Quitting the hackneyed paths of former architecture, they have created in every detail our modern architecture so profoundly original of which nothing could give an idea to our forefathers. "Underground Man", - Gabriel Tarde

The scenery of the Straits, which we are now about to enter, is fresh and pleasant, and as we commenced with an extract from one well- known poet, we may be allowed to finish with that of another, which, if more hackneyed is still expressive and beautiful. "The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 1", - Frederick Whymper

Seriously, you cannot expect a man of taste to lend himself to so hackneyed a situation? "A Chair on The Boulevard", - Leonard Merrick

I cry out with a loud voice for reform, not in the hackneyed sense of petty politicians, but by a liberal and enlarged expenditure of public money; by increasing the outfits and salaries of our foreign ambassadors and ministers. "Incidents of Travel in Greece, Turkey, Russia, and Poland, Vol. I (of 2)", - John Lloyd Stephens