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Sentences starting with humble

Humble yourselves, my friends, for we stand in a majestic presence. [5]
Humble Bee, 46, 74, 75, 128, 272, 326, 331, 338. [6]

Sentences ending with humble

They were nearly all prepared to be humble. [9]

Short sentences using humble

Virtue in humble life! [6]
Accept my humble gift. [11]

Sentences containing humble two or more times

The most humble organism is something much higher than the inorganic dust under our feet; and no one with an unbiassed mind can study any living creature, however humble, without being struck with enthusiasm at its marvellous structure and properties. [1]
He admired, yet he wished to be admired; he was humble, but he wished all people and things to be humble with him. [11]

More example sentences with the word humble in them

I can tell you all that you wish to know, my Master, for, during forty-five years, I devoted my humble services to the sick poor there. [10]
The good man yearned to comfort her, and yet he felt his comfort too humble to be noticed by such sorrow. [9]
Could he, Isaac Worthington, humble his pride and ask her to keep her suspicions to herself? [9]
They came from workshops and writing-rooms, from humble houses in narrow lanes, and from the handsomest and largest in the main street. [10]
Don Luis Quijada, with the haughty precision of the Castilian grandee, was passing through the humble folk around him and advancing directly toward her. [10]
Here she is with her little blemishes 'restored' (that is, patched) by the most noted Roman artists--and the mere fact that they did the humble patching of so noble a creation will make their names illustrious while the world stands. [5]
He had lived with Farette the miller for some years, serving him with a kind of humble insolence. [11]
He got out, with a poor attempt at a swagger, without his customary protestations of duty and humble offers of service. [9]
If your friend will do us humble folks so much honor, I beg he will step into our room; it is clean, is it not sir? [10]
This was a wide, wide track--for the humble followers of the camp of wealth pitch their tents round about it for many a mile--but its character was still the same. [12]
Among the curious who had flocked together were many embalmers, laborers, and humble folk, who lived in the Necropolis. [10]
The candy-striped pole, which indicates nobility proud and ancient along the palace-bordered canals of Venice, indicated merely the humble barbershop along the main street of Dawson's Landing. [5]
The time comes when we have learned to understand the music of sorrow, the beauty of resigned suffering, the holy light that plays over the pillow of those who die before their time, in humble hope and trust. [6]
I know them well, for my humble functions lead me into daily and hourly intercourse with them. [10]
In our village we had our Ravochals, our Henrys, our Vaillants; and in a humble way our Cesario--I hope I have spelled this name wrong. [5]
We wondered how we could for a moment have questioned that she was one to be waited upon, and not made for the humble office which nevertheless she performed so cheerfully and so well. [6]
But humble as we are, and unpretending, in the matter of art, our researches among the painted monks and martyrs have not been wholly in vain. [5]
This good woman was made happy all the day long by the applauses which she got out of herself for her magnanimous condescension to a tramp; and the King was just as self-complacent over his gracious humility toward a humble peasant woman. [5]
Uncle Ben Carvel was a veritable emperor in his own domain; and the Colonel himself, had he desired to enter the kitchen, would have been obliged to come with humble and submissive spirit. [9]
But Barbara was warned and, difficult as it often was for her to withstand the humble entreaties to which the old lady in waiting frequently condescended, persisted in her refusal. [10]
Perhaps--" But the viscount perceived that some more questions were about to be asked; so he worked his way out of the crowd, released the sleeve, put on the coat and wandered away to seek a humble and obscure lodging. [5]
But the humble village teacher was timid of venturing into the noisy world, and had become fond of his dwelling in the old churchyard. [12]
It was not very long before Myrtle began to accept the idea that she was the one person in the world whose peculiar duty it was to sympathize with the aspiring young man whose humble beginnings she had the honor of witnessing. [6]
He was my very humble servant at once, and declared he had called only to let me know where I stood. [9]
Poor Boges will very gladly play the go-between; the poor despised Boges wishes you so well--the humble Boges will be so sorry when he sees the proud palm-tree from Sais cut down. [10]
I never write 'valetudinarian' at all, for not even hunger and wretchedness can humble me to the point where I will do a word like that for seven cents; I wouldn't do it for fifteen. [5]
Not far from us, on every hand, were the lanes and humble dwellings of these outlying suburbs. [5]
I was brought up by my parents, who were humble peasants, on an estate near Viterbo, in Italy. [11]
The house had two windows, one on either side of the unlocked doorway; and when the old man slowly swung the door open, there was shown an interior of humble character, but neat and well-ordered. [11]
Mademoiselle," he added, turning to the flushing Suzanne, "I pray that you will accept this present with every assurance of my humble regard. [9]
She has been trained and taught as young persons of higher position in life are brought up, and does not belong in the humble station in which we find her. [6]
Senator Dilworthy said to Washington that an humble deportment, under punishment, was best, and that there was but one way in which the troubled heart might find perfect repose and peace. [5]
He was kind to the poor, walked much, talked to himself as he walked, and was known by the humble sort as "a'centric. [11]
When I came to the place pointed out as Bolt Court, I could hardly believe my eyes that so celebrated a place of residence should be entered by so humble a passageway. [6]
Were the days to return when, in the Netherlands, Charles had condescended to treat even humble folk with blunt familiarity? [10]
There was nothing to remind one of the humble capital, of buts and sheds of the long-vanished day of the land-boom. [5]
If he were to humble the first citizen, Mr. Ives reflected that a better opportunity might present itself. [9]
We all love to get some of the drippings of Conspicuousness, and we will put up with a single, humble drip, if we can't get any more. [5]
If I ventured to cautiously hint that there was not another respectable family in England that would humble itself to hold out the hat--however, that is as far as I ever got; he always cut me short there, and peremptorily, too. [5]
He was said to be a man of humble origin, the son of a gardener of the House of Seti; and now what do I learn through Ameni? [10]
Raising his voice to a very loud tone, though he still maintained an extremely humble manner, he began to give the reasons which induced him, spite of his deep regret, to remove his wards from the Ortlieb house. [10]
It will be time to humble him, when we have used him to help us in conquering Egypt. [10]
But it went through his mind that this was a strange end for all Dryfoos's money-making to come to; and he philosophically accepted the fact of his own humble fortunes when he reflected how little his money could buy for such a man. [8]
I had always thought of the hawthorn as a pretty shrub, growing in hedges; as big as a currant bush or a barberry bush, or some humble plant of that character. [6]
The Hawkins family, though allied to the best blood of the South, were at the time in humble circumstances. [5]
We all honor this touching maternal instinct wherever we find it, be it in the home of luxury or in the humble cow-shed. [5]
Verily, here in this humble place dwelt a love that defied the hard usage of a hard world! [9]
The passion for this humble ornament is universal. [5]
On each of these little graves was a flower, a sickly geranium, or a humble marigold, or some other floral token of affection. [4]
Besides all else, there was in the Fort the thing which the gods made last to humble the pride of men--there was rum. [11]
If you deny them from any mistaken regard or fear for them, judge of my intentions by their recognition of this person as their old humble friend. [12]
Their central idea, their grand aim, is to subjugate you, keep you down, make you feel insignificant and humble in the blaze of their cosmopolitan glory! [5]
The news of the wedding had slipt abroad before the little party came out of church, and many old and humble friends were there, seeing her look "like a snow-drop," as they say. [14]
Mrs. Marco cleared the table, placed the beer keg handy, and went away to eat her dinner of leavings in humble privacy, and the rest of us soon drifted into matters near and dear to the hearts of our sort--business and wages, of course. [5]
She was like the sun; on whatsoever dim and humble object her rays fell, that thing was straightway drowned in glory. [5]
The desperado stalked the streets with a swagger graded according to the number of his homicides, and a nod of recognition from him was sufficient to make a humble admirer happy for the rest of the day. [5]
The key to the phenomena of this case, he believed, was to be found in a fact as humble as that which gave birth to the science of galvanism and its practical applications. [6]
The demeanour of the people had been so humble and rapt that the place and the plateau and the valley seemed alone in creation with the lofty drama of the ages. [11]
But Eva knew the little woman, and wished to learn what offence had been given modest, humble Widow Vorkler. [10]
You make him the idol, to humble me to a worm; and what you grant the she-wolf--the right of defence when men undertake to rob her of her young--you deny me, and, because I insist upon it, I must be a deluded, unbridled creature. [10]
Every day also the headgroom and the huntsman came, and in the village Gaston's humble friends discussed the mystery, stoutly defending him when some one said it was "more nor gabble, that theer saying o' the poacher at the meetin. [11]
In any case the experiment of authorship, in however humble, a way, has an analogy to that other tempting occupation of making "investments" in the stock-market: the first trial is certain to lead to another. [4]
The gentleman opened the door, and stood aside to let them enter, very much as if he were showing them a palace for which he was the humble agent. [9]
The nuns from the convent were present, down to the most humble lay Sister; but they were under great obligations to her mother, and their abbess was her father's sister. [10]
In other words, the book will be an illustration of the text, 'He has put down the mighty from their seats, and has exalted the humble and meek. [11]
But she knows that, humble though I be, I would serve her to my last breath; because I know, my Lord Leicester, how many there are who serve her foully, faithlessly; and there should be those by her who would serve her singly. [11]
It is this: that no man, however humble, can live a full life if he lives to himself alone. [4]
It was concluded that Nell and her grandfather should accompany him to the village whither he was bound, and that he should endeavour to find them some humble occupation by which they could subsist. [12]
If this lady that autumn day had bought a plain bonnet she would have continued on in her humble, sensible way of living. [4]
The old religion teaches that the world is cruel for most of us, but if we are obedient and humble we shall be rewarded in heaven. [9]
This is Mr Swiveller, my intimate friend--a gentleman of good family and great expectations, but who, having rather involved himself by youthful indiscretion, is content for a time to fill the humble station of a clerk--humble, but here most enviable. [12]
But you must suit yourself, after all: if you are contented with a humble position in life, it is nobody's business that I know of. [6]
It is the stupendous creation of those humble unlettered, un-college-bred inventors--all honor to their name. [5]
He was not striving for communion with the highest things, he felt no humble desire for inward purification; far different motives influenced him. [10]
Such is the story of the humble beginning of one substantial prop of the American Nation. [9]
He had, therefore, sprung to the acceptance, and sent his humble duty to the Queen by her winsome messenger, who, with conspicuous dramatic skill, had arranged secretly, with the help of a Gentleman Pensioner and the Master of the Horse, his appearance and his exit. [11]
Ameni's eyes seemed spell-bound to the vase, and he followed it, supporting himself by his crozier, with humble inflections. [10]
We despise no source that can pay us a pleasing attention--there is no source that is humble enough for that. [5]
He sat down sometimes as the days went on--it was generally when he was shaving--and thought upon his intention regarding Miss Raglan, in relation to his humble past; for he had fully made up his mind to marry her, if she would have him. [11]
I care not so much about the treasure, but I pray you humble those dull Puritans, who turn buccaneers in the name of the Lord. [11]
The sculptor had silently taken his humble attempt out of his hand, and had returned it to him with a smile of encouragement. [10]
It seemed to shrivel him up and cow him; and he looked so wounded and so humble after that, that I detested myself for having done the cruel and unnecessary thing. [5]
The idea that she, the humble artist's daughter, could harbor the soul of a Persian princess, amused her; and when the lion lifted his head and lashed the floor with his tail at her approach, she felt that she had won his approbation. [10]
It was thus she would have chosen to sleep, and not to have wronged her humble devotion in life by asking to lie at the side of those whom she had served so long and faithfully. [6]
Some speeches--speeches that shame a man and humble him--burn themselves into the memory and remain there. [5]
It offered his services now in the humble capacities of land surveyor and expert accountant. [5]
That was a secret concerning which he was at once too humble and too confident to share with any other. [4]
I venture to say the monarch was a great deal more humble than the follower, who pretended that his master was superior to such trifling facts as the revolution of the planet. [6]
These silent crowds sat there with their humble bundles and baskets and small household gear about them, and patiently waited--for what? [5]
I had hoped,' said Brass, looking round with a mournful smile, 'to have seen you three gentlemen, one day or another, with your legs under the mahogany in my humble parlour in the Marks. [12]
The body-servant's position relieved him of such humble duties, still, when on the chase, when travelling, or as need arose, he was accustomed to perform them unasked, and very willingly. [10]
But you can reckon upon my humble services. [5]
The prince, with princely delicacy and breeding, sent away the servants, so that his humble guest might not be embarrassed by their critical presence; then he sat near by, and asked questions while Tom ate. [5]
They were all poor country people in the church, for the castle in which the old family had lived, was an empty ruin, and there were none but humble folks for seven miles around. [12]
There was no place in America, however remote, or however rich, or poor or high or humble where words of mourning for your father were not uttered that morning, for his works had made him known and loved all over the land. [5]
All of these people stared at me, talked about me, ran into the huts and fetched out their families to gape at me; but nobody ever noticed that other fellow, except to make him humble salutation and get no response for their pains. [5]
Then, however, these people seemed to become suddenly poorer, and Malbrouck began farming in a humble, but not entirely successful way. [11]
And when had Paula ever felt happier than at the moment when this offering from her lover, this humble prison-flower, first reached her. [10]
Pentaur stretched himself out on the humble couch, which to him seemed softer than the silken bed of a queen, but on which nevertheless he could not sleep, for the thoughts and fancies that filled his heart were too overpowering and bewildering. [10]
The more humble our material, the better I shall be pleased if the work satisfies Caesar; he himself has tried his hand at sculpture. [10]

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