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1  She's quite a common girl, sir.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
ContextHighlight   In ACT II
2  It's all you'll get until you stop being a common idiot.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
ContextHighlight   In ACT V
3  The result was a conversion of a kind quite common today.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
ContextHighlight   In ACT V
4  I'm only a common ignorant girl; and in my station I have to be careful.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
ContextHighlight   In ACT IV
5  I know I'm a common ignorant girl, and you a book-learned gentleman; but I'm not dirt under your feet.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
ContextHighlight   In ACT V
6  You know well I couldn't bear to live with a low common man after you two; and it's wicked and cruel of you to insult me by pretending I could.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
ContextHighlight   In ACT V
7  Now, the history of Eliza Doolittle, though called a romance because of the transfiguration it records seems exceedingly improbable, is common enough.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
ContextHighlight   In ACT V
8  Now did you or did you not write a letter to him to say that the most original moralist at present in England, to the best of your knowledge, was Alfred Doolittle, a common dustman.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
ContextHighlight   In ACT V
9  She has even secret mischievous moments in which she wishes she could get him alone, on a desert island, away from all ties and with nobody else in the world to consider, and just drag him off his pedestal and see him making love like any common man.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
ContextHighlight   In ACT V