As we walked along the street, we noticed that one house was humbler than the rest. From LearnThat.org.
I mean, in humbler homes, in Victorian times, the ceilings wouldn't have been high. From Wordnik.com. [Bryson's 'Short History' Of Household Objects] Reference
Note: It isn't just the Balcones and Atascadero hills that get steep: Out here in humbler San Rafael and Santa Julia we have some great views, and you know what that means!. From Wordnik.com. [What I love about San Miguel de Allende] Reference
I just recalled a humbler example of the benefit of bringing on board someone with a different perspective from the majority. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Another Critic of Judge Sotomayor’s “Wise Latina” Sentence:] Reference
Mr. Obama tries hardest of all to make good on President Bush's discarded promise of a "humbler" nation. From Wordnik.com. [Obama's Foreign Policy Paradox] Reference
And that was before Blankfein sold off his old apartment, a slightly "humbler" five-bedroom, seven-bath Park Avenue apartment. From Wordnik.com. [Lloyd Blankfein Dropped $26 Million In CASH On New Apartment] Reference
Thinkers advocating a "humbler" foreign policy are "hardly talked about in mainstream circles.". From Wordnik.com. [Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion] Reference
His works were widely circulated among the humbler classes. From Wordnik.com. [The Riches of Bunyan] Reference
And this, in a humbler degree, we are called upon to imitate. From Wordnik.com. [The Wesleyan Methodist Pulpit in Malvern Sermons Preached at the Opening Services of the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, in 1866] Reference
Agricola, and may perhaps be allowed to serve humbler people as well. From Wordnik.com. [Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters] Reference
But there is a humbler task to which the common intellect is not incompetent. From Wordnik.com. [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851] Reference
He had risen from the ranks and many of the humbler folk knew him well as a boy. From Wordnik.com. [Fireside Stories for Girls in Their Teens] Reference
My godfather had now humbler views for me, and I had little heart to resist any thing. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 5, May 1810] Reference
It is content with a somewhat humbler rôle, but one which is probably more appropriate. From Wordnik.com. [Handbook of The New York Public Library] Reference
Instead, the coming years will belong to a smaller, far humbler relation -- the Second City. From Wordnik.com. [Unlikely Boomtowns] Reference
Japan's best companies will surely be back; but not any time soon -- and much, much humbler. From Wordnik.com. [Japan Inc. R.I.P.] Reference
Illuminated books sometimes show us pictures of women of the humbler ranks of life at their work. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866] Reference
Others of a humbler kind consisted merely of rooms opening on a narrow passage, or directly on the street. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
The wine which the beauties drink costs their humbler sisters their life-blood, their grace, their happiness. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878] Reference
No other event in the lives of their superiors in rank creates an equal sensation amongst the humbler classes. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851] Reference
Some do, but most of the time, the bargain we strike with fiction is much humbler: is the payoff worth the pain?. From Wordnik.com. [Childhood’s End] Reference
"Haughty Princess!" answered the vile Bennaskar from the closet, "my slave shall inspire you with humbler words.". From Wordnik.com. [Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers] Reference
But the love that does the humbler thing will be ready for the greater sacrifice whenever the day shall demand it. From Wordnik.com. [My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year] Reference
In keeping with this new, humbler U.S. profile, Obama is going to Asia with very little to offer and everything to ask. From Wordnik.com. [Seeking Reassurance] Reference
Plus an archaic unaccompanied fiddle duet, and a harmonica solo showing the humbler instrument's kinship to the accordion. From Wordnik.com. [Meanwhile, Back In Cajun Country] Reference
Hagerman was succeeded by Mr. M'Aulay, a barrister of six years standing, and very cheerfully accepted the humbler office of Solicitor. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1] Reference
On our right, in a humbler position of less prominence, under the shade of trees, and green with age, still survive the parish stocks. From Wordnik.com. [Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter] Reference
The humbler houses of Liebenstein (for the greater part timber-framed and red-tiled) straggle up the immediate hills which surround it. From Wordnik.com. [A War-time Journal, Germany 1914 and German Travel Notes] Reference
Such inventions, and successful endeavors to imitate costly ornaments by humbler materials, not only show the progress of art among the. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
His nation-building experiments are downright Wilsonian, a far cry from the 'humbler' foreign policy he promised when he ran for office. ". From Wordnik.com. [LewRockwell.com] Reference
The mayor, bailiffs, and commonalty of Oxford also claim to assist in the office of butlery, and receive the humbler reward of three maple cups. From Wordnik.com. [Coronation Anecdotes] Reference
After profound salaams on all sides, they refused to sit on the chairs which I offered them, but chose humbler seats instead as a tribute to my own greatness. From Wordnik.com. [India and the Indians] Reference
This is easily recognised as the establishment of the principal store-keeper of the town; while his less opulent trading brethren carry on their vocations in humbler tenements. From Wordnik.com. [Fern Vale (Volume 1) or the Queensland Squatter] Reference
Even with these humbler hands to build up his monument, the great master of music has a perpetual possession within the hearts of men, that the poet and the painter may well envy. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845.] Reference
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