How To Use Humbly In A Sentence
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For example, on one comical occasion, he stumbles on a commune for hippies as he is humbly encamped next to a nudist-colony in the wilderness while working at a local grainery.
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He did in these extremities, as I conceive, most humbly recommend the direction of his judicial proceedings to the upright judge of judges, God Almighty; did submit himself to the conduct and guideship of the blessed Spirit in the hazard and perplexity of the definitive sentence, and, by this aleatory lot, did as it were implore and explore the divine decree of his goodwill and pleasure, instead of that which we call the final judgment of a court.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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The software tycoon urges rich people to live humbly and aid the poor.
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My prodigious (if I may humbly say so myself) drinking is coupled with insatiable eating.
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The limits of human knowledge, and thus of any religious system, must always be recognized and humbly acknowledged as the product of human finiteness.
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Look on him, Sir, -- do not you guess from that Look, and wrying of his Mouth, that you mistook the Bracelets for Diamond Rings, which he humbly begs, Madam, you would grace with your fair Hand?
The Works of Aphra Behn Volume IV.
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My hope is that we will realize that there was a context to our friend's fall and humbly wonder what might happen to us if we ever found ourselves in a sustained slough of disillusionment, despair and spiritual darkness.
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It was full of monuments to the dependents of peers, in which the peers figured very largely and the dependents fared humbly -- the epitome of flunkeydom.
A Student in Arms Second Series
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Initially employed humbly on a coasting vessel, he rose in rank: third mate, second mate, master.
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I have other reasons which I will not detail now, as the post goes out so early: I will only beg you not to treat me with so much ceremony, nor ever use the word humbly to me, who am in no ways entitled to such respect.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4
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We would humbly request that - assuming the gods favor us with freedom before it is too late - you would assemble your armies and add their strength to that of our own.
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The facility began humbly with a small room and two pieces of equipment, and has evolved into a spacious laboratory packed with equipment.
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David, in straits, had humbly and earnestly begged mercy of God, and God had heard him, that is, had graciously accepted his prayer, taken cognizance of his case, and granted him an answer of peace.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
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But the king came to a better frame of mind, he called the jarls away, and returning humbly to his palace, took off his royal robes, and came again barefoot and in sackcloth to the church door, where Bishop William met him, took him by the hand, gave him the kiss of peace, and led him to the penitents 'place.
A Book of Golden Deeds
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He very humbly bowed before them, and with his folded hands.
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There was nothing random, from the point of view of God's purposes, in the time of Naomi and Ruth's arrival in Bethlehem, for through following the harvesters as a gleaner, humbly gathering what was left behind; Ruth would find the kind man who would take her under his protection; a kinsman.
God Made Me Contemplative
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She is appalled to see him stand before them with folded hands and humbly assert that he was fine.
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I humbly served my apprenticeship.
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I enter into confession, I most humbly beseech you, that you would vouchsafe (in this distresse) to assist me with your fatherly advice and counsell, because, if thereby I cannot attaine to a more pleasing kinde of happinesse; neither confessior, or any thing else, is able to doe me any good at all.
The Decameron
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May I humbly suggest a clearer alternative to that meaningless bit of cant?
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Luis Ojeda, who humbly took to himself the title of _Luis el Pecador_ (Luis the Sinner), bequeathed all his fortune to the foundation of this establishment, which received the name of "Collegio de Santa Cruz de los niños expositos." [
Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests
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When Bruce first encounters him, he is humbly mopping a warehouse floor.
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The cloud stood humbly in a corner of the sky. The morning crowned it with splendor.
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The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.
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Tom humbly bowed his head and his cheeks blushed in the embarrassment.
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I come to humbly beseech your assistance.
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The cloud stood humbly in a corner of the sky. The morning crowned it with splendor.
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he humbly lowered his head
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He could have admitted an error, apologised humbly and gone back with a grain of respect left.
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He humbly suffers visitations of beings from another world and is innocently drawn into a bizarrely conceived plot for political change.
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I humbly consider myself to be a solid average page turner, which is to say that I can turn the page of a book in a reasonable amount of time.
Here's a shocker... (The Klausner Post)
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I found it by pure chance and I ask you all humbly to please go read and consider helping this man in a time of real need.
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Secondly, care must be taken that this evil be no more cockered, nor the humor of it fed; wherein I humbly pray your lordships, that I may speak my mind freely, and yet be understood aright.
The World's Best Orations, Vol. 1 (of 10)
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‘I'm just a jobbing actor, really,’ he shrugs, humbly.
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Endecott," she said after a while, humbly, "do you think any one who loves Christ could be brought to disbelieve him?
Say and Seal, Volume II
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My cousin humbly begs your pardon for his absence.
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There, high upon her golden throne, draped in her blazoned 'kaf' or robe of state, sat the fair Nyleptha, and when Sir Henry came in a little late, dressed in the full uniform of an officer of her guard and humbly bent himself before her, she merely acknowledged his salute with a careless nod and turned her head coldly aside.
Allan Quatermain
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In any event, I do wish – humbly, to be sure – to submit that perhaps it is not wholly unreasonable to suppose that there are some (declasse or, alternatively, “arribistas”?) who move back and forth between Yahoo and Google.
A Future S.A.T. Question? - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com
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I humbly suggest that the overall figure for full and part-time workers is around 85 people and that the majority of these are seasonal workers employed for a week or two at most to kill the animals and harvest their pelts.
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We have worked humbly and tirelessly to bring civility in political discourse to the next level.
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And let him humbly, and truly with his owne mouthe, confesse to a wise prieste, in the steade of God: all those offences wherwith he knoweth him selfe to haue loste his innocencie and clennesse, and to haue prouoked the wrathe of GOD againste him selfe.
The Fardle of Facions, conteining the aunciente maners, customes and lawes, of the peoples enhabiting the two partes of the earth, called Affricke and Asie
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He advanced towards the light, and finding that it proceeded from the cottage of a hermit, he called humbly at the door, and obtained admission.
The Rambler, sections 55-112 (1750-1751); from The Works of Samuel Johnson in Sixteen Volumes, Vol. IV
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The president was overpowered by the General's position, and prostrated himself as flat as a spider in a deep bow, and apologized humbly.
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"We humbly acknowledge we were wrong about the timing," he wrote.
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So may I humbly suggest we all do something next time.
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You must be right, Sir," said John humbly.
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Hence, we must proceed carefully, ready to reverse course, willing to experiment; in short, humbly.
THE MORAL DIMENSION
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Better by far to humbly defer to the family matriarch for the perfect dish.
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She appeared shy and nervous for much of this show, humbly thanking the audience for turning up.
Times, Sunday Times
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The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.
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I humbly request that you all will keep helping me as I try to make good choices.
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She appeared shy and nervous for much of this show, humbly thanking the audience for turning up.
Times, Sunday Times
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I do apologize most humbly.
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She bows down at his feet (no Pharisee in Galilee did that!) and presents herself humbly as she begs for his help.
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MY Presence being no way serviceable to you in Barbary, and the Repose of my future Life calling me with the utmost Expectation to Fez, I humbly entreat your Permission to return thither.
Idalia, or, The Unfortunate Mistress: A Novel
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Latin votaries humbly accepted a corrupt and remote version, from the Jews and Moors of Andalusia.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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I am now approaching the border land of what may be called the abstruse in science, in which I humbly acknowledge it would take a vast volume to contain all I don't know; yet I hope to make plain to you this most beautiful and accurate method, and for fear I may forget to give due credit, I will say that I am indebted to Dr. Hastings for it, with whom it was an original discovery, though he told me he afterward found it had been in use by
Scientific American Supplement, No. 484, April 11, 1885
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The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.
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The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.
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The cloud stood humbly in a corner of the sky. The morning crowned it with splendor.
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I most humbly beg your pardon.
Times, Sunday Times
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That's not to say you should be all important and stuffy, just wear the title humbly and impart your information in a straight forward, easy to read manner.
Xml's Blinklist.com
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We would humbly request that - assuming the gods favor us with freedom before it is too late - you would assemble your armies and add their strength to that of our own.
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As the preamble to the Constitution Act says, in agreeing to federate, the Australian people did so ‘humbly relying on the blessings of Almighty God’.
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I humbly request your attention to this matter so that I can present you as his next of kin and beneficiary to his chattels.
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As had been agreed upon, I followed my three men humbly and at a slight distance, my eyes discreetly downcast, only taking mental notes asquint as I passed.
High Albania
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Mr Simkins, humbly desiring her not to be in haste, began a formal apology for his conduct; but the inebriety of the coachman became evident;
Cecilia
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The cloud stood humbly in a corner of the sky. The morning crowned it with splendor.
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She is appalled to see him stand before them with folded hands and humbly assert that he was fine.
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His exploits included a record ascent of Hidden Peak in 1958, but he spent the rest of his life humbly downplaying the famous belay.
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Look on him Sir, — do not you guess from that look and wrying of his mouth, that you mistook the Bracelets for Diamond Rings, which he humbly begs, Madam, you would grace with your fair hand.
Sir Patient Fancy
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Amongst others, not long after Mr. Ferrar's death, a treatise was addressed to the Parliament, entitled, “The Arminian Nunnery, or a brief description and relation of the late erected monastical place called the Arminian Nunnery at Little Gidding in Huntingdonshire: humbly addressed to the wise consideration of the present parliament.
Lives of John Donne Henry Wotton Rich'd Hooker George Herbert etc
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We humbly beg Your Majesty to show mercy.
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I was very lucky to work with these directors," commented Kagawa humbly.
Karin Badt: Famed Japanese Actress Kyoko Kagawa Celebrated at the Tokyo International Film Festival
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Should a problem arise between two sisters, then `humbly and charitably "the abbess should correct the wrongdoer.
RIDDLE ME THIS
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I most humbly beg leave to trouble your grace with these few lines.
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He saw one of the monks grin at the word humbly, and realized it might have been a small error: they all knew that whatever other qualities he had he was not humble.
The Pillars of the Earth
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I believe it was Freud who humbly suggested that the three greatest scientific revolutions were those that decentred humanity.
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Suitably chastened, may I humbly entreat him to, unambiguously and without obfuscation, answer a few pertinent questions?
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Moreover, he served the Brothers humbly in his office of sacristan for nearly four years, and so that versicle which is sung for confessors was apt and fitting for him "who was ever pious and prudent, lowly and modest, sober and chaste and peaceful so long as this present life endured in his bodily limbs.
The Chronicle of the Canons Regular of Mount St. Agnes
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Once again I submit that I am worthy to join your number; I do most humbly seek admission to the Order of Clinical Judges.
NIGHT SISTERS
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The learned prefatory dis - course of Dean Hickes * gives him a title humbly to beg your Lordship's acceptance of the whole p» - fbrmance +• The catalogue of the MSS. which llr.
Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century: Comprizing Biographical Memoirs of William Bowyer ...
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When a humbly born young Edwardian woman is thrown over by the evil Lord Coining, she thinks she will starve to death.
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A stone sits unmovable , a satellite bends with gravity, history moves beyond the past, a great person walks humbly.
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One great-sannyasi refused to receive her because she was a woman; her reply brought him humbly to her feet.
Autobiography of a Yogi
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That remains the heart of the Gospel that Christians proclaim, the Good News which we ambitiously but humbly believe is that which orientates and shapes all our human enterprise God-wards.
Archbishop's Holy Week Lecture: Faith & History
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Sunday bedizened in Spanish finery, with such a blaze and rustle, that the good vicar had to remonstrate humbly with Mrs. Leigh on the disturbance which she caused to the eyes and thoughts of all his congregation.
Westward Ho!
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I do believe that our paths will cross again, Maria, and we shall walk humbly with our Savior.
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Christ is there, who, as he shows himself jealous for the honour of his temple, in expelling those who profane it, so he shows himself gracious to those who humbly seek him.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)
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Her manner, reserved to the point of stiffness, and paralyzing, as it did, the glibbest masculine tongue among them, was also looked upon as the acme of perfection and all that was desirable in young ladyhood; each individual humbly admitting that while he never before had met a real lady, he knew one when he saw her.
'Me--Smith'
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If anyone is taking nominations for the Prince of Procrastination, I hereby humbly submit myself to the competition.
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He humbly hands me the necessary amount and I magnanimously declare that I prefer to consider the unpleasant episode closed.
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I believe it was Freud who humbly suggested that the three greatest scientific revolutions were those that decentred humanity.
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I thought it was called polonaise, "he answered humbly.
The Motor Maids at Sunrise Camp
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A red-headed researcher, actually working on a problem of a transistor which would record the TP impulse, hastily invented the fact that TP optical transmission was astigmatic and humbly requested enlightenment.
Wild Dreams of Reality, 5
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In words that echo Amos, Hosea, and Isaiah, the people are adjured to ‘do justice, love kindness, and walk humbly’ with their God.
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‘Sir, I should leave you to your repast,’ I murmured as humbly as possible.
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Like gradable adjectives, gradable adverbs allow comparison and modification by intensifying adverbs: more humbly, very humbly.
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We're saved for some good purpose, sir, and it's only fit we should say a word humbly to our blessed Father in heaven.
A Dream of the North Sea
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He humbly explained it away as being his first gig as an accompanist and that he didn't really know what he was doing.
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I remember as a child that when we crossed the border into Italy, the customs officials, spying the license plate, would humbly ask my father whether he was a member of the Swiss government.
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The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.
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He was moved to humbly entreat her hand for the next dance.
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If you really want to save the planet, I might humbly suggest carpooling instead.
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Donning the false modesty worn by Those Who Talk to Voters, he should describe how he humbly listens to the volk, while making it clear that only someone as brilliant as himself could discern national trends from 13 conversations.
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Society under the name of the 'Royal Academy of Arts in London,' graciously declaring himself the patron, protector, and supporter thereof, and commanding it should be established under the forms and regulations thereinafter set forth, which had been humbly laid before his Majesty, and had received his royal assent and approbation.
Art in England Notes and Studies
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Always not presuming to put and set them in my said Lord's book but in the end apart in the rehearsal of the works, humbly requiring all them that shall read this little rehearsal, that if they find any fault to arette it to Socrates, and not to me, which writeth as hereafter followeth.
Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books with Introductions, Notes and Illustrations
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But let them diligently, inasmuch as in them lieth, avoid this discommodity, and humbly pray to
A Mirror for Monks.
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Oh! if they would faithfully, humbly, and self-denyingly lay out themselves for Christ and his Church, and never think of titles and reputation, they should then have honor whether they would or not; but by gaping after it, they lose it: for, this is the case of virtue's shadow, ` What follows I fly; what flies, the same I follow. '
The Reformed Pastor
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He's always very humbly dressed and the shoes he was wearing were not in very good shape.
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Gowan by making the Prunes and Prism school excessively polite to her, but not very intimate with her; and Little Dorrit, as an enforced sizar of that college, was obliged to submit herself humbly to its ordinances.
Little Dorrit
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If we quite boldly face the fact that hard positive methods are less and less successful just in proportion as our "ologies" deal with larger and less numerous individuals; if we admit that we become less "scientific" as we ascend the scale of the sciences, and that we do and must change our method, then, it is humbly submitted we shall be in a much better position to consider the question of "approaching" sociology.
An Englishman Looks at the World
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She appeared shy and nervous for much of this show, humbly thanking the audience for turning up.
Times, Sunday Times
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As a blogger, you are “real,” genuine, and comfortable in humbly sharing yourself with your readers … in service of us all riding this journey of life together.
How to be Transparent without Being too Personal | Write to Done
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The other was called Epimetheus, because he always looked behind him, and did not boast at all; but said humbly, like the Irishman, that he had sooner prophesy after the event.
The Water Babies
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So I am humbly requesting whatever prayers, good vibes and help you can muster.
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Speak humbly, listen respectfully, smile gently. Dr T.P.Chia
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I humbly request to be included among the latter and to be allowed to quote an example of his unstinting kindness and generosity.
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I most humbly beg your pardon.
Times, Sunday Times
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Then those of us that have been putting out 200 applications getting rejected due to "overqualified" can humbly get back to work and save our homes.
Skilled labor in high demand, short supply
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Kwaque, a leprous Black Papuan who was slave to one, Dag Daughtry, himself a servant of other men to whom he humbly admitted "Yes, sir," and "No, sir," and "Thank you, sir.
CHAPTER XI
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Everson dropped the usual ‘Humbly report Your Levity’ and spoke to the wizard in very familiar terms.
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True identification humbly acknowledges the limits of human understanding and values the mystery of nature's "suchness" — its irreducible otherness — by creating a space for acknowledging its "intrinsic value.
Blake, Heidegger, Buddhism, and Deep Ecology: A Fourfold Perspective on Humanity's Relationship to Nature
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He is the humbly born Brooklyn boy who built Shearson Loeb Rhodes from the parts of dozens of brokerages and then sold it to American Express.
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She will humbly thank them for their concern, but she will make the decision on her own terms and in her own time.
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He told the boys: ‘I don't usually tell people,’ and they humbly thanked him for sharing something so personal with them.
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If, because of the disfellowship that happens, the person finally does humbly repent, then it will be our joy to welcome that person back.
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Speak humbly, listen respectfully, smile gently. Dr T.P.Chia
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When she outearns Chad, in their midthirties, they will attend marriage counseling to deal with his resentment—which he articulates humbly—and get everything back on track.
Freud’s Blind Spot
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Thus nothing doubting of your ready ayd herein, as I assuredly trust of your honours fauourable acceptation of this my poore present, wishing long life with the increase of Gods holy spirit to your lordship and to all your most honourable familie (vnto whom I haue wholly dedicated my selfe by mine owne choise and election for euer) I, crauing pardon for my former boldnesse, most humbly thus take my leaue.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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May your purposes always come to pass and may I always hear your voice so that I can humbly walk in the ways you lay before me.
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Why anyone would think two average, humbly dressed guys traveling ON FOOT, with instruments, would be nobility is absolutely retarded.
I Can Haz Better Stories Pls?
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It chanced that at that moment a poor almsman of the Bourgeois Philibert was humbly and quietly leaning on his crutches, listening with bowing head and smiling lips to the kind inquiries of his benefactor as he received his accustomed alms.
The Golden Dog
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But that might be less upsetting to witness than the scene here in Addis, where uncomplaining Ethiopians submit humbly to the bitter caprice of clinical selection.
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Bishop," he drawled after a while, "huc-cum you name sech a hoss" -- pointing to the old roan -- "sech a grand hoss, for sech a man -- sech a man as he was," he added humbly.
The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills
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We walk humbly before God, not claiming divine assurances as our own prerogative.
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To save others and be oneself a castaway is the terrible fate of which St. Paul saw so clearly the possibility; and thus any one who is conscious of the dramatic sense, or even dimly suspects that it is there, ought to pray very humbly to be delivered from it, as he would from any other darling bosom-sin.
At Large
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I most humbly beg your pardon.
Times, Sunday Times
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But whether they choose to brazen it out or humbly confess, sue for libel or live like a recluse, there is little the disgraced can do to stop the frisson of pleasure we feel at their discomfort.
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He carries himself as a quiet, pious man who lives humbly.
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I humbly bow to the power of "behoove", unfortunatly since I mostly speak swedish daily it would seem slightly crazy to slip in "behoove" anywhere at all.
AfterEllen.com - Because visibility matters
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Atra, who came and stood humbly on the footpace beside her, and held converse with her mistress a while.
The Water of the Wondrous Isles
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‘Humbly do I beg your forgiveness, Lord,’ she said clearly, bowing her head.
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The other was called Epimetheus, because he always looked behind him, and did not boast at all; but said humbly, like the
The Water-Babies A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby
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I was used to genteel plushly carpeted floors, mock Tudor windows and staff who bowed humbly if you passed them in a corridor.
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I still have to humbly respect the effort and the passion of the audiences.
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The Tyler Telegram humbly apologizes for having called that wide-lipped blatherskite, T. DeWitt Talmadge, "a religious faker.
The Iconoclast
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Mick Jagger, the mouthy, strutting rock-rebel lead singer of the Rolling Stones, yesterday knelt humbly before Royalty - in a pair of black trainers - and became a knight of the realm.
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`Once more I humbly petition my Lord for readmission to the Order.
NIGHT SISTERS
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In the past Jews prostrated humbly to their Lord: "Jehoshaphat bowed his head with his face to the ground, and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem fell down before the LORD, worshiping the LORD" 2 Chronicles 20:18.
Wilfredo Amr Ruiz: Teach Us How To Pray
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I would humbly suggest that there is something wrong here.
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Wherewith crauing your fauor, and beseeching God to blesse your worship, with my good Ladie your wife, I most humbly take my leaue:
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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While other novitiates were humbly perfecting the simple front kick, I would be leaping into the air and spinning like a Bruce Lee wannabe.
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Speaking as a vague, confused and oracular writer who regularly indulges in verbal obscurity caused by my obvious mental confusion, I would humbly suggest that he is talking complete and utter rubbish.
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But that might be less upsetting to witness than the scene here in Addis, where uncomplaining Ethiopians submit humbly to the bitter caprice of clinical selection.
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For myself and other young leaders who have become involved with Lausanne I can say that we are seeking to learn humbly from the previous generations.
The Next Generation of Global leaders
