10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «OVERMODESTLY»
Discover the use of
overmodestly in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
overmodestly and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
Ever obliged to observe closely the bounds of modesty and decorum, they
acquire the habit of speaking overmodestly—a fault their married sisters are not
noted for committing. There are old maids whose youth illness laid hold upon and
kept ...
James Hogg, Florence Marryat, 1870
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The works of Sir Walter Ralegh, kt., now first collected: To ...
... like boisterous GalloGreeks, pretend only the goodness of their swords, nor yet
overmodestly, to retain among the Greeks an opinion of their justice, forbear the
occasion of making themselves great. The king, on the other side, was weary of ...
Sir Walter Raleigh, William Oldys, Thomas Birch, 1829
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The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh, Kt: The history of the world
... wise as they might neither too rudely, like boisterous Gallo- Greeks, pretend
only the goodness of their swords, nor yet overmodestly, to retain among the
Greeks an opinion of their justice, forbear the occasion of making themselves
great.
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Dissertations on the epistles of Phalaris and the Fables of ...
And not being a Man of Business, but n Library keeper, it is not overmodestly
done of him j to oppose his Judgment and Taste in this cafe to that of Sir William
Temple : who . is certainly a Man of Business, and knows more of these things,
than ...
Richard Bentley, Aesopus, Charles Boyle Orrery (earl of), 1698
5
The history of the world
... like boisterous GalloGreeks, pretend only the goodness of their swords, nor yet
overmodestly, to retain among the Greeks an opinion of their justice, forbear the
occasion of making themselves great. The king, on the other side, was weary of ...
Sir Walter Raleigh, William Oldys, Thomas Birch, 1829
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The Golem: What You Should Know About Science
Ray Davis, who is a chemist, perhaps overmodestly describes his experiment as
merely a matter of 'plumbing'. Indeed, in the early 1960s, so confident was the
physics community that Davis would confirm stellar evolution theory that a whole
...
Harry M. Collins, Trevor Pinch, 2012
7
Eugene Onegin and Other Stories
Pushkin himself later dismissed the poem, overmodestly, as 'feeble, immature,
inadequate', and admitted, with more justice, the thinness of the plot and his 'first
unsuccessful attempt at characterisation'. But, as he also recognised, it is written
...
Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin, 2001
Its neatness rebuked the street. The two stones by the path were painted yellow;
the outhouse was so overmodestly masked with vines and lattice that it was not
concealed at all; the last iron dog remaining in Gopher Prairie stood among ...
The two stones by the path were painted yellow; the outhouse was so
overmodestly masked with vines and lattice that it was not concealed at all; the
last iron dog remaining in Gopher Prairie stood among whitewashed conch-
shells upon the ...
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To Show Heart: Native American Self-determination and ...
... in spite of his public demands for policy changes" (1974:157).97 Udall more
accurately appraised his era, perhaps even overmodestly, in an article, "State of
the Indian Nation," written as he was leaving office in 1968. He observed: The
staff ...
George Pierre Castile, 1998
