Sentence examples for a modest book from inspiring English sources

Mr. Jacques said he was stunned when they offered a modest book contract totaling little more than $4,000.

"Four in All," a modest book in size and appearance, is a big book on just such a theme.

Right now, fees are laid out on a set schedule whose minimum rates are often higher than a modest book can support.

"I wanted to find something redeeming about him," he said in an interview last week, the prelude to a modest book publicity campaign culminating Wednesday in a news conference here.

In his mid-60s, he decided to take his own advice, sitting down to commit his childhood memories to paper and producing what he described as "a modest book, modestly written".

That's why his agent, Jeff Moorad, produced a modest book of statistics that show just how effective the pitcher was last season, most specifically from June 23 to the end of the season.

After haggling with her businesslike pimp, chatting with a friend and arguing on the phone with her jealous boyfriend, Akiko reluctantly sets off to meet a client, an elderly, widowed scholar who lives in a modest, book-cluttered apartment just outside the city.

In addition the book itself has an inscription on folio 1r "written in a modest book-hand apparently of the later twelfth century" recording that it was found in the translation.

Instead "Shooting Stars" is a measured, modest book about four kids from Akron, Ohio, James among them, who became best friends off the court and a mighty force on it.

In recounting their stories, Ms. Parks has written a convincing if modest book that suggests her future as a novelist may be as bright as her career in the theater.

In little over a hundred pages, this modest book provides an entry to an entire world.