| Whenever the local lairds tried to graze their beasts on the Selkirk commons hundreds of folk would turn out to drive them off. |
| Leaving the commons behind, I kick-started my motorcycle, and rode toward the sliding door of the warehouse. |
| Hoyle's rebellions were revolts of the commons, taken over and defused by the gentry and nobility. |
| To gain support for regicide, the Levellers compromised the universality of the commons. |
| The decline of the world's fish stocks is, next to global warming, probably the greatest problem afflicting our environmental commons. |
| They cultivate and survive in the bad environment, and are on short commons. |
