It was Margherita who brought me back to consciousness; it was she who restored to me a modicum of my self-respect.
If you wish to hear what I have to say you'll stop that silliness and act like a full-grown woman with a modicum of discretion.
There was something so distressing, so pathetic about her embarrassment; not a modicum of savoir faire or bluff to help her out.
The women of Kansas should never forget that to the influence of Mrs. Nichols in the Constitutional convention at Wyandotte, they owe the modicum of justice secured by that document.
Some of those who were influential in winning this modicum of justice have already passed away; some, enfeebled by age, are incapable of active work; others are seeking in many latitudes that rest so necessary in the declining years of life.
They made a hearty meal nevertheless, washing it down with a modicum of wine and water.
But," he added, "serve out some water and a modicum of wine.
Philip answered him: Two Ducentorum denariorum panes hundred pennyworth of bread is non sufficiunt eis, ut not sufficient for them, that unusquisque modicum quid every one may take a little.
Jesus therefore said to Adhuc modicum tempus vobiscum them: Yet a little while I am sum: et vado ad eum qui me with you: and then I go to misit.
It may well be that this current "commercialisation" of taste and appreciation has been overstated by superficial and hasty critics of contemporary life, but it will not be denied that there is a modicum of truth in the allegation.
We had part of a fore-quarter of very small mutton boiled, with a small modicum of potatoes; one man could have eaten the whole.
What unreckoned miseries would surely have been spared their listeners if they, and thousands of their sort, could have developed a modicum of Christian feeling and a little kindness toward their hypnotized hearers!
I want to give a modicum of information with the maximum of amusement, with which declaration of policy I will proceed along the road to Dover.
It is the final test of progressive civilization that a given effort shall produce a larger and larger modicum of average individual comfort.
The old Latin school had only one main subject, the study of Latin style (combined with a modicum of Greek).
Bones, sinews and even hides may be made to give up a modicum of nutriment in this way; and doubtless barbaric man, before whom starvation always loomed threateningly, found the crude pot an almost perennial refuge.
Like mill horses, they move in one everlasting round, unvaried even by a modicum of brigandage.
If we chose to grow only partridges henceforth, and a modicum of wheat for our own uses?
She guided me to one of the sofa-lockers, upon which I mechanically seated myself; and then I saw her go to the swinging rack and pour out a good stiff modicum of brandy, which she brought and held to my lips.
So long as there is bacon and hominy, and free territory, with a modicum of whisky within easy reach, you cannot summon this stolid, retreating animal to a better condition.
But a little modicum of knowledge learned by costly experience will stick to one through life, while that which costs nothing is rarely laid up as worth having.
Although the brutes have the smallest modicum of brains, they are very liable to attacks of illness from heat-exhaustion.
It has always been upon my mind that I was therein instrumental in furnishing a dervish recruit to the cause of furious anarchy, and I am relieved to think Mousa is not without compunction, if not a decent modicum of conscience.
A modicum of success in the matter of wall paper and a magnificent collection of pictorial bill posters.
As to mine own part, I may well say, that he never refused me that modicum of refreshment with which I am wont to recruit nature after the fatigues of my school.
My harmas, however, because of its modicum of red earth swamped by a huge mass of stones, has received a rough first attempt at cultivation: I am told that vines once grew here.
I taught myself by teaching others, by passing on to them the modicum of seed that had ripened on the barren moor cleared, from day to day, by my patient plowshare.
If her dimmed eyes were surrounded by bistre circles like a rainy moon, if her lip quivered and her cheek was wan, she could not help it, for the modicumof courage she possessed was oozing, and she cared not if she lived or died.
The exact placing of the various bottles; the quantity of iron filing in each; the modicum of liquid; the length of the glass wands: all was known and arranged to a fraction.
This very night the coast shall be kept clear for you.
Rogers, evidently anxious to discharge a slight modicumof the debt which he owed to the Jewish fraternity.
The usual food of the slaves was corn, with a modicum of salt.
The usual allowance of food was one quart of corn a day, to a full task hand, with a modicum of salt; kind masters allowed a peck of corn a week; some masters allowed no salt.
