But there is a kind of unpretending prettiness in the bright and breezy heights environed by black forest and blue sea.    From Wordnik.com.  [Over the Rocky Mountains to Alaska] Reference

Continental wanderings, to take many a third-class carriage full of witty peasants, and stop at many an "unpretending" inn "Of the White.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Joyful Heart] Reference

He lives at Victoria in a simple, unpretending way.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life at Puget Sound: With Sketches of Travel in Washington Territory, British Columbia, Oregon and California] Reference

The house looked quite snug, and very unpretending.    From Wordnik.com.  [Young Americans Abroad Vacation in Europe: Travels in England, France, Holland, Belgium, Prussia and Switzerland] Reference

There are the sombre and unpretending small villages.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lynton and Lynmouth A Pageant of Cliff & Moorland] Reference

Duchess of Kent; it seems a pretty, unpretending place.    From Wordnik.com.  [Young Americans Abroad Vacation in Europe: Travels in England, France, Holland, Belgium, Prussia and Switzerland] Reference

He came before her, in all his simple, unpretending honesty and truth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hubert's Wife A Story for You] Reference

We went to look at De Witt's residence, which is plain and unpretending.    From Wordnik.com.  [Young Americans Abroad Vacation in Europe: Travels in England, France, Holland, Belgium, Prussia and Switzerland] Reference

The Custom-house, an unpretending building, with the letters and numerals G.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kathay: A Cruise in the China Seas] Reference

Leopold's Palace is exceedingly plain and unpretending for a royal residence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Young Americans Abroad Vacation in Europe: Travels in England, France, Holland, Belgium, Prussia and Switzerland] Reference

Ashby himself was always there; and an agreeable, unpretending gentleman he was.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of a Cannoneer Under Stonewall Jackson] Reference

In the charming (because truthful) words of an unpretending but excellent poet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Venus in Boston; A Romance of City Life] Reference

He was a quiet-looking, unpretending person, with very much the air of a moneyed man.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847] Reference

Mr. Morris was simple and unpretending in his habits, and of a religious turn of mind.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cleveland Past and Present Its Representative Men] Reference

The unpretending title to this neat volume expresses the modest purpose of the writer.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 24, October, 1859] Reference

It is a quaint, unpretending, old-time residence, uniting manor house and rectory in one.    From Wordnik.com.  [Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter] Reference

"The boys were brave -- the girls were fair," the mother virtuous, pious, and unpretending.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV.] Reference

He was fearless because he was good; and, from this cause, also, was kindly and unpretending.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Old Homestead] Reference

Cathedral too unpretending for the rank and dignity of the See, and he began the Gothic additions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cathedrals and Cloisters of the South of France, Volume 1] Reference

She dressed in her usual simple style, and looked neat, pretty, and unpretending, as she always did.    From Wordnik.com.  [Grace Darling Heroine of the Farne Islands] Reference

Governor Hayes is honest; he is brave; he is unpretending; he is wise, sagacious, a scholar, and a gentleman.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life, Public Services and Select Speeches of Rutherford B. Hayes] Reference

He bore his honours meekly, and his funeral partook of the character of the man, unpretending, simple, earnest.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hero of the Humber or the History of the Late Mr. John Ellerthorpe] Reference

Be yourself, simple, honest, and unpretending, and you will enjoy through life the respect and love of friends.    From Wordnik.com.  [For Auld Lang Syne] Reference

The comfortable, though unpretending, little Hôtel de St. Pierre stands outside the town, and commands a fine view.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866] Reference

Though short and unpretending it really deserves to be heard, the music is so full of sweetness, so fresh and pretty.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas] Reference

Here flocked the illustrious men of all climes, and were received with warm, unpretending, almost rustic hospitality.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sanders' Union Fourth Reader] Reference

Even in her architecture, simple and unpretending as it is, there is a recognition of the fact that girls are not boys.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Education of American Girls] Reference

The makers are most quiet, unpretending men, and one would think almost afraid to take their light from under a bushel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Papers on Health] Reference

His labours, as far as they relate to Violin-making, appear to have been of a very unpretending nature, but they served to impart.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Violin Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators] Reference

He relates in the unpretending style of a chronicler how the corpulent citizens reside on the hill-tops, amid well-tended gardens.    From Wordnik.com.  [Maxim Gorki] Reference

The graves are simple and unpretending -- only an occasional column of any prominence rearing itself above the humbler surroundings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death] Reference

It was not long ere many a sally of dry, poignant wit fell from his lips, and many an anecdote told in the most unpretending manner.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century] Reference

We buried him in the little cemetery on shore, where an unpretending gothic cross now records the simple fact that a sailor has died.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83] Reference

Hudson River, and had the cottage on this land made over into "a little nookery somewhat in the Dutch style, quaint, but unpretending.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8] Reference

So that now she felt it to be both her duty and her privilege to mark and copy the nobility of his unpretending but sterling character.    From Wordnik.com.  [Amos Huntingdon] Reference

This is a truly delightful musical composition and though unpretending and not on the level of Gounod's "Margaretha", it does not deserve to be forgotten.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas] Reference