common sort
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“I do think that the board and the mayor have a common sort of goal of ... trying to solve some of these problems that the electorate seems to still be quite upset about.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 12, 2025
The varieties with pointed leaves are exceedingly elegant, and are much more suitable than the common sort for decorating churches and dwelling-house, and cost no more to buy.
From Small Gardens and How to Make the Most of Them by Biddle, Violet Purton
“I’m a very plain, common sort of man, my dear, but I’ve had lots of business experience, and p’r’aps I can help you better than some people would think.”
From The New Mistress A Tale by Fenn, George Manville
Between this man of cultivated mind, polished manners, and companionable qualities, and Don Pablo, whose exterior smacked but little of intercourse with "the world," there was evidently a bond of no common sort.
From Mathieu Ropars: et cetera by Young, William
The officers themselves, mounted upon a very common sort of horses, strive in vain to render them docile and agreeable.
From New Method of Horsemanship Including the Breaking and Training of Horses, with Instructions for Obtaining a Good Seat. by Baucher, F.
