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Examples
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I think we down-play it for "commonfolk" because they really have no clue which is totally fine, and understandable but they tend to respond REALLY dramatically and heads start turning and it gets uncomfortable.
Running Therapy Holly 2008
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In the meantime folks like Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck are getting millions of dollars to tell us commonfolk how Obama is ruining the country and Sarah Palin is collecting the 12 million dollars to tell her fans what they want to hear.
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She is a former governor and therefore clearly above such commonfolk distractions as laws and business ethics … just ask the reverend at C Street Congressional Boarding House here in DC.
Toby Keith also unknowing participant in Palin's Fox News show 2010
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They had the look of devout but ordinary commonfolk, probably making their one great vensolles to the Sun Garden in Craghail or the Tomb of the Redeemer in Mirhain.
THE RIVER KINGS’ ROAD Liane Merciel 2010
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Foolish of them to cross the river … but there is supposed to be a peace, and the commonfolk say there are worse things than bandits in Bayarn Wood, so perhaps they have their reasons.
THE RIVER KINGS’ ROAD Liane Merciel 2010
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Kelland gathered information in the course of his work as a Blessed; Bitharn listened for the rumors and grievances that commonfolk muttered among themselves.
THE RIVER KINGS’ ROAD Liane Merciel 2010
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In any other season, the commonfolk might bite their tongues if an outlander came near.
THE RIVER KINGS’ ROAD Liane Merciel 2010
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Galefrid had never understood how foolish it was to feast the commonfolk when the treasury was bare; all it did was ensure that twice as much food would have to be snatched from their mouths to pay for it later.
THE RIVER KINGS’ ROAD Liane Merciel 2010
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The Kliastans, Bitharn surmised, would have had little interest in diluting their own deadliness to help the commonfolk in their lands.
THE RIVER KINGS’ ROAD Liane Merciel 2010
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Out on the open road, far from the demands of the commonfolk and their lords, she could pretend that the two of them were carefree as summer larks.
THE RIVER KINGS’ ROAD Liane Merciel 2010
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