unpresumptuous

Example Sentences

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An unpresumptuous little chocolate ripple does not interest them; they want presumption.

From Time Magazine Archive

With filial confidence inspired, Can lift to Heaven an unpresumptuous eye, And smiling say, My Father made them all!

From Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature by Bartlett, John

It is the highest and most unpresumptuous form of unconscious worship.

From The Principles Of Secularism by Holyoake, George Jacob

Years later the adolescent falls in love with death; primps his spirit for it; recalls in unpresumptuous brotherhood Shelley and Keats and Chatterton.

From Greener Than You Think by Moore, Ward

"You must be sure and introduce me," she said, with a sparkle of her eyes that Frank was too unpresumptuous to understand.

From Love, the Fiddler by Osbourne, Lloyd