| 1. | I have seen a gipsy vagabond she has practised in hackneyed fashion the science of palmistry and told me what such people usually tell. - from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte |
| 2. | Before commencing, it is but fair to warn you that the story will sound somewhat hackneyed in your ears but stale details often regain a degree of freshness when they pass through new lips. - from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte |
| 3. | I detest jargon of every kind, and sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in but what was worn and hackneyed out of all sense and meaning.. - from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen |