Commonty

Word COMMONTY
Character 8
Hyphenation com mon ty
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The word "commonty" in example sentences

Every year on Games Day I take pictures of the specimen conifers we have planted down the commonty, with associated grandchildren. ❋ Jean (2009)

Lisa, we use the word “commonty” just to mean “land-held-in-common”. ❋ Jean (2009)

We planted ours when James and Cathy married, and it has struggled in the dry soil of the commonty, but is at last growing faster than the children. ❋ Jean (2009)

“Down the commonty” is part of the mysterious family vocabulary which incomers (such as the people our children marry) find so difficult at first, although all have mastered it by now. ❋ Jean (2009)

It was a good commonty, as Christopher Sly says; nor were we sorry when it was done. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Is not a commonty a Christmas gambold or a tumbling-trick? ❋ Unknown (1914)

On the evening of this solemn day the door of the Auld Licht kirk was sometimes locked, and the congregation repaired, Bible in hand, to the commonty. ❋ Unknown (1898)

Sam'l's design was to forestall him by taking the shorter path over the burn and up the commonty. ❋ Unknown (1898)

Mr. Watts was conducting the service on the commonty. ❋ Unknown (1898)

The congregation, which belonged to the body who seceded from the Established Church a hundred and fifty years ago, had split, and as the New Lights (now the U.P. 's) were in the majority, the Old Lights, with the minister at their head, had to retire to the commonty (or common) and hold service in the open air until they had saved up money for a church. ❋ Unknown (1898)

I am naturally leisurely, but we climbed the commonty at a stride. ❋ Unknown (1898)

A stranger in the Tenements in the afternoon would have noted more than one draggled youth in holiday attire, sitting on a doorstep with a wet cloth to his nose; and, passing down the commonty, he would have had to step over prostrate lumps of humanity from which all shape had departed. ❋ Unknown (1898)

The congregation, which belonged to the body who seceded from the Established Church a hundred and fifty years ago, had split, and as the New Lights (now the U. P.'s) were in the majority, the Old Lights, with the minister at their head, had to retire to the commonty (or common) and hold service in the open air until they had saved up money for a church. ❋ Unknown (1898)

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