Sentence examples of "modest" in English

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Translations: all3 modesto3
As far as I know, Mr. Smith was a modest man. Pelo que eu sei, o Sr. Smith era um homem modesto.
I ate a modest breakfast of toast, coffee, and one egg. Comi um café da manhã modesto: torradas, café e um ovo.
On this day in 1887 appeared in Warsaw a booklet of Ludwik Lejzer Zamenhof about the "International Language". Its size was modest, its motto ambitious: "For a language to be an international one, is not enough to call it as such." The name of the author was given as "Dr. Esperanto". Nesse dia, em 1887, apareceu em Varsóvia um livrinho de Ludwik Lejzer Zamenhof sobre a "Língua Internacional". Seu tamanho era modesto; seu lema, ambicioso: "Para uma língua ser internacional, não basta chamá-la assim." O nome do autor foi dado como "Dr. Esperanto".
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