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  • His assailants, a lawyer with gambling debts and a convicted burglar, disbelieving that the common-looking man dressed in an ill-fitting off-the-rack suit could be their target, demanded to see his identification.

    Theo Albrecht, 88, dies; started Aldi food chain and expanded Trader Joe's 2010

  • Although he was rather common-looking, Charlie Soon was deemed acceptable, and the two young people were married by a Southern Methodist missionary in the summer of 1887.

    The Last Empress Hannah Pakula 2009

  • Faced with this silence, Henry gathered only one impression to send to Clover: “We must admit that, like Abraham Lincoln, the Lord made a mighty common-looking man in him.”

    The Five of Hearts Patricia O'Toole 2008

  • Faced with this silence, Henry gathered only one impression to send to Clover: “We must admit that, like Abraham Lincoln, the Lord made a mighty common-looking man in him.”

    The Five of Hearts Patricia O'Toole 2008

  • She was a common-looking woman, about the same height as little Postel himself, such good looks as she possessed being entirely due to youth and health.

    Eve and David 2007

  • She was a common-looking woman, about the same height as little Postel himself, such good looks as she possessed being entirely due to youth and health.

    Eve and David 2007

  • But over the long term, there ` s more comfort and more security with a common-looking person.

    CNN Transcript Jul 12, 2006 2006

  • This man, you must understand, was a common-looking man, in his shirt-sleeves and with an apron about his paunch, and he told his story in an Anglian accent that sounded mean and clipped to my

    In the Days of the Comet Herbert George 2006

  • This morning as ever was, bright and early up came the whole gang of them, a lot of sturdy, common-looking lads they seemed to be for the most part, and fell to on my new road.

    Vailima Letters 2005

  • “I am a common-looking square-built woman compared to her,” she said to herself.

    Red Pottage 2004

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