but a hesitation. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

We often laugh to ourselves because he has no memory, no fixed opinions and no common sense. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

By transmuting common uranium into a fissionable product that could be extracted chemically, Seaborg calculated, they could increase the supply of raw material available for a bomb by a hundredfold. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

I roll out of bed and walk into the common room of our trailer. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Within a year of the first European settlers’ arrival at Sydney, in 1788, corpses of Aborigines who had died in epidemics became a common sight. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

She had more in common with his grandpa than with his mom. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

The common force in their lives was physics. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Such brisk fights or scuffles between children’s daemons were common, luckily, and no one took much notice, but Roger went pale at once. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

The hallway outside of the room was lit up, shining with afternoon light, just like the common room at the Golden Glen. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

“I am told that you spend your days in the country with a common boy, that you dress like some farmer's daughter.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

A common boy was kept in the castle to be punished in his place. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

The boys came from Liberia, Kosovo, Sudan, Somalia, Burundi, Bosnia, Ethiopia, and Afghanistan, and while most spoke some English, they had little in common. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

She was surprised to see a “pale and rangy fellow,” a blan like her, appearing totally at ease in a town where white people were not common. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

I would address my words to two groups: I would tell Communists how common people felt, and I would tell common people of the self-sacrifice of Communists who strove for unity among them. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t believe she’d make us go back to a place where we could get shot But then I returned to my good common sense. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was also a common practice to disguise wood as another kind of building material. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

And whenever he got the chance, he would run down to the front gate and sit there watching for them, so that he could exchange a few common remarks. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

Buckland was able to find merit in them all, except the common garden mole, which he declared disgusting. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Like we had something in common, because, as she said, her medicine makes her feel better too. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Ogbenyealu is a common name for girls and you know what it means? ‘Not to Be Married to a Poor Man.’ Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I thought we would have a lot in common and hoped we’d have a real connection, but from day one, something was off. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

“But it is very common,” said the dragon, “for cats to play with mice before they kill them.” A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

It seems hopeless, since even our thoughts have nothing in common. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He added a plastic accordion door to each space and created a little common play area in front where we could keep our toys and books. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Jahrling guessed that the flask had been wiped out by a common soil bacterium called pseudomonas. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

English, as the most common language in the country, was used in teaching mathematics, history, geography, physics, biology, religious instruction, woodworking and domestic science. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

We have almost nothing in common, but somehow we’re a good fit with each other. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Just like the night of the party, the ghost shrimp are gathered in their thin-skinned glory in the common area, Chancellor Nyla on a pedestal at the far end. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

What makes all of them ‘animist’ is this common approach to the world and to man’s place in it. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

As we shake hands, he gives a small bow, a common gesture here in the Capitol. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

The building was also used for meetings in need of a more serious atmosphere than that of the common rooms, Cora noticed, such as the assemblies on hygiene and feminine matters. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Now we all have one thing in common—a religion that makes us enemies of the state. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

The most common additions and extensions add notes that are in the scale named by the chord. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

“Well, I looked up support groups for kids with no arms, and guess what? There are none. At least not that I could find. I guess Tourette’s is a lot more common.” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

They scrambled into the common room and collapsed, trembling, into armchairs. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Anybody who don’t know or care if it’s Sunday has to be common as pigs’ tracks.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Unless she was the kind of common girl that would wear cotton stockings. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Everything was so tiny, so common, so unthreatening. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

It seems pointless to maintain that Aristotle and his followers were deficient in common sense, or deficient in experience of how the world goes. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

He had little in common with any of them, but he always attended their gatherings, to eat spiced chickpeas and shrimp cutlets, and gossip and discuss politics, for he seldom had other plans. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

The blade was shorter than Longclaw but made of common steel, which made it heavier. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It was the only thing the women held in common—the sure knowledge of the pain of giving birth. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

A police roadblock wasn’t common, but not all that unusual, either. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Though it’s etymologically illegitimate, octopi is now so common that dictionaries list it as a second choice after octopuses. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

And ‘Mei,’ this is common mei, as in meimei, ‘younger sister.’ The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is easiest just to memorize the key signatures for these two very common keys. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

“We’re not throwing our tennis shoes around, Dad. We're playing a game. It’s the common man’s version of throwing the javelin. And we’re seeing who can throw his shoe the farthest.” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

“Don’t be so glum,” she said in the common tongue. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

For decades those feelings were held in check by a common enemy. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Replete with common herbs and exotic plants, it is a garden worthy of Mechtild, and every year its dimensions increase. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

A bunch of kids were studying and playing board games in the first floor common area. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

I read it and felt that in a clumsy way it linked white life with black, merged two streams of common experience. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

It's quite common for probes to land on the wrong planet. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I step into the cramped common space of our trailer. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

When two acceptable spellings are listed for the same word, use the first, because it may be more common. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

So, in order to save time, ink, and page turns, common notation has many ways to show that a part of the music should be repeated exactly. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

A group of Slytherins came up the steps from their dungeon common room. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

The common room was deserted, and, judging by the fact that it smelled quite normal, Hermione had not needed to set off any Dungbombs to ensure that he and Sirius got privacy. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

The anthropologist has never seen people like them anywhere, nor have I. You’d think, if they were simply examples of the common essence of mankind, they’d seem more recognizable. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The most common finger play song is the “Eensy, Weensy Spider.” Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

When they dismissed Archimedes as irrelevant they thought common sense was on their side; and their own experience of the world corresponded exactly to their claims. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

It’s the only class we have in common this semester. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

I recognize that gesture; it’s a common greeting in the Dhahabu Region of the west. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

More rashly, I announced my intention—told friends and neighbors, confidently informed my publisher, made it common knowledge among those who knew me. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

But theft was the one unforgivable sin, the common denominator of all sins. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Since we shared a common outdoor area with four families, someone was always hanging around. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

We had simply drifted apart because we had so little in common, except our past relationship. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

With that many students, you’ll find people you have things in common with. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“It seems that all of you have two things in common,” the soldier said after he had finished testing all of us. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

What they have in common, Volpe continues, is “they are still boys. And they enjoy being boys. It’s what is so appealing about them, what makes them so likable and perfect for these parts.” Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

That dog and I had a lot in common. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

We had a lot in common with them. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You will be cold and hungry, I am sure. A hot meal awaits you in our common room.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

A common practice was to have jockeys’ room valets open soda cans by puncturing the top with an ice pick, making it impossible to drink more than a few drops at a time. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was not a question of intelligence or common sense. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Although few cartographic corporations acknowledge their existence, copyright traps remain a common feature even in contemporary maps. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

He referred to my knee-length tunic and the bowl-shaped haircut common among country lads. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

These names don’t have much in common, phonetically or aesthetically, with the low-education names. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Acted in veritable defiance of law and common sense. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Besides basketball, it was the only thing they had in common. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

Much more common is the use of a treble clef that is meant to be read one octave below the written pitch. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Ninety-nine percent of the time, it’s easier to use a tiny bit of common sense. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

A few people ate baboons, she knew, but the practice wasn’t common. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wouldn’t be shaved with lather from the common cup. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Red oaks are one of the most common trees in North America. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

My face is warm, and I wish I had the superpower of common sense because this isn’t something I should’ve ever said out loud. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“It’s genius simmering, perhaps. I’ll let it simmer, and see what comes of it,” he said, with a secret suspicion all the while that it wasn’t genius, but something far more common. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Such calls were common, and though she sometimes wept, she never mentioned the conversation after slamming down the receiver. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Reverend Hunt says we will have common prayer every morning and evening from now on, and two sermons on Sundays. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

To emphasize the fact that suffragists were to be regarded as common criminals, the wardens at the two facilities put them in the same cells with women who had been convicted of committing serious crimes. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

There was a light on in the common room. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

Because Clovis was so dry, its stratigraphy—the sequence of geological layers—had not been jumbled up by later waterflow, a common archaeological hazard. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Figure 1.29: D sharp and E flat look very different when written in common notation, but they sound exactly the same when played on a piano. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

And that group of girls at my lunch table, the ones I have nothing in common with? Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

They speak a language in the Tupi-Guarani group, one of the most important Indian language families in South America but one not common in Bolivia. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

"It doesn't please me to take orders from common rascals," Prince Brat said coldly. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

Stannis has made common cause with a power greater and darker. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Mr. Quisling gestured to his lecture outline about the Roman Empire and said, “Then surely you know what Edgar Allan Poe and Julius Caesar have in common?” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“That’s just what I don’t want, Joe. They would make such a business of it,—such a coarse and common business,—that I couldn’t bear myself.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

They scour the vending machines, emptying over half of the dwindling stock throughout the many break rooms and other common areas. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

She slammed the portrait behind her as she entered the common room and stared furiously around. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

But our brokenness is also the source of our common humanity, the basis for our shared search for comfort, meaning, and healing. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The common salad bowl may easily present a combination of organic phosphate insecticides. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“Reason”, in fact, came to signify much more what we today should call common sense.’ The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“I have,” he said, as if it were a common thing. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Very well, then, Andrew. It will be as you wish. He shall sleep in my room. But I shall never be the same again, never, never. Such a common dog!” Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

If a visitor was still waiting after an hour— this was common—we would call the blocks to learn the reason for the holdup. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Do that one more time, you’re going to the Fire Swamp” is as common as “Clean your plate; people are starving in China.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

He climbed into the common room and found Ron and Hermione having a blazing row. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

I was so taken by Balzac that, in my imagination, I gave him a typewriter so that we would have more in common. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

And I couldn’t imagine telling Big Ma her Bible and a book by a Nigerian writer had something in common. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

“He was thrown in jail like a common criminal just because he couldn’t pay his debts.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

To general indignation,a sign went up on all common room notice boards that the next trip into Hogsmeade had been canceled. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

But it was also lonely, not having the common connection of grandparents or aunties like we used to have so often. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

In fact, the common harmonic tradition that includes everything from Baroque counterpoint to modern rock is often called triadic harmony. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

We integrating students shared many things in common. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You and me have nothing in common,” he sneered. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

The dog was their first genuine common interest, and they loved it equally, each in his or her own way. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

The magic was already faded, icy brightness turning back to common dew in the light of the rising sun. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Most of the Europeans who traveled to what they called the New World in 1492 and after were those whose families had been displaced when the commons were converted to private property. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

In the past, the ruling groups of all countries, although they might recognize their common interest and therefore limit the destructiveness of war, did fight against one another, and the victor always plundered the vanquished. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Farmer seemed to say that diplomacy, charm, and sound argument backed by hard data could unite all factions against their common enemy, TB. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

The whole point is that there was no common score, no assigned instruments, no blended harmonies. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

“Those are common. You didn’t have to go into the Greater Jungle to find them.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The two most common — strings and hollow tubes — will be discussed below, but first let's finish discussing what makes a good standing wave container, and how this affects music theory. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

The French masters had separated slaves who spoke the same African language, so in secret they had fashioned their own common tongue in order to communicate more effectively. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

A TV blaring the Weather Channel in the common room went unwatched; the doors were mostly closed; the few people seated in the common room looked confused or blank or—worst of all—scared. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

Death is the irreducible common denominator of all men. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The common was peaceful and sunny; butterflies perched on thistle flowers and grasshoppers serenaded each other with their ceaseless cadences. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The black and purple benches, highest and most distant from the sand, were crowded with freedmen and other common folk. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Instead of saying ba-ka-ta-re, a common insult meaning stupid, Terminal Islanders would say ba-ka-ya-ro, a coarser and exclusively masculine use of the word, which implies gross stupidity. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, that reminds me. Fang called last night. He sounded awful. When I asked, he said he hasn’t been sleeping. So you two have something in common.” Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

“You must tell me who cuts your hair ...” Anyone with a lick of common sense knew how to deal with arrogant nobility. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“I suppose it’s common gossip among the slaves that the animal had to be castrated. Well, and quite right too. The Emperor is too wise to take risks.” Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

Odds were that it was a common three-letter word, possibly “the” or “and.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Singing was common in Village, but usually not outdoors, not in the evening. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

The plant is, on first inspection, a common member of the lowly pasture Vicia villosa, also known as hairy vetch. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

The only person I seemed to have anything in common with was the absent Rudolf Brodermann Elmenhurst, the third, who also had an odd name and who was out of it because he wasn't there. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“I’ll tell you something. By your definition I was orphaned, too, at almost exactly the same age. So we have that in common.” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Figure 1.66: Any common note length can be divided into an unusual number of equal-length notes and rests, for example by dividing a whole note into three instead of two 11half11 notes. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Through their writing, they discovered they shared a common identity, which united them into a community that connected them, not separated them from the world. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

I guess poor white and poor colored had enough in common with just being poor. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Have you ever tried to sleep while a pint-size maniac is rattling off hundreds of detailed inquiries about the web-spinning mechanisms of the common barn spider? Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stored electrical energy is discharged by sparking, a common bug in new accelerators that was customarily eliminated by polishing down any interior imperfections attracting the discharge. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

"Been working for the common good? Splendid. I want you to do that every morning." The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

She said hello to the girls braiding their hair in the common room and darted upstairs to change before dinner. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Alone in my bedroom, I studied pictures of intelligent men and searched for a common denominator. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

For example, Penelope had never before realized how difficult it was to explain the logic behind such common household paradoxes as: Standing on the floor is perfectly correct; standing upon the loveseat is not. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

Carjackings were common in South Africa at the time, too. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

They were there to see the captain and inspect the hold; common seamen did not concern them, and few men looked as common as Davos. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

A common insecticide for household use, including assorted uses in the kitchen, is chlordane. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

These had features in common with codes she had solved before, and they were more crucial to the war effort than the chatter of South American spies. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

What they have in common are the trinkets from their homelands swaying from the rearview mirror, the strings of beads, shells, the brass letters, the blurry snapshots of their small children, the night-worn eyes. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nevertheless, with one of those startling contradictions so common in mythology, she kept the Greek Fleet from sailing to Troy until they sacrificed a maiden to her. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Inside, the white paint still smelled fresh in the common spaces, dining rooms, and bunk rooms. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“What do the gynecologist and the pizza deliveryman have in common?” Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Only four men were left in the fight now, and there was small doubt whom king and commons favored. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The bailiff said, “We have no need of you, Jane. Your helper has taken care of us with her two strong hands and her good common sense.” The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

In 1994 Neel and Wallace sifted through mitochondrial DNA from eighteen widely dispersed Indian groups, looking for mutations that had occurred since their common ancestors left Asia. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

They knew people in common; and suspected they had at least one relative in common. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the printing press that established a common knowledge base against which these discoveries could be measured. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

This is one of the prime examples of the need to avoid acting on the basis of common sense if you want to know how the world works. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

A Bach invention, a Brahms symphony, and a Beatles song are different forms in different genres, and at first they may sound as if they have nothing in common. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

The problem is not that the clock radio feels underdressed, the problem is that I cannot bear to watch the numbers advance in the heartless way common to this particular model. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Even Mrs. Van Hopper, with her cheap views and common outlook, had known I was making a mistake. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Had they come over the common, among the shining wires, through the thunderstorm, the culverts on the great river, to die at the claws of General Woundwort? Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the first time it occurred to me Joan and I might have something in common. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

These are the ones that repeatedly turn up in style guides, pet-peeve lists, newspaper language columns, irate letters to the editor, and inventories of common errors in student papers. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

It is a common consequence, written about in the medical literature under such titles as “Cognitive Effects of Childhood Leukemia Therapy” and “Disruption of Learning Processes by Chemotherapeutic Agents.” Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

At last they reached the safety of the Gryffindor common room, where the fire had burned itself into glowing ash. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

By common consent they stopped and crouched together. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

"I've seen this fat boy in the common hall," he said. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

While each episode is a self-contained narrative designed to illuminate one propitious moment with as much storytelling skill as I can muster, taken together they feature several common themes. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Yes, Joseph,’ says you,” here Pumblechook shook his head and hand at me, “‘he knows my total deficiency of common human gratitoode. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

At this time of day it was thronged with men pulling on their gowns for dinner, or hurrying to leave papers or briefcases in the common room before moving into the hall. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

“So who do you reckon Katie was supposed to give the necklace to?” asked Ron, as they climbed the stairs to the common room. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

“But none of ’em can tell us where the common room is.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Lola says that “quiet” means I notice everything, and it’s what I had in common with both of my grandpas. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

Confusing a conditional statement—if A, then B—with its converse—if B, then A—is a very common mistake. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

From behind an ornate Myrish screen carved with flowers and fancies and dreaming maidens, they peered unseen into a common room where an old man was playing a cheerful air on the pipes. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Who were these common resentful farmers to dispute his royal right? The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

“Extremely. Something had to be done, so people like myself created places where young peculiars could live apart from common folk—physically and temporally isolated enclaves like this one, of which I am enormously proud.” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

The common men camped out in the open, but the knights had thrown up tents, and some of the high lords had erected pavilions as large as houses. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion and politics, but it is not the path to knowledge; it has no place in the endeavor of science. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sanskrit and Latin words could be traced back to mutations and variations in an ancient Indo-European language, and English and Flemish had arisen from a common root. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

The only thing they had in common aside from their white coats was a shared look of suspicion. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

My father always said a Lannister was worth ten times as much as any common man. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Conquered, or conqueror, they all had one thing in common: they cultivated corn. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

I soon was taught that Pauling’s accomplishment was a product of common sense, not the result of complicated mathematical reasoning. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

“She was enslaved by carnival folk,” Addison said, “forced to pull fat, spoiled children like some common beast of burden— whipped, even, with riding crops!” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Clearly, then, the making of a work of art has little in common with what we ordinarily mean by “making. ” History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Luma and Tracy got to know each other, they found they had something powerful in common. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

As I watched the prisoners being marched away I knew there was nothing we had in common. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

After his years at the university, the man I killed returned with his new wife to the village of My Khe, where he enlisted as a common rifleman with the 48th Vietcong Battalion. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

A scholar named Thomas Cole, however, published an ingenious speculative essay in 1991.2 Corax’s name—giving extra piquancy to the judge’s joke—means “crow” in Greek, and Cole starts out arguing from common sense. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

I had no hope of reeling either back to their good common sense. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m certainly relieved, although a small part of me wishes we’d discovered something to talk about, some common ground, some way to connect. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The store of herbs that Mechtild gave me remedies disorders of the womb, which are common even among nuns. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

The time signature 6/8 is very common for children’s rhymes and songs. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Harry asked, trying to inject a note of common sense into the proceedings. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

The front door opens into the common area—a combo kitchen-dining-living-room. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Black kids with white best friends are not common in Bellmont. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is common for one party to a transaction to have better information than another party. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

The only good thing about our punishment was that it gave Annabeth and me a common enemy and lots of time to talk. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

As we become fluent readers we file away in memory tens of thousands of common word pairs, such as horse race, hunt ducks, cotton clothing, fat people, prime number, old man, and data point. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Then he sped back down the stairs and into the common room, skidding to a halt where Ron and Hermione sat, looking stunned. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Code books were common in China because they were used for sending telegrams. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

That pressure has given way, in the case of the subsequent generation, to American common sense. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

A principality is brought about either by the common people or by the nobility, depending on which of the two parties has the opportunity. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

But you would be far off the mark, because that woman would not really have anything in common with her. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

It’s the one thing I have in common with my mother. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a simple lock, the sort you could commission from any common blacksmith. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

There were two places where a student could study: the dining hall with its tables cleared for work, everyone chanting during the common memorization sessions; or the table in her own room. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Over every roof and path hung the boughs of the hemmens, the commonest tree of Winter, a stout conifer with thick pale-scarlet needles. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Okay, what do all vampire movies have in common? From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

School is a few yards away, in two classrooms next to the common area. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Stronger than any common steel, lighter, harder, sharper... A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It was this desire of his to be a common dog that made Andrew choose common dogs for his friends. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

Josiah used to bring the calendars home every year from the Santa Fe depot; on the reservation these calendars were more common than Coca-Cola calendars. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

While the idea seems common today, it was groundbreaking in the early fifties. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

At least that was one thing Cecile and Big Ma had in common. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our family structures are larger and more inclusive; anyone who claims descent from a common ancestor is deemed part of the same family. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The little towns, where nobody waved, and the other passengers in the train, with whom I had achieved an almost kinfolk relationship, disappeared into a common strangeness. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Formerly we should not have had a single thought in common—now we sit with a goose between us and feel in unison, are so intimate that we do not even speak. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The gazettes printed reports of raided depots and station agents brought to raw justice, but those were common slave-state fables. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The water spills over the cup and I don’t even have the common sense or decency to immediately wipe it because that’s my face on the bulletin board. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

“Your father's wife—the mother of your siblings—came from a common family,” he went on. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

“There are some things many synesthetes have in common, besides a slight majority of them being female. Why don’t you tell me how many of them sound familiar to you, okay?” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Another thing I had in common with crows: our habit of prizing the poorest of riches. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

It’s gotten so that it’s easier for me to lie than to tell the truth, because lying is all about common sense. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

But as always my daydreams were so much better than the reality of being with him because we now had very little in common. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What did we fight for? What did many of us die for?” was the common feeling among students. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hydrogen is the most common element in the universe, and yet no one would guess as much for another thirty years. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

“The main thing we have in common is that right is right and wrong is wrong,” she says. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Populists preached an “equalitarianism of want and poverty, the kinship of a common grievance, and a common oppressor.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

It is a matter of common experience that disorder will tend to increase if things are left to themselves. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each angel-being was distinctly an individual, and yet they had more in common with one another than with any human she had seen. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here, in a vast open space—greater than Stromford’s entire commons—buildings pressed in on all sides. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Lawlessness has run wild, common decency between people has disappeared, every man is armed against his neighbor.” My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bostick’s search and seizure reflected what had become an increasingly common tactic in the War on Drugs: suspicionless police sweeps of buses in interstate or intrastate travel. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

I would have thought that would be something they had in common. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I woke up to the scream of sirens speeding up Central Park West, maybe one of the most common sounds in New York City. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

As we all know from experience, there are some illnesses, such as flu and the common cold, to which our resistance is only temporary; we can eventually contract the illness again. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Together she and Mark Antony would work toward a common goal to fulfill their common destiny. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

But how did the common ancestor change to create humans and apes? Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just out of reach across the fence on the common land stood Basil Stag Hare, in the “at ease” position. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

That way she would never become a common field hand. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Harry. Nasty, common name, if you ask me.” Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

If only she could have had some common sense, she would have been glad of his marriage, as such a connection would have been profitable for her and the children, too. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Or at least have things in common with me.” Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

The only thing they had in common was Calypso, and every time Leo thought about that he wanted to punch Percy in the face. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The whipping’s not common knowledge, so I tell them I slipped on the ice and cut it. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

This issue of the common good versus personal liberty was hardly new when Prohibition was enacted, and one hundred years later, it is still very much with us today. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Then there appeared to be less common sources per unit volume of space for the nearby sources than for the distant ones. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The other door, the one the Master had entered and left by, opened onto the busy corridor between the library and the Scholars’ common room. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

He waits for her on the sofa in the common room as she searches for the book. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

There was a rap on the common room door and every Ravenclaw froze. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

But the sensations of common relationship were missing. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The recovered sense of common affection and trust now made it possible to act on Adams’s classic pronouncement, that they ought not die before they had explained themselves to each other. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Mr. Dell Duke wasn't friend material because he was the wrong age and, female lemurs notwithstanding, we appeared to have absolutely nothing in common. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

I spent months searching for some secret code before I realized that common sense has nothing to do with it. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Contrary to common belief, however, the bus doesn’t lie beneath any established flight path, and very few planes fly over it. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

For example, common chimpanzees have a genetic tendency to live in hierarchical groups headed by an alpha male. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I did not want to complicate the discussion by introducing grand political theories; I would rely on common sense and the facts of our history. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a stunned silence, both inside and outside the common room. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

And of course almost all the early scientists shared a common language. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Here are some of the most common questions about questions. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The common term for them was muttations, or sometimes mutts for short. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Printing created a community of astronomers working on common problems with common methods and reaching agreed solutions. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

She made her own way instead, using a combination of magic and know-how and common sense. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

“I’m fine,” he said as he made his slow way into the common room. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

In fact, no matter how tiny you make the bits, it is impossible to choose a common yardstick that will measure both the side and the diagonal perfectly: the diagonal is incommensurable with the side. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

However, if he was frightening or impressing fellow Slytherins with displays of Parseltongue in their common room, no hint of it reached the staff. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

He often comes to see us, and he and mamma get on very well together; they have so many things to talk about in common. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

By far the most common means of transportation during the Civil War was the horse. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

“It was about trying to figure out what they have in common,” she said. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

But it’s better when the common threads are made explicit, because in the vast private web of a writer’s imagination, anything can be similar to anything else. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

But her common sense told her that Professor Allegretto should not charge fifty cents an hour and not attend to his work. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was quite common for struggles between children to be settled by their daemons in this way, with one accepting the dominance of the other. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Ayanna stood over me in the crowded common area, her eyes narrowed. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Who knows but that she tried to tell someone or everyone what she was like and could not, for lack of a common language. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Media, movies, video games, television were their common interests. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Isn’t it a hopeless situation?” is the common reaction. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Whatever doubts his lords might nurse, the common men seemed to have faith in their king. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“You’d be surprised how much you two really know about each other, and how much you have in common.” Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

The common stone houses and the white snow were a gray blur, and BaiMa’s hooves on the black brick road made a metallic noise, almost like the clinking of coins. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

And only within the past decade have all the varied pieces of research come to form a whole so that biological oxidation could become part of the common knowledge of biologists. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

More common was the Book Scavenger pin, which Emily herself wore on her hoodie. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

In those early days, Pollard and Woolf found common ground in their quick minds, cerebral riding styles, and keen senses of humor. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

We have removed all of the furniture from the ship's common areas, every last chair and table, in order to accommodate refugees. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Certain common ideas become inexpressible; other, previously undreamt-of ones spring to life, finding miraculous new articulation. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

He slaps James on the back hard enough to hurt, then he and Abram go off to their card game with the other common men. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

One put on an old skirt and a pair of sand-shoes and played Hare and Hounds on the common with the children who lived next door. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

The newt, although fairly common in English ponds, is not often seen by ordinary people because it is a shy and murky creature. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

When you think about it, there is no common thread of ownership, or any other meaning, across the phrases Sophocles’ play, Sophocles’ nose, Sophocles’ toga, Sophocles’mother, Sophocles’ hometown, Sophocles’ era, and Sophocles’ death. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

The people still told the old stories in the common speech, and some of them were written down, although by whom or when we do not know. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now to explore another pair of common crime-drop explanations: Tougher gun laws Changes in crack and other drug markets First, the guns. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

As I walk the other two blocks home, I get to thinking about all that he has told me and about the two things we have in common. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

The figure below also shows some very simple forms of some common cadences. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

A bow drawn backwards and forwards across a string, or a handle mechanism that turned the edge of a wheel against a string, were the most common solutions. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Nevertheless, by Tisquantum’s time defensive palisades were increasingly common, especially in the river valleys. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

"Is it common to find poison in the palace food?" The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

“Party up in the common room, Seamus said!” yelled Dean exuberantly. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

We have a common organic chemistry and a common evolutionary heritage. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had much in common; both of us were tall for our age, and we shared daydreams—our worship of Johnny Mathis and Nat Cole, and our desire to sing. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Congress had moved gradual emancipation off its political agenda; its decision in the spring of 1790 became a precedent with the force of common law. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Among land animals hunted, wild boar and deer were the commonest prey, followed by mountain goat and bear. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Miss Lucy worked in a room down the hallway from number 18’s common room. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

A lot of business was done in that cavernous warren of a common room. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He hesitated outside the crowded Great Hall, then ran up the marble staircase; whether Gryffindor had won or lost, the team usually celebrated or commiserated in their own common room. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Every inmate still out claimed he was a porter—an inmate employee who swept, mopped, or cleaned up the common areas at a designated time. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We now know that there are two kinds of ‘new star’, one bright and relatively common, one very much brighter still and much rarer. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Death is the common right of Toads and Men. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the other two major chords in the key, IV and V are also likely to be very common. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Our customers came from different backgrounds and even different countries, but all had one thing in common: appreciation for modest fashion. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

There were some common threads among the fairy tales she had read. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

What they had in common is what kept them apart Mr. Paul had told me to use my head, so I started stacking up the positives against the negatives. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

The two had a surprising amount in common. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Then he say something that really surprise me cause it so thoughtfiil and common sense. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

There weren’t no TVs then and even movies we rent so common. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Both creatures dashed from the common into the depths of Mossflower. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Although some divisions are more common than others, any division can be imagined, and many are used in different musical traditions around the world. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

It is part of the natural world, the common property of all humanity. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“So long as they save those weapons for our common foe, I am content.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

That morning in late November, Rindlisbacher arrived with a common request: court approval to further investigate the Shaw accident. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Between classes I drink cups of coffee with them and eat doughnuts, sitting in various common rooms and butteries and coffee shops. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

It deflates them, reduces them to the common denominator where they can be dealt with. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the right side of the meadow a large common latrine has been built, a roofed and durable construction. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The embryos were removed and placed in common cows, who would then produce super calves. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The mining companies preferred such segregation because it prevented different ethnic groups from uniting around a common grievance and reinforced the power of the chiefs. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In this same Band of Music, only the Winds are Regular Soldiers, the Rest being common Citizens, many of them Negro Fiddlers. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Ships smaller than the great war dromonds of the green lands, aye, but thrice the size of any common longship, with deep hulls and savage rams, fit to meet the king’s own fleets in battle. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“And before long, the location of the tomb will be common knowledge.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

More than three thousand of those children qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a common measure of poverty within a school system. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Alabama and common law pleading, for instance, was a subject so ethereal in nature that Henry passed it only by memorizing the book. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

But “nothing is more common than for the white people on this occasion to take the grass from them without paying.” Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

The most common answer is that our language is amazingly supple. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The houses on this road were crowded together and shared common walls, with small, walled yards in front buffering them from the street. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Cautiously, they slid through the broken fence and began making their way across the common. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

But there is no collective term for all the different positions which have in common a recognition that some forms of knowledge of nature are more successful than others, and that consequently knowledge can progress. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Though the jockey was probably not at fault for Exhibit’s change of course, it was common for stewards to briefly suspend riders caught in his situation to guard against foul play. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once I had devoured the vast Herball, I hungered for more than the knowledge of common things that grew beneath me. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Here’s how to get out of some of the most common comma complications. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The portrait swung open and he climbed through the hole into the common room. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Since John was a Lost Boy and I was a Lost Girl, we had a lot of background in common. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

It took a smart man to know where the difference lay between the sects, but anyone could see what they had in common. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Whether we call them coincidences, synchronicities, or ironies, however, these occurrences are much more common than most people realize. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tom Paine, for example, claimed that it was simply a matter of common sense that an island could not rule a continent. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

“I was looking for Earthian logic, common sense, good government, peace, and responsibility.” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most women had the one thing in common: they had great pain when they gave birth to their children. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Over the past few weeks, Grandma and Joey have developed a great and unusual friendship, even though they don’t appear to have much in common. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The odds would be with me, for I would be appealing to men bound by common ideals to judge with pity and understanding one of their brothers who erred and fell in struggle. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Thus G. E. Moore thought it was common sense to believe in an external reality, but not in a creator God or a life after death, while these beliefs have seemed commonsensical to many people. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Seeing the stricken look on my face, he assured me that the problem was both common and solvable. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The two previous chapters were built around a pair of admittedly freakish questions: What do schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers have in common? and How is the Ku Klux Klan like a group of real-estate agents? Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

"Come, walk with me. They'll be serving some vile stew in the common hall by now, and I could do with a bowl of something hot." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Ballets and Broadway musicals and entertainments of that sort will flourish everywhere and will probably make the common folk happier than did the grim, hostile, fascistic pronouncements of their former leaders. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe we do have something in common after all. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

By the next day it was common knowledge. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Why, of course you will, Mr. Hare. What a bore you must think me. I’ll probably sit around on the common here and teach the rats to make daisy chains.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Their glances were kind and communicative, as though all of us shared some common secret. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I shall conclude by saying only that a prince must have the friendship of the common people. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

I never thought we would move away because we all had so much in common. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

And the only thing we really have in common is sex. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

She didn’t dare to look at Nehemia, and only hoped her understanding of the common language was still weak enough for her not to have understood. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Seven knew she was quite different from Valley and Thorn, but there was one thing they all had in common aside from being Spares: They were obsessed with the Witches of Heartbreak Cove series. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

One could be made visible by holding the paper over the flame of a candle; the other could be read by applying a common chemical. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Making and remaking the common culture that bound together clergymen, mathematicians, instrument makers and aristocrats such as James Brydges, Duke of Chandos, and George Parker, second Earl of Macclesfield, required constant effort. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“Son, I’m healthy with what I do. I eat the common food, that’s what I do.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I came to teach you how to make soap. Do you know how much they are selling common bar soap now?” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

And my own common sense was sending me a pretty strong message, one that at first I didn’t want to listen to because it scared me so. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

“It was a common punishment in Imperial China,” said O’Brien as didactically as ever. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

I supposed she was suffering the feminine hysteria common to pregnant women, but then I saw the recruit, standing in the small window of the projection booth. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

I mean, I’m sure Hillary and I have things in common, and I’m sure she’s a great person, but… Me: It’s Hannah. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

He almost gave my grandfather a stroke, but in a few minutes he realized that the two of them had a common goal: to rescue me. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hope that those two things are all we have in common and all we ever will. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

But those were a couple of divorces and a serious illness ago, and the son looking over his shoulder at the mounted snapshots now had little in common with the boy in the pictures. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

After dinner the three of them sat nervously apart in the common room. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

It is one of the most common forms of life on the planet, and it often gets into cell cultures and wrecks them. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What are you doing? You have a human on your back! Have you no shame? Are you a common mule?” Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

But today the most common reason to choose a particular key is simply that the music is easiest to sing or play in that key. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

There were about a hundred of them, all in sober black suits, but the suits were all they had in common. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

We do usually eat late when Didu cooks, but Mom says late dinners are common for Bengalis. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“You know, Delsie, you have a lot in common with your mom. You laugh like her. The way you stand. But you have one big difference.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

Along with their truly awe-inspiring heroism, these men of the North had delightful common sense. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bentley is thus, as his choice of name indicates, prepared to meet the freethinkers on common ground at least when it comes to witchcraft, while defending the established Church. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Hazel, sensing at once that they had nothing in common with himself and his companions, started and sat up tensely. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

But democracy is a forgiving God and America’s heresies—torture, theft, enslavement—are so common among individuals and nations that none can declare themselves immune. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

The common people and a few nobles and churchmen soon gained complete power in France and beheaded Louis XVI in January 1793. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

The name was common enough that Grace suspected she could Google it for hours and not find anything, but it seemed like maybe Melissa had never wanted to be found. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

That, and the fact they both had eyes in their head, meant they had two things in common. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Nhamo was capable of going into screaming fits herself, for that matter, but she did have common sense. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She and I have a lot in common. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

Among their voices but silent, I traced, then lost, the sounds of individual aunts in the surge of the common prayer. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Posters announcing Klan rallies, bearing the slogan “Be a Man, Join the Klan,” became a common sight in store windows and on telephone poles in small towns and major cities across the state. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

This was a time when “benevolent deception” was a common practice — doctors often withheld even the most fundamental information from their patients, sometimes not giving them any diagnosis at all. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

A gust of merriment greeted him as he shoved into the inn's common room. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Many risk factors for chronic diseases are now more common among the less educated than the better educated. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

“I am telling you that escape or checking out is a common response to emotional trauma and anxiety, like the kind Sparrow experiences in social situations, like school.” Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

"A musician! Violin? No, of course, viola. Yes, you, go over there, and the Kapo will take your information. You'll be an asset. Viola. Not so common." What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Nevertheless, I didn’t have much in common with any of my teammates except Doug. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s impossible. Asking you and the other Library Olympians to work together for a higher, common purpose? Forget I even mentioned it. Dr. Zinchenko?” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

Once the lab won the AEC’s blessing, it became clear that the two scientists actually had very little in common. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

I had naively supposed that I would have much in common with them, but I found them preoccupied with twisted sex problems. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

But this war took place between people who were neighbors, whose homes adjoined, whose farms had common boundaries. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The misconception is so common that it has been given a name: the etymological fallacy. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

"They ain't just common sparrows. Have a look at this saddle." The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

Crick told Watson that Pauling’s model was, in fact, the “product of common sense, not the result of complicated mathematical reasoning.” The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

He continues: A regular journal carries from one research worker to another the various . . . observations which are of common interest . The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Blank caps are fairly common now, but Dad had thought up the idea and had had them made specially by the Remington company. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Because we have plenty of room here in Opportunity Hall,” he added, then disappeared down the corridor in the direction of our common room. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

When one of ’em says to another, ‘He was a convict, a few year ago, and is a ignorant common fellow now, for all he’s lucky,’ what do I say? Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Meet you in the common room,” Harry muttered as Professor Trelawney’s voice called, “Harry Potter!” Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

But the riots have a common cause, as named by the civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.: “A riot is the language of the unheard.” A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He also says there are times when you’ve got no choice but to defend yourself from common morons. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Individual combat is a common theme; losers were formally stripped of their garments and forced to parade naked. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

His operas would be for the common people, at sensible, knock-down prices. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

It was common for people just to walk along 125th Street as their evening’s entertainment. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

In wild wheat and barley, a common single-gene mutation blocks shattering. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

That was a common feeling among the bomb makers. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

From the common room comes the sound of smashing glass. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

But, nevertheless, they have one common enterprise, that of transmuting signs and symptoms into knowledge. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Pyp and Toad would be sitting near the fire in the common room, drinking cups of mulled wine before their supper. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Instead of toxic pesticides, crops are sprayed with natural substances, like BT, a pesticide made from a common soil bacteria. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Ron had fallen asleep in the dark common room, waiting for them to return. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Its beauty was like to that of common silver, but the beauty of mithril did not tarnish or grow dim. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Us be’nt no common urchin,” quavered the poor creature, staying curled up as tight as ever. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

On Saturday evenings the farm got together for a common meal and diversions. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“And then you can work through the other common letters—s? t? r? We could always look it up, the use of all letters in order.” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Twelve cabins—one for each Olympian god—made a horseshoe pattern around the commons area. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Hating Miss Hilly’s the only thing that crazy woman and I have in common. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

They were to be identified by the maps they might sometimes consult and, on questioning, by their too-perfect English and their ignorance of common nursery rhymes. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Either common sense is amorphous and malleable, to the extent that all the beliefs that are shared within a community are compatible with common sense. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The common citizens, who were in ignorance of the 245 higher policy, had a great deal to do. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or then again, Bernabe figured a painted cattleguard might be said to share a common soul with a shapely woman who wore falsies. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Leaders envisioned a powerful show of unity, a massive crowd of blacks and whites together parading through the Black Belt, crossing as one over the deadline, celebrating their common bond as laborers. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

They look for peculiars when they can, but a gobsmacking portion of their energy and effort is spent tracking down common victims for the hollows, animal and human, and then hiding the mess.” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

They had the dormitory to themselves and the common room was far emptier than usual, so they were able to get the good armchairs by the fire. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

The Dahomans also competed, as did the Turks, “some of them as hairy as gorillas,” the Tribune said, with the anthropological abandon common to the age. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Anyone might see through the watch business—it is a common enough device in detective stories. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So I confess only that I have neglected my prayers, which is a fault most common -with us.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Manioc was common throughout Congo, and its starchy root kept millions from starvation. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

For the common soldier, at least, war has the feel—the spiritual texture—of a great ghostly fog, thick and permanent. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is a common sight in Phnom Penh to see people on side streets sitting in rows on squat stools eating their food. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Very far out in the Western Reach, where dragons are as common as mice.” A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

But lesser failures of coherence are among the commonest flaws in writing. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

On return, she did planks, lunges, push-ups, and squats in the hostel common room. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

They bonded over common ancestry, and one day Zeitoun asked Ahmaad if he knew any single women who might be appropriate for him. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Apparently, green eyes are common in Northern Iran. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

We had little in common other than our nearness to death, and that was not what we wanted to talk about; so, much of the time, we did not understand each other very well. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

When I polled some accomplished writers about which style manuals they had con- sulted during their apprenticeships, the most common answer I got was “none.” The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Plus there was common sense to think of. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“And do you know? We have something else in common. Our names.” The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I do not deal in common currency. For this I shall require one secret withheld from a friend.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Ivan had talked about conflicting schools of thought when it came to dragon development, but there were some points common to both schools. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

At my house, with my family, we found a common ground. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most scholars agree that animistic beliefs were common among ancient foragers. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gripping the standard in bloodless claws, Cluny climbed over the fence to the common land. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Perhaps the most common—and the most important—forms of rapid cognition are the judgments we make and the impressions we form of other people. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

"Are you sure he's got the right Mohammed? It is the most common boy's name in the world. There has to be a mistake. Mo would never steal." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

It was like when I stared at a common word I should know, but I couldn’t make sense of it because one or two letters were floating around. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

I worried at times that my crocus was too elaborate a bloom, not a common perennial but a hothouse flower, a hybrid named by its originator like a rose. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Like all his kind, however, the young dog hated and feared the wolf with some deep primeval instinct which must have had its origin in those mists of time when they shared a common ancestor. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

In my early years, I wondered why it was so rare to catch a scythe out of his or her robes and in common street clothes. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

But the subject was acne—which I was sorry Cletus wasn’t around to hear—and I was left with nothing to go on except my own common sense. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

One of the commonest forms of tree-blindness consists of a failure to look carefully at each branch of a coordination. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

In the coming phase of work flow, here is how you will make a dentist appointment: First, there will be a common standard for making dental appointments with any dentist. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

Perhaps you think that the first version, the one with the unmarked subject, is an increasingly common symptom of grammatical laziness. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

They are subtle and complex and surprisingly common, and what happened on Wheeler Avenue is a powerful example of how mind reading works—and how it sometimes goes terribly awry. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Or for the occasion his death gave them to express their protestations, a time and place to come together, to stand touching and sweating and breathing and looking in a common direction? Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You may just find you have a lot in common with your namesake.” Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

The Soviet Union and the United States were allies in World War II. But that’s because they were fighting common enemies—not because they liked each other. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I could force it back to the smooth highway of common sense, then Hamlet would be himself again. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

She would not run from them as a common criminal. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I found out we had a lot in common. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Coming from the west, the Pacific trade winds hit the cold air from the Humboldt Current and are forced upward in a classic temperature inversion of the sort common in southern California. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

She’s fun, smart, she doesn’t just hear me she listens to me, and we have so much in common, but . . . she’s white. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Syllabaries were common in ancient times, as exemplified by the Linear B writing of Mycenaean Greece. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The afternoon was wet: a walk the party had proposed to take to see a gipsy camp, lately pitched on a common beyond Hay, was consequently deferred. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

A dozen times Jeyne and Sansa cried out in unison as riders crashed together, lances exploding into splinters while the commons screamed for their favorites. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

"We aren't so different. We have much more in common than you know." A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

I suppose the only common things between us are the shared earrings, the memory of our brothers. Red Queen 2015-02-10T00:00:00Z

In those days, death was more common and people knew what to do for each other. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, Jaime and Nicolas were growing up apart from the feminine dyad, adhering to the then common belief that “we have to become men.” The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

That was in 1924, and taking out a child’s adenoids, and often the tonsils as well, without any anaesthetic was common practice in those days. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We brand our cattle, of course, but I’ve never bothered to check to see if any of our slaves carry brands. Is that a common practice, dearie?” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bronze-smith said to that stranger, “You are no common man.” A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Things in common, that made it easier to talk to each other than to strangers, but hardly meant that when they did they would agree. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her family was rich and she was very refined—Lily was into books and opera— and we had black husbands, so we had that in common. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gebu sold her at the common slave market to pay for funerary arrangements. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Is it possible we have such a big part of us in common? Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I watch her walk away, and I realize that maybe I have more in common with Claire than I think. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

While poverty is common around Pikeville, foster care is something much worse: a sundering of the family ties that count for so much. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Female common chimpanzees cannot take lessons from their bonobo relatives and stage a feminist revolution. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

One common response of ours to infection is to develop a fever. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

My forlorn thought flows variable as her song, wondering: shall I stay beside my son and guard my own things here, my maids, my hall, to honor my lord’s bed and the common talk? The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Deals like those were pretty common within Insomnia Con, and the organizers usually just looked the other way, probably because it was too hard to control. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

A common first symptom of SAD is the belief that one hears children’s voices in one’s head. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

As she passed one to me, I noticed how thick and red and sausagey her fingers were and wondered if that was a common Polish trait. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

“I don’t think we have anything in common.” Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

As we crossed the commons area, a fight broke out between the Ares and Apollo cabins. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

The English had the common law, which relied on the jury system. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

This campus had little in common with Andrews University, where the Merritts’ daughters had gone. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

The typical lunch menu varied, but all had one thing in common: whatever the bill of fare, it was dominated by foods salty enough to make customers as thirsty as possible for another beer. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

“You have a lot in common with Anne of Green Gables.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Crab eaters are used as laboratory animals because they are common, cheap, and easily obtained. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was strong, willing, undemanding; and she had enough common sense to do what she was bid and ask no questions. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because he thinks Facebook is the lowest common denominator of social discourse. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Inbreeding is common in Appalachia, as are genetic deformities, but Nurse Rosalee noticed nothing unusual about me. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

When I was younger, Mom pasted dozens of words on it, but I was still limited to only a handful of common nouns, verbs, and adjectives, some names, and a bunch of smiley faces. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Most of the common men come to listen. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

So however questionable they may seem on intellectual principle, those great oxymorons—“common sense” and “received wisdom”—are profoundly important in persuasion. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

The new name didn’t fool anybody, though, and never entered common usage. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Together they saw the tragedy and humiliation of their Table, from which no man was willing to save them— knew that the Queen of it was called, by common breath, a destroyer of good knights. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Too subtle for the common palate,’ was one note that I remember writing down. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Antony is first appealing to his crowd on a human level, as friends: establishing a bond of common feeling which he hopes to extend to Caesar. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

At that precise moment it was two of those same creatures who stood on the fringe of Mossflower Wood, spying across the common land to where Cluny’s army was exercising. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

He got up, dressed in the pale dawn light, left the dormitory without waking Ron, and went back down to the deserted common room. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

The common impression that pre-agricultural humans lived in an age of stone is a misconception based on this archaeological bias. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Must be, it’s not a very common name, is it?” said Harry. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Spot is a common name for a dog. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

“The worst part of it is that the woman is common riffraff,” her mother said, twisting the handkerchief. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Such biographies prove common for so-called gentle tribespeople and contributed to the acceptance of centralized authority as tribal societies grew larger. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know that Tori’s hatred of Jeanine was common knowledge—or maybe it isn’t. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

They felt that the disorder must be one of the other common fevers that often struck during warm weather. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

“No. Maybe I heard a story about him. It’s a common name, you know.” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

There, coiled comfortably on the second step, was a thick mottled specimen that Curly recognized as a cottonmouth water moccasin, common in southern Florida. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Indeed, he thought that water was a common principle underlying all of matter, just as today we might say the same of electrons, protons and neutrons, or of quarks. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She can never be common, like Hank and me. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

His death was little noticed; jockey fatalities were so common that they rarely earned more than a slim paragraph in the press. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yet we cannot deny that works of art created at the same time and in the same place do have something in common. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

A Belgian and an American, let’s say, two old friends with a hunger in common, a hand in the diamond business. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

And while children born out of wedlock were common during this time, children who grew to manhood in less than two months were not. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

It occurred to me that, with the exception of the guitar, he and I actually had quite a bit in common. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Tappers freshman boys were lined up in the common room, excited, terrified, maybe looking a little too much like they were going to a funeral instead of getting ready to go pick up their dates. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

There’s a new chap at the club named Quinzy who’s itching to meet them, and the fellow’s a judge so it’s plain common sense to throw him a bone, so to speak. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

At the dinner table she argues with them about books and paintings and people they know in common the way one might argue with a friend. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s because you’ve got that nose of yours stuck so far in the air that you never get to look down to see us common nits on the ground.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Practicality and common sense became pillars of his religious faith. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Other than the fact that I appreciate this about him, we don’t have much in common. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Harry gave up trying to make them talk to each other and devoted himself to examining the Firebolt, which he had brought down to the common room with him. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

It suddenly struck me that the two worst social situations in middle school — dances and dodgeball — had a lot in common for guys like me. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The light from the common room lit up the top of the trees. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

“And if I change, maybe other things will change too. Maybe Sally will be nicer. Maybe Mother and I will find more in common. Maybe the schools will reopen!” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the most common, and most feared, new punishment was the cold-water bath. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The common sense that Big Ma always pointed out I was bom with. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Being in high school, she knew something of parliamentary procedure, and thought it might be a good idea to have the chairman represent the common people. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

They shook paws and ventured out on to the common land. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

It sounded peculiar at first, but if you started thinking like you didn’t have no common sense atall it seemed like Cooter’d put it all together real good! Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

The moral law applies to rational, language-using creatures, and the law of nature binds all human beings by virtue of their capacity to recognize that there are moral obligations that are common to them all. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

She also took other progressive stances, like making a point of using her own full name—Elizebeth Smith Friedman—instead of the more common and acceptable form, Mrs. William F. Friedman. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

These were people I'd known in high school, and it disappointed me to see how little we now had in common. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

The Jomon language of Kyushu may instead have shared a common ancestor with the Austronesian language family, which includes Polynesian and Indonesian languages and the Aboriginal languages of Taiwan. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Wednesday night found Hermione and Harry sitting alone in the common room, long after everyone else had gone to bed. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

It is a relatively simple proposition to keep a movement together when you are fighting against a common enemy. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I am here on my own time. If you want me to cooperate w'ith you, then answer my question. Out of common courtesy, one Latino to another.” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Regardless, common sense finally prevailed, and fire was banned in MidMerica as a method of gleaning. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Sometimes people want a thing so much that they lose their common sense. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The assignments, quite honestly, made me feel guilty for growing up in a time with a life-changing advancement, sort of like how we have medicine to cure common diseases that killed others in the past. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

At least they still have the love of art in common. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Only the kids have nothing in common and they hate each other. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

To whom else would they turn, in that desperate moment, if not to the man who radiated common sense and dignity and all that was presidential? Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

He does not talk about purity any more but of the necessity of using common cultural sign systems to reflect the iconic banality of our times. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“My dear, you do not understand me. This is a matter of mere common politeness and good-breeding, and has nothing to do with any encouragement to people to marry.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

If he had views about what constitutes evidence that were different from ours, then that simply shows that ‘common sense’ varies from one culture to another. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I don’t think he cares about Jamie—they used to be friends when they were kids, until he realized me and Jamie had way more in common. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Contestants try to make their celebrity partners guess seven common words by giving clues. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

The hanger might have little or no undergrowth but at least the branches gave cover from the sky: and kestrels, they soon realized, were common in this solitude. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What you’re going through is honestly quite common, Moss. I promise you. And he might very well be nervous, too, but he just shows it in a different way.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

A common bet-hedging adaptation by which wild plants achieve that result is to enclose their seeds in a thick coat or armor. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He had been quite convinced that the common room was empty; he had not been at all prepared for a hulking figure to rise suddenly out of a distant chair. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

To this day, for Indigenous peoples the land and its resources are “home” and exist for the common good of the people who share it. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Interestingly, there is often an affective connection between music and the emotions, and musical intelligence may share common thinking processes with mathematical intelligence. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

About sixty percent of Shin’s class was assigned to the coal mines, where accidental death from cave-ins, explosions, and gas poisonings was common. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

They rang for higher wages, they rang for better food, they rang for open revolt, for patriotism, for common sense, and for a wholesale return to Japan. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

The whole cabin, about twenty of us, filed into the commons yard. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

It was different from the meadow copses they had left: a narrow belt of trees, four or five hundred yards long but barely fifty wide; a kind of windbreak common on the downs. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was no “children should be seen and not heard” rule, as was common in Victorian households. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

They might have a common enemy in the Germans, but the non-Jewish boys constantly taunted and picked on the Jewish boys. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

If they die, their bodies are lowered, nameless, into common graves. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

That night, however, I could not see why the common tautomeric form of guanine would not hydrogen- bond to adenine. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

The mention of Conococheague Creek provoked waves of sarcasm from incredulous congressmen: “Enquiries will be made,” observed one Massachusetts member, “where in the name of common sense is Connogochque?” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

I use the term racial caste in this book the way it is used in common parlance to denote a stigmatized racial group locked into an inferior position by law and custom. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Hence, it is the presumption of common sense and science that these ESP phenomena don’t exist, and the burden of proof is on those who maintain that there are such phenomena. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many people around me cried, too, the way they did during the Stations of the Cross when they moaned and said, “Oh, what the Lord did for me” or “He died for a common me!” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I shared a common belief that the horrors of war would bring our various leaders to their senses and usher in a period of peace and harmony,” Hall said. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The most common method is subtle, and works both in person and by post. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He made it sound so banal, so bloodless, so common. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I do not now nor did I ever have anything in common with any of them, nothing except a knowledge of Greek and the year of my life I spent in their company. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

They pulled on their bathrobes, picked up their wands, and crept across the tower room, down the spiral staircase, and into the Gryffindor common room. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Within the first year, many common fruits simply vanish. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

In the early hours of April 19, 1775, the men of Lexington, Massachusetts, began to gather on the town common. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

What I did experience when alone was a sort of general neurotic horror, a common attack of nerves and self-loathing magnified to the power of ten. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

If a man could give five million dollars away, then millions must be as common to him as nickels. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

With shows like “Roy,” in the late 1990s, the writers of the show attempted, for the first time, to link some of these pieces together with a common theme. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hours later, the common room had a warm, jovial feel to it. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

In my book Mathematics and Humor I tried to show that both activities are forms of intellectual play, which often find common ground in brainteasers, puzzles, games, and paradoxes. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Late that afternoon I woke to find a sympathetic note and a packet of flu pills on the common room table. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

I think they just liked having this thing they shared in common, never mind all the hours it provided them alone to practice. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

We wound up with eleven fellows from Kent sleeping three to a bedchamber and using the second-floor drawing room as their common area for dining and conversating. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

The new term started next morning with a pleasant surprise for the sixth years: a large sign had been pinned to the common room notice boards overnight. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Though sexual liaisons were common, society tolerated them only as long as their details remained secret. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Jute farms and dairy farms have something in common. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I wanted to make the lives of these men known through the images already accepted as the common coin of communication. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

A common error in student writing is to shift the tense from a main clause to a subordinate one even when they refer to the same time period. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

His lordship’s cushioned throne was wide enough to accommodate three men of common girth, yet Manderly threatened to overflow it. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It was as if she despised the noisy crowds of common folk craning past the Praetorian Guards’ leather-clad shoulders for a glimpse of her. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

Yet all these gases have very basic properties in common: heat them up and they expand; cool them down and they contract. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

The second stage was introduced as a change, by common consent Sir Grummore stumped off to one end of the clearing, while King Pellinore plodded off to the other. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I didn’t have anything in common with the girls my age. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

We dined the traditional way, sitting on cushions around the room, tablecloth spread on the floor, eat­ing with our hands in groups of four or five from common platters. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Indeed, Amazonians typically do not make the distinction between “cultivated” and “wild” landscapes common in the West; instead they simply classify landscapes into scores of varieties, depending on the types of species in each. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Although they may sound as if they don’t have very much in common, they share a basic, underlying pattern. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It would be easy to stereotype Christopher McCandless as an-other boy who felt too much, a loopy young man who read too many books and lacked even a modicum of common sense. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Avoiding both the past and the future, they embraced the moment with a stoicism common to Buddhists and recently recovered alcoholics. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

“We’re not going to plagiarize her. Filmmakers create stories based on true events all the time. It’s a common thing.” I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

We stand in the common area of my trailer. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

“At least one of you has some common sense.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

But fairies were never seen in common daylight, and they preferred the light of the full moon for their hunts and celebrations. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

With the exception of ourselves, all men at Pollsmoor were common- law prisoners, and their treatment was backward. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is common, among the nonpoor, to think of poverty as a sustainable condition—austere, perhaps, but they get by somehow, don’t they? Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Laila got her to play snakes and ladders, and they ate shavings from blocks of dark chocolate, one of the few things they shared a common taste for. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Diabetes mellitus—commonly referred to as diabetes—is a costly, silent killer. This complex but common disease occurs when a cat’s body either doesn’t produce or doesn’t properly use insulin.” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Before the spread of alphabetic writing, systems making much use of logograms were more common and included Egyptian hieroglyphs, Maya glyphs, and Sumerian cuneiform. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He was known to us all as being a most cruel wretch,—a common drunkard, who had, by his reckless mismanagement and profligate dissipation, already wasted a large portion of his father’s property. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 1845-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Crispin, for these lords to have sons out of wedlock is common.” Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Just because we don’t have anything in common!” Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Back then, celebrating your birthday was still not a common thing for us Navajos. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

It turns out that coordinators and subordinators have nothing in common, and there is no category called “conjunction” that includes them both. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

But they all had one thing in common: None of them were Asian. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The way we look is one thing we’ve always had in common. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Ron and Hermione were sitting together in the common room when he came back. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Mom and I didn’t seem to have a whole lot in common, but we both loved to read. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

How can I make you see it, this strange harsh light which pervades Homer’s landscapes and illumines the dialogues of Plato, an alien light, inarticulable in our common tongue? The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

She listened to what the doctors recommended, but on many occasions she ignored their guidance and relied on a combination of maternal instinct and common sense. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

But keep in mind that these are the most common names of all, and consider the size of the data set. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Any large-scale human cooperation—whether a modern state, a medieval church, an ancient city or an archaic tribe—is rooted in common myths that exist only in people’s collective imagination. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I studied hard, got straight A’s, but nobody seemed to see that I was smart and had nothing in common with this monster, this birth defect. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

"That be common for I, also, but be more strong, you. Much work and someday you talk pretty. People start love you soon. Maybe tomorrow, okay." Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Finishing up, he asked Raymond how he made his living, and when Raymond replied “warehouse guard,” the prosecutor informed the jury that it was common knowledge that the witness practiced the profession of procurer. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

Wiretaps had become common, as was twenty-four- hour surveillance. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Catelyn said, "Let us hope there will be no battle. We three share a common foe who would destroy us all." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Actually, that’s my middle name,” Gogol says by way of explanation, sitting with them in the common room to their suite. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The truth was in the symmetry, which was to say, it was founded in common sense. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Therefore, one who becomes prince with the support of the common people must keep them well disposed. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, yes,” Ash said eagerly, and then it occurred to her that the huntress might have been making her an offer, and perhaps she — a common household servant — should have turned her down. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

There is no common standard by which the two can be compared. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The reds and yellows of common flame warred against the emeralds and jades of wildfire, each color flaring and then fading, birthing armies of short-lived shadows to die again an instant later. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Logically they should have been united, not only by the common bond of oil that had kept them in clothes for sixty years, but by the bonds of loneliness. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Died in a saloon like a common gambler caught with too many aces in his hand. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

Eventually, it is considered so common that even lower-end parents may not want it, whereby it falls out of the rotation entirely. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Lucy always said that the greatest friends have nothing and everything in common all at once. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“Ten million people live in Harare, and ‘She Elephant’ is a more common nickname than you might think.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Behind this common burial ground the rough face of the cliff was honeycombed with the better tombs of artisans and scribes and merchants, carved into the rock itself. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

People had a curious way of double-talking around things, saying the opposite of what common sense would dictate. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Even though black like them, he felt there was too much difference between him and them to allow for a common binding and a common life. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I center myself—take a deep, calming breath, reminded of the one thing I have in common with Indiana Jones besides proficiency with a whip. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“That’s nice. We have that one thing in common, at least.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

In this way they could justify treating the Indigenous peoples in much the same ways they had been treated when the nobles displaced them from the commons. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

This is an annoying and common occurrence when you are trying to grow a virus, and it wipes out the flask. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first he’d seen in some while, common in the north, leading out of the looted and exhausted cities, hopeless messages to loved ones lost and dead. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

The only thing most of them had in common was that they came from somewhere else, and for most of them, Dundee was a better place to be. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

From that common starting point, they then devised diametrically different courses of action. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

The commons were hooting and pointing, the lords and ladies were trying to stifle their chuckles, and failing, and over it all Ned could hear King Robert laughing, louder than anyone. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

It was common for Shin and other students to take a chance. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

His reference points for sports were the more common football, basketball, and baseball; fencing was still new for him. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

They were all kinds of men—literate men and ignorant men, clean men and dirty men—but all of them had restlessness in common. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Even military leaders were reporting that obesity was one of the most common disqualifiers for service. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“Which gives the Erudite and the Allegiant a common goal: to usurp Evelyn.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

I can’t imagine what the nurses thought a lawyer and a veterinarian would have in common, but they wheeled him on over to sit opposite me that first night, and here he’s been ever since. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

“It’s more common than you might think, Jackson.” Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

That is what they have in common with the passive constructions that also bog down these examples, like was affirmed and were used. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

I finally remembered that my neighbor was called Jessica, a perfectly common name. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

And what did virtually all of those opportunities have in common? Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Neither the nominalist nor the mathematical usages are particularly common, and we cannot show any direct influence from either of them on seventeenth-century usages. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

That was courtesy, common decency—whatever one wished to call it. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nose jobs are a common practice among Iranians. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Explosions were common at the brickworks, for companies would use dynamite to loosen the clay before the great machines scooped it up to make bricks. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Discussions of common sense generally fail to distinguish adequately universal and local definitions of the concept. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“Oh, Professor, I believe you are only putting up a joke on me. Why, these flowers are only common garlic.” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

“That’s it, Homer,” Mr. Dubonnet chided him, “cough your lungs out. You might be the mine superintendent, but you’ve got the common miner’s disease.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

In that first exchange, the British got the best of the colonists, gunning down seven militiamen in a brief flurry of gunshots on the common. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was common talk in the cabins that they had been sold and were to go South with the chain gang the day after Christmas. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The common story we all share, that passes from city to city, from country to country, from world to world. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

He first worked for Holmes as a common laborer but soon proved to possess a talent that Holmes found particularly valuable. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

On a world where a common table implement is a little device with which you crack the ice that has formed on your drink between drafts, hot beer is a thing you come to appreciate. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn't help myself, I burst out laughing—maybe because of the seriousness of Buddy's face and the common meaning of the word "crazy" in a sentence like that. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

That pouch contained remedies for all sorts of common problems, including burns. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

It was common, but there was no way to get ahead. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And anyway, it wasn’t so long ago that slavery was common practice throughout all the United States. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Hermione refused to sit in the common room while Ron was there, so Harry generally joined her in the library, which meant that their conversations were held in whispers. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

They are, in digested form, the appeal to “common sense.” Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

“It is common sense—” “There is nothing commonsensical about what you have done to me.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The four women lived in different cities and didn’t know each other, but it turned out they had something in common. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I met with Mr. de Klerk in order to find common ground and avoid a repetition of another tragedy like Bisho. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The study concluded that the effect on Americans of radioactive emissions from nuclear tests was vastly outweighed by their exposure to diagnostic X-rays and other common sources. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

The most common offense for which people are placed on probation or parole is a drug offense. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

That night he sought out his un-cle in the great timbered common hall and pleaded to go with him. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Lynchings were common throughout the South, including in the Durham area. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

If you go far enough back, we have a common ancestor. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s a common thing for Xhosa parents to say to their kids. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

There are invariant and variable structures in speech that are common to all of us. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We have a friend in common,” the tall man said. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

A common accident was “clipping heels,” in which trailing horses tripped over leading horses’ hind hooves, usually sending the trailing horse and rider into a somersault. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was about the same as a big wood might be nowadays, whereas the common forest of. those times was like a jungle on the Amazon. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a fairly common occurrence, and it happened to fall at the perfect time for Ben to further my education. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

What they really had in common were their claws. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

They passed long brick walls dividing the compounds of Seatown’s wealthy traders from the common folk who did the work of the city. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Nearly everyone in town raised a few chickens, but turkeys were less common, being bigger and having a more pronounced tendency toward meanness, except of course for Travis’s birds. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

It’s probably the only thing they have in common. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Yet, sophisticated ideas are common in such communities. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since I quit cheering, we don’t have much in common. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

It became common for certain groups within the Muslim community to encourage their boys to be involved in sports, while leaving their girls to sit on the sidelines. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

“She’s guarded, but she lets people in if she trusts them. Not the people who suck up to her, but people she cares about and who care about her. We have that in common.” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

The common room looked strange, full of people wearing different colors instead of the usual mass of black. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Naheed and her family had as much in common with Islamic extremists as, well, nothing. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

Some say that Pythagoras starved himself, but the most common versions all say that beans were his undoing. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

‘I’m going to take this down for the party. I think it looks common. Don’t you?’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Four four time is used so much that it is often called common time, written as a bold "C." Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

He apparently reasoned that if you could make fine spirits from common corn and the lowly potato, why not the princely pecan? The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

He watched twelve rats falling over each other and bumping heads as they chased his friend around the common land. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Harry fretted about this next to the fire in the Gryffindor common room, while Ron and Hermione used their time off to play a game of wizard chess. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

They did not, as spirit mediums usually did, take messages from the upper world to common humanity. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

"I already know that Dante doesn’t have an ounce of common sense. But, Ari, I thought you were a little more responsible." Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

“Why did I have to read about it in the papers like a common villager?” Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

See, the one thing good memories and bad memories have in common is that they both stay with you. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Insecticide-resistant strains of this mosquito have occurred in Southeast Asia and are now common in the Caribbean region. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

It is common for aspiring jockeys to be so rubber-legged upon dismounting from their first circuit around the track that they are unable to walk back to the barn. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

By common consent they were using the spears as sabers now, no longer daring the lethal points. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

“So, the question is, what do all of these have in common?” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Walter sat in a common room with older, heavily medicated people watching TV It was jarring to see him sitting in a hospital gown among people so compromised and infirm. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Getting a job is more common, and 39 percent of poor people who are hired rise out of poverty, as against 3 5 percent who get at least a two-year college degree. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

“He ... he doesn’t mean ... In his culture that sort of thing is more common.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I have committed to memory the common rights of toads and men. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

They also had plenty to talk about, with the result that the common room often didn’t empty until past midnight. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

This intense-repetition type of cyclic form is very common in folk musics around the world and often finds its way into classical and popular musics, too. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Such “missing mass,” if common in intergalactic space, would make a major contribution to closing the universe. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is very common for longer repeated sections of music to be repeated exactly until the last few measures. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

But the men said he worked as hard as a common soldier. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

You must resist the common urge toward the comforting narrative of divine law, toward fairy tales that imply some irrepressible justice. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“I was wondering why no one was coming after us, and I got worried, knowing what it would do to her...and, well, I guess you have some common sense after all.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

These were not independent sciences but a family group which held a set of geometrical techniques and measuring instruments in common. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“You don’t know what a communist is? Such a simple thing. Everyone knows. It’s common knowledge. You don’t... Bah. I don’t know why I’m surprised.” A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

But thanks to tree-blindness, it’s common to slip up and type The bridge to the islands are crowded. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

At eleven o’clock that night, they said good-bye to Ron in the common room and went down to the entrance hall with Neville. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Fortunately the stuff seems to be pretty common in the jungle. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

It is common enough at such times to fantasize arriving in a remote and high place. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

To hear Hollywood tell it, shooting a gun is a fairly common and straightforward act. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

The most common types of earthquakes are those where two plates meet, as in California along the San Andreas Fault. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

He reminded the audience that a country couldn’t be carved up simply into red and blue, that we were united by a common humanity, compelled to care for the whole of society. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“Just goes to show what even a small community such as ours can do when we unite behind a common cause.” Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

For instance, in English it’s not obvious how to draw a picture of the common syllable -tion, but we could instead draw a picture illustrating the verb shun, which has the same pronunciation. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Some of these traumatized common people, and their descendants became the settlers who would cross a vast ocean, drawn by the promise of their own land and higher status. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

He talked about democracy and good citizenship and about a good world where everyone did the best he could for the common good of all. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Despite her common sense, which had withstood more than twenty years’ worth of the three-legged table and her mother’s prognostications, she was trembling as she crossed the threshold of the darkroom. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

What does this idea—say, the knotting of braids—have in common with that one in some other seemingly disparate area—say, the symmetries of some geometric figure? Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I told him, “Mohammed is the most common name on earth.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I just know the common ordinary everyday names that folks call things around here.” Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

From the practical rather than the medical standpoint this distinction is of little importance, however, because these petroleum solvents are an inseparable part of most common spraying practices. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

His harmonic experiments flowed freely into later incarnations of jazz, the origins of which were most certainly not European, and have become part of a common musical heritage. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

We dissolved into each other, and we shared a common struggle against the evil within, which fought to repulse Ultima’s magic. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Its rulers are not held together by blood ties but by adherence to a common doctrine. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

I began to notice that the items of clothing had one thing in common: they all had the designer’s name plastered prominently on them. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

But you cannot simply pursue these ends without results that will aid the common man. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Fort Hare could be a rather elitist place and was not without the hazing common to many institutions of higher learning. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of them are drawings of common images—horseshoes, angels, stars, mermaids—but others are pictures of huge works of art after they’ve been tattooed onto actual people. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

They had said very little to each other all day, and they didn’t seem to have much in common. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

They varied in thickness as much as the most common sizes of screws. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

They were sitting beside the fire in the common room; the only other people awake were fellow sixth years. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

“It is sometimes difficult to gather one’s senses after such a journey. Did she tell you that we have something in common?” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

It made him tough and small and common as she was. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“But what do you and I really have in common, when you get right down to it?” Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Even trying to write them in common notation can be a bit misleading. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

A sense of excitement flowed through the family like a common blood. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

But what we all had in common, and what everyone liked to share, is how we got caught. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

He argued over when the television could be on, when inmates could cook in the kitchen, and whether someone could leave a box of personal stuff in a common area. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Republicans and Democrats alike had tackled the problem at state and local levels, investing in healthy living, building more sidewalks and community gardens—a proof point that there was common political ground to be explored. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

My whole relationship with Art3mis was in defiance of all common sense. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

A common fire-fighting technique of the time was to surround a blaze with engines and use a flood of water to stop it from spreading. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

Tyger left with the other professional party people, with whom he seemed to share much more in common now than with Rowan. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

The common Core Standards in the arts addresses some of the 21st-century goals in education as well. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

"I'm hoping you'll be you, and let me be me. We can still be ourselves. Just together. Maybe we'll even realize we have some ways in common. I'm willing to see anything as a miracle." What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

We thank all of our distinguished international guests for having come to take possession with the people of our country of what is, after all, a common victory for justice, for peace, for human dignity. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The delicate larvae themselves are killed by very small quantities of many of the common insecticides. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

It’s common to use but to mean “nothing but” or “only”—just be careful not to get tangled in negatives, since but in these cases already has a negative sense built in. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

We walked down the hall, and then down the stairs and into the common room, locked arm in arm. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

I thought the man would see Ma, think they had something in common, then give her the dough and we’d be off. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

No black singer had ever appeared in Scandinavia before, and one with the name Anderson, a very common name in Sweden, was sure to attract attention. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

The only thing that my father and his brother had in common was the land that fed us, sheltered us, and provided the rice, palm wine, and shea butter that we sold at the market. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Please do not make these facts available to anybody till I know more about his death for he was not just the common wayfarer. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even so, it was still difficult to agree on a common approach to problems. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In my view, explaining science in terms of common sense is simply to go round in a circle. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Maybe we got a lot more in common than I thought. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Moreover, the exposition had entered that precarious early phase common to every great construction project when unexpected obstacles suddenly emerge. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

On Sundays, nearly everyone gathered at the church, a hickory-colored chapel just off the highway with the small, restrained steeple common to Mormon churches. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

However tentatively, the results indicated that the various Algonkian languages in New England all date back to a common ancestor that appeared in the Northeast a few centuries before Christ. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

One common way in which this can occur is for changes in both quantities to be the result of a third factor. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

"You are my friends. We share a common disinheritance, and it's said that confession is good for the soul. Have I your permission?" Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Perfectly legal and more common than you would think,” she said. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

The other, more common, name for them is “Market Mavens.” The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

However, to make any sort of measurement, you need a standard, a common yardstick, to compare to the size of the lines. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

This is what Edgar Allan Poe and Julius Caesar had in common. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

It looked as though the whole of Gryffindor House was still awake, packed into the circular common room, standing on the lopsided tables and squashy armchairs, waiting for them to arrive. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

I try to adopt the formal speech common to the Erudite. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Troops of them in the air, armed and shining. They haven’t been so common in the last years, though in my grandfather’s time they passed through this world often, or so he used to say.” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Which man of honour,” I wrote, “will desert a lifelong friend at the insistence of a common opponent and still retain a measure of credibility with his people?” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

If you were a wealthy Jew, you were a vampire, a conniving evil sucking the blood of the common people. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Did the eggs of the birds, like those of the laboratory frogs, stop developing simply because they lacked enough of the common currency of energy — the ATP molecules — to complete their development? Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

But Dad wasn’t focused on what we had in common. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Let her name from now on be Wealtheow, or holy servant of common good.” Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eratosthenes, in a lost work quoted by the Roman-era geographer Strabo, wrote that of the kingdom of the pharaohs “there was a common saying: ‘The way to Egypt is long and vexatious.’.. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

“Cheddar cheese and common crackers more like it,” Bunny said. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I mean, what if we had nothing in common? Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

We can weave common myths such as the biblical creation story, the Dreamtime myths of Aboriginal Australians, and the nationalist myths of modern states. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes relations with neighbouring bands were tight enough that together they constituted a single tribe, sharing a common language, common myths, and common norms and values. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

But, and it is a big ‘but’, although there are certain cross-cultural uniformities common to all human societies, this doesn’t help us very much, most of the time. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Each one I go to only reinforces my general impression that religions have much, much more in common than they like to admit. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

He was also a persuasive spokesman for African rights, becoming the founding president of the All-African Convention in 1936, which opposed legislation in Parliament designed to end the common voters’ roll in the Cape. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

My common sense did a rapid turnaround, and I headed cautiously downward. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Rodents do not speak to princesses. We will not have this becoming a topsy-turvy wrong-headed world. There are rules. Scat. Get lost, before my common sense returns and I have you killed. ” The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

Again Basil vanished only to reappear some three yards out on the common. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

But then I got to the part where she listed the sports she played and smiled: We had something in common. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

The common difference between the men and the women is the women had fresh lipstick—their one attempt at sanitary glamour. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Oh no, the common man is every bit as guilty; otherwise, people and nations would have rebelled long ago! The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

So it wasn’t really all that surprising, then, that she’d taken a liking to me, especially after we discovered our common love for Dr. Seuss. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

At half past eleven that evening, Harry, who had pretended to go up to bed early, pulled the Invisibility Cloak back over himself and crept back downstairs through the common room. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

The words were all common enough, but the context confused me. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

It was a common demigod problem: the more dangerous our situation became, the worse and more frequent our dreams got. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

“Not the common sense of a quill pig ’mongst the lot of them. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as Mr. Rao introduced himself as calling from an Indian software firm, the U.S. executive said to him, “Namaste,” a common Hindi greeting. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

Ron marched through the common room and out of sight up the stairs to the boys’ dormitories. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

They were common among crooks in the Barrel who didn’t want to get caught in a dark alley, but couldn’t be bothered to lug around lanterns. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

But soon fists were swinging without making discreet distinctions of rank, and a simple desire to throw a memorable punch and to survive the melee became the common standard. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m not. I’m common, just like my grandfather.” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Kehaar’s speech was so outlandish and distorted at the best of times that it was only too common for the rabbits to be unsure what he meant. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

And it would have room to store all my words, not just the most common ones that have gotten pasted on my dumb plastic board. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

The typical baby girl born in a black neighborhood in 1970 was given a name that was twice as common among blacks as whites. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Sure enough, when they entered the Gryffindor common room it exploded with cheers and yells again. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

It was considered an almost magical creature, outside the realm of common insects. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I made one concession to common sense: I left most of my water supply in the Hab. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

We didn't have much in common, but we had Gilgamesh. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

“Is Lexie still doing theatre?” she asked, and for the rest of the meal they made superficial chitchat about the common denominators of their life: children, traffic, the weather. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

A number of students at Truman have the last name Patel, a common Indian name and one I never heard in my days in Levittown. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

His complicity in behind-the-scenes political plotting was common knowledge. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

The common people as well, seeing that they cannot resist the nobility, give their support to one man so as to be defended by his authority. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

If the people weren’t at home, we’d use a passkey on a common door lock. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

What I’m finding is that we have much more in common than we have different, and every day we learn something new from one another. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

It bodes ill for the future of East Asia if these two great peoples cannot find common ground. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s probably the most common tactic they have.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Already they were getting used to much walking on short commons — shorter at any rate than what in the Shire they would have thought barely enough to keep them on their legs. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

He even nailed some pretty dense math problems like, “Find the least common multiple of six, eight, and sixteen.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Quisling gestured to his lecture outline about the Roman Empire and said, “Then surely you know what Edgar Allan Poe and Julius Caesar have in common?” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Of course, we weren’t a couple at all, but I still found the need to comment on our common taste. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Aside from Star Trek—and not speaking Farsi—depression was pretty much the only thing we had in common. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

They had reached the other side of the common. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

More common was the Book Scavenger pin, which Emily herself wore on her hoodie. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Even moderately common abbreviations should be spelled out on first use. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

That was the ordinarily—meaning common for Logan County/Fry—strange thing, by the way. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

What had happened, my parents told us, was unjust but also unfortunately common. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The only thing Robin has in common with the legendary hero of Nottingham is that he’s an expert thief. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

There was fresh blood on Frankie’s shirt and pants, but blood was as common as water in this city of slaughter. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The common room was lit with the glow of the dying fire, still littered with the debris from the party. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

He had emerged from that crimson twilight into the common electric glare with a self-consciousness intensified to the pitch of agony. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had nothing in common with the two energetic, lice-infested boys who spent their summers in the country. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

By now they were at the edge of the common land. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

A few kruge from the Dregs and the Black Tips had ensured they wouldn’t interfere with the parley, a common enough transaction. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Everyone in the city knew it, from bus stops and benches and lawn signs; it was as common in New Orleans as live oak or royal fern. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

In both the Fertile Crescent and China, iron objects became common only after about 2,000 years of experience of bronze metallurgy. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

"If you and your brother were to make common cause against them—" "I will not treat with Renly," Stannis answered in a tone that brooked no argument. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

From the other prisoners Zeitoun learned that these searches were common. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

"No more than light makes common cause with darkness." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“That, in truth, is the most common outcome. A living Overlander like yourself, plus your sister, well, this is most singular.” Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He had not gotten used to the crude habit of shaking hands which was common among these people, but he forced himself. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

But when white people pray to a guy who turns water into wine, well, that’s just common sense. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

‘Ah, but he has likely enough been adding to what he brought at first,’ argued the miller, voicing common opinion. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Vitiligo is a common condition that causes depigmentation of the skin. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

He identified the most common and most functional uses for bricks and blankets and simply stopped. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

“In the common good. Which is common sense.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Still, we were united by a common respect for the written word and for scholarship. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If you get too large, you don’t have enough work in common. You don’t have enough things in common, and then you start to become strangers and that close-knit fellowship starts to get lost.” The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A discussion of informal logic is as common in elementary mathematics courses as is a discussion of Icelandic sagas. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

It zoomed around the common room, snarling and attempting to take bites of the tapestry. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

This cartoon explains a traditional rule about two common modal auxiliaries: At least Mrs. O’Malley didn’t give the standard grown-up’s answer to a child’s request with cart: “You can, but the question is, may you?” The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

In truth, the young lord commander and her king had more in common than either one would ever be willing to admit. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Or what if I thought we had nothing in common but she, the other student, thought we did? Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

My thoughts were so good that I nearly ended up walking into the pond on the wrong side of the common and got to school only just on time. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Teenage taxi drivers were common, so at least he wouldn’t look too suspicious. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Neither he nor Romero seemed to have anything in common with the others. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

This occurred despite the formation, a month before, of the Patriotic Front, an alliance of the ANC, the PAC, and the Azanian People’s Organization around a declaration of common goals. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He said, “There is my nephew, who keeps such an one for his pleasure as none of we common men have even seen.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Besides this, one cannot honestly satisfy the nobles without harming others, but the common people can certainly be satisfied. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

One common example of a phase transition is the freezing of water when you cool it down. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stretched right out, leaning his head against the cushioned wall of the cab and pretending to nod off, a common avoidance-of-conversation-with-strangers tactic of his, one which left me to entertain Shorty. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

There was a gas ring in the fender, and a shelf where food was kept, and on the landing outside there was a brown earthenware sink, common to several rooms. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

And if love is a thing held in common, I suppose we had that in common, too, though I realize that might sound odd in light of the story I am about to tell. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Christmas spirit was definitely thin on the ground in the Gryffindor common room that morning. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

That the military was accountable, reasonable, and was kept in check by concentric circles of regulations, laws, common sense, common decency. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Viewed as more sterile and serene, lethal injection had become the most common method for the sanctioned killing of people in virtually every death state. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

So that a Person, is the same that an Actor is, both on the Stage and in common Conversation; and to Personate, is to Act, or Represent himself, or another. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

He takes five common marbles to school with him in a blue Crown Royal Whisky bag and comes back with the bag and his pockets bulging. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Most humans didn’t love one another nohow, and this mislove was so strong that even common blood couldn’t overcome it all the time. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Surgeons continued the common habit of holding a knife between their teeth to free their hands while operating. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

It made me feel I had much in common with them. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

With the king’s knights and lords claiming the lion’s share of the horsemeat, little and less remained for the common men. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

These were good people, common people; the salt of the earth; people whom I should count myself fortunate to know. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

On it was scribbled handwriting that could barely be deciphered, which was something else my brother and I had in common, and it read: You came to take us. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Now Wang Lung in the old days when the great family were there would have felt himself one of these common people and against the great and half hating, half fearful of them. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

“But we are also servants of fire. Because fire is the most common form of energy, and without energy, our prowess as sympathists is of little use.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“You know what all of these people have in common?” he asks the class. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

And as to being common, I don’t make it out at all clear. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

We had nothing in common except that we were both black and lost. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the door she directs Imaculada to unload the groceries and be sure to take the man down at the gate a Presidente, the common beer they all like. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Momma always said that common sense was far from common, that’s why it was so special when you found it. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

These elements naturally arrange themselves in concentric circles around a common centre: earth surrounded by water, water surrounded by air, and air surrounded by fire. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

"Good," the old man said as the tension in the common room ebbed palpably, "excellent." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t about the fact he and Reggie shared a common faith, he said. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

What held them together was their common friendship with Mersenne, with whom they exchanged letters and at whose home they met when they were in Paris. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Malignant tumors were a common accompaniment of the disease. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

He and I have one thing in common: we like to dress up, which makes everyone laugh. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

“Well, then maybe I’m not her, after all. Jenna Fox is a common name.” The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Einstein’s prohibition against traveling faster than light may clash with our common sense. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Homer makes Poseidon say that he rules the sea, Hades the dead, Zeus the heavens, but Olympus is common to all three. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The commons realized in the same instant as Ned that the blue of the flowers came from sapphires; a gasp went up from a thousand throats. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

It’s comforting to know that regardless of our vast differences and the light-years that separate our worlds, we’ll always have nipples in common. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

The Greeks returned the favor: over the roughly one thousand years of Greco-Roman dominion of Egypt, we have no evidence of any Egyptian word making its way into common Greek usage. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

In the meantime, he got used to the ways of travelers, both common and rare. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

—Agent K Another extraordinarily common, effective persuasive appeal in logos is analogy. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

“At least Jason and Hercules have something in common. And we need our best diplomat. Somebody who’s good with words.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“You mean, you look for the most common symbol or letter in the code, and you can assume that that symbol stands for e, because e is the most common letter in English,” Emma corrected. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Perhaps they, too, had little in common apart from three children and a decade of their lives. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

"I take you for a king. Kings lack the caution of common men. My apologies if I have given offense." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The conclusion was inescapable: Cockcroft and Walton had fired a proton into lithium, which in its most common form has a nucleus of three protons and four neutrons. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

There are not that many subjects that could be spoken about, between us; there’s not much common ground, except this one mysterious and chancy thing. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Summer fevers were common visitors to all American cities in the eighteenth century, and therefore not headline news. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

The issue of individual rights versus the common good resurfaced in a major way in the 1980s with the devastating HIV/AIDS epidemic. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

There was none of that crude, ugly ostentation about dying that was so common outside the hospital. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Yet when it succeeds, it gives Sapiens immense power, because it enables millions of strangers to cooperate and work towards common goals. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was stunned by what happened next, although I had to admit it was becoming a pretty common occurrence: I started to cry. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

All parties to a dispute always claim that common sense is on their side. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“When you say you had lots in common,” said Ron, sounding rather amused now, “d’you mean he lives in an S-bend too?” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Aside from them both being sixteen, they had very little in common. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Every cell of your body is a kind of commune, with once free-living parts all banded together for the common good. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

During the Crusades era, European nobles took over the commons so they could own it. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

We’re sitting on the vinyl sofa in the common area of the trailer while Dad washes the mugs that were in the sink. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Most of them didn’t really know each other—Richard was the one thing they had in common. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

"I am no sei," the Hound replied, but he took the vic-tory, and the champion's purse, and, for perhaps the first time in his life, the love of the commons. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

What I was doing up there had almost nothing in common with bungee jumping or skydiving or riding a motorcycle at 120 miles per hour. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Then, cold, wet, and gasping for breath, they returned to the fire in the Gryffindor common room, where Harry broke in his new chess set by losing spectacularly to Ron. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

What they had in common was that they were all expert pilots with at least a commercial rating and more than 2,000 hours of flying time. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

I stopped, my dim spark of curiosity smothered by my common sense. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

It was common to hear girls say when they saw Googie preaching with his brothers on a street corner, “Thass a waste of a church boy.” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Now my English teacher was insisting that I explore the two worlds, that of the books I read and that of my writing, and examine them for common threads. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

It would not be the first time that Ned had been forced to make common cause with a man he despised. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“Their motions are more truthful than the stars,” he tells me, “because common flies have compound eyes.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

But almost instantly they reach a common ground. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Who knew what brand of mutiny his captives might cook up if they shared a common tongue. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Death is the common right of toads and men. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

They take the view that science is, in essence, common sense applied systematically, or, as Karl Popper put it, ‘common-sense knowledge writ large, as it were’. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

But if enough people could pull together in a common cause, who knows what we might accomplish? Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z

It was a common accident in the Fiction Department. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

I could see her hesitate, her caution and repugnance struggling against instincts of common decency. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This is the way to the palace, and it is barred to common Folk.” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

They are common injuries in the Seam where we cook and heat our homes with coal. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Terror lived there, with its close attendant, Magic, and its most common defense, Human Sacrifice. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hearing Fred’s voice, I step back into the common area from the threshold of my bedroom. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Wrongful convictions and illegal trials involving young children are very common. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

This tree looked like an umbrella, held overhead by four trunks that spread out from their common source. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

You can bathe in our natural thermal mineral springs, which are known for their therapeutic value in the relief of common ailments such as arthritis, bursitis, rheumatism, and gout. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Air travel was as common and affordable to us as train travel was to them. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Underneath, he wore common clothes—a buttoned shirt, a cravat, and a waistcoat draped with a silver chain and fob—and uncommon adornments. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Yesterday,” he said, his voice solemn, “we saw the best of ourselves. Working to fight a common enemy. Caring for each other.” Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

His coach had forbidden him to run hills on the mistaken but common belief that it would damage his heart, but Louie didn’t buy the warnings. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

Triplets are by far the most common borrowed division. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

I maintain that one reaches this princedom either with the favour of the common people or with that of the nobility, since these two different humours are found in every body politic. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

What we have in common are the words at our backs. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

In 1934, when he was twenty-two years old, my father applied for work as a common miner with Mr. Carter’s company. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Meg looked worn and nervous, the babies absorbed every minute of her time, the house was neglected, and Kitty, the cook, who took life ‘aisy’, kept him on short commons. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

The noise of the storm was even louder in the common room. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Compare with, the more common phrase, means “to examine for similarities and differences.” Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Val’s absence was not spoken of openly, but some men knew, and in the common hall at night the brothers talked. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Since our first moment here, my parents have been painfully cognizant of the camera in the common room of our Mercury Home that captures every second of our lives. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

We were finding no common ground, and I was becoming convinced that the marriage was no longer tenable. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

North of the village was the commons, where we peasants grazed our own oxen and sheep. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

We shared a common tongue, but my language was a different language from theirs. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

This syncopation is now so common in all popular music that it has quite forgotten its Cuban roots. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

They had used store soap, not the slimy, soft, dark brown soap that Grandma made and kept in a big jar to use for common every day. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mom walks into the common area of the trailer and grabs a small bag of her and my dad’s things. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

There was another option, which was to use an existing phrase that avoided the term ‘philosophy’—‘natural science’—and this usage was common in the seventeenth century. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

He tried to look like any common migratory killer but his heart was hammering and he knew he was going to start coughing. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

And I'm sure there are plenty of other Alaskans who had a lot in common with McCandless when they first got here, too, including many of his critics. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps he was just some common man who wanted bards to sing of him. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Volantene honors were most common, little coins no bigger than a penny with a crown on one side and a skull on the other. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I thought since they had so much in common, they always got along. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Charles and James had in common one of life's most difficult challenges. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

A monkey did not become a man; monkeys and men had a common ancestor. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fights between bears were common, and the subject of much ritual. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Consistently do what is right in common situations and know how to behave and dress in normal situations. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

The portions were handed round; those who liked took a draught of the water, the mug being common to all. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

It was common to come into the bathroom and hear somebody sobbing in one of the stalls. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

We walk to the common area, where there are benches and murals and water fountains big enough for you to put your water bottle under the nozzle without bending it at all. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

If originality distinguishes art from craft, tradition serves as the common meeting ground of the two. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sounded like Mr. Griggs talked a lot more than his son and had a bad case of paranoia in common with his sister. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Hanging back is a common mistake most ninth-graders make, she says. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

The two young men were taking the same engineering class and had a common and audacious objective that radiant afternoon. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Some expressions are so common that they're allowed to dangle at the beginning of a sentence, even though they're not connected to anything in particular. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I limped back to Anker’s and found the common room buzzing with excited folk talking about the fire in the Fishery. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

When he returned to Veracruz, he and his team cleared the dirt around the great head, admiring its fine, naturalistic workmanship, so unlike the stiff, stylized sculpture common elsewhere in Mesoamerica. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Tyrion sat alone in the common room for a long while after his father was gone. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“Yep. You leaving your phone at home makes me think you and I have something in common.” Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

Yet it would be wrong to think that they shared any common understanding of what natural science is or how it should be conducted. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

They shared a common dread that he would begin moaning. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

The voluntary use of such drugs was common and accepted. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Up here,” said Harry, and he crossed the common room and led the way through the door to the boys’ staircase. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

The firm shunned those who came seeking a defense of indefensible behavior, which was common enough in the unprincipled corridors of the financial district. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Think of our life in nature-daily to be shown matter, to come in contact with it,—rocks, trees, wind on our cheeks! the solid earth! the actual world! the common sense! Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He seemed to argue, contrary to common sense and the visual evidence provided by all maps, that the Potomac was actually farther west than the Susquehanna. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

It was common knowledge she hadn’t left a will, so the county owned the property now. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Olga and I didn’t have much in common, but we did love each other. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

These formed a kind of dry oasis—a little feature common on the downs. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe these were two women who lived far enough off the beaten path that there was some strange common ground between them. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

The four families shared a common kitchen, which had a single bare lightbulb. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

What they had in common was not religion but mathematics and, of course, a need for freedom of expression. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“I’ve been thinking. I really want to introduce you to my brother. I think you guys have a lot in common.” Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

That's one thing Bengali Muslims and Hindus share in common: the music of Rabindranath Tagore. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

If they’d let women warriors into their cult, they might have learned some common sense. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

She looked around after a moment and told me the girl was "common but pretty," and I knew that except for the half hour she'd been alone with Gatsby she wasn't having a good time. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

This introductory course cannot go very deeply into this subject, and so will only touch on the common terms used when referring to cadences. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Although such protests are common today, in 1917 no one had ever picketed the White House before, so he wasn’t sure what to do. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

The only common ground they have, as far as I know, is failure. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

“But iambic trimeter is fairly common in Greek lyric, isn’t it?” said Julian. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

It was common enough, to see so much death and want a child. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Both Brandon and Tori had warned her not to eat two chili-cheese dogs, but the smell overrode her common sense, and she ended up scarfing them down. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

One common method throughout history was to simply slaughter the calves and kids shortly after birth, milk the mother for all she was worth, and then get her pregnant again. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here, already, he moves to isolate Catiline from “everyone”— “the people, ” “allgood men, ” “this venerable body”—and to present his arrogance as so contrary to common sense as to be bewildering and unnatural. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

In one respect, they matched each other precisely, Kamen observed: “They shared a common drive to be center stage.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

To make common cause with reviled blacks, the dupes of Communists and despoilers of Southern women, would be to betray America and the South. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Ashish and I would probably have a lot in common, then.” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

When two strangers in a tribal society want to trade, they will often establish trust by appealing to a common god, mythical ancestor or totem animal. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like Waterman and McCunn, he displayed a staggering paucity of common sense. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

All of them had something else in common. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

As sisters, they probably have closer to 99 percent in common, but they’re not about to recognize that. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

She was not a bad girl, or common, either, and I hated it that she would think I didn’t respect her. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Isn’t experience something that all human beings have in common? The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

His followers came surging across the common to aid him. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

I can tell what the bystanders think: he’s a common criminal; he’s broken the law, likely more than one. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

"You're clever, all right. But a common dunce all the same." The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

“If the Huntsmen of Annuvin are your enemies,” Taran said, “then we have common cause. We, too, have fought against them.” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

But then I thought about her and Emily, and whether Soojin was starting to think the two of them had more in common than we did. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Though Professor McGonagall was head of Gryffindor House, Harry had seen her in the common room only once before, and that had been to make a very grave announcement. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Because famine and epidemic disease had been rare in the Dawnland, its inhabitants had none of the pox scars or rickety limbs common on the other side of the Atlantic. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Everyone back upstairs!” said Percy, hurrying into the common room and pinning his Head Boy badge to his pajamas as he spoke. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Prayer was what they wanted, so she served it to them, served it on her knees as if she were some common trollop of the streets and not a daughter of the Rock. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He worshiped Johnny and did not like Dove, but he and Dove were bound together by their common servitude to Johnny’s autocratic rule. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

They knew that the castle was being searched again, and the whole House stayed awake in the common room, waiting to hear whether Black had been caught. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

She said soy milk was more nutritious than cow milk and although he refused to drink the grainy fluid in the morning, he watched her do so with an uncomplaining common sense. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I thought how alike people were in a moment of common interest. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

We staked the oxen out in a bit of grazing common near the pens and went into the tavern for some supper. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

A classic writer counts on the common sense and ordinary charity of his readers, just as in everyday conversation we know when a speaker means “in general” or “all else being equal.” The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

“Very well. Now, in the interest of further explanation, I’ll ask you all another question. What is it the four of you have in common? Can you tell me?” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

In his relations with her he felt that he was riding a seesaw; never were they on a common level; either he or she was up in the air. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

A collection of lunatics who made wine and sang in the streets “like common street women! Just like common street women!” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I just thought you’d want to take advantage of the common room being quiet,” she said. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

My sister and I tried to find common ground with our half-American cousins, but that took a while to pan out. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

I thought it was odd that even though we were working together on a common goal, we still had separate rallies. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He found all types: idealists, ambitious people, adventurers, those with social resentments, even common criminals. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Legal rulings empowered people with developmental disabilities to refuse treatment and created rights for the mentally disabled that made forced institutionalization much less common. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Jazz standard song form — Jazz utilizes many different forms, but one very common form is closely related to the strophic and variation forms. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

In recent decades the Replacement Theory has been the common wisdom in the field. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z