I don't want to affect our "commonalty" if I may venture to call it, but I venture to say that is another reason why India should take its place in the Commonwealth. From Wordnik.com. [The India of Tomorrow] Reference
Bludworth as sheriff, the commonalty claimed their rights. From Wordnik.com. [London and the Kingdom - Volume II] Reference
The City members asked leave to consult the commonalty on the matter. From Wordnik.com. [London and the Kingdom - Volume I] Reference
Forgotten were the tax-lists under which the commonalty labored; it was. From Wordnik.com. [Under the Rose] Reference
The commonalty bore the appellations of Goodman and Goodwife, and one of. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 71, September, 1863] Reference
If the letter were addressed to the whole commonalty so much the better. From Wordnik.com. [London and the Kingdom - Volume II] Reference
There was now political equality between the nobility and the commonalty. From Wordnik.com. [General History for Colleges and High Schools] Reference
The commonalty as a whole is now everything, the nobility no longer anything at all. From Wordnik.com. [GENERAL WILL] Reference
Could he himself constitute the mayor, commonalty and citizens of a city, or make anyone else such?. From Wordnik.com. [London and the Kingdom - Volume II] Reference
There was no great love among the commonalty for either of these factions, but the present threat was over. From Wordnik.com. [Brother Cadfael's Penance]
London and county of Middlesex for the year ensuing, that another might be associated to him by the commonalty. From Wordnik.com. [London and the Kingdom - Volume II] Reference
England's nobility must acknowledge, sooner or later, the equality of the commonalty and gentry with themselves. From Wordnik.com. [Mysticism and its Results Being an Inquiry into the Uses and Abuses of Secrecy] Reference
The mayor, aldermen and commonalty agreed to stand by any terms which the deputation might be compelled to make. From Wordnik.com. [London and the Kingdom - Volume I] Reference
When the gentry had concluded this repast, it was handed to a side table, where the commonalty speedily discussed it. From Wordnik.com. [Notes of a Journey From Cornhill to Grand Cairo] Reference
He had expected to have returned much earlier, and had addressed a letter to the mayor, sheriffs, and commonalty of the City of. From Wordnik.com. [London and the Kingdom - Volume I] Reference
One place only had not been assaulted, and that was owing to the difficulty of approaching it; this was the little commonalty of. From Wordnik.com. [Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs] Reference
All good people of either persuasion, royalty or commonalty, knowing his kitchen-range to be cold, no longer would play turnspit. From Wordnik.com. [Lorna Doone] Reference
City, when it would be the duty of the commonalty to follow the Banner of St. Paul, borne before them by the Castellan, to Aldgate. From Wordnik.com. [The Customs of Old England] Reference
If in a kingdom all were kings, where were the subjects, the people, the commonalty, the commonwealth, or the political government?. From Wordnik.com. [The Divine Right of Church Government by Sundry Ministers Of Christ Within The City Of London] Reference
A letter was sent the same day to Betoyne himself, enjoining him to do nothing in the matter opposed to the wish of the commonalty of. From Wordnik.com. [London and the Kingdom - Volume I] Reference
There was a moment when Mademoiselle de Fontaine seemed sorry for an ill-judged sally against the commonalty to which Clara had led her. From Wordnik.com. [The Ball at Sceaux] Reference
The true growth of the English nation is seen broad-based on the life of the commonalty, and we can study it better in the rude verse of. From Wordnik.com. [Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies] Reference
Even after it had ceased to be the exclusive appanage of the king, the umbrella was a sign of noble rank, and not permitted to the commonalty. From Wordnik.com. [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II] Reference
This commonalty of women must also be, at one and the same time, the operatives, the soldiers, the virgins, and the legislators of the country!. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 545, May 5, 1832] Reference
The mayor, bailiffs, and commonalty of Oxford also claim to assist in the office of butlery, and receive the humbler reward of three maple cups. From Wordnik.com. [Coronation Anecdotes] Reference
The turbaned lads were priests, bearing strange long wands with heads like crutches, while the commonalty and sundry infants carried palm fronds. From Wordnik.com. [Flashman on the March]
Box, grocer (named also by the commonalty), that the two of those four who should have the most voices might be the sheriffs elected for the city of. From Wordnik.com. [London and the Kingdom - Volume II] Reference
It would take generations, perhaps centuries before New Lemuria was ready for full status and membership in the commonalty of the starfaring worlds. From Wordnik.com. [Hokas Pokas]
Among the commonalty of Britain, within a very few years past, rifle-clubs and matches have been brought greatly into vogue under government encouragement. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875] Reference
But he certainly achieves much besides if, while he does these things, at the same time and in the same doing he entertains the great commonalty of readers. From Wordnik.com. [The Building of a Book A Series of Practical Articles Written by Experts in the Various Departments of Book Making and Distributing] Reference
After the lapse of a few days, a letter came from the Earl of Hereford, addressed to the mayor, sheriffs, aldermen and commonalty of the city, asking for an interview. From Wordnik.com. [London and the Kingdom - Volume I] Reference
He was young, handsome, muscular, literate (unlike most Abs), and full of reforming notions, like abolishing slavery and gener ally improving the lot of the commonalty. From Wordnik.com. [Flashman on the March]
But no one cheered and no children strewed the way with autumn flowers, for Olmigon was not a ruler beloved by the commonalty — nor by the burgesses and nobles, either. From Wordnik.com. [Conqueror's Moon]
We observe that our commonalty now use the knife in quarrel, and we regret the death of that rough principle of honour which once imposed itself upon the worst of rowdies. From Wordnik.com. [My Contemporaries In Fiction] Reference
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