You dream of outfitting your humble abode with bespoke hooks and clamps, gorgeously sadistic metal contraptions, and carnal designs.
The stationmaster of Astapovo, in whose modest abode Tolstoy spends his dying hours, reflects on the situation with his own wife and mistress.
The new exhibition at the museum includes a 100-lira coin from 1978 found at the so-called House of Eupolemos, the modest abode from which archaeologists believe the silver was stolen.
Not one player there had experienced winning a home World Cup game because 41 years had gone by without the country beating anyone in its modest abode of Stade Josy Barthel.
Our modest abode, the Ajit Bhawan, built by the maharaja for his younger brother, lies in the shadow of the grandiose Umaid Bhawan, possibly the most expensive hotel in India, where suites cost up to £700 a night.
PacMan still has a relatively modest abode in his home town of General Santos City, although he did recently splash $12.5m on a gaff in Beverley Hills.
His main occupation, however, is observation: through the slatted metal grate of his modest abode, the artist is seeing without being seen.
In the wee hours leaving Rodney's spic-and-span palace overlooking Harlem housetops in the pale light of early morning, I despaired that from now on I'd find my modest abode sorely wanting.
Anecdotal evidence gathered in the past six months suggests that many bankers have moved from palatial flats to more modest abodes, or relocated to less exclusive districts.
For more than forty years, the Frost family has owned a small summer cottage on Harriman Reservoir, a rustic abode with an outdoor privy.
