1 It was a very ordinary matter and there was nothing exceptional about it.
2 Ordinary men have to live in submission, have no right to transgress the law, because, don't you see, they are ordinary.
3 The most ordinary trades were abandoned, because everyone proposed his own ideas, his own improvements, and they could not agree.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor DostoevskyContextHighlight In PART 6: CHAPTER VIII 4 Of course, it was all ordinary youthful talk and thought, such as he had often heard before in different forms and on different themes.
5 It was an ordinary summons from the district police-station to appear that day at half-past nine at the office of the district superintendent.
6 But to judge some people impartially we must renounce certain preconceived opinions and our habitual attitude to the ordinary people about us.
7 "Oh, the most ordinary," and suddenly Porfiry Petrovitch looked with obvious irony at him, screwing up his eyes and, as it were, winking at him.
8 As for my division of people into ordinary and extraordinary, I acknowledge that it's somewhat arbitrary, but I don't insist upon exact numbers.
9 All this pointed strongly to the conclusion that Raskolnikov was not quite like an ordinary murderer and robber, but that there was another element in the case.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor DostoevskyContextHighlight In PART 6: CHAPTER VIII 10 The question why he was now going to Razumihin agitated him even more than he was himself aware; he kept uneasily seeking for some sinister significance in this apparently ordinary action.