Sentence examples similar to a modest monastery from inspiring English sources

Beside the ruins of a Dominican monastery is a modest beach restaurant run by a man dressed entirely in black, with an impressive pipe curling from his mouth.

He horrified traditionalist Brazilian Catholics when he sold the city's ornate Pope Pius XII archiepiscopal palace, found other employment for the 25 servants he had inherited, and moved instead into a modest couple of rooms behind a monastery, where he would greet visitors, not in his cardinal's finery but in slippers and a cardigan.

It's eerie, too, that hardly anyone is staying at the pleasant spa hotel inside the monastery – rooms start at a modest £35.

The medieval town of Wellingborough housed a modest monastic grange – now the Jacobean Croyland 'Abbey' – which was an offshoot of the larger monastery of Croyland Abbey, near Peterborough, some 30 mile down-river.

Take a modest proposal.

Loretta is a modest prosecutor".

He was a modest man.

Or a modest nest egg.

Here's a modest proposal.

A modest little house designed.

It had a modest impact.