His modest and respectful bearing gained him the esteem of all.
Bellaroba was not only modestby instinct, but that better thing, innocent by preoccupation.
We have grown too modest to brag of our own deserts; but we do not scruple to decry those of others.
Who would not despise; the vanities of luxury, on beholding the simple and modest attire which, from the lustre it derives from you, seems the most favourable to beauty?
Sovereignty is, first and foremost, a legal term, and it has often been held that its use in political philosophy merely leads to confusion.
By this means uprightness, understanding, experience and all other claims to pre-eminence and public esteem become so many further guarantees of wise government.
What yoke, indeed, can be imposed on men who stand in need of nothing?
An appeal to women has been made to raise a modest monument to Salvatore Morelli in memory of his good deeds, by Aurelia Cimino Folliero de Luna.
It was an expected gratification to have with you also the accomplished secretary and counsel to the Commission, a man as modest and unobtrusive as its president, and, like him, equal to any summons.
How came so modest an inn to possess such a beautiful specimen of ancient carving?
I am glad to say that never once, on this journey, did I find the inn I selected fail to satisfy my modest requirements.
Now hunger is the best of sauces, and no meal ever I had did I relish more than my modest one that day.
Then my enjoyable lunch cost me exactly one shilling; no charge was made for stabling my car, and the attentive maid received my modest gratuity with such smiling thanks as though she expected no such thing.
You may imagine the delight of these priestly debauchees when they found themselves introduced to our circle of three fresh cunts, and such splendid ones, and all without any mock-modest prejudices but up to every excess of lubricity.
Mrs. Dale complimented the doctor on the advance her son had made both in manners and instruction, and quite naturally congratulated herself on his finding so very modest and gentlemanly a companion in the doctor's nephew--myself to wit.
My dear John, your modest ones always make the best, when once broken in.
For the skipper's wife had been impressed with his intellectuality and modest demeanour, and was already at work decorating his cabin--as Bannister had prophesied.
As the deeply tried woman closed the door of her modest dwelling, a light step made her turn and open it again.
Although he had no ambition to climb to such a lofty niche in the temple of fame, he thought he might at least earn a modest income.
He was pleased with the modest looks and deportment of the chief's daughter, and her cleanly and neat attire, and her assiduous attention to the commands of her father.
She was modest and clothed with repose, and yet the outlines of her face plainly informed you that in the presence of a sufficient emergency she was quite prepared to go anywhere or do anything.
Being of a modest and retiring disposition, he was now holding aloof from the honors sought to be thrust upon him.
It was a modest little book, relating to a Great War, in which he had borne no ignoble part; so mild in its comment and so meek in its suggestions, that the critics might have spared it from very pity.
He chose with ostentatious humility, the most modest of his equipages to take him to Dene; but he mounted it like a triumphal car.
I'm modestabout my own merits; and I think I know pretty well by this time how much luck I ought to expect.
This modest allowance he hardly enjoyed for more than a single year.
A modest bukvar, or primer, published at Kronstadt by Berovitch in 1824, was the first product of the new movement.
He doubted that Don Juan might be "too free for these modest days.
That night I cooked our modest dinner, and we smoked our pipes with the stove door open and the good smell of woodsmoke in our nostrils.
We lunched in a modest cafe tucked away behind the Palais Royal, and our companions were two Alsatians who spoke German better than a Boche and had no names--only numbers.
Like all good airmen, too, he was very modest about himself.
Then he came home with a modest competence two years before the war, and has been in the public eye ever since.
This modest dwelling is a watch-tower from which I look over all the world.
They were his own class--modest folk, who sought for a coloured background to their prosaic city lives and found it in this odd settlement.
I was myself a modest member of the last school, but I was gradually working my way up to the second, and I hoped with luck to qualify for the first.
No one could he in his society without feeling that he was in the company of one of the first men of the age, and yet he was modest and unassuming, as if unconscious of his greatness.
These honors he bore with modest dignity and consecrated with godly simplicity to the service of the Master.
But when you give to your gift of song the modest title of verse-making, permit me to observe that your gift is perfectly distinct from that of the verse-maker.
He had come from abroad with some modest savings from the sale of copies or sketches made in Florence.
A modest ring, a very inexpensive one, that her father had given to her mother as a guard.
Modest and inexpensive because his purse could afford no better; not because he would not have given her the best diamonds available, had he possessed the means to purchase them.
Only one small, pale man, inmodest gray clothing, whom Ragideau did not condescend to notice, remained in the cabinet, who retired quietly within the recess of a window.
The modest reward which the Powers proposed to themselves for "making an end of the rapine and injury wrought by the Venetians and their tyrannical usurpation of the possessions of others," was as follows.
A modest little chapel was begun on land acquired from the nuns of S.
This straw was kept in by a plank fixed to the ground and forming the side of the modest couch.
A modest Lieutenant of Chasseurs, I cannot claim to form any opinion as to the operations which have been carried out for the last nine months on an immense front.
Whilst I was eating I could not help admiring Sister Gabrielle; she looked so refined in her modest black clothes.
I first passed through the modestlittle churchyard, with its humble tombs half hidden in the grass, and read some of the simple inscriptions: "Here lies .
But they are modest fellows, and unanimously refrained.
Only I wouldn't a thought it of Jessup's lass, she looks so modest like.
