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"Commonplaceness" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... gold-weighted tapestries hung once more over the door by which Eric of Norway had made his entrance, and a rich-hued rug from an Eastern loom lay over the spot where she had seen the axe rise and fall. Crossing the threshold, the commonplaceness of it all clashed so discordantly with the scene in her memory that for an instant she grew faint and clung to the curtains between which she was passing. That death should leave so little trace, that the spot which one night was occupied by a headsman, the next, should hold a ...
— The Ward of King Canute • Ottilie A. Liljencrantz |
Words linked to "Commonplaceness" : ordinariness, prosiness, usualness, common, mundanity, everydayness, commonplace, uncommonness, prosaicness, mundaneness, uncommon, commonness |
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