Sentence examples for Modest gifts from inspiring English sources

He doesn't indulge himself by comparing his own formidable intelligence to President Bush's more modest gifts in that department.

But it is also an occasion to celebrate much more modest gifts that have created a hospital with transformational power.

(Fashion-intensive portraiture befits the more modest gifts of Whistler's contemporary James Tissot, who was content to simper winningly).

The Hopewell Valley Board of Education is also considering a policy that would allow only modest gifts.

"She purchased low value British souvenirs, and bottles of Pimms as modest gifts to executives from other companies".

In some European countries Saint Nicholas appears on his feast day (December 6) bringing modest gifts of candy and other gifts to children.

She advises passing motorists to propitiate the saint with a modest gift of rupees.

And what of the child who arrives with a modest gift -- or none at all?

I bought a small icon of St .Nicholas from the chapel's modest gift shop and left for my hike.

Sunday was his father's birthday, and the modest gift he had requested was 100 yards rushing and 2 touchdowns.

Having failed for 20 years to reform the fishmonger, your ability to fail over the next 20 years will be uninfluenced by his modest gift.