Sentence examples for humble winter from inspiring English sources

Either way, it's the kind of humble winter meal that won't stop conversation when you serve it — giving you plenty of time to talk about a good book.

Your server may not push a $110 bowl of shark fin soup, still legal until next summer, but may suggest an off-menu soup served in a hollowed-out winter melon for around $50. Politely decline in favor of the more humble winter melon soup that's on the menu, its homespun chicken broth full of sweet seafood and ginger slivers.

I'm also more humble today than I was 20 years ago.

These days, it's one of those summer towns whose population balloons from a humble 3,000 or so on a winter weekday to a bursting 21,000 on Memorial Day weekend.

It starts out with a snapshot of its subject's humble 1867 birthplace in Staffordshire & winds up with a 1931 London "Times" account of his funeral.

Hitchcock returned to serious work with The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956), a big-budget remake of his humble 1934 thriller.

"Everything I Own," the humble 1972 hit for Bread, is slowed into an impassioned plea whose seemingly conventional lyrics take on a desperate urgency.

The ski hill, moderately expanded in subsequent decades, continues to this day as a nonprofit organization and revered civic resource, a tribute to Mickey Cochran's humble 1960 dream.

But after attending a friend's wedding on Nantucket, Ms. Schmidt became enraptured with the island's translucent light, and the couple bought a humble summer home here in 1999, a decision that led to Ms. Schmidt creating a life over the last decade that has become increasingly separate from that of her more famous husband.

I'm guessing the humble Christmas carol is probably low on your list of contenders, but in mid-17thCentury England, during the English Civil War, the singing of such things as The Holly and the Ivy would have landed you in serious trouble.

To be humble today takes an extra measure of self-control.