Usage examples for modest
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" I'm trying, mother," was the modest answer. – The Widow O'Callaghan's Boys by Gulielma Zollinger
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At table the niece sat opposite to me, but I took care not to look at her, and she, like a modest girl, did not say a score of words all through the meal. – The Memoires of Casanova, Complete The Rare Unabridged London Edition Of 1894, plus An Unpublished Chapter of History, By Arthur Symons by Jacques Casanova de Seingalt