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Humble in sentence

403 examples of Humble in a sentence

That same year a humble seal fisherman, the Englishman Weddell, went as far as latitude 72 degrees 14' on the 35th meridian, and as far as 74 degrees 15' on the 36th.
At your service; your very humble servant."
And you, aged servants, humble domestics, whose hard labour no Government up to this day has taken into consideration, come hither to receive the reward of your silent virtues, and be assured that the state henceforward has its eye upon you; that it encourages you, protects you; that it will accede to your just demands, and alleviate as much as in it lies the burden of your painful sacrifices."
And from the sleeves of her red jacket looked out two large hands with knotty joints, the dust of barns, the potash of washing the grease of wools had so encrusted, roughened, hardened these that they seemed dirty, although they had been rinsed in clear water; and by dint of long service they remained half open, as if to bear humble witness for themselves of so much suffering endured.
More than one showed his humble medal with pride; and no doubt when he got home to his good housewife, he hung it up weeping on the modest walls of his cot.
'Sir,' replied Julien, 'I am uncomfortable in these new clothes; I, a humble peasant, have never worn any but short jackets; with your permission, I shall retire to my bedroom.''What think you of this new acquisition?'
'It would be unnecessary,' she went on, lowering her head, 'to speak of this to my husband.''I may be humble, Ma'am, but I am not base,' replied Julien coming to a standstill, his eyes ablaze with anger, and drawing himself up to his full height.
In her own drawing-room, humble as his bearing was, she found in his eyes an air of intellectual superiority over everyone that came to the house.
The possibility of making a fortune with Fouque gave a certain facility to the course of Julien's reasoning; it was less often interrupted by irritation, and the keen sense of his own poverty and humble position in the eyes of the world.
'I owe it to myself all the more,' went on Julien's petty vanity, 'to succeed with this woman, so that if I ever make my fortune, and someone reproaches me with having filled the humble post of tutor, I may let it be understood that it was love that brought me into that position.'
The foolish idea of his being regarded as a servile lover, at his mistress's beck and call, on account of his humble birth, vanished likewise.
But discretion and a humble spirit being the chief qualities required in a divinity student, it had always been impossible for him to ask any questions.
On the whole justice was done to his contempt for humble birth.
I must destroy and humble myself; it may be that such a sacrifice will appease the Lord.'
'I shall suffer, all the better.''But, by this appalling scandal, you will be harming him as well!''But I humble myself, I throw myself down in the mud; and in that way perhaps I save my son.
The fact of the matter was that this mansion was visible from a distance of three or four leagues, to the great detriment of all the country houses or so-called _chateaux_ of the neighbourhood, which had been allowed to retain the humble grey tones imparted to them by time.
'I was forgetting one thing,' said the abbe: 'this young man, although of quite humble birth, has a proud heart, he will be of no use to you if his pride is offended; you will only make him stupid.''I like that,' said the Marquis, 'I shall make him my son's companion, will that do?'Some time after this, Julien received a letter in an unknown hand and bearing the postmark of Chalons, and found a draft upon a merchant in Besancon and instructions to proceed to Paris without delay.
'I shall not conceal from you that the young Comte de La Mole is bound to look down upon you at first, because of your humble birth.
'You ought, Monsieur le Chevalier, to introduce me to M. le Marquis de La Mole.''Indeed, so _I ought_,' thought Julien; 'but a rascal like this!''To be frank,' he replied, 'I am too humble a person in the Hotel de La Mole to take it upon me to introduce anyone.'
Julien waited for a moment, bowing slightly from the waist and with an arrogantly humble air.
These gentlemen were unanimous in accusing Julien of a _priestly_ air, humble and hypocritical.
It would be like her to reproach herself with what she has done for me, solely on account of my humble birth.'
I gave it much thought during the two years in which I professed myself her most humble servant.
She did not complete her thought: 'some malicious friend may suppose and indeed spread the report that he is some humble little cousin, one of my father's family, some tradesman decorated by the National Guard.'Until the moment of her first meeting Julien, Madame de Fervaques's greatest pleasure had been to write the word Marechale before her own name.
It was Julien who showed prudence; and it was only when there was any question of danger that she did not comply with his wishes; but, submissive, and almost humble towards him, she showed all the more arrogance towards anyone else who came near her in the house, relatives and servants alike.
"You don't believe me then?" asked K., and took hold of his arm, unconsciously prompted by the man's humble demeanour, and as if he wanted to force him to believe him.
- Office director ... , " he said with his head on one side, pointing with a humble smile to an armchair near the bed.
An opportunity was not long wanting; and, riding through a pair of neglected bars, he knocked loudly at the outer door of a building of a very humble exterior, without quitting his saddle.
Ten years before, they had arrived together in the vale, and, purchasing the humble dwelling at which Harper had made his unsuccessful application, continued ever since peaceful inhabitants, but little noticed and but little known.
Until age and infirmities had prevented, the father devoted himself to the cultivation of the small spot of ground belonging to his purchase, while the son pursued with avidity his humble barter.
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