The special "schools," which are now daily increasing the efficiency of the Army, if you ask how they arose, you will generally be able to trace them back to some eager young man starting a modest experiment in his spare time for the teaching of himself and some of his friends, and so developing it that the thing is finally recognised, enlarged, and made the parent of similar efforts elsewhere.

When Southey becomes as modest as his predecessor, Milton, and publishes his Epics in duodecimo, I will read 'em; a guinea a book is somewhat exorbitant, nor have I the opportunity of borrowing the work.

Mr. Dodge, who had been a distant observer of the interview, now hastened to join his friend, curious to know the result, for it had been privately arranged between these modest youths, that each should try his fortune in turn, with the heiress, did she not accept the first proposal.

I know no ceremony that ladies are bound to observe to their husbands, beyond the point of a modest behaviour and decorum: therefore I must protest against the vicarious gluttony of Cerasia, who at her own table sent away a dish of Morellas, which I was applying to with great good will, to her husband at the other end of the table, and recommended a plate of less extraordinary gooseberries to my unwedded palate in their stead.

I rather prefer the common editions of Rowe and Tonson, without notes, and with plates, which, being so execrably bad, serve as maps, or modest remembrancers, to the text; and without pretending to any supposable emulation with it, are so much better than the Shakspeare gallery engravings, which did.

They fall below the plain moral dignity, the sanctity, and high yet modest spirit of self-approval, of Milton, in his compositions of a similar structure.

A modest inoffensive deportment does not necessarily imply valour; neither does the absence of it justify us in denying that quality.

No, lady; let thy modest, virtuous life Be always joined with thy comely shape, For lust eclipseth nature's ornament.

I like this modest country maid so well, That I believe I must report in hell Better of women than my master can.

Now modest love hath banish'd wanton thoughts, And alter'd me from that I was before, To that chaste life I ought to entertain.

Isn't he the image of his modest, beautiful mother?

Dawson, away from home, is so vain as to be unconscious of his vanity; Dawson at home is quite extraordinarily modest.

Have we finished?" I regretfully admitted that we had, and, when I had paid the modest reckoning, we sallied forth, turning back with one accord into Great Russell Street to avoid the noise and bustle of the larger thoroughfare.

His sermons, indeed, remain; but since we have given up the Fathers to the Catholics, as if they had a better right to them than we, their writings are not so well known as they ought to be,as they will be, when we become broader in our views and more modest of our own attainments.

Probably there were all shades of opinion among them, from a modest and thoughtful semi-Pelagianism to the rankest infidelity.

And he found the needed hero living quietly and in modest retirement on a farm in Spain.

This man was Theodosius the Great, a young man then,as modest as David amid the pastures, as unambitious as Cincinnatus at the plough.

At this time Chaucer was a handsome, witty, modest, dignified man of letters, in easy circumstances, moving in the higher ranks of society, and already known for his "Troilus and Cresseide," which was then doubtless the best poem in the language.

An exception is made of Virginia, in the doctor's tale, who is represented as beautiful and modest, radiant in simplicity, discreet and true.

They are on the whole modest, but are the victims of friars and pedlers.

Though convivial, he was temperate; though genial, he was a silent observer, quiet in his manners, modest in his intercourse with the world, walking with downcast eye, but letting nothing escape his notice.

They often add to their modest stipend by extra work, such as teaching in the evening classes, playing the organ in church, and writing, or some such work after school hours.

It was a modest desire they expressed.

A Modest Offer.

The officers at Wallingford House began to dictate to the men whom they had made their nominal masters, and forwarded to them fifteen demands, under the modest title of "the things which they had on their minds," when they restored the long parliament.