The phrase "a modest old" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It may be intended to describe an old person or object that is modest in nature, but the phrasing is awkward and unclear.
Example: "She was a modest old woman who lived in a small cottage."
Alternatives: "an unassuming elderly" or "a humble old".
Pastas come with a modest, old-timey salad of mixed greens with a sweet balsamic dressing.
Approximately equidistant from Rome and Florence (a two-hour drive from either city on the A1 autostrada) Sette Querce (the name means "seven oaks") has been in operation five years, since it was completely renovated and transformed from a modest, old-fashioned locanda, or inn, with many bedrooms, few bathrooms, and a restaurant known locally for its awful food.
Montsalier Banon Tel/fax: (0)492 732361 Doubles £43.75 This apparently modest old house is a surprise: it unfolds to reveal a place of grandeur.
Certainly, his St. Nicholas, which will include a nondenominational bereavement center, will look nothing like the modest old parish church that it is replacing.
That's part of the reason why Abdul Raheem Sharif turned his modest old house (they do exist in Dubai) into The Flying House, a spontaneous, overflowing mini-museum for local artists to display and preserve their art in the absence of a proper institution to do it for them.
The section of the development, called Quinn's Crossing, has fewer than a dozen lots on a cul-de-sac just off Echo Lake Road, an area where modest older houses and mobile homes are more common.
Roddy had been suffering his own romantic torments, which I had also heard much about, but the object of his affections was a modest, notably old-fashioned, quietly beautiful girl whom I would never have noticed if he hadn't pointed her out.
If ever there were a quintessential visual representation of the Atlanta cityscape in the year 2018, Elliott Street a tiny, unassuming, beloved neighborhood dive bar in a modest century-old building, standing in the shadow of the new $1.6 billion home of the Falcons and surrounded by near-constant development—might be it.
It is a David and Goliath battle, in a sense: Sal, standing in the modest old-world Grosseria, with its 100-year-old tin ceilings and ancient marble countertops, says his yearly revenues are $500,000 to $600,000 now, down from double that in the early 1990's.
Insistent legend continued to wrap her in the image of the modest, old-fashioned spinster.
