forester

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Thou hast; and a fairer, or a modester, or a tenderer, and yet, unless my judgment err, a firmer at need, is not to be found among all the excellent of her excellent sex.

From The Headsman The Abbaye des Vignerons by Cooper, James Fenimore

A little book, merely a little book—could words be modester?

From Christian Science by Twain, Mark

The correction which the learned commentator gave to Hanmer, Not Neoptolemus' sire so mirable, as it was modester than this, was preferable to it.

From Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies by Sherbo, Arthur

For I suppose there was never a modester man than Captain Blokes.

From The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 3 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors... by Sala, George Augustus

Parliament played during the sixteenth century a modester part than it had played since its creation.

From Henry VIII. by Pollard, A. F. (Albert Frederick)