mundane
Definition: Commonplace; ordinary
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The Art of the Novelist - By Henry Burrowes Lathrop
...It is a mundane form of literature and appeals to a mundane spirit ....
Confessions of a Young Man - By George Moore
...Looking at this face so mundane, so intellectually mundane, I see why a young man of...
The Mystery of the Sea - By Bram Stoker
...This, moreover, in an Embassy wherein he wishes to acquire much which the mundane world holds to be of great worth ....
The Seven Purposes - By Margaret Cameron
...In other words, should mundane provision and prevision be employed in building it ? "...
Pamphlets in Philology and the Humanities - By James Hayden Tufts, W Wetz, Hugo Helbing, Edward Thomas Owen, George J Tamson, A. L. Pogodin, Karl Brugmann, James Dowden Bruner, A Leskien, Wm E Bohn, William Edward Bohn, Mario Rossi, William Warner Bishop, George Rebec, Otto Knapp, Frank Gaylord Hubbard, Carl Meinhof, Frank Egbert Bryant, Rollo Ogden, Hugo Edward Eick, Fred Newton Scott, Hamilton Holt, Josephine May Burnham, Harry Gilbert Paul, Alexis Frederick Lange, John Harrower, Raymond Durbin Miller
...In Bailey : August, jejune, jucund, mundane, servile ....
Dracula - By Bram Stoker, Philip M. Parker, Poul Glargaard
...Keep this near your heart "--as he spoke he lifted a little silver crucifix and held it out to me, I being nearest to him--`` put these flowers round your neck "--here he handed to me a wreath of withered garlic blossoms--`` for other enemies more mundane, this revolver and this knife; and for aid in all, these so small electric lamps, which you can fasten to your breast; and for all, and above all at the last, this, which we must not desecrate needless . "...
The count of Monte-Cristo - By Alexandre Dumas
...When you return to this mundane sphere from your visionary world, you would seem to leave a Neapolitan spring for a Lapland winter--to quit paradise for earth--heaven for hell !...
The House of Mirth - By Edith Wharton, A. B. Wenzell
...The letter before her was short, but its few words, which had leapt into her brain before she was conscious of reading them, told a long history--a history over which, for the last four years, the friends of the writer had smiled and shrugged, viewing it merely as one among the countless `` good situations ' " of the mundane comedy ....
This Side of Paradise - By Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott), 1896-1940, Francis Scott Fitzgerald
...What interested him much more than the final departure of his father from things mundane was a tri-cornered conversation between Beatrice, Mr. Barton, of Barton and Krogman, their lawyers, and himself, that took place several days after the funeral ....
Main Street - By Sinclair Lewis
...In the lee of the stonily mature trio Carol proceeded to the street fair which added mundane gaiety to the annual rites of the United and Fraternal Order of Beavers ....
Barchester Towers - By Anthony Trollope, Michael Sadleir
...He had found the moment so inopportune for any mundane tidings, that he had repressed the words which were on his tongue, and immediately afterwards all recollection of the circumstance was for the time banished by the scene which had occurred . "...
Essays - By Ralph Waldo Emerson
...Though she extrudes all other persons from his attention as cheap and unworthy, she indemnifies him by carrying out her own being into somewhat impersonal, large, mundane, so that the maiden stands to him for a representative of all select things and virtues ....
The Old Wives' Tale - By Arnold Bennett
...Strange that immortal souls should be found with the temerity to reflect upon mundane affairs in that hour !...