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  • When the Prince wishes them a goodnight with the unassuming smile of the house, neither says a word.†   (source)
  • The office reflected the man—hugely impressive and unassuming at once.†   (source)
  • His manner is shy and unassuming.†   (source)
  • Well, after that, you know, Dumbledore seemed much more dis-posed to give me a job, and I could not help thinking, Harry, that it was because he appreciated the stark contrast between my own unassuming manners and quiet talent, compared to the pushing, thrusting young man who was prepared to listen at keyholes — Harry, dear?†   (source)
  • I liked the way it looked in front of my apartment, unassuming and anonymous.†   (source)
  • Vittoria's voice was unassuming.†   (source)
  • In an unassuming storeroom filled with dropcloths and pallets and crates, behind a sheet of plywood, the mineralogist reveals a simple combination safe that the assistant director opens rather easily.†   (source)
  • From the outside the buildings were reticent, severe straight lines of red brick or white clapboard, with shutters standing sentinel beside each window, and a few unassuming white cupolas placed here and there on the roofs because they were expected and not pretty, like Pilgrim bonnets.†   (source)
  • She's everything they like in a Red: quiet, content, and unassuming.†   (source)
  • Her beauty is direct, unassuming.†   (source)
  • We would spend hours together, most of the time saying nothing at all, and it was in this quiet, unassuming way that we finally became friends.†   (source)
  • His face was so open, his eyes liquid, gentle, unassuming, and he spoke so softly that any possibility of threat seemed remote.†   (source)
  • He was so poised, so unassuming, so free of acne.†   (source)
  • We only want to know whether it is there, buried in the most prudent and unassuming soul.†   (source)
  • Young, pretty, unassuming, the sort of girl that always worked at little inns like this: a Nellie.†   (source)
  • I admired the surroundings, still not bored with the broken-in view: the squatty blond-brick post office across the street (now closed on Saturdays), the unassuming beige office building just down the way (now closed, period).†   (source)
  • This was Felix, quiet, unassuming Felix.†   (source)
  • But they were such exceptional, unassuming kids you wouldn't have known they were rich or lived in such a big house-and the trees, the lawn, everything so tended and cared for.†   (source)
  • Threshed tight, mortally locked and bound to Jim, staring up, Will was all the more shaken to see the normal boy, the airy glance, the unassuming poise, the small, the easy self in which no man at all was revealed by street light.†   (source)
  • Sound, unassuming, conscientious, a bit lacking in the rabbit sense of mischief, he was something of the born second-in-command.†   (source)
  • The pair of them were so unassuming, and considering how alienated Henri must have felt, that was saying something.†   (source)
  • This was no unassuming "shim" unfortunately incarcerated and trying to get along; Vanessa was a full-blown diva.†   (source)
  • He was short and unassuming, about five foot six and 150 pounds, and he lived at 1157 Wheeler, on the second floor of one of the street's narrow apartment houses.†   (source)
  • Both Zebene and Woineshet are quiet and unassuming but possess steel spines; both are disinclined to back down.†   (source)
  • Schedule 40 pipe was an unassuming subset of PVC, but it had impressive attributes.†   (source)
  • When we'd passed the point along Wakeling where we'd started, the street began to curve and twist, the factories and workhouses shrinking down into squat offices and unassuming buildings with blank faces and no signs, like a neighborhood purpose-built to be anonymous.†   (source)
  • The fact that both men were shy and unassuming seemed almost deceitful given the ambition, the hubris, that had allowed them to risk Shiva's life for mine.†   (source)
  • Did you know that the tea made of this unassuming little flower serves to cool a fever?†   (source)
  • Her father, Salvador, is a santería priest, an unassuming, soft-spoken man, black as the blackest Africans.†   (source)
  • My quiet, unassuming father, whose voice could hardly be heard in church, stood there in his oilskins, his rubber-gloved hands on his tongs, and sang to the oysters.†   (source)
  • He wondered how unassuming Simon managed to handle her at all.†   (source)
  • An unassuming child.†   (source)
  • He glanced at Mina, but the girl had resumed her quiet, unassuming demeanor.†   (source)
  • I was deeply impressionable and unassuming and full of dread, knowing little else but whatever was provided to me by professional men like the doctor, who were authoritative and born into an elite caste, and who seemed the very incarnation of our meticulously constructed way of life.†   (source)
  • She wanted someone to match her in fineness of feature-a man whose virility did not crawl all over him, but who was, instead, meticulous and unassuming.†   (source)
  • The other girls had had their hearts set on pre-med students, but evidently one look at unassuming Hugh, with his sawdust-colored beard and his tool belt slung low around his hips, had made Jeannie feel instantly at home.†   (source)
  • I stare at him, thinking how good-looking he is, in spite of the hideous jacket, and how sweet and unassuming he is as well.†   (source)
  • In fact, Atzerodt is so unassuming that the sergeant in charge of the soldiers actually shares a few glasses of cider with the conspirator.†   (source)
  • Furthermore, Good Mead and Dougan's hole, the normally unassuming and fiercely independent towns on the southernmost lake, Redwaters, had boldly demanded compensation from Bryn Shander and Termalaine.†   (source)
  • He said in a soft and unassuming voice, "I'm staying at the State Domain.†   (source)
  • At the same time he was simple, and kind, and unassuming, not a bit stuck-up or vain.†   (source)
  • But then, neither did the nearsighted, unassuming janitor Alfred T Slipper.   (source)
  • IN THE DARKENED KITCHEN, THE UNASSUMING SQUIRREL WORKED SLOWLY.   (source)
  • This is Alfred, and he is an unassuming, nearsighted, stuttering janitor who works cleaning the multifloor offices of the Paxatawket Life Insurance Company.   (source)
  • "This malfeasance must be stopped" was what the unassuming janitor Alfred T Slipper always said before he was transformed into the amazing Incandesto and became a towering, crime-fighting pillar of light.   (source)
  • HE IS AN UNASSUMING SQUIRREL.   (source)
  • But Katherine's unassuming air set Trish instantly at ease.†   (source)
  • Up ahead was an unassuming wooden door with heavy hinges.†   (source)
  • Andie was a nice, pretty, bosomy Irish girl from my hometown, unassuming and jolly.†   (source)
  • The unassuming, shy, and hapless Luther Driggers had a darker side.†   (source)
  • It was just an innkeeper: friendly, servile, and so unassuming as to almost be invisible.†   (source)
  • He was a nice enough kid: shy and unassuming, the kind of child who was easy to overlook.†   (source)
  • I live a quiet life in an unassuming house in a suburb of Phoenix.†   (source)
  • ") Jeannie was biddable and unassuming; she lacked Amanda's acidity.†   (source)
  • I live a quiet life in an unassuming house in a suburb of Phoenix.†   (source)
  • I didn't tell her I lived a quiet life in an unassuming house and so forth.†   (source)
  • Like a good soldier, Cal walks in step with the instructor, who seems tiny and unassuming next to Cal's bulk.†   (source)
  • In other visits to Annie's house, her family was equally generous, unassuming and careless with their name.†   (source)
  • So, familiar with the procedure and weary from a long day, he offers them the same unassuming smile, lets them inside, and sits at the little table by the window as they go about their business.†   (source)
  • The Count probably hadn't seen Nikolai Petrov since 1914 when the Prince had been no more than a lad of thirteen; and given the passage of time, the Count might not have recognized him at all were it not for his unassuming smile—a distinguishing feature of the Petrov line for generations.†   (source)
  • You meet a girl: shy, unassuming.†   (source)
  • "I meant it," said David, becoming once again the shy, unassuming boy Max had met on his first day at Rowan.†   (source)
  • So though I really, really wanted to hate her, I knew that would look much worse for me than for the sweet, unassuming French girl.†   (source)
  • On one particular raid, though, against a clan of Svirfnebli, the deep mining, unassuming gnomes that often had the misfortune of running up against the drow in their common habitat, Masoj went too far in his maliciousness.†   (source)
  • Next door was almost the only house as unassuming as theirs was, and the people she was referring to had been renting it for at least as long as the Whitshanks had been renting theirs.†   (source)
  • Regis accepted the spokesman's offer and all of the other numerous gifts that rolled in from every city, for though he hadn't truly earned the accolades awarded him, he justified his good fortune by considering himself a partner of the unassuming drow.†   (source)
  • The church turned out to be a small, unassuming white cube topped with more of a cupola than a steeple, squeezed between a ma-and-pa grocery store and a house already decorated to the nines for Halloween.†   (source)
  • Many homicidal lunatics are very quiet, unassuming people.†   (source)
  • I like the copious, shapeless, warm, not so very clever, but extremely easy and rather coarse aspect of things; the talk of men in clubs and public-houses, of miners half naked in drawers—the forthright, perfectly unassuming, and without end in view except dinner, love, money and getting along tolerably; that which is without great hopes, ideals or anything of that kind; what is unassuming except to make a tolerably good job of it.†   (source)
  • It was an unassuming shop, registered under the vague name of Drapery.†   (source)
  • She looked so simple and innocent and unassuming and appealing at all times.†   (source)
  • It is a bit of quiet, unassuming drollery which warms like good wine.†   (source)
  • I said that I could warrant you grateful for the smallest favors—modest, humble, unassuming.†   (source)
  • And with all this, how unassuming he is!†   (source)
  • "He is perfectly well behaved, polite, and unassuming," said her uncle.†   (source)
  • Then is she kind and cruel, stately and unassuming, various, beautifully wilful.†   (source)
  • Mr. Henfrey not only took off the hands of the clock, and the face, but extracted the works; and he tried to work in as slow and quiet and unassuming a manner as possible.†   (source)
  • As I looked at him, flanking on one side the unassuming pale-faced magistrate who presided at the inquiry, his self-satisfaction presented to me and to the world a surface as hard as granite.†   (source)
  • His flamboyance was extinguished; and in neat, commonplace, shabby clothes he hurried, a subdued, unassuming little man, through the departments as though anxious to escape notice.†   (source)
  • Added to this, his manner was modest and unassuming; he knew when to be silent, yet never allowed himself to be trampled upon.†   (source)
  • She haunted out unassuming restaurant and entered, but was disturbed to find the prices were exorbitant for the size of her purse.†   (source)
  • They had a low and unassuming aspect from this upland, though as approached on the other side from Blackmoor in her childhood they were as lofty bastions against the sky.†   (source)
  • …their hair) while the ladies took their cloaks off in the room along the passage; where Mrs. Barnet helped them, old Ellen Barnet, who had been with the family for forty years, and came every summer to help the ladies, and remembered mothers when they were girls, and though very unassuming did shake hands; said "milady" very respectfully, yet had a humorous way with her, looking at the young ladies, and ever so tactfully helping Lady Lovejoy, who had some trouble with her underbodice.†   (source)
  • Far from this; Varvara Ardalionovna did not marry until she felt convinced that her future husband was unassuming, agreeable, almost cultured, and that nothing on earth would tempt him to a really dishonourable deed.†   (source)
  • He was unassuming and spoke little.†   (source)
  • But my endeavours on this head were by no means uniformly successful, even when my plans were the most wittily concocted; for my namesake had much about him, in character, of that unassuming and quiet austerity which, while enjoying the poignancy of its own jokes, has no heel of Achilles in itself, and absolutely refuses to be laughed at.†   (source)
  • The house was large, the rooms lofty, and the landings wide; and the two unassuming women scarcely made a perceptible addition to its contents.†   (source)
  • My mother has a little property, which takes the form of a small life annuity, upon which she lives in an independent though unassuming manner in the Old Street Road.†   (source)
  • "This unassuming style promotes study, that's why we adopt it," returned Laurie, who certainly could not be accused of vanity, having voluntarily sacrificed a handsome curly crop to the demand for quarter-inch-long stubble.†   (source)
  • Yet, having already made his fortune in his own mind, he was so unassuming with it that I felt quite grateful to him for not being puffed up.†   (source)
  • 'Well, now, indeed, Madame Mantalini,' said Miss Knag, as Kate was taking her weary way homewards on the first night of her novitiate; 'that Miss Nickleby is a very creditable young person—a very creditable young person indeed—hem—upon my word, Madame Mantalini, it does very extraordinary credit even to your discrimination that you should have found such a very excellent, very well-behaved, very—hem—very unassuming young woman to assist in the fitting on.†   (source)
  • His dress is plain, his demeanor unassuming; but the interior of his dwelling glitters with luxury, and none but a few chosen guests whom he haughtily styles his equals are allowed to penetrate into this sanctuary.†   (source)
  • 'You find us, Copperfield,' said Mr. Micawber, with one eye on Traddles, 'at present established, on what may be designated as a small and unassuming scale; but, you are aware that I have, in the course of my career, surmounted difficulties, and conquered obstacles.†   (source)
  • The rest of the money--a considerable sum for me, I decided to borrow from Anton Antonitch Syetotchkin, my immediate superior, an unassuming person, though grave and judicious.†   (source)
  • Father Mapple rose, and in a mild voice of unassuming authority ordered the scattered people to condense.†   (source)
  • Rebecca patronised her with calm superiority: she was so much the cleverer of the two, and her friend so gentle and unassuming, that she always yielded when anybody chose to command, and so took Rebecca's orders with perfect meekness and good humour.†   (source)
  • She was less handsome than her brother; but there was sense and good humour in her face, and her manners were perfectly unassuming and gentle.†   (source)
  • They went to the opera often of evenings—to those snug, unassuming, dear old operas in the German towns, where the noblesse sits and cries, and knits stockings on the one side, over against the bourgeoisie on the other; and His Transparency the Duke and his Transparent family, all very fat and good-natured, come and occupy the great box in the middle; and the pit is full of the most elegant slim-waisted officers with straw-coloured mustachios, and twopence a day on full pay.†   (source)
  • When I lighted my candles, he fell into meek transports with the room that was revealed to him; and when I heated the coffee in an unassuming block-tin vessel in which Mrs. Crupp delighted to prepare it (chiefly, I believe, because it was not intended for the purpose, being a shaving-pot, and because there was a patent invention of great price mouldering away in the pantry), he professed so much emotion, that I could joyfully have scalded him.†   (source)
  • She is so quiet and unassuming.†   (source)
  • The introduction was followed up on his side by a happy readiness of conversation—a readiness at the same time perfectly correct and unassuming; and the whole party were still standing and talking together very agreeably, when the sound of horses drew their notice, and Darcy and Bingley were seen riding down the street.†   (source)
  • As he stands at his door in Cook's Court in his grey shop-coat and black calico sleeves, looking up at the clouds, or stands behind a desk in his dark shop with a heavy flat ruler, snipping and slicing at sheepskin in company with his two 'prentices, he is emphatically a retiring and unassuming man.†   (source)
  • He was becoming very sweet upon the Grafinn Fanny de Butterbrod, a very gentle tender-hearted and unassuming young creature, a Canoness and Countess in her own right, but with scarcely ten pounds per year to her fortune, and Fanny for her part declared that to be Amelia's sister was the greatest delight that Heaven could bestow on her, and Jos might have put a Countess's shield and coronet by the side of his own arms on his carriage and forks; when—when events occurred, and those grand…†   (source)
  • And from a quiet modesty that would have become a vestal, which seemed continually to impress upon him that he had no great claim on the world's room, Oak walked unassumingly and with a faintly perceptible bend, yet distinct from a bowing of the shoulders.†   (source)
  • In spite of his unassuming manner, Ian Murray had an undeniable authority.†   (source)
  • …whatever; but whether it is an island or not that he governs, with that I have nothing to do; suffice it that it is a town of more than a thousand inhabitants; with regard to the acorns I may tell you my lady the duchess is so unpretending and unassuming that, not to speak of sending to beg for acorns from a peasant woman, she has been known to send to ask for the loan of a comb from one of her neighbours; for I would have your worships know that the ladies of Aragon, though they are…†   (source)
  • Quietly, unassumingly Rumbold stepped on to the scaffold in faultless morning dress and wearing his favourite flower, the Gladiolus Cruentus.†   (source)
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