Uncommon

Examples

• Upon my soul it is uncommon good! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Because, said I, his is an uncommon character, and he has resolutely kept himself outside the circle, Richard. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• So uncommon grand with it too! Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Topsy had an uncommon verbal memory, and committed with a fluency that greatly encouraged her instructress. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• You are charmingly grouped, and appear to uncommon advantage. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• She must be an uncommon person,' her mother added. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• You said he had an uncommon notion of stock, and a good eye for things. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Mrs. Veller passed a very good night, but is uncommon perwerse, and unpleasant this mornin'. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Uncommon pretty company--haw, haw! William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• It was a profound observation when Bernard Shaw said that men dread liberty because of the bewildering responsibility it imposes and the uncommon alertness it demands. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Why, this is an uncommon handsome un, he said to the senator. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• It was at Boulogne I saw your father--a most uncommon likeness you are of him, by Jove! George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• You do look uncommon well, to be sure. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• That is an uncommon advantage, and uncommon I hope it will continue, for it would be a great loss to _me_ to have many such acquaintances. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• I'll be boun' Missis'll give us an uncommon good bite, dis yer time. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• They are funny, but not uncommon. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• She knew he was consumptive, his cheeks were so red and he was so uncommon thin in the waist. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• He's an uncommon old nigger, then! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Really he would have been an uncommon, instead of a common, fellow, if he had not availed himself of such an opportunity. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• Mr. Sedley was uncommon wild last night, sir, he whispered in confidence to Osborne, as the latter mounted the stair. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• You must ha' been an uncommon nice boy, to go to school vith,' said Sam. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Her daughter enjoyed a most uncommon degree of popularity for a woman neither young, handsome, rich, nor married. Jane Austen. Emma.
• And I tell you what--it's a most uncommon chair to smoke a pipe in. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• You mince matters to an uncommon nicety. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• He had heard from my guardian of my having been called away on some uncommon business and said so to dispense with any explanation. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• That's wery odd--that is,' said Sam, 'for you look so uncommon cheerful, and seem altogether so lively, that it does vun's heart good to see you. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• They were overpowered afresh by his uncommon generosity. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Uncommon good hollands. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• As a result it was no uncommon thing to see bright sparks snapping between the chandelier and the lighting wires during a sharp thunder-storm. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• That such abuses were far from being uncommon, the ancient history of every country in Europe bears witness. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.

Editor: Segre