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Content and innocence reside beneath your humble roof and charity unboastful of the good it renders ....

Mark Twain: A Biography 2003

The inevitable tragedy of Stevenson's fate, the unescapable assurance that he would not live to do all which such a spirit in a sounder frame would have done for an art he loved so fondly, the magnetism of his friendship, his downright incapacity for envy, his genuine humility with regard to his own work and reputation, his unboastful and untiring courage, made a profound impression upon many of his contemporaries.

My Contemporaries In Fiction David Christie Murray

Hitching his chair an inch nearer to her at each sentence, looking straight into her eyes, in a manner as unboastful as though he were giving the market price of eggs, he would tell her how J. Pierpont

The Job An American Novel Sinclair Lewis 1918

That's the trouble about giving the dare to them quiet, unboastful children; you never know how far it'll take 'em.

The song of the lark 1915

Even Rossie Bent had opened his eyes at Tom's simple, unboastful narrative of this exploit, and had followed Tom's finger on the office map as he traced that blazed trail from the wood's edge near the camp up through the forest and along the brook to the very summit of the frowning height, from which the nickering lights of Temple Camp could be seen in the distance.

Tom Slade with the Colors Percy Keese Fitzhugh 1913

The truckman, his case-spike hanging from his neck, listened with generous interest to Tom's simple, unboastful account of all that had happened to him.

Tom Slade on a Transport Percy Keese Fitzhugh 1913

That's the trouble about giving the dare to them quiet, unboastful children; you never know how far it'll take 'em.

The Song of the Lark Willa Sibert Cather 1910

There were fifteen Frenchmen with St. Lusson, among them the quiet, practical, unboastful Joliet, trained for the priesthood, but turned trader and explorer, who had already been two years previous out on the shores of Superior looking for copper.

The French in the Heart of America John Finley 1901

On September 3 the Paris Government moved to Bordeaux, on the 5th the retreat from Mons ended, on the 13th Joffre, always unboastful and laconic, announced the rolling back of the invaders, on the

Mr. Punch's History of the Great War 1900

Content and innocence reside beneath your humble roof and charity unboastful of the good it renders ....

Mark Twain, a Biography — Volume II, Part 2: 1886-1900 Albert Bigelow Paine 1899