He expected to find a dull house in a dull street near the centre of business, remote from the haunts of idlers, and a grave man of unpretending exterior and matured years.
Her unpretending and gentle manners inspired with admiration all who approached her.
On his sombre and very unpretending premises were put together the perishable shells in which the mortal remains of a large proportion of the primitive householders of York and their families are now reverting to their original dust.
It was an unpretending rural wayside inn, furnished with troughs and pump.
The temples of Buddha were at first as unpretending as the residences of the priesthood.
Mister Phil," were sitting in the parlor of Constitution Cottage, for so they were pleased to designate a house which had no pretension whatever to that unpretending appellation.
Another brother there was, whose unpretending character requires little else than merely that he should be named.
For these reasons, and because he dared to preach home truths from his pulpit, he and his unpretending children had been frequently made objects of their ridicule and insolence.
Not only the fable, conferring a moral lesson, but even the plain and unpretending animal-caricature was admitted indiscriminately with representations of saints and miracles.
Richard Markham, though perfectly unpretending in manner and somewhat reserved or even sedate in disposition, possessed the most undaunted courage.
The morning dawned; Lady Cecilia rose, and dressed herself in as unpretending a manner as possible.
This was the unpretending home of "Beranger, poete a Passy," to quote the Paris Bottin.
Neither was even this unpretending house of call destitute to us of subjects of interest.
The church is a small and unpretending structure, though of considerable antiquity, some parts dating as far back as the reign of the third Edward, and probably it occupies the site of a still earlier building.
What visions of antiquity float before the imagination as the stranger enters this little unpretending village, for town it can now hardly be called.
Look at the household of any unpretending citizen, and say what realm of earth, what domain of nature, does not send its treasures thither?
In other respects, he is a plain, unpretending man, who attends closely to his own business, and cares nothing for notoriety.
The stockholders, it is said, contemplate, at no distant day, erecting a large and handsome printing office on the site of the present unpretending building now occupied.
No urn was there; no glittering breakfast service; a kettle boiled upon the fire, and everything was in harmony with these unpretending arrangements.
One window there was--a perfect and unpretending cottage window, with little diamond panes, embowered at almost every season of the year with roses, and in the summer and autumn with a profusion of jasmine and other fragrant shrubs.
His unpretendinghome adjoined a dreary yard, wholly unadorned and filled with pens for sheep and cattle.
His manner is as quiet and unpretending as can possibly be, and he speaks to Malays as respectfully as to Europeans, neither lowering thereby his own dignity nor theirs.
She wore an unpretending grayish dress buttoned to the throat with lozenge-shaped buttons, and a Scottish shawl that agreeably evaded color.
It was a large house; but low and straggling; and unpretending in its exterior.
There was no living creature except myself in the churchyard as I came out of the shadow of the trees on to the flat, where the grass grew long among the unpretending headstones.
On the front of this unpretending little dwelling is an inscription with a great deal of pretence, stating that the establishment was founded with the approbation of 'His Grace, the most Reverend the Lord Archbishop of Tuam.
In and about these, and in the principal streets in the daytime, is a great activity, and homely unpretending bustle.
Tompkins, always firm and dignified, was affable in manner, sympathetic in speech, overflowing with good nature, and unpretending to all who approached him.
The oration, brief and unpretending as it is, will remain a classic of the English language.
The two men were somewhat alike in their simple, shy, and unpretending nature, and at first felt their way with each other like two bashful schoolboys.
From the hour of Grant's triumph at Vicksburg to the close of the war, Lincoln never withdrew his confidence from the quiet, persistent, unpretending man who led our armies slowly but surely along the path of victory.
While it was generally supposed that the baronet's widow was on her way to Rome or Naples, two plainly-dressed women took possession of unpretending lodgings in Percy Street, Tottenham Court Road.
