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"Immodestly" Quotes from Famous Books

... furnace of foul reeking smoke, Let not the jealous day behold thy face, Which underneath thy black all-hiding cloak, Immodestly lies ...

— Notes and Queries, Number 188, June 4, 1853 • Various

... hundred females—it would be mockery to call them women. The first we hear from them is when half a dozen invade our box, plump themselves in our laps, and begin to beg that we put quarters in their stockings for luck. There are some shapely limbs generously and immodestly shown in connection with this invitation. One young woman startles the crowd by announcing that she will dance the cancan for half a dollar. The music starts up just then, and she determines to do the cancan and risk the collection ...

— Danger! A True History of a Great City's Wiles and Temptations • William Howe

... history. Mr Warren's "Christ's Sermon" is of the ambitious school. If we contrast the quiet, solemnly quiet, tone of that sermon of beatitudes, with the coloured character of the picture, we must condemn the inappropriate style. We should say it is immodestly painted; the picture and not the subject, obtrudes. The head of Christ is weak. It is a picture nevertheless of great ability, but with a gorgeous colouring ill suited to the subject. But we must speak with unqualified admiration of a little picture ...

— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843 • Various

Words linked to "Immodestly" : immodest, modestly