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Invited to speak before the California congress of parents & teachers last fortnight, he piqued pedagogs, pleased parents with uncommonplace views on the subject of juvenile delinquency, pedagogy, parenthood.

From Time Magazine Archive

Very curious: to the commonplace man the uncommonplace is for ever unintelligible.

From Short Studies on Great Subjects by Froude, James Anthony

She uttered a few commonplaces in an uncommonplace tone without pausing in her knitting.

From Lady Larkspur by Nicholson, Meredith

There are few people in real life sufficiently interesting or uncommonplace to suit the novelist's purpose, but he must idealize or intensify them before they are fit subjects for art.

From Short Story Writing A Practical Treatise on the Art of The Short Story by Barrett, Charles Raymond