Sentence examples for modest paragraph from inspiring English sources

(In Lears's book, he shares a modest paragraph with the Congregationalist minister Henry Ward Beecher, in which both men deny the existence of luck).

On January 30 , 1873 the Nation ran a modest, one-paragraph obituary marking the death of Mrs. A. M. C. Seemuller, "better known by her maiden name, Anne Moncure Crane," and still better as the "Author of 'Emily Chester.'" But the entry, though it was written on the occasion of Crane's death at the age of thirty-four, says very little about the author.

To me, it sounded and read and looked more like a modest few paragraphs of prose (with a lot to be modest about).

(I believe you get drummed out of the poets union if your poems rhyme.) To me, it sounded and read and looked more like a modest few paragraphs of prose (with a lot to be modest about).

In American history, the Civil War is huge and mountainous; yet in the history of the world, it is almost puny and barely worth a paragraph of modest size.

The paragraph is a modest island, surrounded on either side by a sea of white space and wholly contained within the gently curving shores of a pair of parentheses.

Think of the paragraphs above as a modest bill of rights.

This paragraph.

Be modest.

Robert: Modest.

So modest.