commonplaceness

Example Sentences

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His large-featured, freckled face was kept from commonplaceness by its frank gray eyes, broad brow, firm chin and refined mouth.

From Crestlands A Centennial Story of Cane Ridge by Bayne, Mary Addams

My enchanted garden had vanished, the spiked wall rose over my head, and before me, as I turned homeward, spread all the familiar commonplaceness of Church Hill.

From The Romance of a Plain Man by Glasgow, Ellen Anderson Gholson

Wholesome Ella Jasper met the caller at the door with an inward cordiality entirely out of proportion to even a close friend of the family, but her greeting was commonplaceness itself.

From Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford by Chester, George Randolph

His features were ordinary; and Jacqueline, not being a physiognomist, did not take in the piercing expression, the firmness and intelligence that redeemed them from commonplaceness.

From Throckmorton by Seawell, Molly Elliot

Behind his utter commonplaceness there was the soul of Romeo, the passion of self-sacrifice that goes with great lovers.

From The Rustle of Silk by Hamilton, Cosmo