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Secondly he was an ordinary man, and capable of
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The things we overlook as simple and "ordinary" are truly wondrous
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Nothing appears out of the ordinary
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Everything we had put together, Marianne and I, in our quiet ordinary little lives and our quiet ordinary little home
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‘Is there a problem?’ I asked in as ordinary a voice as I can manage, as I lead her into the kitchen and starting to clear my breakfast things away
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not being too out of the ordinary
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There was nothing running for cover, everything was quiet, and the house looked just like any other ordinary estate home on a hill
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And these were not ordinary students; each was superior in different fields of the sciences
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Bougainvillea, morning glory, hollyhocks, dusty white acanthus, all waving and grinning from everyday, ordinary tins brightened with casual splashes of paint - they just wouldn't look the same in Britain
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“Yes Ma’am, just an ordinary GP
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All of the policemen on crowd duty turned and fled the carnage, but the ordinary people in the crowd started to cheer and whoop with delight, carrying the soldier around on their shoulders and yelling and shouting that they'd never liked bankers at all
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But when she appears, she looks quite ordinary … obviously not performing … I wonder where they’re going – some operatic society event, perhaps? I’m just about to turn away when I become transfixed – he’s holding her hand! Gobsmacked, I watch as he opens the door for her to get into the passenger seat, and I catch an exchange of smiles between them which stops me in my tracks
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Rather than employing actors to tell classic tales, to make people laugh, or to inform and to educate, he hit upon the novel idea of making ordinary people the stars of television shows
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Most of all, however, it was called by this name because it was funny watching other people making complete fools of themselves, and pretty soon nearly every television programme featured ordinary people trying to win small fortunes, to become movie stars and generally being the nastiest of nasties in the woodpile
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These ordinary people cringed and winced as the experts subjected them to crushing and horribly patronising witticisms, The ultimate aim of this personal degradation was focussed on one thing; to single out only the most exceptional talents, while ensuring that the audience at home was vicariously thrilled and titillated by the humiliation of those who failed
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It is not an ordinary place
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Hey, didn’t I see an ad for silk sheets somewhere in that heap of newspapers? That would be something out of the ordinary, and nice too
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To say the least, I am staggered when she comes back, despite her ordinary shirt and jeans, she looks wonderful
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but the ordinary people in the crowd started to cheer and whoop
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The tone of the writing is cheerful and contented, I do hope that means that Bunty was happy … There are the usual references to Philip though it is odd that she never mentions her riding … perhaps it was such an ordinary thing she didn’t feel it necessary to note it down at all
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get the range with the ordinary shells, and only then use the special
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Refusing all offers of help from her, he fusses around the kitchen, getting out plates, pouring red wine … ordinary activities which restore her balance, wiping away the memory of Chas reaching out for her, his hands clawlike in their eagerness to grasp her flesh
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whether this was ordinary shyness or from some deeper concern
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The waiting relatives and friends of the lesser, more ordinary emergencies watch, and those conscious patients still able to concentrate on realities outside of their own sphere realise that they may not occupy the centre of the universe
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We are so often unable to imagine what it would be like to be more conscious of our inner and outer world, moment by moment, because it is such a foreign experience from our ordinary life of half-sleep, or half-waking
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Socks and shoes, an overcoat grabbed from the hall, car keys retrieved from the living room, these are the components of ordinary life that he gathers unto him as he walks back into the nightmare
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Kev stared out of the window at the little town he had driven through in the dark - just an ordinary, little town with a few shops and a bit of a tourist industry
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Me … a pretty ordinary, middle-aged woman … and he wants me… me with all my insecurities and idiocies … He’d been surprised when he’d realised my age … nasty moment … half expected him to make excuses and run away … underestimated him seriously … made a point of convincing me that age gap does not matter … remarkably efficient at convincing … his hands … phew … quiver at the thought … must be getting used to it … starting to retain some basic mental functions whilst thinking of him (thank goodness) … laugh
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looked around at the passengers, scanning for anything out of the ordinary
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We have pasties and chips for dinner – nice and ordinary – not to mention all I had in the freezer for two people
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Meanwhile the final carriages filled and headed for Truckee carrying the last of the summer's tourists home to hearth and kin in the distant cities and towns of their ordinary lives
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“Surely you’ve noticed by now that Trouble Valley is no ordinary village, and there is a reason for it
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Maybe the agents were just ordinary Altreenan’s who had gone insane! At this stage all I could think about was my old nanny
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Now he was just ordinary wood working John Smith,
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It was obvious this wasn't your ordinary home brew
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What remains of the crop, after paying the rent, therefore, should not only replace to them their stock employed in cultivation, together with its ordinary profits, but pay them the wages which are due to them, both as labourers and overseers
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The idle everywhere consume a great part of it; and, according to the different proportions in which it is annually divided between those two different orders of people, its ordinary or average value must either annually increase or diminish, or continue the same from one year to another
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These ordinary or average rates may be called the natural rates of wages, profit and rent, at the time and place in which they commonly prevail
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In settling the terms of the lease, the landlord and farmer endeavour, according to their best judgment, to adjust that rate, not to the temporary and occasional, but to the average and ordinary price of the produce
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It is not, however, difficult to foresee which of the two parties must, upon all ordinary occasions, have the advantage in the dispute, and force the other into a compliance with their terms
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In 1688, Mr Gregory King, whose skill in political arithmetic is so much extolled by Dr Davenant, computed the ordinary income of labourers and out-servants to be fifteen pounds a-year to a family, which he supposed to consist, one with another, of three and a half persons
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Something of the same kind happens in many other trades, in which the workmen are paid by the piece; as they generally are in manufactures, and even in country labour, wherever wages are higher than ordinary
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In cheap years it is pretended, workmen are generally more idle, and in dear times more industrious than ordinary
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That a little more plenty than ordinary may render some workmen idle, cannot be well doubted; but that it should have this effect upon the greater part, or that men in general should work better when they are ill fed, than when they are well fed, when they are disheartened than when they are in good spirits, when they are frequently sick than when they are generally in good health, seems not very probable
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More people want employment than easily get it ; many are willing to take it upon lower terms than ordinary ; and the wages of both servants and journeymen frequently sink in dear years
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But in 1756, another year or great scarcity, the Scotch manufactures made more than ordinary advances
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In the ordinary variations of the prices of provisions, those two opposite causes seem to counterbalance one another, which is probably, in part, the reason why the wages of labour are everywhere so much more steady and permanent than the price of provisions
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Accordingly, therefore, as the usual market rate of interest varies in any country, we may be assured that the ordinary profits of stock must vary with it, must sink as it sinks, and rise as it rises
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accordingly, is said to be the common interest of money in China, and the ordinary profits of stock must be sufficient to afford this large interest
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The lowest ordinary rate of profit must always be something more than what is sufficient to compensate the occasional losses to which every employment of stock is exposed
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The lowest ordinary rate of interest must, in the same manner, be something more than sufficient to compensate the occasional losses to which lending, even with tolerable prudence, is exposed
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In a country which had acquired its full complement of riches, where, in every particular branch of business, there was the greatest quantity of stock that could be employed in it, as the ordinary rate of clear profit would be very small, so the usual market rate of interest which could be afforded out of it would be so low as to render it impossible for any but the very wealthiest people to live upon the interest of their money
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The proportion which the usual market rate of interest ought to bear to the ordinary rate of clear profit, necessarily varies as profit rises or falls
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In a country where the ordinary rate of clear profit is eight or ten per cent
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But the proportion between interest and clear profit might not be the same in countries where the ordinary rate of profit was either a good deal lower, or a good deal higher
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education, with at least the ordinary profits of an equally valuable capital
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The constancy or inconstancy of employment cannot affect the ordinary profits of stock in any
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But anyone who's breasts could defy gravity the way Shinvei's did couldn't be made of ordinary protoplasm
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consideration alone, it seems evident enough that the ordinary balance of profit and loss is not
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In all the different employments of stock, the ordinary rate of profit varies more or less with
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The ordinary rate of profit always rises
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the ordinary profits of stock, not only to make up for all occasional losses, but to afford a
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those of labour ; and the ordinary profit of stock, though it rises with the risk, does not always
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neighbourhood, the average and ordinary rates of profit in the different employments of stock
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profits of his capital, and little more will remain, perhaps, than the ordinary profits of stock
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they must be in their ordinary, or what may be called their natural state ; and, thirdly, they
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employments of labour and stock, can take place only in the ordinary, or what may be called
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price of any commodity rises above the ordinary or average rate, the profits of at least some
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granting certificates in ordinary cases; for it is far more than an equal chance, but that they
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upon the same footing with an ordinary workman, seems perfectly well founded
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In adjusting the terms of the lease, the landlord endeavours to leave him no greater share of the produce than what is sufficient to keep up the stock from which he furnishes the seed, pays the labour, and purchases and maintains the cattle and other instruments of husbandry, together with the ordinary profits of farming stock in the neighbourhood
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Sometimes, indeed, the liberality, more frequently the ignorance, of the landlord, makes him accept of somewhat less than this portion ; and sometimes, too, though more rarely, the ignorance of the tenant makes him undertake to pay somewhat more, or to content himself with somewhat less, than the ordinary profits of farming stock in the neighbourhood
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Such parts only of the produce of land can commonly be brought to market, of which the ordinary price is sufficient to replace the stock which must be employed in bringing them thither, together with its ordinary profits
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If the ordinary price is more than this, the surplus part of it will naturally go to the rent of the land
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The most desert moors in Norway and Scotland produce some sort of pasture for cattle, of which the milk and the increase are always more than sufficient, not only to maintain all the labour necessary for tending them, and to pay the ordinary profit to the farmer or the owner of the herd or flock, but to afford some small rent to the landlord
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At Buenos Ayres, we are told by Ulloa, four reals, one-and-twenty pence halfpenny sterling, was, forty or fifty years ago, the ordinary price of an ox, chosen from a herd of two or three hundred
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Their ordinary price, at present, is about three times greater than at the beginning of the century, and the rents of many Highland estates have been tripled and quadrupled in the same time
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It was then, among other proof to the same purpose, given in evidence by a Virginia merchant, that in March 1763, he had victualled his ships for twentyfour or twenty-five shillings the hundred weight of beef, which he considered as the ordinary price; whereas, in that dear year, he had paid twenty-seven shillings for the same weight and sort
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This high price in 1764 is, however, four shillings and eight-pence cheaper than the ordinary price paid by Prince Henry ; and it is the best beef only, it must be observed, which is fit to be salted for those distant voyages
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But even this high price is still a good deal cheaper than what we can well suppose the ordinary retail price to have been in the time of Prince Henry
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The whole quantity of such wines that is brought to market falls short of the effectual demand, or the demand of those who would be willing to pay the whole rent, profit, and wages, necessary for preparing and bringing them thither, according to the ordinary rate, or according to the rate at which they are paid in common vineyards
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If, in any country, the common and favourite vegetable food of the people should be drawn from a plant of which the most common land, with the same, or nearly the same culture, produced a much greater quantity than the most fertile does of corn ; the rent of the landlord, or the surplus quantity of food which would remain to him, after paying the labour, and replacing the stock of the farmer, together with its ordinary profits, would necessarily be much greater
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Two crops in the year, from thirty to sixty bushels each, are said to be the ordinary produce of an acre
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A quantity of mineral, sufficient to defray the expense of working, could be brought from the mine by the ordinary, or even less than the ordinary quantity of labour: but in an inland country, thinly inhabited, and without either good roads or water-carriage, this quantity could not be sold
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proprietor frequently exacts no other acknowledgment from the undertaker of the mine, but that he will grind the ore at his mill, paying him the ordinary multure or price of grinding
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After replacing the stock employed in working those different mines, together with its ordinary profits, the residue which remains to the proprietor is greater, it seems, in the coarse, than in the precious metal
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The lowest price at which the precious metals can be sold, or the smallest quantity of other goods for which they can be exchanged, during any considerable time, is regulated by the same principles which fix the lowest ordinary price of all other goods
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It must at least be sufficient to replace that stock, with the ordinary profits
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They seemed to value them as we would do any little pebbles of somewhat more than ordinary beauty, and to consider them as just worth the picking up, but not worth the refusing to any body who asked them, They gave them to their new guests at the first request, without seeming to think that they had made them any very valuable present
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This statute is surely a better evidence of what was reckoned, in those times, a moderate price of grain, than the prices of some particular years, which have generally been recorded by historians and other writers, on account of their extraordinary dearness or cheapness, and from which, therefore, it is difficult to form any judgment concerning what may have been the ordinary price
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The prices of malt and oats seem here to lie higher than their ordinary proportion to the price of wheat
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From about the middle of the fourteenth to the beginning of the sixteenth century, what was reckoned the reasonable and moderate, that is, the ordinary or average price of wheat, seems to have sunk gradually to about one half of this price; so as at last to have fallen to about two ounces of silver, Tower weight, equal to about ten shillings of our present money
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to the beginning of the reign of Elizabeth, during the space of more than two hundred years, six shillings and eightpence, it appears from several different statutes, had continued to be considered as what is called the moderate and reasonable, that is, the ordinary or average price of wheat
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Several writers, therefore, being misled by this faulty transcription, very naturally conclude that the middle price, or six shillings the quarter, equal to about eighteen shillings of our present money, was the ordinary or average price of wheat at that time
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} to conclude from this, that three shillings was the highest price to which wheat ever rose in those times, and that tenpence, a shilling, or at most two shillings, were the ordinary prices
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Thirdly, they seem to have been misled too, by the very low price at which wheat was sometimes sold in very ancient times ; and to have imagined, that as its lowest price was then much lower than in later times its ordinary price must likewise have been much lower
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Mr King had judged eight-and-twenty shillings the quarter to be at that time the ordinary contract price in years of moderate plenty
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Before the scarcity occasioned by the late extraordinary course of bad seasons, it was, I have been assured, the ordinary contract price in all common years
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In the greater part of the silver mines of Peru, this, it seems, is all that remains, after replacing the stock of the undertaker of the work, together with its ordinary profits ; and it seems to be universally acknowledged that these profits, which were once very high, are now as low as they can well be, consistently with carrying on the works
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But the ordinary proportion between the respective values of two commodities is not necessarily the same as that between the quantities of them which are commonly in the market