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Then piles of apples and pears, built up with architectural symmetry, often in pyramids, displayed the ruddy glow of budding breasts and the gleaming sheen of shoulders, quite a show of nudity, lurking modestly behind a screen of fern-leaves.
I shall break my back for you and do well in my own way; but in yours I shall break my heart and not advantage you one inch. Remember this too, that you may abandon me whenever you please, and get no reproaches from me." She spoke modestly, courageously, and well. I kissed her, saying, "You are a good wife to me, Virginia. I agree with everything you say. Come, my dear, kiss me.
The genius of Ole Bull is so delicate and profound that we must speak of it modestly, but with certainty. It is not to be estimated by comparison. The height assures us of its loftiness, not by the inferior summits below it, but by the wide, full sunlight and the free winds that flow around it and rest upon it. The perception of genius is so sure that we need not attempt to define what it is.
"To all mankind" he addressed himself modestly "To all mankind To all mankind I am the dictator of human destiny Through the earth's rotation I control day and night summer and winter I command the cessation of hostilities and the abolition of war upon the globe I appoint the United States as my agent for this purpose As evidence of my power I shall increase the length of the day from midnight to midnight of Thursday, July 22d, by the period of five minutes.
"I certainly shall be glad to get some of your delicious tea," he said in rather a free way, yet modestly, as became one in a position between that of visitor and inmate, and looking wistfully at his lonely saucer. "So shall I. Now is there anything else we want, Mr Dewy?" "I really think there's nothing else, Miss Day."
In answer to Gray's inquiry, he confessed modestly enough: "Oh, I'm not in your class, old man. I'm no 'modern Gil Blas, as the paper calls you. No Wall Street money barons are eating out of my hand, and I have no international interests 'reaching from the Yukon to the Plate, but I stand all right in little old Dallas. I'm the V. P. of our biggest jewelry house, and business is great."
The idea of a woman-Bāb is so original that it almost takes one's breath away, and still more perhaps does the view modestly veiled by the Haji that certain men and even women are of divine nature scandalize a Western till it becomes clear that the two views are mutually complementary.
The young woman blushed slightly, and answered modestly, but without embarrassment, and in a most pleasing voice, "My husband is in the garden; and you will find him, if you will walk down this path around the house." The young man followed the direction, and soon saw his man at a distance.
But clothe you as you need, modestly, at no immoderate price, and you will greatly please God. And, so far as you can, make your wife and your sons do the same; so that you may be to them example and teacher, as the father should be, who should educate his sons with the words and deeds of virtue.
When first he had dreamed his manhood dreams, before he had found something to do, the man, quite modestly, thought that he knew a great deal. In his school days, he had exhausted many text books and had passed many creditable examinations upon many subjects and so he had thought that he knew a great deal. And he did. He knew a great deal about things.
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