common-sized

• “It is easy to imagine there was not much room left for two common-sized men.”

  Narrative of Richard Lee Mason in the Pioneer West, 1819

• “I wrote, therefore, a page and a half full of common-sized paper in an ordinary handwriting.”

  Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete

• “The wash-stand is another trunk, covered with a towel, upon which you will see, for bowl, a large vegetable-dish, for ewer, a common-sized dining-pitcher.”

  The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52

• “Butter two common-sized baking tins carefully, line them with letter paper well buttered, and bake in a moderate oven two hours.”

  The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887) The Whole Comprising a Comprehensive Cyclopedia of Information for the Home

• “This, however, is only in the spring and fall, as at other seasons the Merrimac is not navigable for common-sized boats, at a greater distance than fifty miles from its mouth.”

  A Ramble of Six Thousand Miles through the United States of America

• “A bed ten feet long and four feet wide will contain three hundred and sixty plants; and, if they be well cultivated, will more than supply the table of a common-sized family from October to May.”

  The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.

• “Throat she had none; waist she had none; legs she had none, worth mentioning; for though she was more than full-sized down to where her waist would have been, if she had had any, and though she terminated, as human beings generally do, in a pair of feet, she was so short that she stood at a common-sized chair as at a table, resting a bag she carried on the seat.”

  XXII. Some Old Scenes, and Some New People

• “Oh," said my beauty, "come in"; and she opened the door, but still kept it on the chain in such a way, that although, by bobbing, I creeped and slid in beneath it, yet a common-sized man could not possibly have squeezed himself through.”

  Great Sea Stories

• “Buckler 12.192 reports a case of appendicitis in a child of twelve, in which a common-sized bird-shot was found in the appendix.”

  Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine

• “Buckler reports a case of appendicitis in a child of twelve, in which a common-sized bird-shot was found in the appendix.”

  Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine

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