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Wholesome Ella Jasper met the caller at the door with an inward cordiality entirely out of proportion to even a close friend of the family, but her greeting was commonplaceness itself.

From Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford by Chester, George Randolph

But Max had this advantage of Drummond: he was not his own dupe; whereas Drummond would go to his grave believing himself bored to extinction by the commonplaceness of his fantastical self....

From The Destroying Angel by Vance, Louis Joseph

The admixture of faith and imagination produces strange results, while it raises us above the commonplaceness of everyday life.

From The Rainbow Book Tales of Fun & Fancy by Spielmann, Mabel Henriette

His large-featured, freckled face was kept from commonplaceness by its frank gray eyes, broad brow, firm chin and refined mouth.

From Crestlands A Centennial Story of Cane Ridge by Bayne, Mary Addams

A heavy, or sometimes turgid, journalistic commonplaceness sat upon it.

From Atlantic Classics by Various