She couldn't suppress a modest smile, knowing how different her work was from what people surmised.

The storyteller waited it out with a modest smile.

She looked up at her with her modest rueful smile.

But the next afternoon, he allowed himself a modest smile in announcing that the crisis had been defused.

All three men turned and stared at me, I gave them a modest little smile.

"Brian," he said later with a modest smile, "will go down as the guy who scored the last goal that I ever set up."

"Too bad you can't remember it," I concluded with a modest smile.

"Certainly not," the Duke said with a modest smile as he sat between the two of them.

David thought that the moment might be right for a modest smile and nod, but then realized that no one was looking at him.

The old professor smiled a modest smile which faded into a frown.