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commonfolk

n. ordinary people

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If the nobles bridled at the unprecedented alliance with a foreign power and the mingling of Elua's lineage with barbarian bloodfor Prince Benedicte and Percy de Somerville had not been alone in that sentimentthe commonfolk knew that their beautiful Queen had wed for love.

The hurled coins, the cries of the commonfolk and the black shields of the Unforgiven had opened an aisle into the heart of the Royal Army.

We followed behind, a half-organized handful trailing in her wake, dazed commonfolk wandering between the mounted members of the Queen's Guard.

But at the time, they were to me and Zyanya—and doubtless to the majority of commonfolk like ourselves—only a sort of busy-figured wall painting in front of which we lived out our private lives and our own small triumphs and our inconsequential little happinesses.

If, once introduced to the pleasure, the young person was still recalcitrant, he or she would have to endure repeated violation by the temple women or priests and, when those were sated, by any commonfolk who might desire to take a turn.

The mass of commonfolk had to clump together at the southern end of the city, and jostle and lean and peer for a glimpse of Ahuítzotl, his wives, his Speaking Council, the high nobles, priests, knights, and other personages who would come by canoe from the palace to take their places on the causeway between the city and the Acachinánco fort.

There was looting by many of the frustrated commonfolk who had lived so long with so little, and more than one merchant house had been set ablaze.

He did not want to have the lives of innocent commonfolk on his hands.

Huma and his companions had climbed down from the dragonswhere they would have been swarmed by knights and commonfolk alike if not for the quick thinking of Lord Grendal, who controlled the Keep's defenses.

Especial the Messers, they was sweatin' happy to see us, but commonfolk, too.