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Common person

noun

A person who holds no title. Synonyms: common man, commoner.

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"Common person" Quotes from Famous Books

... did not consider that it made much difference to Daisy where she read; so she took the chapter that came next in the course of her own going through the New Testament. It was the eighth chapter of Mark. She read very pleasantly; not like a common person; and with a slight French accent. Her voice was always sweet, and the words came through it as loved words. It was very pleasant to Daisy to hear her; the long chapter was not interrupted by any remark. But when Mrs. Benoit paused at the end of ...

— Melbourne House, Volume 1 • Susan Warner

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... more thing," I went on; "you say the mother of him you seek was a great lady. Well, I saw the body of the mother of the boy who was found, and it was that of a common person very roughly clad with coarse underclothes and hands hard with labour, on which there was but one ring, and that of silver. Here it is," and going to a drawer I took from it a common silver ring which I once bought from a pedlar ...

— Swallow • H. Rider Haggard

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... Major White to his companion as they walked upstairs together, as if Lord Ferriby were a jockey or some common person of ...

— Roden's Corner • Henry Seton Merriman

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... not that," she answered. "You mistake me if you think I am easily touched by my own concerns. I say so because you are the noblest man I have ever met; because I recognize in you a spirit that would have made even a common person famous ...

— The Short-story • William Patterson Atkinson

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