Sentence examples for modest goods from inspiring English sources

The loans they offered against the security of modest goods gave poor local people an alternative to the usurious interest rates of Renaissance loan-sharks.

Let's be clear, this is a slightly generous three stars that is rooted in a sweet score and a cast that delivers these modest goods.

Modest good news.

Some modest good may still come out of Cannes.

Appreciated a modest good time with his family.

He was soft-spoken, inclusive, thoughtful, modest, good-humoured.

The continued growth here is probably also related to some modest good news in politics.

At the center of the tale is Molly Gibson, the modest, good-hearted daughter of a widowed country doctor.

As the slaughter began, my wife and I were in a venerable Paris institution, a cliché of the modest good life since 1845.

A modest, good-natured example of new-from-old appeared in the middle of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center's Sunday afternoon program at the New York Society for Ethical Culture.

Overall passenger numbers are up slightly, but that modest good news masks big falls both in the shires and the cities, where numbers have fallen by a tenth and a fifth over the past decade (see chart).