How To Use Commons In A Sentence
- Meg looked worn and nervous, the babies absorbed every minute of her time, the house was neglected, and Kitty, the cook, who took life 'aisy', kept him on short commons. Little Women
- It is politically safer – yes, even pragmatic – to describe one’s values as "commonsensical" or "middle of the road. Archive 2009-05-01
- From Australia and New Zealand to Malaysia and India — in text and film and music and image — this booklet is a snapshot of the Asian commons. ACIA: Furthering the Commons in Asia
- When the phrase was first coined, the three estates of the body politic were the lords, the clergy and the commons.
- With its two commons, Steeple Fritton was shaped much like a penny-farthing bicycle, Posy had decided in childhood. TICKLED PINK
- A ha'porth of commonsense's sometimes worth volumes of statutes. IN REMEMBRANCE OF ROSE
- Many small farms were indeed still let to some cottagers at rack-rent, which cottages had the right of commonage, guaranteed to them in their leases; but afterwards the commons were enclosed, and no recompense was made to the tenants by the landlords. The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria
- If works are not published under Creative Commons, their dissemination is severely limited. Creative Commons for Catholics
- The alternative of the commons is too horrifying to contemplate.
- The Higher Education Bill scraped through the Commons at second reading by just five votes in January.