"a modest apartment" "too modest to wear his medals"
"a modest salary" "modest inflation" "helped in my own small way"
"comfortable but modest cottages" "a simple rectangular brick building" "a simple man with simple tastes"
"a humble cottage" "a lowly parish priest" "a modest man of the people" "small beginnings"
"meek and self-effacing"
"a small business" "a newspaper with a modest circulation" "small-scale plans" "a pocket-size country"
