It was a modest brothel named "Rose," a five-bedroom house located on a sleepy side street near Jarak owned by a weathered woman named Rokhani.
In the basement below, a modest room grandly called the Rose L. McCormick Memorial Auditorium, named after a beloved librarian and used as a meeting place for various groups.
A small, modest bouquet (no roses unless you're romantically involved) and a note is never a bad idea.
There were red roses and modest bouquets, letters, cards and trinkets all left on the purple padded chair at the Starbucks on Main Street where he sat, chatted and took in the world every day for more than a year.
It is a modest, touching male answer to "Rose's Turn" in "Gypsy," a perfect moment.
In its latest China Quarterly Update, the World Bank calculates that government-influenced investment so far this year was 39% higher (on a national-accounts basis) than a year earlier, while "market-based" investment rose by a more modest 13%.
His modest company, Walrus -- which is him; Rose; their son, Peter, who is now Phil's co-producer; and a secretary -- is based in the North Beach of restaurants and cafes.
Nothing about Guns N' Roses can or should be described as modest, from Axl's eight outfit changes to putting overblown, nine-minute piano ballad "Estranged" early in the set, which, perhaps, made Skrillex the most appropriate opening choice of all.
If you ever wonder why the rich and famous want a piece of this island, all you need to do is visit Rose Abrahamson's abode to understand in one modest setting how transcendent Vineyard life is.
Pending sales — signed contracts between buyers and sellers — rose in July, by 5.2 percent, beating expectations of a modest decline.
