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  • He was too common-sensed to keep up the battling in which he would surely have broken his heart and his body and gone dumb mad.

    CHAPTER XXVI 2010

  • This issue is cut and dry for any common-sensed individual.

    Rivanna Trail vs. Land Owner at cvillenews.com 2002

  • He was too common-sensed to keep up the battling in which he would surely have broken his heart and his body and gone dumb mad.

    Chapter 26 1917

  • Better be common-sensed and practical, taking things as they are.

    'Tis Sixty Years Since Adams, Charles Francis 1913

  • We men are cold and common-sensed enough for all; we would not have women the same.

    Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow 1893

  • "First catch your common-sensed girl," muttered Jephson, a little grumpily, as it seemed to me.

    Novel Notes 1893

  • It seemed as if Barnet expected a half-guilty look upon Lucy's face; but no, save the natural flush and flurry engendered by the service just performed, there was nothing whatever in her bearing which showed a disturbed mind: her gray-brown eyes carried in them now as at other times the well-known expression of common-sensed rectitude which never went so far as to touch on hardness.

    Wessex Tales Thomas Hardy 1884

  • Better be common-sensed and practical, taking things as they are.

    "'Tis Sixty Years Since" Address of Charles Francis Adams; Founders' Day, January 16, 1913 Charles Francis Adams 1875

  • On the more common-sensed hand, This person should get laughed at and get nothing, not even court time.

    Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz 2009

  • Lucy’s face; but no, save the natural flush and flurry engendered by the service just performed, there was nothing whatever in her bearing which showed a disturbed mind: her gray-brown eyes carried in them now as at other times the well-known expression of common-sensed rectitude which never went so far as to touch on hardness.

    Wessex Tales 2006

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