Humblest
[hʌmbl]
Examples
- I am but the incumbent of a poor country parish: my aid must be of the humblest sort. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- I then put myself in the most supplicating posture, and spoke in the humblest accent, but received no answer. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- It is those who injure women who get the most kindness from them--they are born timid and tyrants and maltreat those who are humblest before them. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- It was the delight of Adrian and myself to wait on Clara, naming her the little queen of the world, ourselves her humblest servitors. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- The chapel of the Syrians is not handsome; that of the Copts is the humblest of them all. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- As she passed me to-night, triumphant in beautymy emotions did her homage; but for one luckless sneer, I should yet be the humblest of her servants. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- The history of science has something to offer to the humblest intelligence. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Two of the humblest servants of Mother Church! Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Leastways humblest acquaintances. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- She told him that she thought Major William was the best man in all the world--the gentlest and the kindest, the bravest and the humblest. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
Typist: Willie