Sentence examples for was of humble from inspiring English sources

Urban was of humble origin.

Høegh-Guldberg was of humble background.

Zhu, who was of humble origins, later assumed the reign title of Hongwu.

Qi was of humble origins, and it was largely through his own efforts that he became adept at the arts of poetry, calligraphy, and painting.

Eisenhower was of humble origin but so skilled at staff work and training troops that the War Department had refused to send him to France.

Mr. Ward was of humble beginnings, and he often cited the turning point in his life, as a young man, was when he joined the Boy Scouts of America.

But others, including Rutebeuf, were of humble origin.

Her drawings from this period are of humble objects — chairs, stoves, frying pans — as well as of bucolic scenes.

But most of its early art is of humble stuff like terra cotta and soft, grainy local stone.

Some were of humble birth; at the other end of the social scale were men such as the emperor Henry VI, son of Frederick I Barbarossa.

"One thing is clear, the popular assumption that most of the presidents were of humble birth is wrong," wrote Edward Pessen in his 1984 book The Log Cabin Myth.