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"Leonardo Da Vinci: Painter at the Court of Milan," the over-modest title of this exhibition of a lifetime, conceals the fact that the National Gallery's winter show until Feb. 5 boasts nine of the 15 surviving paintings.
An Exhibition of a Lifetime Paul Levy 2011
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Kindly, amiable, and over-modest, with a heart full of pure and sound feelings, he was averse to putting himself in the foreground.
Modeste Mignon 2007
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'You don't ask me why,' she proceeded, after a pause, 'you little silent, over-modest thing; and you don't deserve that I should pour out my secrets into your lap without an invitation.
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When she rose therefore from her chair, and told him a hint from him was always sufficient to make her withdraw, he suffered her to leave the room, and then with great gravity of countenance remarked, “That it was better to see a daughter over-modest than over-forward”; — a sentiment which was highly applauded by the parson.
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L. H. Duckworth, an anatomist at Cambridge, “suggested that Dr. Leakey was over-modest in classifying Kanam man only as a new species,” and should call it a new genus as well.
Ancestral Passions Virginia Morell 1995
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L. H. Duckworth, an anatomist at Cambridge, “suggested that Dr. Leakey was over-modest in classifying Kanam man only as a new species,” and should call it a new genus as well.
Ancestral Passions Virginia Morell 1995
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They all knew he was a man of few words, and over-modest.
Funeral Games Renault, Mary, 1905-1983 1981
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Living under his brother's shadow had made him over-modest.
Funeral Games Renault, Mary, 1905-1983 1981
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As I say, I'm over-modest; she had been so damned uncivil to me, you see, that it honestly hadn't crossed my mind that she fancied me.
Flash For Freedom Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1971
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As I say, I'm over-modest; she had been so damned uncivil to me, you see, that it honestly hadn't crossed my mind that she fancied me.
Flash For Freedom Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1971
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