Nora was something new, an ordinary woman who treated him as an ordinary man.

NEWYORKER: Silence, Exile, Punning

But she did so also to show she was an ordinary woman, suffering and labouring against the elements like any farmer's or merchant's wife.

ECONOMIST: Princess Juliana of the Netherlands

Gradually, however, she seemed to resolve into an ordinary wilful woman.

ECONOMIST: Alice Lakwena