modesty,

“I am sure I am much obliged to you for your good opinion,” returns the stationer with his cough of modesty,

Bleak House 2007

For often have you writ to her, and she, in modesty,

The Two Gentlemen of Verona 2004

When Love was throned within my heart I rent the veil of modesty,

Tehran Winter Naipaul, V.S. 1981

"Not that I want to take too much credit on myself," he added, with becoming modesty,

Mr. Crewe's Career — Volume 2 Winston Churchill 1909

"Not that I want to take too much credit on myself," he added, with becoming modesty,

Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill Winston Churchill 1909

"While I thank the gentleman who has preceded me for his encomiums," he said, with deprecatory modesty,

The Desire of the Moth; and the Come On Eugene Manlove Rhodes 1901

He saw fashionable balls, and exposures de rigueur intolerable to the Far-Eastern sense of modesty,

Kokoro Japanese Inner Life Hints Lafcadio Hearn 1877

Paul combined prudence with resolution; and, on this occasion, conducted himself with candor, modesty,

The colored patriots of the American Revolution : with sketches of several distinguished colored persons : to which is added a brief survey of the condition and prospects of colored Americans, 1855

Either to do it frankly, or not to promise from modesty,

The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus Gaius Valerius Catullus 1855

"In the first place," said he, at last, in a tone of affected modesty,

The Widow Lerouge ��mile Gaboriau 1852