Commonly

Examples

• Such companies, therefore, commonly draw to themselves much greater stocks, than any private copartnery can boast of. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Substances which, like an air gap, interfere with the flow of electricity are called non-conductors, or, more commonly, insulators. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Again, let us see how the democratical man grows out of the oligarchical: the following, as I suspect, is commonly the process. Plato. The Republic.
• How unjustly, how capriciously, how cruelly, they have commonly exercised it, is too well known from recent experience. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The vulgar are commonly guided by the first, and wise men by the second. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• Once make her certain that the path of duty, as she commonly phrased it, lay in any given direction, and fire and water could not keep her from it. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• But though labour be the real measure of the exchangeable value of all commodities, it is not that by which their value is commonly estimated. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The triple crown of the popes is more commonly called the tiara. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• So that here we have perfect, or even more than commonly perfect fertility, in a first cross between two distinct species. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• While the disturbance which travels out from a sounding body is commonly called a wave, it is by no means like the type of wave best known to us, namely, the water wave. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• But the productions of the most distant metallic mines frequently may, and in fact commonly are. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• They were of different forms, but that most commonly in use consisted of an upright post and a transverse movable beam on which the seat was fitted or from which it was suspended by a chain. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• His whole gains, however, are commonly called profit, and wages are, in this case, too, confounded with profit. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The method most commonly practiced in working with apple trees is called bud-grafting, and consists of transferring a plate of bark, with one or more buds attached, from one tree to another. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Their clothing, therefore, had commonly been much more expensive. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Upon examination, I find only one of the reasons commonly produced for this opinion to be satisfactory, viz. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• No cure has yet been found for this peculiar disease, occasioned by the phosphorus in the state in which it is commonly used. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• The meters commonly used measure the amperes, volts, and time automatically, and register the electric power supplied in watt hours. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• In the center or axial hole of the roller fits the balance staff, which staff also carries the balance wheel, and the balance spring, commonly called the hair spring. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• To have served an apprenticeship in the town, under a master properly qualified, is commonly the necessary requisite for obtaining this freedom. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• In exchanging, indeed, the different productions of different sorts of labour for one another, some allowance is commonly made for both. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• I came, said Miss Ophelia, with a short, dry cough, such as commonly introduces a difficult subject,--I came to speak with you about poor Rosa. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• And this occupation or agitation of the mind is commonly agreeable and amusing. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• Commonly, this is ascribed to the geographical conditions under which they lived. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Their skins, therefore, are commonly good for little. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Such differences commonly originate in a disagreement about the use of the terms 'mine' and 'not mine,' 'his' and 'not his. Plato. The Republic.
• Such people are commonly men of mean birth, but of great wealth, and frequently of great pride. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• In the currencies of North America, paper was commonly issued for so small a sum as a shilling, and filled almost the whole of that circulation. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• If the project succeeds, they are commonly at first very high. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Boghead coal is now commonly used for mixing its gas with that of inferior quality, to bring up the illuminating power to the required standard. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.

Typist: Terrence