In the United States 1918-1919 saw a modest economic retreat, but the next year saw a mild recovery.

He volunteered that the kitchen cabinets in the cottage were bought at Home Depot, an attempt to stress how modest the lakeside retreat is.

A modest and pretty retreat, this well-tended temple to the dictum-coining sage is cultivated with maples, pines, magnolias and birdsong.

Even such a modest retreat after long, steady progress could explain the current sense of middle class malaise.

The leaders could not have devised a more modest retreat than to that silly balcony, which would remain, after their departure, merely a balcony.

Parts of the market are already in a modest retreat.

The goal would be to stabilize exchange rates or signal a desire for a modest retreat, potentially helping United States exports and discouraging imports, economists said.

Unfortunately, however, my modest retreat was observed, and the rhinoceros, as soon as he had found his legs again, set to work to run after me.

She even came up onto the little useless gallery, leaned over, recited a line or two of Juliet, and then she approached my modest retreat.

Stock prices staged a modest retreat for the first time in four sessions yesterday, despite a wave of glowing earnings reports from some of the nation's biggest corporations.