How To Use Commoner In A Sentence

Even men who marry commoners are struggling to afford lobola, which has increased with the expectations of parents whose daughters are marrying into the mushrooming black middle class.
Likewise, the status of the father determined that of the offspring; the children of a noblewoman who married a commoner would not be noble.
During this time Louis XIV was in power and royalty lived in ridiculous comforts while French commoners starved.
In the event of conflicting priorities, the original property rights of owners and commoners should prevail.
Today the Speaker stands in the order of social precedence immediately after the peerage, ranking higher than any other commoner.

To give it a completely realistic touch, there is even the bench at the edge of the spring and pool, a vantage photographic point that Presidents and commoners alike choose, to record their visit.
It is submitted that Mr Podger and his ancestors have had grazing rights as a statutory commoner of the 5,000 acres at the Curragh.
Every besieger promises the commoners that his only enemy is the aristocrat in the citadel: such a maneuver weakens enemy will to resist. New Dan Simmons Story
For despite its majestic name, the Kitchen King masala is best suited as a multipurpose masala that is best used for throwing together tasty and impromptu dishes for everyday meals for us commoners. Archive 2008-02-01
The play satirized the nobility and made a commoner - a haircutter, no less - the protagonist.
Cigarette smoking used to be commoner among affluent people.
Noone here is judging anything by any sort of objective standard and the attitude of all the "RJ-dislikers" here, including Adam, is pronouncedly personal and not in any way elevated above some perceived "commoner". Jordanian hiatus
The plowman poet spoke not only to his fellow commoners but also the intellectuals of Edinburgh and many Scottish lords of the manors. Robert burns | some hae meat « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground
When the ‘great fear’ erupted in many parts of France in 1789, the peasants who revolted made no distinction between noble and commoner lords.
As we mount higher and higher, we find commoner books, in shabbier bindings; but there is still the same order preserved, each book being numbered according to a printed catalogue. from The Book Browser’s Guide by Roy Harley Lewis. Big Box Bookstore of the 1790s
More than 260 townspeople now belong to the institution and there are four grades; commoner, landholder, assistant burgess and capital burgess.
Can't you understand that I am only an untitled commoner to his people? The Moccasin Maker
Gloria Sáez's attractive costumes for the solo singers were designed to flatter the figure, with flowing velvet for the nobility and homespun for the commoners.
King Edward Ⅷ abdicated in 1936 to marry a commoner.
Though the civil service was dominated by the nobility, it became progressively more open to commoners.
YOGYAKARTA, Indonesia (Reuters) - The Sultan of Yogyakarta, a revered Indonesian royal who has long harbored political ambitions, told an audience of thousands made up of princes and commoners that he would run for president next year. Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News
The military version of bushido was seen as a distortion of samurai ethics by some of the upper class who resented the commoner military.
As in the New Forest, there is a long history of conflict between the Crown and the native commoners of the Forest of Dean, the foresters. Wildwood
And I was like, I cannot tell them we are going to get married and live in wedded bliss eternally, because she is a commoner, and also, I am not absolutely sure how she feels? Team ROMANTIC Neurotic Scumweasel.
Not that we would have, anyway - when an aristocrat orders, the commoners obey.
Most notably, William Jennings Bryan, “The Great Commoner” and the fieriest critic of the new concentrations of wealth and power, fused fundamentalist religious fervor and political radicalism, culminating in his famous “Cross of Gold” peroration at the Democratic National Convention of 1896.36 The phrase “What would Jesus do?” was popularized in a bestselling 1899 novel by Charles Sheldon, a Congregational minister in Topeka, Kansas, as an appeal to overturn economic inequality. American Grace
Tyrtaeus this commoner of Nizhni Novgorod spurs on his troops of freedom-loving heroes to conquer, as it were, the placid, self - satisfied literatures of to-day, and bring new life to pale, bloodless frames. The Man Who Was Afraid
'Thank goodness I'll never have to go through [that] again', he wrote of his time at Marlborough, before entering Magdalen College as a commoner in Michaelmas term 1925.
If no one wanted to give him an award, the choice went back to University College to take him as a commoner if they wished.
It is one of the commoner elements in the earth's crust and indeed in our own bodies. The Runaway Brain: the Evolution of Human Uniqueness
Speculation only, but I'd bet Sam was in a rush and simply did not have time to wait for the slowpoke commoner in front of him, so hit the gas and pass the peon ... oops ... Smell test? (Jack Bog's Blog)
When Muslim education in Britain makes news, it mostly concerns the handful of children who attend schools that are formally Islamic, although the secular compromise at Palfrey Junior is far commoner.
Stone, terra cotta and metal images of royal figures—and some misshapen commoners—populate "Dynasty and Divinity: Ife Art in Ancient Nigeria," a look at the Yoruba city-state of Ife from the 12th to 15th centuries. Don't Miss
By this perverseness of integrity he was driven out a commoner of nature, excluded from the regular modes of profit and prosperity, and reduced to pick up a livelihood uncertain and fortuitous; but it must be remembered that he kept his name unsullied, and never suffered himself to be reduced, like too many of the same sect, to mean arts and dishonourable shifts. The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II
The commoner qualities are the most useful – such as common sense, attention, application, and perseverance.
At the same time I was curious about these mysterious women who were socially unacceptable, yet evoking interest of the commoners for different reasons.
The commoner forms of these devices in Europe and North America include heel and forearm dual energy x ray absorptiometry and quantitative ultrasound at the heel.
Mixed or unmixed fabric, stitched or unstitched, embroidered or unembroidered, and draped or fitted adorned the bodies of monarchs, priests, rebels, and commoners.
The commoners too decorated their battledores, with colours which varied according to the local area.
Her father initially disapproved of the match, despite the fact that 36 years ago to the day he married a "commoner" - Silvia Sommerlath, who is of mixed German and Brazilian descent. Canada.com Top Stories
He was educated at Charterhouse School in London and was nominated by his schoolmaster for an exhibition to Christ church College, Oxford to which he was admitted as a commoner in 1720.
But while England had nobles, it did not have a nobility; legally, the son of a duke or marquis could be only a commoner.
Almost all the tables were full with drunken commoners, washing away their troubles with ale and strong mead.
With them, though the term aitía was employed, and even occasionally in several of the senses in which Aristotle later distinguished it, the commoner term was arché, with which the former was apparently generally interchangeable. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux
A commoner can practice the latter two means of attaining salvation, even if he is illiterate and unable to study the scriptures on his own.
And it's on what we call a common, and I have common rights, and every year me and the commoners get together.
His speech is more commoner than nobility. Times, Sunday Times
A truly democratic medium, the radio is accessible to everybody, and as a result the famous and infamous, the royalty and commoners, all tune in and talk to each other.
The fairy-tale royal wedding seems to reappear in the United Kingdom as Prince William and his commoner girlfriend Kate Middleton finally got engaged after years of dating.
This is why Hindu traditionalists strongly oppose the up-grading of milch cattle by crossbreeding with Jersey cows and other commoner breeds.
Registered commoners have the right to keep sheep on the land and it is illegal to put up fencing.
Justin the Genius, you mean to tell me that I can now be classified as a commoner? Musings of a Drunken Monk: He moves among you
When Muslim education in Britain makes news, it mostly concerns the handful of children who attend schools that are formally Islamic, although the secular compromise at Palfrey Junior is far commoner.
The term therefore implies that the third world is exploited, much as third estate French commoners were exploited. • the economically underdeveloped countries of Africa, Recently Uploaded Slideshows
Then if you spent a day driving up and down and all across the Twin Cities looking for the salts they use, you'd find that they're available for purchase by commoners like us.
In an effort to pass off Matthew as a commoner, he was arrayed in some outgrown clothes of Krist's: a long-sleeved beige shirt, very baggy indigo jeans, and red and white sneakers.
To be born an aristocrat does not in itself prevent me from taking on the project of liberty for the commoner or the day laborer.
When Muslim education in Britain makes news, it mostly concerns the handful of children who attend schools that are formally Islamic, although the secular compromise at Palfrey Junior is far commoner.
Even Rachel, her best friend, wanted to vote her Biggest Plebe in our online poll—“plebe” after the word for commoner—in social studies last year. Nice and Mean
Press_, where the peer and the commoner, the priest and the alderman, the friar and the swaddler, [2] can stretch themselves at full length, provided they be not too churlish, let us laugh at those who breed useless quarrels, and set to the world the bright example of toleration and benevolence. Irish Wit and Humor Anecdote Biography of Swift, Curran, O'Leary and O'Connell
In 1959, Akihito broke with imperial tradition by marrying a commoner.
Cigarette smoking used to be commoner among affluent people.
In 1981, he became the country's fourth prime minister, but the first commoner after a trio of blue-blooded patricians.
She would then approach the Monarch, curtseying as low as possible "so as almost to kneel and the Queen kisses her on the forehead if she is a peeress or peer's daughter, or extends her hand to be kissed, if the lady is a commoner. Archive 2009-02-01
Born a commoner, Lord David Malcolm earned his title fighting Kieran. 12/17/2006 - 12/24/2006
Charles XI and his absolutist advisers knew the commoner Estates would recommend a full resumption of crown lands as the basis for budgetary reform.
It is one of the commoner elements in the earth 's crust and indeed in our own bodies. The Runaway Brain: the Evolution of Human Uniqueness
He will angskt of them from their commoner guardian at next lineup (who is really the rapier of the two though thother brother can hold his own, especially for he bandished it with his hand the hold time, mamain, a simply gra-cious: Mi, O la!), and reloose that thong off his art: Hast thou feel liked carbunckley ones? Finnegans Wake
To the west, the commoners' fields met the highway where the buses turned around and the shops went on parade.
In woman very often voluptuous pleasure is entirely lacking; certainly such absence is far commoner in women than in men -- a condition of affairs which must on no account be confused with _absence of the sexual impulse_. The Sexual Life of the Child
He said: ‘This is potentially another nail in the coffin of the commoners' lifestyle, which makes it unviable.’
Most notable for the casting surrounding the bland couple — Wills is played by an American with a full head of hair, if you were curious — which includes Victor Garber as a stuffy Prince Charles, Jean Smart as a good-natured Camilla talk about your designing women! and Jane Alexander as an unusually robust, tall Queen Elizabeth, playing yard darts and Wii to endear herself to the commoner who would be princess. Matt's Weekend Picks: Aug. 26-28
An example of nepotism that is poisoning us by Bucky the Commoner on Monday, Jul 14, 2008 at 10: 04: 25 AM from meritocracy to kakistocracy by Levon on Monday, Jul 14, 2008 at 10: 14: 26 AM The Decline of Empires in the Past, the Future of the United States and the Contribution of President Bush
Cigarette smoking used to be commoner among affluent people.
The clerks, who prepared legal documents, registered deeds, and issued licences, were commoners who did not own property, hold degrees, or belong to the elite gentry families.
'Some societies would have been glad to shut themselves up by themselves, and enjoy the good things of the cook and manciple, without the intrusion of commoners who come for education.' Life of Johnson
Woodsmen still make charcoal and coppice the hazel trees, and commoners still graze their animals on the land. Times, Sunday Times
Contrary to its image as an elite garment for the stage or high fashion only, commoners in France first used the word 'tutu.' Deborah Jiang Stein: Who Says Tough Girls Don't Wear Tutus?
Also, there are references wherein he was not exactly a "commoner" and may have received professional training in soldiery.
But while England had nobles, it did not have a nobility; legally, the son of a duke or marquis could be only a commoner.
The first professional banker was only appointed in 1991 and up until 1981 only four governors had been commoners - the other 16 to that date had been aristocrats.
You must keep apprised of the ring of things — and quit talking like a commoner! French Word-A-Day:
Only true nobles were taught flute, it was an upper class instrument and forbidden to commoners.
Wildly popular in his day, he was loved by royalty and commoners alike.
During this time Louis XIV was in power and royalty lived in ridiculous comforts while French commoners starved.
The first is the sort of stress with which we are becoming more familiar as starvation and disease become commoner in many parts of the world. The Runaway Brain: the Evolution of Human Uniqueness
It's only the second time a potential heir to the throne has married a commoner.
In 1596, aged 14, he was enrolled as gentleman commoner at University College, Oxford.
The smallest of the palace dogs, Sleeve Pekingese, were carried in the sleeves of the rulers' silk robes, while "commoners" were expected to bow down to the dogs.
When will people realise that this is not a day for enjoying themselves, but for sitting with doffed caps around the wireless and marvelling with due reverence at the semi-divine mechanism that allows an anointed prince to lift a commoner to the realms of glory via one simple sacrament? This week: George Osborne, Carole Middleton, Elizabeth Taylor
Many nobles viewed him as a commoner and only royal by marriage.
The programme lacked lustre as no commoner was present except for those affiliated with the government in some way or the other.
Indeed, just a glance at Europe reveals that in many places not only monarchs, clergy, and nobles but also commoners had obtained land and a lifestyle to go with it.
It's kind of lead to this kind of arrogant, brattish sort of side of Arthur, which is a bit of a front he puts on, because he can't be seen involving himself with commoners and servants and what have you. Jenna Busch: Interview with Merlin's Bradley James
For if any of the commoners were to make avowry for beasts taken in the common pasture it would then follow that if the Inquest were to pass against the plaintiff, he who avowed the taking in the common pasture would have the return of the beasts and the amends, and not the lord of the pasture, and that would be improper. The Customs of Old England
All the evidence suggests that if he did not know that he might be allowed to marry a British commoner it was because he had not asked. King Edward VIII - The Official Biography
But commoners realize all too well that community structures and social relationships are vitally important in creating wealth, not to mention a humane society.
In 1817 the Commission of Woods applied for an Act of Parliament to enclose part of the forest for the Crown, to do away with commoners right in the forest, and disafforest the whole Forest.
Concord the conditions for the marriage of the Prince of Wales with a commoner
Land was divided into slices running from the mountains to the sea, within which commoners hunted pigs in the forests; grew taro, a major food source, in irrigated terraces; and constructed coastal fish ponds.
It is surely relevant that he entered Oxford as a commoner.
But she's not around any more, so commoners can check out her bathing machine and the alcove where she used to sit and sketch. Times, Sunday Times
But now commoners who want to marry amid regal surroundings are being invited across the threshold of the Deeside estate.
He notes that the relations between the literati (mostly commoners) and this nobility were complex.
And with LIFE Books' The Royal Wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton we are already there with Charles and Di's son--Elizabeth's grandson--as he prepares to wed the lovely Kate Middleton in a true fairytale story: the man who will be king and the so-called "commoner" who has captured his heart. Royal Wedding: LIFE's Portrayal Of Will And Kate (PHOTOS)
In the ensuing confusion, everyone in the room, king, nobles and commoners alike, ended up removing their hats, and the meeting continued on a note of sartorial equality.
What will happen to the commoners and the verderers?
In 1981, he became the country's fourth prime minister, but the first commoner after a trio of blue-blooded patricians.
It's a 200 year old celebration of commoner's rights to the land, according to this article.
At least in the long term (the cold of last winter was a set-back), the charming little Dartford warbler, predominantly grey and dusky pink, a lover of heather and gorse, which is at the northern edge of its range in Britain, should become commoner as the climate becomes warmer. Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
We can also work with groups, such as commoners or other local groups, on joint approaches to finding new ways forward.
The emperors feared that extending the use of gold might enable commoners to accumulate individual wealth - and build a power base that might eventually challenge the throne.
They are the responsibility of commoners with grazing rights in the Forest.
This includes typical bush veld species such as grass veld sugarbush Protea caffra and false hookthorn Acacia hereroensis; also bush willow Combretum spp and red ivory Berchemia zeyheri, which are commoner hundreds of kilometers away. Vredefort Dome, South Africa
Still, "-- coquettishly, --" that is no reason why I should look coldly upon all commoners. Molly Bawn
Damion and I, however, were only peasants, commoners seeking a means of escape from the terrors of poverty.
The clerks, who prepared legal documents, registered deeds, and issued licences, were commoners who did not own property, hold degrees, or belong to the elite gentry families.
While it is true, as critics of the Maya hieroglyphic decipherment like to point out, that the extant records deal almost exclusively with the aristocratic levels of society, we can nevertheless learn a great deal about significant social and cultural changes that must have affected the lives of Maya commoners. Primary sources of Maya history - part five
After all, the marriage of royalty to commoners is not an entirely new concept.
Even men who marry commoners are struggling to afford lobola, which has increased with the expectations of parents whose daughters are marrying into the mushrooming black middle class.
It was not acceptable for royalty to marry commoners in those days.
The pharaohs of ancient Egypt prohibited commoners from even touching them.
At least in this case, the valid phrases are much commoner than the logically incoherent ones.
For the rest of us, self-limiting commoners, join me in the self-conversion process.
Commoners, squatters, and others who had lived on the land but without a specific landholding were expropriated at enclosure, and few seem to have been able to make a living thereafter.
The privileged person avoids or repels taxation, not merely because it despoils him, but because it belittles him; it is a mark of the commoner, that is to say, of former servitude, and he resists the fisc (the revenue services) as much through pride as through interest. The Ancient Regime
Commoners have been consulted and a public report will be published, before the controversial Bill is put forward.
The traditional Balinese social pattern linking rulers and citizens was strongly adhered to by the palace, and the relationship between the royals and commoners remains close and harmonious.
This is the word from the Catholic Church, who have far more insight into these matters than lowly commoners such as myself.
It is one of the commoner elements in the earth 's crust and indeed in our own bodies. The Runaway Brain: the Evolution of Human Uniqueness
A phonetic writing system ( "hangul") was invented in the 15th century by King Sejong to provide a writing system for commoners who could not read classical Chinese. Undefined
As there was now less need for the nave to be a general-purpose open space, and as preaching became commoner, churches began to fill up with pulpits, lecterns, screens, and benches.
From St. Mark's explanation, "two mites, which make a farthing," ver. 42, it may perhaps be inferred that the farthing was the commoner coin. Smith's Bible Dictionary
And all of them printed in the vulgate (vernacular) for all and sundry of us vulgar commoners to see - if we learned to read. Intelligence Is a Piano
Davos is a commoner raised to a knight, and suffers slights from the other nobles who wait on Stannis. A Clash of Kings by George RR Martin « I Can’t Stop Reading!
The smallest of the palace dogs, Sleeve Pekingese, were carried in the sleeves of the rulers' silk robes, while "commoners" were expected to bow down to the dogs.
It would be a king in commoner's garb bearing death in his arms. Christianity Today
King Edward Ⅷ abdicated in 1936 to marry a commoner.
Diana, on the other hand, was a commoner (albeit an aristocrat) who worked in a common job when her engagement to Prince Charles was announced.
For commoners, it was umbrella hats made from palmyra or the dried leaf of arecanut palm conically folded like a conjurer's hat.
Although caesarean sections are commoner among private patients, the trend to caesarean sections may have a knock-on effect on the socially unprivileged women seeking what they perceive to be good health care during delivery.
With three guards behind him, the man called Ryuma Kakounji gaited up through the cheers and yells from star-struck commoners and fans.
The Act of 1965 dealt with these problems by creating local registers of common land and town and village greens which recorded the rights, if any, of the commoners and the names of the owners of the land.
Most commoners tried to get as close to the protective ramparts as possible, building houses that clung to the steep sides of the Yantra gorges like molluscs on a rock.
As if the commoner Middletons were not worrying enough to royal scholars such as James Whitaker, there had to be a risk that Goldsmith, a property developer, might, with his record of upstart hedonism actively contaminate an occasion featuring a King of Saudi Arabia, their Tonganese highnesses and the hardly less eminent royal broadcaster, ITN's Tom Bradby. Look what you're marrying into, Kate | Catherine Bennett
He looked like a commoner, with reed sandals and a plain, pleated kilt wrapped around his waist.
Contrary to its image as an elite garment for the stage or high fashion only, the word "tutu" was first used by commoners in France. The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
He had no power among the Canitaurs, but was only a titled commoner, more like Wagner's groom than counsel. The Revolutions of Time
This is a very significant event because it is now not only aristocracy getting involved but also the commoners themselves.
In an industry where hits turn commoners into stars overnight and flops turn stars into nobodies even faster, it was difficult for people to digest how a producer was pumping huge monies into such a project.
And it is that very character that makes him appealing to the punditry who talk him up - they are just like him, opportunists who swing with the breeze of public opinion, who like to claim the high ground in order to sneer upon the commoners below, who think that being the center of attention is always good and that principles are something only prigs and fools have ... Joe Lieberman as the Democrats Sarah Palin?
Things have gotten so bad for him, that any commoner with a medical professorship can slap him down.
The all-pervasive corruption in the police force and the bureaucracy has made the commoners neglectful of the rule of law.
If we should arrange the commoner Latin verses in a sequence according to the emotional effects which they produce, at the bottom of the series would stand the iambic senarius. The Common People of Ancient Rome Studies of Roman Life and Literature
They have opportunities beyond opportunities and temptation that us commoners couldn't imagine.
As is well known, the months preceding the declaration of August 4 were filled with rancor between the commoners and the privileged orders.
I was confronting the terror that a commoner, a mere Times New Roman shlepper who rejoices when the 2/3 train arrives as she's descending the stairs -- might crash the precincts of the bold-facers and le tout New York. Tribeca 2010: Notes From Under the Red Carpet
Although Byron had cultivated a reputation as a fighter and scapegrace at Harrow, he could not allow his former tutor, a mere commoner, to define him.
It was somewhat unbefitting of someone claiming to be an empress to sit like an uneducated commoner, but Casen had always thought with a certain status comes the right to do as one pleases.
After being bathed, depilated and doused in sweet heavy perfumes, queens and commoners alike are portrayed sitting patiently before their hairdressers, although it is equally clear that wigmakers enjoyed a brisk trade.
But wedding planners are taking the obsession to new heights as they prepare to face legions of lovebirds a.k.a. commoners looking to emulate the lavish affair. Boston.com Top Stories
Each animal is owned by a Commoner and must be marked with an individual brand before being left to wander the open forest.
The first, a commoner, had slain a boatsman from Schendi. Explorers Of Gor
Were they preludes to a hymn sung by a congregation, and, if so, commoners in a parish church or gentry in a court chapel?

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