82 examples of unostentatious in sentences

She will ever be remembered, not only by the firemen, but by all old settlers, as one of the many noble women in St. Paul whose unostentatious deeds of charity have caused a ray of sunshine in many sad homes.

"And D. has been under-working for himself ever since;drudging at low rates for unappreciating booksellers,wasting his fine erudition in silent corrections of the classics, and in those unostentatious but solid services to learning, which commonly fall to the lot of laborious scholars, who have not the art to sell themselves to the best advantage.

He was liberal, humane, simple, unostentatious, and economical.

On this island, monarch of all he surveyed, he diffused an unostentatious but generous hospitality; for many distinguished persons came to visit him, and he amused himself by writing letters and attempting some literary work.

They resembled in peculiarities the early Quakers and primitive Methodists, and though very narrow were much respected for their unostentatious benevolence, blended with public spirit.

unpretending^, unpretentious; unobtrusive, unassuming, unostentatious, unboastful^, unaspiring; poor in spirit.

His manners were exceedingly simple and unostentatious,the constant characteristics of true greatness.

Indeed, his quiet gray suit of good material indicated unostentatious prosperity.

She was living, at this time, in an unostentatious and quiet manner at Rome.

His manners possess all that unostentatious frankness, and self-possessed urbanity and quietude, that is indicative of refined feelings.

We are now eagerly expectant of the arrival of him whose face we have so long sought The hour is at hand when he joins his military family at an unostentatious and very frugal dinner.

No one ever did more for the good of others, and few ever did so much in so unostentatious a manner.

The house had every comfort, the society every charm, and the welcome was as warm as it was unostentatious.

The unostentatious mechanism of it seemed more weird and terrible than the conspiracy itself.

Nor was wealth wanting to complete his happiness,at least, such wealth as was needed by one of his simple tastes and unostentatious habits.

As I intimated a few minutes ago, my life has hitherto been a sort of unostentatious failure.

And from his height, he, clad in the carefully careless, ostentatiously unostentatious garments of the "perfect gentleman," gazed speechless at the spectacle.

He sees Dr. Abernethy, and rises into this inspired strain: "To me, who have ever held genius and talent in veneration, as being "'Olympus-high above all earthly things,' the sight of this plain, unostentatious man afforded more pleasurable feelings than could all the gilded pomp beneath the sun."

The Hill-Wedderburn quarrel, for in his unostentatious way Wedderburn reciprocated Hill's ill-veiled rivalry, became a tribute to her indefinable charm; she was the Queen of Beauty in a tournament of scalpels and stumpy pencils.

He intended among other things to increase his personal property by unostentatious acts of creation.

As a son, brother, husband, father, master, friend, he moves with firm yet light steps, alike unostentatious and alike exemplary.

The manner was the same as ever, unostentatious, courteous, kindly.

Its better members were highly cultivated, benevolent men, intolerant of irregularities both of doctrine and life, whose lives were governed by an unostentatious but solid and unfaltering piety, ready to burst forth on occasion into fervid devotion.

This unostentatious and undemonstrative religionso frank, so generous in all its wayswas to Isaac Williams "quite a new world.

He moved among them as unostentatious and simple-mannered as he had been as a boy, with a catholic interest in all the varying topics which held the sympathies of the crowd, and able well to hold his own whatever might be the field of the conversation.

82 examples of  unostentatious  in sentences