Then she hurried on modestly, "Not that I claim my humble offering as a great banquet."

The tomb of Memel, where no one has ever gone to meditate, will receive my recollections as a humble and discreet a offering.

Please accept this as my humble offering.

"My humble offering doesn't please you?"

They were mostly the humble offerings of the poor mothers who were struggling in the midst of dangerous fevers and acute scarcity.

This story is often repeated to enunciate the significance of Tulsi and how a humble offering to God is greater than any material wealth.

"Surely you do not mean to tell me you are displeased with this humble offering from my people?"

Even simpler, humbler offerings came with a price tag.

None more worthy' Though inconstant on occasion she may be, I make her the humble offering of my total devotion.

This supposedly humble offering is one of the most astonishing displays of contrapuntal genius (not to mention chutzpah) ever written.