SYN: Running, prevalent, ordinary, present, popular, general, floating, exoteric, vulgar.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

I think there is truth in that common saying which had its origin in that old worldly wisdom which people gathered from experience and not from books.
— from Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

The walls and ceiling were so hung with living green, that it looked a perfect grove; from every part of which bright gleaming berries glistened.
— from A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

"But, sir," said she, "what is this pill good for else?"
— from The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan Every Child Can Read by John Bunyan

But when men wish to be safely impressive, as judges, priests or kings, they do wear skirts, the long, trailing robes of female dignity The whole world is under petticoat government; for even men wear petticoats when they wish to govern.
— from What's Wrong with the World by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

[3631] Oppression, fraud, cozening, usury, knavery, bawdry, murder, and tyranny, are the beginning of many ancient families: [3632] one hath been a bloodsucker, a parricide, the death of many a silly soul in some unjust quarrels, seditions, made many an orphan and poor widow, and for that he is made a lord or an earl, and his posterity gentlemen for ever after.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

I now realised the pitch of fluent and overflowing vivacity to which the young man could attain, particularly at night before retiring to rest, when he would squat down beside my bed, and in the agreeable, pure dialect of the German Baltic provinces, give free expression to whatever had excited his interest.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

With this much explanation, I may pass to personal matters, and record my thanks to many Florentine friends for help in technical and grammatical questions; to Professor Baldwin Brown for the notes on technical matters printed with Miss Maclehose's translation of "Vasari on Technique"; and to Mr. C. J. Holmes, of the National Portrait Gallery, for encouragement in a task which has proved no less pleasant than difficult.
— from Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 01 (of 10) Cimabue to Agnolo Gaddi by Giorgio Vasari

I wish to quote from Page 4 of the translation, Paragraphs 2 to 4: “It is the task of the GBW”—that is the Plenipotentiary General for Economics—“to put all economic forces into the service of the Reich defense and to safeguard economically the life of the German nation.
— from Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal, Nuremburg, 14 November 1945-1 October 1946, Volume 5 by Various

It is then that the Tzigane player gives forth everything that is secretly lurking within him—fierce anger, childish wailings, presumptuous exaltation, brooding melancholy, and passionate despair; and at such moments, as a Hungarian writer has said, one could readily believe in his power of drawing down the angels from heaven into hell!
— from Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative; Vol. 2 of 3 Library Edition (1891), Containing Seven Essays not before Republished, and Various other Additions. by Herbert Spencer

Meanwhile the three men had sat down, and Prada gaily filled each of the glasses, although Pierre declared that he was quite unable to drink wine between his meals.
— from The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome, Complete by Émile Zola

Sections cost one hundred thousand dollars a mile which would formerly have been built for thirty thousand; and prairie grading formerly estimated at six to eight thousand dollars a mile jumped to twenty and thirty thousand dollars.
— from The Canadian Commonwealth by Agnes C. Laut

All over the world where they have real estate possessions, the men of England know how to protect game from extermination.
— from Our Vanishing Wild Life: Its Extermination and Preservation by William T. (William Temple) Hornaday

nd I have heard histories of her returning, personally, good for evil that would do honour to any character living.
— from The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 3 by Fanny Burney

Great Britain’s naval superiority over Germany has enabled her completely to paralyze all Germany’s sea commerce and to prevent goods from entering her ports.
— from America and the World War by Theodore Roosevelt

Whereas it has pleased Almighty God to call to His Mercy our late Sovereign Lord King Edward the Seventh, of Blessed and Glorious Memory, by whose Decease the Imperial Crown of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland is solely and rightfully come to the High and Mighty Prince George Frederick Ernest Albert: We, therefore, the Lords Spiritual and Temporal of this Realm, being here assisted with these of His late Majesty's Privy Council, with Numbers of other Principal Gentlemen of Quality, with the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Citizens of London, do now hereby, with one Voice and Consent of Tongue and Heart, publish and proclaim, That the High and Mighty Prince George Frederick Ernest Albert, is now by the Death of our late Sovereign of Happy Memory, become our only lawful and rightful
— from The Life of King Edward VII with a sketch of the career of King George V by J. Castell (John Castell) Hopkins

A CHOICE LINE OF PLAIN GRAINS, for Evening and Street, $2.50 to $3; value $3 to $3.50 per yard.
— from Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 24, September 10, 1870 by Various

Anon the Duke of York comes out, and then to a committee of Tangier, where my Lord Middleton did come to-day, and seems to me but a dull, heavy man; but he is a great soldier, and stout, and a needy Lord, which will still keep that poor garrison from ever coming to be worth anything to the King.
— from Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1667 N.S. by Samuel Pepys