"modest" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- He feels more than modest pride in fathering what so far has been a successful idea.
- "I do take a certain modest pride in the quality of My artifices, and many mortals find them sufficient."
- "It's not beautiful, but it rolls along fine," said Joseph with modest pride.
- This achievement was a matter of modest pride, for there had been a time when he would not have believed it possible.
- Edward replaced his spectacles and gave me a small smile of modest pride.
- He let her take it, feeling the warmth of modest pride.
- He added that information with an air of modest pride.
- "I am her private secretary," replied Harry with a glow of modest pride.
- "I made it," said Jamie, with the modest pride of a master brewer.
- The modest pride in his bearing was becoming, Icebones thought.
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