I shall want to prove that you were never in New York, that you behaved with perfect propriety while you were here, and that you are humble, unambitious, and deeply religious.

A large, quiet, unambitious, but well-brought-up and industrious young man was Hamilton Morris, and he had not the least idea of the good in store for him for several months after Mrs. Kinzer decided to marry him to her daughter Miranda; but all was soon settled.

His brother and sister had grown up, married and were settled on farms in the neighborhood, taking on the same existence of their parents; living honest, peaceful and unambitious lives.

Elizabeth, the companion of her parents in all their happy rambling and unambitious home-life, was their joy and pride.

A love unselfish, unambitious, impartial, universal,that loves only because it is Love.

Minding his own business without hurt to his neighbor, he dwelt in unambitious tranquillity.

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

Measured by our modern scale of pleasures he led a very inglorious, unambitious, and rude life.

He had managed the King's treasury, for thirty years, with the utmost fidelity and economy; and had the true German honesty, being a plain, sincere and unambitious man.

In poetry he was not the author of any long piece, for he was quite unambitious of reputation of that kind.

You are brave, firm, and persistent, also enterprising; with these qualities, in this land, any young man can win a success against the great throng of unambitious and careless men like myself.

His unambitious, simple spirit, that sought no wider duty than merely to fulfil the moment's call as he best could, met and conquered a stress of work that would have disheartened many a bolder hero.

After the strong personality of Cosimo and his masterful manipulation of commercial and political affairs, perhaps the unambitious rule of his son Piero was a necessary and healthful corollary.

Vergil's early work, unambitious and "plain" though it is, falls, of course, into the last group; and though Horace recognizes his type with a friendly remark, one feels that he recognizes it for reasons of friendship, rather than because of any native sympathy for it.

However, for those gunners who, like the writer, are both unskilful and unambitious, the shooting obtained on the Cotswold Hills is very enjoyable.

Later on in the autumn, when November frosts begin to attract snipes to the withybeds and water meadows by the Coln, the unambitious gunner may often enjoy the charm of a small and select mixed bag.

But the spire, though an effective, was as yet an unambitious structure,scarcely more than an exaltation or an apotheosis of the roof.

The round, unambitious dial at the entrance, like an enlarged kitchen-clock, had pointed to the exact hour set for the meeting.

At the other extreme the farming régime was without a rival throughout the mountain regions, in the Shenandoah and East Tennessee Valleys and in large parts of Kentucky and Missouri where the Southern staples would not flourish, and in great tracts of the pine barrens where the quality of the soil repelled all but the unambitious.

In this unambitious manner does Paley prosecute his high theme, drawing, as it were, philosophy from the clouds.

Above all, the members were cautious, moderate, conciliatory, and unambitious to act beyond the requirements of the hour.

And yet this very modesty, this unambitious way of conceiving his work, has impressed upon it a certain exceptional enduringness.

We hain't hed no more) hev ben clean vicy-varsy, An' wut Spartans wuz lef' when the battle wuz done Wuz them thet wuz too unambitious to run.

His talent was well known out of Rosville; but he was unambitious and eccentric.

This intuition led me to confound One victory with another, higher far, Triumphs of unambitious peace at home, 20 And noiseless fortitude.