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

Now that's all threatened because of scandals of the common sort in the Philippines�election cheating, graft�and Arroyo's handling of them.

From Time Magazine Archive

The common sort tie only a string round their middle, and pass a piece of cloth or skin round between their thighs, which they turn at each end over the string.

From The History of Virginia, in Four Parts by Beverley, Robert

"People do say that something out of the common sort passes along the road and turns down the other road leading to Clayton and Brighton; but I pays no attention to what them people says."

From A Book of Ghosts by Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine)

But he had that set courage which seems to daunt the common sort and paralyse the finger on the trigger; and he prevailed.

From My Lady Rotha A Romance by Weyman, Stanley J.