Early in the war it was not uncommon for planters' sons to retain in camp Negro `` body servants '' to perform the menial chores such as cooking, foraging, cleaning the quarters, shining shoes, and laundering clothes.

An early uncommon means of boat propulsion was referred to as the water caterpillar which is similar in construction to paddles on a conveyor belt and preceded the development of tracked vehicles such as military tanks and earth moving equipment.

The burial rites of the Italian Boii show many similarities with contemporary Bohemia, such as inhumation, which was uncommon with the other Cisalpine Gauls, or the absence of the typically western Celtic torcs.

The 18th-century author Charles Johnson claimed that Teach was for some time a sailor operating from Jamaica on privateer ships during Queen Anne's War, and that " he had often distinguished himself for his uncommon boldness and personal courage ".

It was not uncommon for the early romantic comedy film to also be a screwball comedy film.

It was not uncommon for an organisation under Roman private law to copy the terminology of state and city institutions for its own statutory agents.

Young's earned run average was below 2. 00 six times, but this was not uncommon during the dead-ball era.

Montagnard fighters armed with crossbows proved a highly valuable asset to the US Special Forces operating in Vietnam, and it was not uncommon for the Green Berets to integrate Montagnard crossbowmen into their strike teams.

Social mobility between these strata, regardless of an individual's effort, was difficult and uncommon.

His writings are filled with the loving and forgiving nature of God which was somewhat uncommon during his time period.

It was not uncommon for him to throw out 95 % of his material until he settled on a theme for his book.

In general, an emperor would have one empress ( Huanghou, 皇后 ) at one time, although posthumous entitlement to empress for a concubine was not uncommon.

This was not uncommon as the Paris cooks ' guild regulations allowed for this movement.

Recent studies in ancient narrative historiography argue that it is possible for John's Gospel to record multiple Passovers — as historical testimony not theological literary-devices — and yet not represent three years as it was not uncommon for ancient historians to organize their histories without an absolute timeline.

Guy was an uncommon name in England, but may have been popular in York on account of a local notable, Sir Guy Fairfax of Steeton.

Women writers were not uncommon at the time, but Evans's role at the head of a literary enterprise was.

The sense of " being French " was uncommon in 1500, as people clung to their local identities.

In the original Traveller game, it was not too uncommon for characters to obtain membership in the TAS during character creation.

Queens regnant being relatively uncommon in Europe at the time, Jadwiga was officially crowned a King.

Disappointment in the appearance of the stone was not uncommon.

The book is dedicated to a Macrinus, who may have been the emperor who reigned 217-218, but that name was not uncommon, and it seems more likely he was simply a young man with a thirst for universal knowledge, which the book was compiled to satisfy.

The best antidote for the bitterness and disappointment that poisoned him was hard work.

He didn't think it was possible for this couple to be pretending.

It must have hurt her even to walk, for the sole was completely off her left foot and Morgan saw that it was bruised and bleeding.

It was the only thing in his life for which he felt guilt.

He knew who was riding after him -- the men he had known all his life, the men who had worked for him, sworn their loyalty to him.

Still, I was disgusted with myself for agreeing with Montero's methods.

He was naked except for a clout.

Now under me I could see him for what he really was, a boy dressed up in streaks of paint.

Well, the grass was there, though in some places the ground was too steep for a cow to get to it.

But it was not easy for him and he often slipped.

Now, here was something of obvious importance to me, yet when I reached for the tickets he snatched them away from my hand.

It was, I felt, possible that they were men who, having received no tickets for that day, had remained in the hall, to sleep perhaps, in the corners farthest removed from the counter with its overhead light.

I was constantly searching for clues around the neighborhood of the hall.

No one was behind it, but in the rear wall of the office I noticed, for the first time, a door which had been left partially open.

Was I sure, he asked, that I knew what I was applying for??

At one and the same time, she was within it but still searching for the drawbridge that would give her entry.

That was the day that he had practically mopped up the main street of Big Sands with Aaron McBride, field boss for the Highlands Oil & Gas Company.

It was payday for Highlands, and he was packing a lot of money back into the oil fields.

I was just doing my job, just following orders, and for that he's going to kill me.

Somehow more terrible than the certainty that he was about to die was the knowledge that Lord would probably not suffer for it: the murder would go unpunished.

He was readying a batch of sourdough biscuits for the Dutch oven.