lieu commun
Example Sentences
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The pride engendered by sudden possession of money is a lieu commun amongst Eastern story tellers; even in the beast-fables the mouse which has stolen a few gold pieces becomes confident and stout-hearted.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 01 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
It ends with a Koranic lieu commun of Moslem morality.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 03 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
No wonder that the First Hand who moulded the Man-mud is a lieu commun in Eastern thought.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 11 [Supplement] by Sir Richard Francis Burton
Shaykh Mohammed declared that of old a chain stretched from the Pharaohnic island-castle to the Jebel el-Burayj or Kasr el-Bedawi on the Midianite shore: this chain is a lieu commun of Eastern legends.
From The Land of Midian — Volume 1 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
Or if you are a physician the "lieu commun" will be, "Little-learn'd doctors the body destroy: Little-learn'd parsons the soul destroy."
From Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah — Volume 1 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
