In a humble way

Usage examples of modestly.

Down below, Alayne must dress modestly, as befit a girl of modest birth.

She was neatly and modestly dressed in a sports bikini of the latest style, her translucent bra extended in twin peaks by finger-long cones of pinkish nipple-colored plastic.

There was no breach of security, either, in glancing down the street where the Café Racine retired so modestly from the busy traffic of Saint-Germain.

Over ginger-spiced sauerbraten in a modestly priced low ceilinged restaurant with red-and-white checked tablecloths, Bernie talked about his father and mother and his growing-up years on Arthur Avenue in the East Bronx.

I said modestly that I could not believe the thing possible without the powder of projection, but her only answer was a pleased smile.

I therefore made the examination as modestly as I could, and I found her to be intact.

In a sudden excess of affection for him, I offered to give him my horse, Danseuse, for his journey, but he refused, informing me that the mare was too strong and high-spirited for him and requesting me modestly to purchase a new mule for him.

I handed him a mug and modestly lowered the curtains, and he then did what I wanted.

Rather pleased with my production, I presented it the next day to the cardinal, modestly saying that I doubted whether he would accept the authorship of so ordinary a composition.

It came modestly to the ankles and revealed black woollen stockings and glacé shoes with beaded toes.

The shillings were thrown down--some modestly, others with a touch of display, like the method of the land-boomer of a later day as he dropped his five-pound note into the collection-plate, still others with an element of grudgingness about them.

I was told that in his youth he was a lover of the fair sex, but now that he was no longer good for anything he had modestly made himself into a woman, and had four pretty pets in his employ, who took turns in the disgusting duty of warming his old carcase at night.

She replied modestly that she was vastly flattered by the liking I had taken to her, and that I need not have made her such a present to assure myself of her friendship.

My delight may be imagined when I saw him modestly presenting a common horn snuffbox to the banker.

The filet of baby dewback with caper sauce and fleik-liver pate was the best Trevagg had ever eaten, and when Nightlity hooned, with modestly downcast eyes, that virgins of her people were only permitted fruits and vegetables, Porcellus outdid himself in the production of four courses of lipana berries and honey, puptons of dried magicots and psibara, a baked felbar with savory cream, and staggeringly good bread pudding for dessert.