...Among the ladies were two of a mischievous and frolicsome turn, and, though perfectly modest, somewhat free in playing tricks for harmless diversion’s sake...
Miguel de Cervantes 「The History of Don Quixote, Volume II., Complete」
...He himself, smilingand modest, started the conversation with a humility that disarmed themost hostile...
Vicente Blasco Ibáñez Frances Douglas 「The Blood of the Arena」
...I repeat, I have been too modest...
Rafael Sabatini 「Captain Blood」
... “Ah, sire, you know very well you are pretending to be modest...
Alexandre Dumas, Pere 「Ten Years Later」
... “Why? I am very modest...
Baroness Orczy 「El Dorado」
...My mother was left badly off, for my poor father had never been able tosave much from his modest stipend...
John Buchan 「Prester John」
...I likewise could not helpremarking the particular slenderness of their women, which I did notat first like; and I thought they were not so modest and shamefaced asthe African women...
Olaudah Equiano 「The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African」
..." This modest assertion smacks exactly as if a native of Timbuctoo should declare that the "Thames" and the "Pool" were different rivers, he having seen neither the one nor the other...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
...—the stare peremptory, insolent, sly, cunning, modest, and casual...
Henry M. Stanley 「How I Found Livingstone」
...As a rule she hates everywhere on earth saveLondon, except during the time when no respectable person can beseen in town, and when modest blinds shade the scandalised face ofMayfair and Belgravia...
Grant Allen 「An African Millionaire」
...(Besides, whena big purchase like this is on the stocks, a poor beggar of asecretary has always a chance of exerting his influence and earningfor himself some modest commission...
Grant Allen 「An African Millionaire」
...The manners of theseladies is courteous, but chaste; perfectly modest,but without reserve; and the other sex pay themcourteous attention...
Abd Salam Shabeeny 「An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa」
..." And when James Barbot's supercargo begins to examine his negroes like cattle he is begged, for decency's sake, to do it in a private place, "which shows these blacks are very modest...
Richard F. Burton 「Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2」
...It suggested the modest demand made by King Adooley of Badagry, from the brothers Lander...
Richard F. Burton 「Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2」
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