I am so hackneyed to the touches of the painter's pencil that I am now altogether at their beck; and sit 'like Patience on a monument, ' whilst they are delineating the lines of my face. "The True George Washington [10th Ed.]" by Paul Leicester Ford

Once more she made a feeble effort to tread the old hackneyed pathway, which she had toiled upon with such weary feet; but she could not,- she could not. "John Marchmont's Legacy, Volume I (of 3)" by Mary E. Braddon

A hackneyed phrase floated into her mind-" woman's wit." "Out of the Air" by Inez Haynes Irwin